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0:33Well, well, well, well, good evening everyone.
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1:18Ladies and gentlemen we're ready to rock and roll with today's
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1:58Mm hmm. Yes, yes, yes.
2:00Which is as I announced it on the show,
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2:09They're gonna have to submit it to their shareholders
2:11for Comcast and then the media division is NBCUniversal.
2:15They're also considering packaging CNBC with it
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2:27the American people were really not too keen on all of the hatred being spewed there and then
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2:33it didn't prohibit sunny hosten from having to give her on air
2:39apology
2:41uh... with that was funny out of you saw that
2:44uh...
2:45the mack gates
2:47but he's now announced he is
2:50declined the nomination to the attorney general position
2:53i don't know if you saw that
2:54uh... mack gates has
2:58agreed to not
3:00except President Trump's nomination of him as the Attorney General, which is quite interesting.
3:06You know, he was one of the ones at the beginning. I told you guys, sure about that pick.
3:12And there are lots, obviously there's lots of speculation. I don't think we'll get the full story.
3:17You know, you had some senators who were saying that, well, they need to see the health, the House
3:21of Representatives ethics investigation in the Matt Gates. But the speaker, Jonathan, has said
3:28since he's resigned from Congress, then there's no reason to publicize that house ethics investigation.
3:39Others are saying that President Trump offered his loyalist a easy route out of Congress.
3:48But I will say he was elected. He's currently a member of the 118th Congress, the current
3:54Congress. He was elected to become a member of the next Congress. So how does that work out?
3:58out, you know, because Congress terms in the House of Representatives are two years. So the
4:05recent election, it's interesting how is this going to play out, you know, because if he returns
4:11to Congress, then that brings the whole health ethics investigation back to the four. Or was
4:16this the easier way to resign from Congress? I don't know. Which was that? Yes, he could.
4:27I mean, Ron DeSantis could nominate him to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate. That could
4:32happen. I don't know if Governor DeSantis wants to take the same ire for is interesting, but that
4:39is the latest development on that front, Matt Gates, Congressman now former Congressman Matt Gates,
4:44now also former nominee for the Attorney General position has declined the nomination to the
4:52Attorney General position. So it's very, very interesting. Nevertheless, the word of God
4:58is not subject to nomination or
5:04rescission the word of God endures
5:07forever. We'll begin the program today in
5:10Psalm 16, Psalm 16. Yes, there are some
5:15senators who won the record saying they
5:17needed to know more before they could vote
5:18for Matt Gaetz to confirm him. Some
5:21initially opposed him say they were
5:23coming around to him. Now all of that is
5:26moot because he is declined. Publicly
5:29that he's declined in nomination.
5:30And President Trump has expressed his gratitude
5:33to former Congressman Gates,
5:35and has announced that he's going to continue
5:38his due diligence to see who is next nominee
5:43to the eternal general position will be.
5:45We'll see, we'll see, we'll see.
5:47To the word of God, we go Psalm chapter 16
5:49is where we're gonna go.
5:50Psalm chapter 16, verses one and two.
5:54And this is very plain.
5:59This is something the Lord really just gripped me with
6:01as I was preparing for the program.
6:04This Psalm is described as a victim of David.
6:07David is the author of a victim,
6:08is a particular type of Old Testament,
6:12he break musical,
6:14is a type of arrangement specifically.
6:18But the Psalm begins with David declaring,
6:21"'Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in you.
6:27I said to the Lord,
6:31You are my Lord.
6:36I have no good beside you.
6:39Read it again.
6:40Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in you.
6:44I said to the Lord, you are my Lord.
6:48I have no good beside you.
6:52The thing that gripped me from this passage,
6:57and this is something that I was chewing on,
6:59and then the scripture just crystallized
7:02what I was chewing on.
7:03Where does glorifying the Lord rank on our practical hierarchy of life's priorities?
7:13I'm going to say that again.
7:16Where does glorifying the Lord, the eternal King of heaven and earth, come in on our practical, active hierarchy of life's priorities?
7:32I say it in another way, what are we living for?
7:42David's expression here, I have no good besides you.
7:50It's very easy, and I've explained this before.
7:53It's very easy for things that are good things
7:58to cross that line over into becoming idols.
8:02And one of the major ways that idols are cultivated
8:08Cultivated is by us in our active disposition, allowing God's pre-eminence to be downgraded
8:21ever so slightly, allowing His pre-eminence to be diminished, however slightly or largely.
