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Financial Issues - 2026 11 05 Financial Issues · KNEO Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Financial Issues, where we help you steward faithfully
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  Speaker 1: by honoring God with your investments. Now listen in as
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  Speaker 1: we give you the practical tools and advice you need
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  Speaker 1: to become a biblically responsible investor.
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  Speaker 2: This is Financial Issues, where we help you defund darkness
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  Speaker 2: and fund the light by investing with biblical integrity.
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  Speaker 3: Great to be here with you, folks. It is Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: It's a new day at Financial Issues. I'm Seth Udinski.
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  Speaker 3: That's Sam Case. Mark Manilla, your host, here with us
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  Speaker 3: this morning. Gentlemen, excited. Good to be here with you.
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  Speaker 4: Very excited. You know, I'm the type of person who
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  Speaker 4: likes to see when drama goes away. And we just
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  Speaker 4: had a big drama event called the midterm elections. It
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  Speaker 4: didn't turn out the way probably half or more of
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  Speaker 4: Americans wanted, but it turned out the way another half
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  Speaker 4: or more wanted, obviously. I heard a lot of interesting
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  Speaker 4: comments yesterday. Some were hilarious. You know, Justin, he thinks
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  Speaker 4: it caused him to have Tourette's syndrome. I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 4: That was hilarious. But here's the bottom line on it all.
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  Speaker 4: It was a lot of drama. A lot of people
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  Speaker 4: got scared. A lot of people were concerned about their investments.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people wanted to rush to cash. But
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  Speaker 4: I was very proud to see that a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people didn't do that, that the markets just spread out
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  Speaker 4: a little bit, which was really interesting. And now the
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  Speaker 4: drama's done. Think about that. The drama's over. And there's no, uh,
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  Speaker 4: there's no writing in the streets. There's no cities burning.
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  Speaker 4: Like if the other side had won, like it did
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  Speaker 4: the last, you know, when, when, when the other side
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  Speaker 4: had lost.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it funny how that tends to happen, Mark?
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  Speaker 2: You can tell, you can tell by the city's burning,
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  Speaker 2: which side won and which side. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We don't even have to watch the news to figure
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  Speaker 4: that out. Oh, there's riots. Okay. They must know.
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  Speaker 3: They're just celebrating. They're like birthday candles and fireworks.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So a lot of that's gone. I mean, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people who have been, you know, putting all their
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  Speaker 4: gold and guns in their concrete bunkers waiting for the
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  Speaker 4: left or right and everything. Now it's over their portfolios.
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  Speaker 4: They can start tending to again and we can look
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  Speaker 4: at things from a rational perspective. But here's something, I
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  Speaker 4: know you don't want to hear this. Here's something you
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  Speaker 4: may not know. Drama is always with us. If you
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  Speaker 4: want drama, you can find it. That's the thing. The
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  Speaker 4: Bible tells us about that. The Bible tells us where
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  Speaker 4: to focus as well so that we don't buy into
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  Speaker 4: the drama. We don't buy into the war mongering and
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  Speaker 4: all the ugliness that goes on in this world. And
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  Speaker 4: you can't be a good steward and be focusing on
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  Speaker 4: all the ugliness of this world and the drama and
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  Speaker 4: the warmongering and the manipulation that goes on with the
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  Speaker 4: gaslighting and everything else. To be a good steward, you
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  Speaker 4: have to be focused on the Lord. Focus on those
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  Speaker 4: things that are pure, that are perfect, that are righteous.
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  Speaker 4: And that's God, obviously. We need to keep our perspective
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  Speaker 4: on him because there's always more drama. As soon as
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  Speaker 4: the election results started coming in and we saw that
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  Speaker 4: the a lot of states' governors had turned, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of Republican senators had got beaten by Democratic senators, and
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  Speaker 4: everything came in. The news changed immediately to the war again,
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  Speaker 4: and it changed. Oh, by the way, all the economic
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  Speaker 4: news is great now, by the way. Everything that was
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  Speaker 4: the same as yesterday is now great, except for now
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  Speaker 4: it's great because there's another party and control the House
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  Speaker 4: and the Senate.
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  Speaker 5: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: They're not even in the House yet, and yet their
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  Speaker 3: aura is so powerful.
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  Speaker 4: They're changing the economy. Yeah, all that happened. And all
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  Speaker 4: that is because that's the drama, that's the manipulation, that's
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  Speaker 4: the gaslighting, that's the craziness, and that's politics. Remember, there
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  Speaker 4: are patriots, pigs, and then there's traitors. Probably the least
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  Speaker 4: amount of our Congress, the least amount of our House
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  Speaker 4: or Senate are patriots. You probably... could count them on
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  Speaker 4: one hand, maybe two. Second to that are the traitors.
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  Speaker 4: There's more traitors probably than patriots in the House and
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  Speaker 4: the Senate. And those are people who do not believe
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  Speaker 4: in our Constitution, who wants to destroy or tear it up,
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  Speaker 4: burn it up. They've said so. They talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: They want to replace our constitutional God-given country with a
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  Speaker 4: socialist or communist country. Get rid of the Senate. Get
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  Speaker 4: rid of the judiciary system. It's just crazy. Those are traitors.
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  Speaker 4: The block of those that are in the House and
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  Speaker 4: the Senate are pigs. And I call them pigs because
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  Speaker 4: maybe— They had part of their heart saying, I need
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  Speaker 4: to serve my country by getting elected and then becoming
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  Speaker 4: a millionaire by getting there and getting to the government trough,
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  Speaker 4: seeing where the money is, voting where I need to
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  Speaker 4: to make sure I can get more power and more money.