8:34It is appropriate.
8:36It is right.
8:37It is necessary for God to have no rivals in our hearts.
8:44And for that lack of rivalry to be demonstrable in the way that we live our lives.
8:50What are the things that transpire in our lives that demand our attention and that we
8:56devote our attention to our, I should say, rather?
8:58What are those things in our lives that provoke the most internal upheaval?
9:08What are the things in our lives that take up residence in our thoughts?
9:15What are the things in our lives that consume our time, that consume our resources?
9:25In a land as robust and plentiful as ours is, even in the state that we're in currently,
9:30it's very, very easy for us to allow other things to come into picture to dare I say eclipse
9:40our ability to behold our God in practical, active ways.
9:50When we read this text, can we say alongside David?
9:53Amen.
9:56I said to the Lord, you are my Lord.
9:58I have no good beside you.
10:03And this is where the tension can often come in, you know, because God is a good God.
10:09He's given us good things.
10:11He desires for us to enjoy our lives, but not to the degree to where we become so enamored
10:20with the enjoyment of our lives, where we do the opposite of what the Apostle John instructed.
10:30And the Lord placed us in the world, but reminds us that we're in it, but we're not to be of it.
10:35The Apostle John guided us as the Spirit of God moved him and inspired him to love not the world nor the
10:42things in the world, speaking specifically about the world's systems. When we lay out the things
10:50of life and we evaluate what are we living for.
10:54We should consider, we would be wise to consider
10:58that eternal things are the only things that are eternal.
11:02Temporal things are just that, temporal.
11:07Now temporal things can be important,
11:09but temporal things shouldn't supplant eternal matter.
11:16Only our investment in eternity will resound for eternity.
11:27So I again say, what are we living for?
11:31This is David's expression to God in response to who God is.
11:35Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in you.
11:38I said to the Lord, you are my Lord.
11:40I have no good beside you.
11:42If other pours in the scripture, whether the scripture invites us to a
11:47bask in the glory of our King with him as our delight, delight yourself,
11:53therefore in the Lord.
11:55In another place, David cried, oh Lord, how I love your law.
11:59It is my meditation day and night.
12:05These are some of the things that God has given us
12:08that would fortify us from being subsumed into the context that He's planted us in.
12:13He's deposited us in the world, but not to be of the world.
12:17He's deposited us in the world.
12:19We've talked about this before.
12:21John 17, the world will hate you because it's hated me.
12:26But I'm not asking that my disciples be taken out of the world.
12:30I pray that they would be kept, they would be sanctified in the world,
12:35and sanctified by the truth. Your Word is truth. There is a mandatory, culturally
12:47oppositional disposition that we should have, not despising the culture, but making sure
12:56having consistent internal evaluations. Have I moved over into love in the world?
13:00Do I love the world and the things of the world?
13:05Am I so consumed with temporal matters that I can't even see eternal matters?
13:10Do I have a difficult time prioritizing how I should invest myself in the time that God
13:15has given me on this side of eternity?
13:18This is one of those moments where I invite you along to join me and recalibrate.
13:23What are we living for?
13:27What are we living for?
13:29things grab our attention. What things capture our devotion? Even where does glorifying the Lord
13:38fall in terms of our lives priorities hierarchy and what we say in our hearts and what we might
13:48say with our mouths what we state in our minds do our lives reflect that. Now if our declaration is
13:55aspirational praise God but we have to be honest about the fact well this is what it should be
14:00When I haven't quite lived according to what it should be, well if that's the case, man,
14:09let today be the day where we recalibrate.
14:11There's a reason why Jesus described the broad road as broad.
14:18Many will find the broad way.
14:20But the narrow road is narrow, if you would find it.
14:26My prayer for us and this audience in particular is that we would devote ourselves to eternal
14:30matters and that our lives priority, it would be evident in the way we live, that glory
14:37glorifying the Lord is priming.
14:41Lordifying the Lord is chief.
14:43And because that is our primary life's pursuit,
14:47it will inform everything else downstream from that.
14:51Lord, may it be so.
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16:03Shiving light into the darkness,
16:05this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:09Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
16:11the third here and I'm delighted to have on the program with me a representative for for
16:15ministry that we have partnered with here at AFR for quite some time. That is the ministry
16:21of Samaritan's Purse in their Operation Christmas Child initiative. Many of you are familiar
16:27with this ministry initiative. Some of you, this may be new to you, but this is a partnership
16:32effort that we we join Samaritan's Purse in never plainly to convey the love of Christ
16:39to children all over the world.