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  Speaker 4: That's the bulk of them. And they'll move back and
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  Speaker 4: forth depending on where the money's coming from or who
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  Speaker 4: has the most influence at that time. That's the dangerous
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  Speaker 4: part of it all. Patriots can try and move them.
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  Speaker 4: And then the traders can try and move them. But
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  Speaker 4: the bulk of them are only focused on self. So
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  Speaker 4: if you think about all that and you move forward
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  Speaker 4: and you say, well, how's this affect the market? Just
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  Speaker 4: think about this. The economy and the stock market are
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  Speaker 4: not the same thing. It's something we need to say
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  Speaker 4: over and over. The stock market just likes to know
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  Speaker 4: what's going on. Based on that, decisions are made on
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  Speaker 4: what to hold in portfolios. So now that the election's over,
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  Speaker 4: we'll see things. Like yesterday, I heard quite a few
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  Speaker 4: people say, man, my portfolio got beat up, but it
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  Speaker 4: was a great day. Why did it get beat up? Well,
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  Speaker 4: maybe the stocks you were in don't align with what
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  Speaker 4: the big... portfolio managers and Wall Street thinks will start
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  Speaker 4: receiving more government money or more influence in the near future.
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  Speaker 4: So those stocks that you were holding that were in
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  Speaker 4: line with a great economic country, a solid, resilient economy,
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  Speaker 4: are no longer in the majority favor, or at least
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  Speaker 4: for a second, aren't. And only those stocks are the
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  Speaker 4: ones that align with the DEI and the wokeism that
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  Speaker 4: they think is coming back, really ran up big. So
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  Speaker 4: we see that. And again, it's just one day. Remember
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  Speaker 4: what I said for the previous month, 30 days before
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  Speaker 4: the election, is we're going to see knee-jerk reactions in
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  Speaker 4: the market right afterwards. Again, another drop of drama. We
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  Speaker 4: don't have to worry about that. As stewards, we invest
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  Speaker 4: for Revenues and earnings. We invest for financial steel in
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  Speaker 4: our portfolios. When you do that over the long term,
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  Speaker 4: that works. It doesn't move with the knee-jerk reaction. So
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  Speaker 4: probably those of you who were in God-honoring stocks probably
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  Speaker 4: didn't do as well as those who were in the
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  Speaker 4: mega caps and those things that seemed to lean towards
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  Speaker 4: the liberalism that got voted in. So I mean, and again,
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  Speaker 4: that's a knee jerk reaction because after a short while,
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  Speaker 4: the analysts, the economists, everybody gets back into it and
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  Speaker 4: start saying, wait a minute, these companies aren't as strong
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  Speaker 4: as we want. They don't have the potential we need.
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  Speaker 4: They don't have the balance sheets we want or something
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  Speaker 4: in them is not financial issue steel. So they move
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  Speaker 4: on and get back to managing portfolios for the money,
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  Speaker 4: not for the politics. So bottom line of what I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying is, hey, It's time to start getting back in
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  Speaker 4: your portfolio and remembering that most of the drama is
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  Speaker 4: gone until the next drop drops. But most of the
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  Speaker 4: drama is gone for long-term investors. We can take a
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  Speaker 4: look at our portfolios, look at, you know, right now
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  Speaker 4: we see a lot of momentum in, what are we seeing? Financials.
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  Speaker 4: obviously IT, technology. We also are seeing it in energy.
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  Speaker 4: Those three are the strongest of the different sectors. And
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  Speaker 4: if those have pulled back and you're light in those areas,
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  Speaker 4: those areas could be a good time to start adding
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  Speaker 4: back into the stronger of those, those that are on that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in our opinion, those that are on our
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  Speaker 4: buy list are worth buying into for the long term,
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  Speaker 4: short term. Again, there could be knee jerk reactions can, uh,
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  Speaker 4: can be a day, a week, or even several weeks
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  Speaker 4: before things start balancing out again. I have no problem
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  Speaker 4: in my, our group of analysts have no problem getting
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  Speaker 4: in a little earlier and, uh, and maybe just waiting
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  Speaker 4: out the drama to see people realize, ooh, these are
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  Speaker 4: good stocks. Let's get back into them. Let's get going.
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  Speaker 4: And that pushes them up. So what I'm saying is
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  Speaker 4: we have an opportunity now to review the portfolio, and
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  Speaker 4: we can talk about that a little bit more either
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  Speaker 4: today or even tomorrow. Because tomorrow, we got overtime. Tomorrow's
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  Speaker 4: a day that we focus on your questions. So it
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  Speaker 4: might be a good time to talk about these things.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think, Seth?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a great idea, Mark, and I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a great reminder for us as well.
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  Speaker 2: The verse you brought up yesterday, Mark, as we consider
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  Speaker 2: all this chaos is Galatians 6, 9. Let us not
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  Speaker 2: grow weary while doing good for in due season we
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  Speaker 2: shall reap. If we do not lose heart, the people
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  Speaker 2: of God, Mark, cannot lose. Now, it doesn't mean we
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  Speaker 2: won't get persecuted or even killed, but we can't lose.
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  Speaker 4: Can't lose. We can't lose. What are you going to do?