16:41This is something that Samaritan's Purse has been doing
16:44since 1993.
16:46Since that time, they've been able to provide shoebox gifts
16:49to over 220 million children across 170 countries.
16:54It is amazing, it is amazing ministry,
16:56and it also is combined with a subsequent effort
16:59called The Greatest Journey,
17:00and we'll talk about it later date.
17:01But today, we're going to have a conversation
17:03about Operation Christmas Child.
17:06And my guest is Daniel Yaddago Andres
17:09from Operation Christmas Child.
17:10Thank you for joining me here on the program.
17:13Thanks for having me.
17:14Oh, it's truly my honor to have you on the program.
17:17Now, I wanna get right into it
17:19because reading a bit of your bio,
17:21you and your family lived in three Middle Eastern countries
17:23while growing up,
17:25yet you guys learned God's faithfulness through prayer.
17:29Would you explain a little bit about your journey
17:31and how you had your encounter with Operation Christmas Child,
17:36which ultimately led to you begin
17:38to serve in this particular ministry.
17:41So I'm actually one out of 220 million children that received shoebox gift and I come from
17:47a country in the Middle East where about 98% of the population were not Christians.
17:53So that man that my family who were followers of Jesus living in that part of the world,
17:59we would be persecuted.
18:01I remember so many times receiving threatening letters that were posted on our door giving
18:06as the option of leaving the village stop-ton people about Jesus or my family would be killed.
18:13So that was a norm of day-to-day life for us and constantly we rejected because of our faith.
18:21Now the second challenge my family had was poverty. My dad, he worked hard to provide for my family
18:27but it was still not enough to provide school supplies, hygiene items, and even our daily food.
18:35Sometimes we had to eat raw onion and bread for dinner because that's all we could have but
18:40In the midst of those hard times my parents encouraged me to pray for everything that we needed and
18:46I remember one year my family had a very specific need that we could not afford and that need was to have a radio
18:54So we can actually listen to a christian radio station like what you guys do and
18:59worship music in our own language
19:01And that was hard to find in that part of the world.
19:05And so we could not afford a radio, but because you were a family of prayer,
19:09we brought to God all of our needs, and that was one of them.
19:13Until one very special day, we went to church gathering, and there
19:17I learned I was going to receive a gift for the very first time
19:21in my life. I was so excited.
19:25When I opened my shoebox gift, there was goose supplies, hygiene items,
19:29them's beautiful toys. But the biggest surprise that my family found inside the
19:34shoe box was a many fully functional radio. And you could not believe what I
19:42said. That is amazing. How old were you when this happened? I was around five
19:49years old. I was really young, but I remember it very vividly because of my
19:55desire even in that young age, my desire was to listen to worship in my own language.
20:02Today I'm a worship leader, I'm enjoying the freedom I have in this country to enjoy worship,
20:07but in that part of the world it was very limited. So just to be able to listen to worship music
20:15and sermons through that radio was such a huge blessing. What was the spiritual impact upon your
20:21life where you have, we have needs, your parents encourage you to pray, you respond to, hey,
20:26coming on to the church, you're going to receive a gift and wait a minute, you open the box.
20:31This is the very thing I prayed for.
20:32How did that impact your life spiritually and even your trajectory and ultimately coming
20:37to know the Lord?
20:39Well, living in persecution and poverty, I remember often feeling unseen and the people
20:47of Orani, even the school that I went to, I was the only follower of Jesus.
20:50So there was a constant rejection and the feeling of no one cares for me, no one sees me.
20:56But when I received the Shubak's gift, I remember just feeling so seen by God.
21:02And it was like this push to keep going and to keep on the faith because he saw me and
21:08he was the God of details providing for me the very thing that my family even prayed for.
21:15When at this young age, I know at five, were you a believer in Christ then or how did you
21:20come to faith in Christ in which stage of your life?
21:22Yeah, my parents taught me a Christian, for instance,
21:25in such a young age.
21:26But honestly, it wasn't until early teenage years
21:30when I saw the boldness of my parents standing in front of death.
21:35For the sake of the gospel that actually men realized
21:38that what they're believing in is true,
21:40and that if they're willing to die for this kind of faith,
21:44then I want what they have as well.
21:47And so I made the best decision of following Jesus.
21:51And truly it was the best decision I've ever made
21:53in seeing God work in my life every single day.
21:57And as you described this early experience,
22:01receiving this gift that you prayed for,
22:02and then you mentioned seeing your family,
22:05your parents stand in the face really
22:07at the loss of their natural lives,
22:09all kind of coalesced together and you coming to faith
22:13in Christ yourself.
22:16That is very profound.
22:21So I'm assuming, and you correct me from wrong here,
22:23at some point in your life and your development,
22:26you were able to come to the United States,
22:28if that's correct, how did that happen?
22:30That's correct.
22:32I lived in the Middle East for about 17 years of my life,
22:35and the country I lived in wasn't safe to live in anymore.
22:38There were a lot of terrorist attacks happening,
22:40the government was corrupt.
22:41So my family made a decision to leave my country
22:44and apply as refugees.
22:46And so United States accepts our application
22:49and we came here in 2010
22:51and we were just so grateful to be able to find a new home.
22:57And we settled in North Carolina
22:59and listed in state of North Carolina.
23:01Hmm, I mean, that's amazing.
23:04It's so sad that so many people take for granted
23:06the freedoms that we enjoy here
23:09and some even can be misinterpreted.
23:11And then you have someone like yourself
23:13and many others who come here
23:15express its gratitude for being able to be here. It's amazing. And according to what I have here
23:21my write up about you. When you came to the US, you were able to find something quite similar
23:29to the radio that you were gifted at five years old in your shoebox. Would you share that with the
23:33audience here? So I came to the US not knowing that Operation Christmas Child actually exists in
23:39in this country. So I went to one of their warehouse in Charlotte, North Carolina, where
23:46they process all the shoeboxes before their ship. And that's when it hit me, this was the
23:50same ministry that changed my life. So when I connected to the ministry, I wanted to find
23:56the exact replica of my radio just to remind me of the kind of impact that God did in my
24:01life with that shoebox. So I went searching online and thankfully on eBay, someone had
24:06in their garage for like 10 years. And I got it and now I chose it anywhere.
24:13And you mentioned that you did this, you sought out Operation Christmas Child and you found this
24:18replica. How did you end up formally reconnecting with Operation Christmas Child to end up being in
24:24the capacity that you're in currently as a representative of the ministry?
24:28So that was when I came to the US, that was the first time I connected with the ministry.
24:32My English wasn't that good, but actually it wasn't until six years later when I got used a little bit
24:39when my language became better and I got used to this culture is when I connected again with
24:44the ministry and this time I was asked if I would be interested in becoming a national spokesperson
24:51for the ministry to just share what God has done in my life of the sure box skip.
24:55And so I have been sharing my story since 2016,
24:59traveled to over 34 states in the United States,
25:02sharing what God has done just to encourage those
25:05who are part of this ministry.
25:06Mm, well that's amazing.
25:09Have you ever had the opportunity to deliver a shoebox
25:13or handout shoebox to yourself?
25:15Yes, so in 2018, I had the opportunity to go to the country
25:19of the Philippines and actually be the one
25:21to give shoeboxes to other children that were my age and I received mine.
25:27And that was such a sweet encounter because I came full circle.
25:31And I just remember as I was handing the shoebox gift to that child as my circle was becoming
25:37complete, God allowed me to start the circle and a story of another child.
25:43And it just amazes me that he used all the hardships in my life to bring me to this point
25:50and ultimately give him glory.
25:52Wow.
25:53And that's just absolutely amazing.
25:55You really can't make this stuff up.
25:57Our local church participates in Operation Christmas Child.
26:01Would you describe for some who may be unfamiliar
26:04with the ministry?
26:05We've been talking about the issue boxes.
26:07What is the process like practically?
26:09When we were talking about filling shoe boxes,
26:11would you walk us through the process out of our works?
26:14Yeah, it's fun and easy.
26:16You get any shoe box of shoes and you have a standard size shoe
26:20box you can use that you can go to our website samaritanspurs.org.oscc get
26:25two boxes from there but any other shoebox gift take it fill it with we
26:29encourage people to fill it with hygiene items school supplies fun toys and maybe
26:35even a wow item like a soccer ball and a doll you don't have to put a radio in
26:40every shoebox but as well item I'm just saying you have to but you can't
26:47Now continue.
26:48You can drop it off at your knee-red drop off location, go to our website and you will
26:53figure out which drop off location is closest to you.
26:56And actually this week is our National Collection Week.
27:00From the 18th it started on Monday all the way to the 25th next week.