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  Speaker 4: Send me to my father?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's Paul with Rome. He's like, you beat me. You
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  Speaker 3: make my reward greater. You kill me. I go to
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  Speaker 3: be with Jesus. I win, win.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: What do you let me go? I'm just going to
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  Speaker 3: preach the gospel more. What do we do?
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  Speaker 4: It's all good stuff, actually. And you know what else
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  Speaker 4: is good is when you call in and get your answer,
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  Speaker 4: your questions answered directly and live, 610-363-1110. That's 610-363-1110. We're
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  Speaker 4: so glad you're here. So glad everybody survived the election
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  Speaker 4: and that we can get back to living again. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it was okay to grieve a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: but now it's time to turn around and just keep
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  Speaker 4: moving forward.
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  Speaker 6: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Mark Minnelli, your host with Sus and Sam here.
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  Speaker 4: But we also have some special guests coming in. Guests
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  Speaker 4: that I think are doing a work that we all
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  Speaker 4: should be doing, and that's spreading the word, the gospel.
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  Speaker 4: And the way they do it is they go to
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  Speaker 4: the schools, the public grade schools, and they bring Christ
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  Speaker 4: to the public. schools that's where the kids are that's
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  Speaker 4: where the gospel needs to get it's an incredible ministry
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  Speaker 4: we're so glad to be partnering with them and so
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  Speaker 4: glad to have matt and gabe with us welcome to
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  Speaker 4: the show matt and gabe from crossroads kids clubs.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you good to be with you guys as always.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah and i hear there's some very exciting things happening
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  Speaker 4: across crossroads um I'd really like to hear about the
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  Speaker 4: one thing, Gabe, that I heard you wrote a guide
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  Speaker 4: to Advent. And I'd like to understand what it is
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  Speaker 4: you wrote, why you wrote it, and how do people
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  Speaker 4: get a hold of that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great.
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  Speaker 7: So we were thinking here at Crossroads that there's already
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  Speaker 7: a lot of excitement with the kids we work with
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  Speaker 7: about Christmas, about the season coming. And we thought like
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  Speaker 7: there's a great opportunity here to build that excitement towards
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  Speaker 7: something really great, which is towards the real meaning.
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  Speaker 6: Of Christmas, right?
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  Speaker 7: So what the book is, is a guide for parents
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  Speaker 7: and for children to go through together. So there's a
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  Speaker 7: parent's guide and there's a children's guide. And what they
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  Speaker 7: do is every day they read the same passage of
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  Speaker 7: scripture and they get to meditate on a sort of
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  Speaker 7: Christmas themed idea, working through the four weeks of Advent.
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  Speaker 7: So it goes through the weeks of hope, peace and love.
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  Speaker 7: And after that, they kind of go through and they
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  Speaker 7: can talk about it. There's questions in the parents guide
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  Speaker 7: to ask the kids. And it's just a way for
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  Speaker 7: parents and kids to come together to kind of talk
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  Speaker 7: about the types of things that are important when it
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  Speaker 7: comes to Christmas and also to introduce kids to kind
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  Speaker 7: of the real meaning of the season.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's incredible. And Christmas season is perfect because Advent's
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  Speaker 4: all about remembering that Christ did come and that he's
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  Speaker 4: coming again and what that all means.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's the foundation of everything that is perfect.
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  Speaker 4: in this world. The only thing that is perfect, and
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  Speaker 4: that's Jesus and how he came into our life and
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  Speaker 4: how he gave us forever. He gave us salvation so
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  Speaker 4: we could spend eternity with him. And we look forward
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  Speaker 4: to that coming, that re-arrival of the one true God
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  Speaker 4: and our Savior. And unfortunately, today, though we're seeing, fortunately,
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  Speaker 4: though we're seeing a lot of young people come, we're
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  Speaker 4: also seeing the churches actually starting to empty down with
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  Speaker 4: older people as they are leaning more left, unfortunately. So
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  Speaker 4: they forgot, is what I'm saying, is they forgot. And
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  Speaker 4: this Advent Guide is something to bring them back to
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  Speaker 4: understanding what happened. Am I reading that right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what I really like, Mark, is I'm a parent
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  Speaker 6: and now a grandparent, right? And a lot of things,
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  Speaker 6: even in our Christian families and Christian homes, And a
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  Speaker 6: lot of times the kids go off and do one
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  Speaker 6: thing and the parents do something else. And so the
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  Speaker 6: way that this is structured, this is something that the
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  Speaker 6: children are able to walk through engaging with scripture as we're,
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  Speaker 6: the title of the book, by the way, is Waiting
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  Speaker 6: for the Light, you know, and so building this anticipation
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  Speaker 6: that Christmas is about Jesus. And so the kids walk
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  Speaker 6: through these scriptures, but then there's this companion guide. So
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  Speaker 6: the the adults can also study and meditate on the
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  Speaker 6: same scripture as their child, and then they can talk
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  Speaker 6: about it together. And so, but we haven't gotten to yet,
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  Speaker 6: but we are making this available for financial issues listeners
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  Speaker 6: as a digital download at advent.kids, not. com, but. kids
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  Speaker 6: slash F-I-S-M. So advent.kids slash F-I-S-M, and it would be
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  Speaker 6: our privilege to share that with listeners. But then, of course,
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  Speaker 6: primarily we are using this with the kids and families
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  Speaker 6: in Crossroads. It's an opportunity for us to extend the
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  Speaker 6: work from the public schools into the homes and let
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  Speaker 6: these parents, many of whom are not church and not
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  Speaker 6: following Christ, understand more about what their kids are learning
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  Speaker 6: at Crossroads in the public schools.