27:04So it's not too late.
27:06You can get an issue back and fill it off.
27:09And just remember that you get to be part of running other child's story and sharing the
27:14gospel with them.
27:16like someone did with me, it truly is powerful.
27:19Amen. And what about for someone who may, you know,
27:22may they may have some physical limitations.
27:25They may not be able to physically pack the boxes.
27:27They're an option for them to maybe participate
27:29with maybe digitally or their website
27:31or something of that nature.
27:32Yes, we can. You have an option to actually build
27:35your shoebox online.
27:37And you can select the items that would go inside the shoebox
27:40and then, uh, some of those first actually will,
27:43or offers you a Christmas child will pack those boxes
27:45physically in person, but you have a choice to also build it online. Even after collection week is over,
27:52you can go to our website and build your own box online. And what is that website that people can go
27:57to to either build a box and even get more information about the operations. Samaritan's first.org slash OCC
28:06that's Samaritan's first dot org slash OCC. You know, one of the things that that well several
28:12things I want to mention in light of this, I know in 2023 you are able to send 11.3 million
28:19shoeboxes around the world. That is amazing and the goal this year is to distribute more than
28:2512 million shoeboxes. Right, that's correct and out of that 12 million, 10.6 million are expected to
28:33come from the US alone. We're praying that this more company, the US alone. So you get to be part of
28:39of this global ministry that's sending boxes by the million. But you know what? I know we're
28:47talking numbers. I know we're talking millions, but it's really all about that one child. Amen.
28:54Their lives are changed and how God really uses that to stir their hearts and encourage them
29:00for his glory. Now, you shared about the self-orship program, The Greatest Journey,
29:06which is one of my favorite things about Operation Christmas Child, but since we're talking numbers,
29:11here's what blows my mind. Since 2009, when this discipleship program started,
29:18over 50 million children got enrolled and it was reported to us that out of those 50 million
29:23children, 25 million of them gave their lives to Jesus. Wow. Now, I don't know how many of you have
29:3150% success rate when you share the gospel,
29:34but that's pretty incredible to think about.
29:37That is incredible to think about it.
29:39And what our guest, Dania Yaddago Andreas is talking about
29:44is with every child that receives
29:46an Operation Christmas Child shoebox,
29:49a Samaritan's Purse follows up with them weeks later
29:52with their tandem discipleship program
29:55called The Greatest Journey.
29:57And I mean, we've had testimony after testimony
29:59how the shoe boxes led to churches being established
30:02in certain countries all around the world.
30:04And as Daniel just mentioned,
30:06Daniel just mentioned 25 million children
30:09coming to faith in Christ
30:10through this tangible expression of the love of Christ.
30:13I cannot recommend you participate in this any more strongly.
30:17This is a valuable and viable ministry.
30:20And some of us may never travel to some of these countries,
30:24but God can utilize our resources
30:26and the things he's blessed us with to travel to these countries.
30:29And just like then you had that opportunity
30:31to have that encounter with the Lord at five years old,
30:34through a radio in response to God answering prayer
30:38that you get to be a part of that for another child.
30:42We know we're at different places,
30:43we know inflation is high, we don't want anybody to,
30:46you know, not pay your own rent
30:49and not to have your own lights paid,
30:50but we do want you to respond to what God may be leading you
30:54to participate in this ministry.
30:57Daniel, what is something that you want to emphasize
31:00for the listeners and viewers of the program
31:02now concerning Operation Christmas Child?
31:04I would say the most, we tell people
31:07the most important thing you put in your shoebox is prayer.
31:11You pray before you pack the shoebox.
31:13As the Lord, what He leads you to put
31:15because He knows where the shoebox is going.
31:17I mean, He knows maybe for the children
31:19even are praying for something
31:20or what their life story would be.
31:22He has all that in mind.
31:24So God will use you to be part of that story.
31:27Just pray and ask him for what he's leading you
31:29to put inside the shoebox gift and obey his call,
31:33send it on its way and just know that you are going
31:37to make another child like myself, maybe prayers being answered
31:40or maybe it's their first time hearing about Jesus.
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34:43Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
34:47I have another guest on the program.
34:48I don't think I've ever done two guests in one show.
34:51I guess now is a candidate for the Mississippi State Supreme Court.
34:57She is a Neshoba County native.
35:00She went to the Leak, I believe that's how you pronounce it, Leak High Leak Academy and
35:04is a graduate of Mississippi State University.