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  Speaker 4: That's so powerful, Matt. I appreciate that because really, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we just went through this trauma event of a midterm election, which,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, everybody is saying is like the biggest
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  Speaker 4: thing that ever happened. But I look back under Clinton
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  Speaker 4: and under Obama, they lost more of their party during
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  Speaker 4: midterms than this administration did during this midterm. So it's
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  Speaker 4: all drama and all that kind of stuff. But what
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to say is that the things we're supposed
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  Speaker 4: to focus on, the things that will change all things,
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  Speaker 4: including keeping our governments in line, is when people embrace
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  Speaker 4: the truth of who our God is and the salvation
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  Speaker 4: that he brought to us. When people realize that, they
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  Speaker 4: make better decisions, both political decisions and financial decisions, or
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  Speaker 4: any other decisions. So I love the idea of this Advent.
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  Speaker 4: I also love the idea that you're taking the gospel
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  Speaker 4: not only to the schools, but also to the home
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  Speaker 4: by doing this. Speaking of that, you got another event
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  Speaker 4: going on right now, don't you?
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  Speaker 6: Are you talking about the opportunity that just came this week?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, on your prior point, I was
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  Speaker 6: just thinking about that this morning, you know, and that
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  Speaker 6: I mean, our politics goes up, down and sideways all
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  Speaker 6: the time, you know, and at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 6: we know Jesus wins, right? There is a kingdom not
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  Speaker 6: of this world. And so we know how it all ends,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and that's our hope now and always, right?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, that's my hope and I know yours as well.
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  Speaker 6: So and that's our mission, right? It's bringing that hope,
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  Speaker 6: the hope of the kingdom of God, that Jesus is Lord,
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  Speaker 6: that he's the king who came once and will come
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  Speaker 6: once again. And so that's really what everything's about here.
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  Speaker 6: But having said that, yes, we are incredibly excited because
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  Speaker 6: actually just a couple of days ago, I received a
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  Speaker 6: phone call from a actually someone we connected with originally
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  Speaker 6: through financial issues who has offered a matching gift opportunity,
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  Speaker 6: which is now through December 28th. And so if people
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  Speaker 6: are looking to make an investment with Kingdom Impact in
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  Speaker 6: reaching kids in schools, now is a fantastic time. The
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  Speaker 6: way it will work is that any gifts that are
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  Speaker 6: monthly commitments will actually be triple matched. So if you
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  Speaker 6: give $ 100 a month for the first year, they're going
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  Speaker 6: to give $ 300 on top of that. So it's $ 4, 800
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  Speaker 6: of impact through that year. So the second part is
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  Speaker 6: anybody who has not yet made a gift to Crossroads,
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  Speaker 6: their gift will be double matched. So if you made
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  Speaker 6: $ 100 one time, that becomes $ 300 with this. And then finally,
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  Speaker 6: anybody who has already partnered anything that is an increase
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  Speaker 6: over last year's giving, that portion will be one for
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  Speaker 6: one matched. So it's a 3-2-1 match, and it is incredible.
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  Speaker 6: We are just really blown away and giving thanks to
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  Speaker 6: this person and to the Lord and, frankly, to you
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  Speaker 6: guys at Financial Issues that have helped spread the word
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  Speaker 6: because that's how this connection came.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how did they do this? How did they get
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: involved in your end-of-year campaign?
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: Yes. Well, so ReachOurSchools.com. And that will actually, as of
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: this morning, redirect to our year-end campaign page. This just
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: happened so recently that there's not information there about the
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: match yet, but it is in force right now. And
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: the year-end campaign, by the way, is called The Next Chapter.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: So you'll see there the story of a young woman
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: whose life the Lord completely changed through Crossroads, how that's
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: impacting the way she's raising her daughter and the impact
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: she's now having in a public school. in her area.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: So I encourage people to just kind of check that out.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: But again, starting now and through December 28th, we have
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: this match, which will multiply the impact.
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  Speaker 4: That's awesome. And what are you going to do with that, Matt?