35:05That's right.
35:06Okay.
35:07And the graduate of Mississippi State University for her bachelor's and participated in an MBA
35:11program at Mississippi State.
35:13She got her, her Juris Doctor from Mississippi College School of Law in 2004 and she currently
35:19serves the state of Mississippi as a state senator. My guest is Senator Jennifer Brannin,
35:24candidate for the Mississippi Supreme Court. Thank you for joining me here on the program.
35:28Thank you for the invitation. I've been looking forward to being on with you.
35:31Yes. And I wanted to have you on because this exemplifies something I've said on this program,
35:36numerous, numerous times. Whenever there's an election season, the presidency usually takes all
35:41of the oxygen out of the, the, the electoral room, but there are all kinds of ballots, all
35:49kinds of races, even ballot initiatives that are on the ballots, down ballot from that, and
35:54you exemplify that reality because there is, there is a seat that you're campaigning for
35:58on the Mississippi State Supreme Court.
36:01Would you please let our audience know what is it about the state Supreme Court that moved
36:05you to want to say, you know what, I've been in the state Senate, but now I think I can
36:09best serve the state on the highest courts bench in the state.
36:14Sure. Well, let's talk about first, you know, I've been serving in the Mississippi Senate
36:19for almost a decade. And when I threw my hat in the ring to serve in the Mississippi Senate,
36:24it was because at that time, I'm a mother of three boys. And that time my children were
36:29really small. And I began to become weary with seeing young people have to leave the state
36:34for lack of opportunity. So that's really what sort of piqued my interest in public
36:39service to begin with. So I wanted to instead of complaining about it, I may do where I
36:43wanted to throw my hat in the ring and see what I can add to the mix to improve things
36:48for Mississippi. Well a decade is passing and we've done so many great things for the
36:53state of Mississippi. Obviously a lot of work lies ahead but I see a real need on the Mississippi
36:58Supreme Court. You see the court plays a vital role in state government in Mississippi. Here's
37:05appeals from all the lower trial courts across the state. And by the way, I had a trial court
37:10experience in all of those court systems around the state of Mississippi. But the decisions
37:14that the Mississippi Supreme Court makes affects the homes, the lives, and the pocket
37:18books of all Mississippians. So it's important to everyone. And I'm running as a constitutional
37:25conservative. And what that means is, you know, Mississippians need and deserve justices
37:29that will follow the law, just like it's written, just the text of the Constitution,
37:34the text of the law, not adding to, not taking away,
37:37that is the traditional role of the court,
37:39and that is what I'm running to do
37:40for the people of Mississippi.
37:42You raised a point that I think our audience
37:44would be well served by having just a bit of an understanding
37:48about what you presented as being a constitutional conservative
37:51where the text of the constitution would drive your approach
37:54to interpreting and applying the law,
37:56how does that diverge from the legal positivistic approach
38:00really kind of the, I call it the macro evolutionary theory
38:03applied to legal interpretation method to where case law drives in rivaling with the
38:08text of the Constitution would say.
38:11I think it goes to the fact that when a justice is making a decision looking at a ruling not
38:17looking for an intended outcome, but truly looking at the text of the Constitution, the
38:22text of the law, and we follow the law wherever it may lead.
38:26And if the result is not what the people of Mississippi want, then that becomes the legislative
38:31issue to fix.
38:32Now you've run, you were in an election and it's gotten to the place where you now are in a runoff election.
38:40Would you just explain that process, how we've gotten to the place where you're in a runoff and then share with the audience when your runoff election is to take place?
38:46That's right. So in the general election, there were five people in the race for the Mississippi Supreme Court Central District.
38:54And we led the ticket with nearly approximately 42% in a five-way race against a two-term incumbent.
39:01And a law of Mississippi states that, you know, if any candidate in the race does not receive a simple majority,
39:06which is 50% plus one, then it goes to a runoff.
39:09And so the runoff will take place on Tuesday the 26th, which is the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
39:15And as you know, absentee voting is now available for people that qualify,
39:20will be now through 12 noon this coming Saturday.
39:24People can go to the courthouse located in the county
39:27of their residence to cast their ballot at that time,
39:30or they can cast their ballot on election day,
39:32which is Tuesday the 26th.
39:35And certainly I'm asking for all the listeners
39:36that live in the Central District
39:37to please consider voting for Jennifer Brandy
39:39for the Mississippi Supreme Court.
39:41Would you just share what areas of the state
39:43are included in the Central District?
39:45That would be eligible to vote for you?
39:49I'd love to do that in my website, by the way,
39:51it's jenniferbranding.com and it provides a lot of information
39:54on my background as well as the map.
39:56But there are 22 counties in the Central part of Mississippi.
39:59On the Eastern border, it's Kemper, Lauderdale,
40:01Knoxville County, it goes all the way over
40:03to the Jackson Metro area to Vicksburg,
40:06up to Washington County,
40:07Bauver County and the Delta and all the way down
40:09in Southwest Mississippi to Claveron County.
40:12So it's a really spread out district, 22 counties,
40:15but certainly we've been working hard.
40:18since I qualified on February 1st to get the message out to get to see as many people as
40:22we can throughout the Central District of Mississippi.
40:24And people have really gotten on board with the idea and the concept of a new generation
40:28of constitutional conservative leadership on the Mississippi Supreme Court.
40:32And that is what I'm running to do for the people of Mississippi.
40:35So those who are in the Central District, you heard currently Senator Branding, hopefully
40:40that title will be changing sooner from her perspective, I'm sure.
40:44You heard her describe the district.
40:47This is two days prior to Thanksgiving.
40:49So I know a lot of people have been warming up for that turkey.
40:52But if you're in the Central District, there's a runoff election that demands your attention.
40:56You don't want your voice to determine what the state Supreme Court will be comprised.
41:01You don't want to miss that opportunity.
41:03So Tuesday, November 26th is your election day.
41:07Would you please enter the branding?
41:09Give your website one more time.
41:11JenniferBranding.com is the website.
41:14All the information is listed there.
41:17I'm confident I've got the experience the energy and the work ethic to serve the people of Mississippi well in the Supreme Court
41:22So I certainly asked for their consideration. Thank you so much center branding since I'm sorry senator branding
41:26Thank you for joining us in the program and guys you heard it go to the website. Make sure you get out to vote
41:32All right
41:34Thank you. Have a good evening. All right. You have a good evening as well
41:37Well one of the things I wanted to get to today. I mean I'm running out of time. I know it
41:42This was pretty interesting to me
41:45Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami wrote a joint op-ed that appeared in the Wall Street Journal
41:52to where they began to explain what they planned to do with Doge.
41:57Their department of, how do they explain it?
42:02Yes, the Department of Government Efficiency.
42:05Some of the things that they included in this op-ed really, really, really excited me.
42:09I want to read a bit to you from it, and this is what their op-ed said.
42:12their op-ed said quote our nation was founded on the basic idea
42:16that the people we elect run the government
42:20that is in our america functions today
42:22most legal edicts aren't laws enacted by congress
42:25but rules and regulations promulgated by unelected bureaucrats
42:28tens of thousands of the meat she
42:30most government enforcement decisions and discretionary spenders aren't made by
42:34the democratically elected president
42:36or even his political appointees
42:38but by millions of unelected
42:40unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing
42:47thanks, sorry, as immune from firing thanks to civil service protections.
42:52President Trump has asked the two of us to lead a newly, newly formed Department of Government
42:55Efficiency, or doge, to cut the federal government down to size.
43:00The entrenched and ever growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic,
43:07and politicians have abetted it for too long.
43:09I want to pause.
43:09Notice that they did not describe our nation as a democracy.
43:12They describe it as a republic.
43:16All right, let's get back to the op-ed.
43:19Quote, that's why we're doing things differently.
43:21We are entrepreneurs, not politicians.
43:24We will serve as outside volunteers,
43:26not federal officials or employees.
43:29Unlike government commissions or advisory committees,
43:31we won't just write reports of cut ribbons,
43:33we'll cut costs.
43:36We are assisting the Trump transition team
43:38to identify and hire a lean team of small government crusaders,
43:42including some of the sharpest technical and legal minds in America.
43:45This team will work in the new administration closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget.
43:50The two of us will advise Doge at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform,
43:56regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions, and cost savings.
44:03We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action
44:07based on existing legislation, rather than by passing new laws.
44:12Our North Star for Reform will be the U.S. Constitution
44:15with a focus on two critical Supreme Court rulings
44:17issued during President Biden's tenure.
44:20In West Virginia versus the Environmental Protection Agency,
44:23the justices held that agencies can impose regulations
44:26dealing with major economic or policy questions
44:28unless Congress specifically authorizes them to do so.