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: What's the plans for next year, Matt? Yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Well, the biggest thing is we want to reach more kids.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: There's there's definitely more opportunity than than we can handle
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: right now. And so we're raising the funds to to
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: resource reaching more kids next year. So specifically, our goal
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: is raising four hundred thousand dollars. year end. It costs
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: about $ 400 to reach a child for the entire year,
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: and so our goal is 1,000 more children next year,
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: which would be approximately 30 to 35 new clubs and
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: new schools opening up. And then growing those clubs that
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: already exist so that we can reach at least a
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: thousand more children in 2027.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Imagine a time where every public school has a Crossroads
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Kids Club in it. where those children who have never
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: heard the gospel can come and find out about the
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: one true God. That would be incredible, Matt. I really
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: pray that every penny of this match gets donated, that
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: people donate and make this match work, and that your
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: goals are met, and that obviously the expansion to 30
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: new kids clubs happens, and anything we can do, obviously
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: we're here because we believe in the gospel. We believe, obviously,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: How can you be a steward without the power of
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: God in you? And you can't have the power of
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: God without knowing his son as your savior. So thank
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: you so much for everything you're doing.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Thanks for coming on Gabe and Matt. Yes. God bless
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: the two of you. Appreciate you being here.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: Good to be here. God bless you guys.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Thank you guys so much. Great stuff.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: One more time, folks, reach our schools.com. That's the place
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: to go to.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Learn more and to partake in that year-end campaign that
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: they've got there. So cool to be a part of
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: that great ministry, Mark. You know, Mark, I do hope
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: as well that our listeners, when they hear that we're
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: partnered with an organization like Crossroads, that it comes to
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: their mind, the realization that you're actually allowed to bring.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: The gospel into public schools.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: That was an eye-opening thing for me when we first
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: started this relationship with them, because I just assumed, well,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: public school's gone forever. you know, they've banned Bibles, they've
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: banned prayer, they've banned all that stuff.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Well, apparently not.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: The Ten Commandments. Yeah, they banned everything. They banned Christians.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: And then people wonder why, you know, public schools can
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: be such places of darkness. Well, when you banish the
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: only source of light, true light that there is, that's
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: what's going to happen. But boy, Crossroads has found a
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: way to get back in there. And it's just so
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: cool to see that they're doing that, Mark.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Amazing.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: And when they do that, they partner with a local church.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: So that local church then These children and the parents
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: and everybody there have a place to go to when
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: they do accept Jesus Christ. They're not left out on
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: their own in the desert of darkness. They have a
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: place to go. It's so cool. We love it. We're
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: so glad to be participating with that. You know what
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: else we love? We love being on the air with you.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: You inviting us into your homes, into your ears, into
• 22:32
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• 22:36
  Speaker 4: of the broadcasts that go on radio and television, they
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: do not do the whole show. Sometimes it's only half
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: a show. And if that's true with you, one thing
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: you could do is go to financialissues.org. A lot of
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: people don't know this, Sam, that if you go out
• 22:53
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• 22:57
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• 23:01
  Speaker 4: You actually can participate. in the chat there. And there's
• 23:05
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• 23:08
  Speaker 4: hundreds of people come to our chats every week and
• 23:11
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• 23:15
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• 23:18
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• 23:25
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• 23:32
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• 23:37
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• 23:39
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• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Folks, listen, if you need a good musical pick-me-up, you know, Sam,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: why don't we keep this bumper music going a little
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: bit more?
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Because this is nice. This is pumping me up.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: You know, we're going to go storm the gates, take
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: back our country. The Republicans evidently didn't help us all
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: a lot with that yesterday, but they need to listen
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: to more financials. Bumper music is what they need. It's
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: a little too groovy, bluesy.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: You'd be on a slow pace storming those gates.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, that's, you know, do it in a cool way.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: You got to keep your cool when you're taking over
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: the world, right?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: You don't have to do it outside of style.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: You can still be stylish as you take.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: It's all about the swag, right? That's right.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Actually, I like music too. And it is good that
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: we have all that kind of stuff coming into these
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: great segments. One of the things I really like though
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: is answering calls. So let's get to Robert here. Robert,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: welcome to Financial Issues. What's on your mind this morning,
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: my friend?
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Hey, Mark, Seth, and Sam. How are you guys doing?
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Hey, Robert. Good to talk to you, buddy.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: It's a blessed day. I feel really blessed today, Robert.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: You never know why God lets things happen. The drama's
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: gone now. We can focus forward on honoring God and
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: not be distracted by the patriot pigs and traitors in
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: the Congress so we can keep moving forward.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Well, that's just the way we should be doing things.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: But first of all, I have a question for you
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: about are we going to stick with the same asset
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: allocation models that we basically have right now? And I
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: want to make a spiritual comment after you answer that. Okay.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Hopefully it's a good spiritual comment. No, yeah, we're going
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: to stick with a general asset allocation, but things are changing.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: The weighting is going to be changing here near the
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: end of the year, not dramatically, but there will be
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: some substance changes. Like I said, second segment here in
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: the show, I think I brought up that things like technology, financials,
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: and energy are leading the way from a momentum perspective
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: and have been for quite a while now. So we
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: have a trend in those. that is going strong. We
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: also see that we have differences in large, mid, and
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: small cap stocks within those sectors that are repositioned as well.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Small caps getting a little more momentum, which we talked
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: about all throughout this year, slowly coming back to getting
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: some momentum. So we'll see as we readjust those coming
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: into the new year and add the new You know,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: add some new back end stuff to the partner side
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: that you'll see these changes going on.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: You there?
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Did that answer your question? Hello?
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: Yes. Yeah. You got me still?
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Hello. I think we may have lost you.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Hey, Robert, you know what was funny? Robert, I think
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: we might have lost you. We'll put you back on hold.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: We'll try to get you back for your spiritual comment.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I think Robert's dog was trying to get into the
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: conversation there, Mark, is what that sounded like in my ear.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: I wasn't sure if he liked the answer. That's right.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Why don't we try and see if we have him?
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's try to get him. Hey, Robert, are you there? Sorry, guys.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: My dog goes crazy sometimes.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: I think he had a question, too.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So I wanted to make a comment. And, you know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Our household is grieved about what went on. But, you know,
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: for the Antichrist to come back and be received, there
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: has to be at least some vein of globalism all
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: over the world, which means here. And so, you know,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: nobody knows what the Lord's doing. Nobody knows when he's
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: coming back. The Lord Jesus said he didn't know when
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: he was coming back. So, No one knows when the Lord,
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: when the father will say to the son, go get
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: my children. But the table is set. It might not
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: happen in the next 200 years, but it could happen
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: in 10 minutes. So that's, if you look at it
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: from the spiritual side, in our country was founded on Christianity. Amen.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Most of the guys, almost everybody, I think all but
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: two of the guys who signed the Declaration of Independence
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: were solid Christians and Some like 27 to 28 of
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: them were Bible students and preachers. So it was founded
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: on the Bible. There's nothing more than Satan would love
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: to do to take this country down.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: You know, absolutely. And it's like everything else in this world,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: in this fallen world, until Christ returned, it's going to
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: be imperfect. But the Holy Spirit is here with us.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: God is with us at this time. And sometimes he
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: just protects certain people. certain entities, certain individuals, certain countries.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: And I believe this country was formed, even though we
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: don't see the United States of America in the Bible,
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: I believe without a doubt, just like you, Robert, that
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: this country was formed by the hand of God for
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: one purpose. And that's so there was a bastion of
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Christianity in this world to carry it through to the end. Now,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: does that mean there won't be persecution?
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: No.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Does that mean there won't be wars and rumors of war?
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: No.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: All that is in the Bible. We know it's going
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: to happen. Even here. Maybe for the first time in history,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: we might even see invasion into our country. I'm not
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: predicting that. I'm just saying we don't know. Only God knows.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: But the enemy, more than any other area in the world,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: because we're the only area where God's light shines freely, freely,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: and people are encouraged to pursue the relationship with Jesus
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Christ without being burned at the stake or thrown off
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: buildings or heads cut off. I believe that this is
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: the last passion, and God's hand will remain on us
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: for a while. Even as the last days do happen,
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: it may still be that way, or God may allow
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: the enemy to take it over. I don't know, but
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: you know what he can't take over is your heart,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: my heart, and everybody who loves the Lord.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Mark, those are great comments. You know, Robert, I'll just
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: add to that as well.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: We see in the scriptures, yes, these promises of difficult things,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: rumors of wars, all those things. We can also say
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: that stuff has been happening. We've been seeing that for
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: the last 2,000 years. And what's been happening alongside of
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: that is the gospel has gone forth nonetheless. The gospel
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: has gone forth and changed hearts, changed peoples, changed nations.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: And I believe it still will, Mark. Absolutely.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Just like a long-term investment portfolio, you're going to have
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: some hiccups. I mean, Christians at one point were human
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: torches for Nero's parties. We're not human torches anymore. We
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: lost an election and that's not good. And there's trannies
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: running around and babies are getting murdered, but we're still fighting.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: We're still fighting.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Amen. So we got to keep fighting. Amen. And Robert,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: I really appreciate your comments. I appreciate your question, Robert.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: It's all good stuff. But more than anything, it's great
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: to know you, Robert, as a partner in financial issues,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: but also as a brother in the Lord. There are
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: so many of us out there who want to live
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: a life, who desire a no-compromise life that honors God
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: and speaks the truth in love. And you've always done that, Robert.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Thank you for being with us today. Yeah, good stuff.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: That's great.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: And, you know, we have a bunch of questions to
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: get to, but we also want to get to your calls. Boy,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: it's been such a busy show. I haven't been able
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: to even check our friends in the chat. I'm sure,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: like always, they have some great comments and stuff, and
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: we'll be getting some of those when we come back
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: in just a moment. But Seth, this is Throwdown Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: It is, Mark.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: And I think it's time for us to throw down
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: a little bit here. And I'm going to ask you
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: to take that lead because you mentioned three groups that
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: are very ugly in America right now. You mentioned killing babies.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: You mentioned trans. And what else did you mention?
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of the other one that I mentioned.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Is it the Islaminists? Yeah, I think the Islaminists is
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: probably the other one there, Mark.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: So why do we think it's okay to speak about
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: them if we're supposed to be speaking in love?
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Great point, Mark. Well, I'll answer it this way.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: If one of my children runs into the middle of
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: the road and could get run over by an 18-wheeler
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: going 45 miles an hour, is the loving thing to
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: do to say, you're doing a great job, buddy.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: I love you. Daddy's proud of you.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: No, the loving thing to do is to scream at
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: them and to run at them and to tackle them
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: if necessary to get them out of the way so
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: that they don't die. That's what we're trying to do.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: That's what we're trying to do. Babies are being killed
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: by the millions, Mark. We're seeing a godless agenda that is... Frankly,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, that also comes after children too. And then furthermore,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: with the Islamists, oftentimes, what do you see? You see
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: women and children are the ones who are hurt most.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: We love this country. And we don't want evil people
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: to harm innocent people. Furthermore, we don't want the church
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: to be harmed either. Now, we know that Christ will
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: preserve his church. All that to say, Mark, I think
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: that's why we speak about it. That's actually the most
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: loving thing. The most hateful thing to do would be
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: to stay quiet.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Amen.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: And that's the problem is you and I and everybody
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: else who speaks the truth, even if we do it
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: in love, will be accused of being haters, even though
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: the reason we do this is because Christ's first love
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: them and us, all of us. He loves us. And
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: he wants everyone to have eternal life, basking in his
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: glory and everything righteous and good and perfect, not burning
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: in hell. So you're absolutely right. The goal is not
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: to demean anybody, but to redeem them. And that's what
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: we're here to do because you can't be a steward
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: if you don't have the power of God in you.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: And if you want to be a great investment steward,
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: you have to know Jesus.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: And it's so important to keep that perspective too, because
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: it's so easy to get into an argument or a
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: fight with someone who is one of these things, an
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: abortionist or whatever, and it becomes a point of you
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: wanting to win and feel personally victorious rather than having
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: them turn away from what they're doing and come to salvation.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: That's the whole goal.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: It's not so I can feel like I'm victorious.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: We would prefer they trust in Christ and that babies
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: don't get killed along the way.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Pretty simple. Or people aren't dragged into sexual immorality.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Amen. Absolutely.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: It's well said, Mark. That felt good, Mark. That was
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: a palate cleanser, right, Sam?