44:33In Loperbright versus Ramondo, the court overturned
44:36Chevron, Dauction, and held that federal courts should no longer defer to federal agencies'
44:41interpretations of the law on their own rulemaking authority.
44:45Together, these cases suggest that a plethora of current federal regulations exceed the authority
44:51Congress has granted under the law.
44:54Doge will work with legal experts embedded in government agencies aided by advanced technology
44:59to apply these rulings to federal regulations enacted by such agencies.
45:04Those who present the list of regulations to President Trump, who can by executive action,
45:09immediately pause the enforcement of those regulations and initiate the process for review
45:14and rescission. This would liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations,
45:20never pass by Congress, and stimulate the U.S. economy. When the President nullifies thousands
45:26of such regulations, critics will allege executive overreach. In fact, it will be correcting
45:32the executive overreach of thousands of regulations promulgated by administrative fiat that were
45:38never authorized by Congress. The president owes lawmaking deference to Congress, not to bureaucrats
45:44deep within federal agencies. The use of executive, sorry, the president owes lawmaking deference to
45:49Congress, not to bureaucrats deep within federal agencies. The use of executive orders to substitute
45:55for lawmaking by adding burdensome new rules is a constitutional affront. But the use of executive
46:01orders to roll back regulations that wrongly bypass Congress is legitimate and necessary
46:09to comply with the Supreme Court's recent mandates. And after those regulations are fully rescinded,
46:15a future president could not simply flip the switch and revive them, but would instead have to ask
46:22Congress to do so. Oh my gosh, I cannot tell you how much this excites me, because this is exact,
46:30exactly right. Once these regulations are rescinded, subsequent administrations can't just
46:37snap a finger and bring it back into fruition because of the Loper right case, because of
46:43the West Virginia case, because of the recent precedent set by the court that is rightly
46:48establishing, or should I say re-establishing, the proper balance of the separation of powers.
46:54This excites me to know in the opiate, and I'm not going to read anymore from it. Well,
46:59That's not true.
47:00I am going to read this portion of it.
47:04They go on to say in the subsequent paragraph, quote, finally, we are focused on delivering
47:07cost savings with taxpayers.
47:09Skeptics question how much federal spending doge can tame through executive action alone.
47:13They point to the 1974 Empowerment Control Act, which stops the president from ceasing expenditures
47:18authorized by Congress.
47:20Mr. Trump has previously suggested this statute is unconstitutional.
47:25And we believe the current Supreme Court will likely side with him on this question.
47:28even without relying that on that view, those will help in federal overspending by taking
47:34aim at the $500 billion plus dollars in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized
47:42by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended from $535 million a year to
47:49the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
47:51That's PBS.
47:55$1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups
48:04like Planned Parenthood.
48:05Oh, don't tempt me with a good time.
48:13Did you realize we had such extensive amounts of money that's being spent without authorization
48:20from Congress?
48:21Well, of course.
48:23In addition to that, one of the major things that excited me is that Elon and Vivek's include
48:29to say this quote, our top goal for Doge is to eliminate the need for Doge's existence by July 4th, 2026.
48:38The expiration date we have set for our project. There is no better birthday gift to our nation on its 250th anniversary
48:44than to deliver a federal government that would make our founders proud.
48:48End quote.
48:50Oh man, I love it. Having defined parameter with the date set on the front end,
48:58operating on a volunteer basis, not as a governmental agency,
49:02and presenting it to President Trump to rescind going through.
49:07And I've told you before, Elon Musk has said that they're going to put it online publicly,
49:10everything that they're endeavoring to do.
49:12Guys, this is exciting.
49:15Now, of course, there's all kinds of details and all, but this lets me know,
49:18because I know Vivek Ramaswami and Elon Musk are not attorneys.
49:21So referring to the appropriate legal precedence is something that I know,
49:25that lets me know that they're working with attorneys to do this,
49:29that this is an exciting, exciting prospect. When you consider the overwhelming runaway debt
49:34and fiscal mismanage that we have in our country, having the willingness to do something like this
49:39is vitally vitally important. And I've said that you don't have all day long, President Trump has
49:43the first two years to get running. This clearly shows me that Vivek Ramaswami and Elon Musk understand
49:49that as well, which is why they said 2026 as the deadline for the Doge project. By God's grace,
49:55I pray that they are successful in highlighting this waste, fraud and abuse, cutting these ridiculous
50:01regulations and putting our nation on a footing to thrive going forward.
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