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Well, we got 15 minutes left to continue on. We're
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: going to be answering questions. We're going to be taking calls.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: We're going to be looking at the chat and seeing
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: if there's questions in there that need to be addressed. But,
• 35:06
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• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Mark and Sam, I apologize that I do this, but
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: so we just, you know, folks to pull the curtain
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: back a little bit and in between segments, we will,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Usually say, hey, where are we going in this next segment?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: There's a call in there or something like that. I'm
• 35:56
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like you got something on your mind.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: You already revealed that we're just winging it. It is
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: throwdown Thursday.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I saw a very interesting opinion that I want to
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: hear your guys' thoughts on. And I have an opinion
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: on it myself, but I want to hear your guys' thoughts.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire came out, might have
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: been yesterday, actually might have been on Daily Wire's live
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: election coverage. And he basically laid out this statement that
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: he believes is true. He said, I would rather my
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: country not be run by communists if it means that
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Iran also has a nuke. Basically, he was saying that,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: you know, the reason for why the midterms went so
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: poorly was because of the Iran war. And Matt said,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: I would rather have a country that's not run by
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: communists versus Iran not having a nuke.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Now, he's an isolationist, but I want to hear your
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: guys' thoughts on that. It was very interesting. So my
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: initial instinct is that that's a false binary, because if
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Iran does get a nuclear weapon, that allows Islam, Islamists
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: and terrorists to attack us free of charge because we
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: can't respond to Iran because they have a nuke.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: OK. Yeah, I agree. It's like somebody puts a gun
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: to your head and says, I'm going to shoot you unless...
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: I'm going to shoot you unless you do X, Y,
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: or Z. Well, do you take the gun away if
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: you can, or do you just do X, Y, Z?
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: He's saying, let's just do X, Y, Z. And that way,
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: you know, I don't see it at all. It makes
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: no sense because you know, when somebody says, Hey, I'm
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: going to kill you. They mean they're going to kill us. Right.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: You got to think every most, if not all terror
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: attacks against the United States have been traced back to
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Iran and Yeah. So how do you respond to them
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: if they have a nuke? So you can't have Iran
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: have a nuke.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: That makes sense. It would mean that there's absolutely nothing
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: you could do.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I love.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: What Trump said when he was asked that. He said,
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: your vice president said, somebody asked him and said, J.D.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Vance said that the Republicans lost because of the war.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: And he said, Yeah, I think there's truth in that.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: I'm paraphrasing, but that's what he said. Yeah, I think
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: there's truth in that.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: This was J.D. Mark, is that right?
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance?
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, this is Trump said this. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: About J.D. 's remarks. He said, yeah, I think there's
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: truth in that. You know, we had the bombing that
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: stopped them from getting nuclear warheads. And yeah, I think
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: there's truth in that because it caused oil to go up.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: It caused an inconvenience. And, you know, I'd do it
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: again because it's the right thing to do. We need
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: to stop them from threatening the world and or destroying
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: the world. And if they do get nukes, they could
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: destroy a major part of the United States. They could
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: start World War III. I think that out of everything
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: the president has said since he's been in office, first
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: time and second time, and the way he presented that,
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: I have more respect for him today than ever before
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: because he said it humbly. And he admitted that it
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: caused the power to be drained out of the Republican
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: Party by doing the right thing. You know what I
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: call that?
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Leadership. Leadership. I wanted Trump to talk to us like
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: adults about this the whole time and say, hey, listen,
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: we're suffering a little bit. And here is why. And
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: here's why it's worth it. I think that would get
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: especially American men on board to say, yes, I'm willing
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: to sacrifice for the The greater good. I heard Ben
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Shapiro talking about the whole election fallout. I think I
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: agree with him. What Republicans are doing is everyone's taking
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: a snippet of Trump's policies that they might personally have
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: an issue with. Maybe the more isolationists are upset about Iran.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Some of the more free traders are upset about the tariffs.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: And then they're blaming that one thing. As the cause
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: for the whole election to fall out when it's probably
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: a bunch of different things.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: So let me reveal what I think about it, guys.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: I agree with you generally to play Walsh's advocate for
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: just a moment, though. I think the question that he's raising,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: which is a good one, is which threat is more
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: immediately dangerous? Because if the Islamists take over the country,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: they don't need to bomb us. They've already taken it over.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: So which one is more of an imminent threat to us?
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: I think that's kind of more the question that he's asking.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: I'm with you.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I would not like Iran to have a nuke. But
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: I also don't want Islamists running my country. And if
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: it's one or the other, I'm trying to figure out
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: which one I should have.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: But I think it's like Sam said, Seth, it's not
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: one or the other.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: We can do both. We can stop this. Florida, didn't
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: they pass laws that Sharia law can't be?
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: I think so, Mark.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: Well, guess what? The Constitution said nothing can come before
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: our government. So I think that every state needs to
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: do the same thing, pass that law. It can happen. Yeah,
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: there's going to be pockets of this craziness, but they
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: still are pockets. I know they are rising, but we
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: can do both. We can stop Iran and we can
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: keep our country a constitutional republic.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: Amen, Mark.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: It's like when I hear people say, can we tackle
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: the national debt or we can fund the military? It's like,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: you can do both. You just need to do them responsibly.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: You just need to be responsible. That's right.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: You need to be an adult.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: You have some common sense. It's a good point, guys.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: I just, you know, I wanted to bring that up
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: because I saw that yesterday. I thought it was an
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: interesting question.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: And it certainly is an argument to the extreme because
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: you have to assume that one or the other is
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: either going to happen. And like you guys said, it
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily mean that one or the other. We lost
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: an election and that might not all be correlated to
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: the Iran war.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Part of it is, I think.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: But I think a bigger part of it is the
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: fact that Republicans kind of got soft.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: I guess more what it was. Yeah.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm looking through the chat as we're talking here, Seth,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: and a lot of comments on this one from George.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: we should have beaten Iran in 1979. You know, we
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: should have done it over the last 50 years, but
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: we didn't have a president who was.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: You know, you know, who was saying that back in 1979,
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, but yeah, he's like, we should have destroyed them.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: We never should have let them take over. They need
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: to be taken out. So, so people were saying like,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: why did Trump go to war with Iran? This is
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: completely incongruent with his talk about no more wars. They've
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: just not been listening to him. He's been hammering about
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Iran for years and years and years. He didn't change.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: It's just kind of, again, people like to pick and
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: choose what they like about Trump and make that who
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Trump is when really he has a lot of different
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: ideas about things and is more complicated when it comes
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: to his policies.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: And one thing that's for sure, guys, too, is war
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: is not pretty. It's going to be ugly no matter
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: how you spin it. So if it's necessary, people are
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: still not going to like it. People are still not
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: going to like it. So it's no surprise.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: And most wars don't end like World War II with
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: a clean, straight up victory. They usually have complicated fallout.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: And you got to remember the only way we won
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: World War II was dropping two nuclear weapons. I don't
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: think we want to do that.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Also teaming up with a questionable ally too in the
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Soviets as well.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: That was not exactly clean.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: The estimations that went into that were We saved millions
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: of lives by doing that. 100%.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: And you need people with conviction.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: We killed so many people by doing that, but we
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: saved millions more than... What what was lost by dropping
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: those bombs? You had Japanese leaders.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: You had Japanese leaders trying to storm the palace of
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: the emperor to try to stop him from surrendering even afterwards.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: And then years later, they still found Japanese warriors held out.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: They didn't realize the war was over and were still
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: willing to fight because that was just the culture at
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: the time. So you're right. I'd be done.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Had to be done.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: It's an interesting question, guys.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: There's nothing good that comes out of this. I think
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: we pray. In fact, we pray right now for the
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: Iranian public. For all those people, innocent might be the
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: wrong word, but there are a lot of people over
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: there who have no control of what's going on with
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: the political, military, religious regime that is threatening the world
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: and living like the kings of the world with all
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: the money that comes in while their country is decaying
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: away and in danger of being destroyed. in a major war.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: We know they reject it. They're abandoning Islam in droves.
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Mark. Go ahead.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: That's great to hear. Dear Heavenly Father, we take a
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: minute here, a moment, just to come before you and
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: pray for all those people in Iran. We don't know
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: where this is going to go. We don't know how
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: it's going to go, but we know that there are
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: some bad actors that are threatening the world and millions
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: and millions, hundreds of millions of people around the world
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: and are destroying their own country, Lord, that are putting
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: their citizens in a terrible place. Lord, we don't want
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: people to die without you. We don't want people to starve.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: We don't want them to have economic strain. What we
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: want is for them to come to you, for them
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: to have the freedoms that we have as well. Lord,
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: rescue those children there. Show us an ending to this
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: that glorifies you. In Jesus' name we pray.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: Amen. Amen.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Well said, Mark. Good discussion, guys. I just was thinking,
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: you know, I need to ask the boys about this.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: Anybody in the chat, I'd love to see your thoughts.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: It's a good throw down though. There you go. It's
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: throw down Thursday. I didn't even get the memo about
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: throw down Thursday. That must've been when I was off
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: last week.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: Awesome.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, see what happens when you go away.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: I need to not throw up. We just come up
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: with segment ideas. Well, I was already thrown down. I
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: was on the floor.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: It's true. Well, we're glad you're doing better. And God,
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: thank you for answering that prayer. We do live in
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: an incredible country, everyone. And we do have the freedom.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: to praise and worship the one true God. We have
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: one other freedom, and that's to glorify him. We do that.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: By everything we do with our finances, we do as
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: unto the Lord. We do it to glorify him. Our choices,
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: our decisions should be made with a bottom line, a
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: foundation that says, does this glorify God? And if it does,
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: that means you're being a good steward. With your citizenship,
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: with your service to our country, with your finances, with
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: your giving, with all aspects of who you are, you
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: can glorify God. The more we do that, the brighter
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: the light shines, the more the gospel gets out there,
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: the more people come to Christ, and the more people
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: will spend eternity basking in his glory, basking in the
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: glory that we had given him. So thank you for
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: loving the Lord. Thank you for investing with biblical integrity.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: And thank you for making this day the first day
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: of being the great steward of your life.