J.J. Jasper, host of J.J. Jasper in the Morning on AFR, steps into “The Corner.”

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11. 0:31Good evening, everybody.
12. 0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio.
13. 0:37I am your host, Abraham Hamilton the third.
14. 0:40Thank you for tuning into the program.
15. 0:43This evening I'm joined as is our custom or per usual.
16. 0:48Wow.
17. 0:50My fancy feet right across from me.
18. 0:54I didn't send it to him.
19. 0:54You know what I'm talking about.
20. 0:57Have you seen it?
21. 0:58You saw get loose now.
22. 1:01Take it to the house.
23. 1:05Right across from me, my man, 100 grand, fancy feet, Mr. Bobby.
24. 1:14Don't come too close.
25. 1:15You might slide on you.
26. 1:18And the screening room produced extraordinary.
27. 1:21All of the Nemetated never duplicated.
28. 1:22The real Jay Mac, ladies and gentlemen, is in the screening room.
29. 1:25And we were ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program.
30. 1:28At this very moment, many of you, if not, most of you are making your
31. 1:31transition from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs,
32. 1:36where you cultivate an outcome.
33. 1:37And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality.
34. 1:42There are all kinds of things that are happening.
35. 1:44I mean, the Wall Street Journal came across a draft executive order from President Trump
36. 1:51directing the now confirmed Secretary of Education and Department of Education, Linda McMahon
37. 1:56And to take all appropriate legally available steps in order to shut down the Department
38. 2:05of Education.
39. 2:06It's a draft.
40. 2:07Now it's a draft.
41. 2:08It's a draft as the admin sign yet, but it's a draft that's happening.
42. 2:14And you know, if you've been listening to show, I'd tell you in order for that to happen,
43. 2:17ultimately is going to require congressional participation.
44. 2:21You're going to have to have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate in order to get it done
45. 2:24in company.
46. 2:25totality, however, there are things that can be done incrementally.
47. 2:29For example, the Office for Civil Rights within the Department of Education, that can be transferred
48. 2:34over to the Department of Justice.
49. 2:36No need for a Department of Education specific Office of Civil Rights when you have an Office
50. 2:41of Civil Rights already within the Department of Justice.
51. 2:44Also the Department of Education's student loan branch that can be moved over to the Treasury
52. 2:51department. No need to have a secondary almost duplicative financial
53. 2:56iteration and what you can do through executive action is to winnow the scope
54. 3:01of the Department of Education to get it to a place to where it is manageable and
55. 3:06palatable for the Department of Education to ultimately with a filibuster proof
56. 3:12majority which could potentially be available after the midterms in 2026 to
57. 3:17put the final death nail into that Department of Education. And in terms of federal funds used
58. 3:23to stop gap, state education departments, education departments, you can make those assiminations
59. 3:31directly via congressional appropriations from the Treasury Department. Right now the Department
60. 3:35of Education is serving as an intermediary. Congress makes the appropriations, they appropriated
61. 3:40to the DOE, then the DOE makes the dissemination. But we can stop, cut the middleman out and
62. 3:45still have that direct flow to the states at the state level placing the control within
63. 3:52the hands of people closest to the children.
64. 3:54Just for an example.
65. 3:55And then you also have the wonderful five for decision by the US Supreme Court, a brief
66. 4:04unsigned decision.
67. 4:06But we know who the majority is because we have a dissent from the opinion.
68. 4:10What I'm talking about is the Supreme Court's decision to deny President Trump's request to
69. 4:15freeze funds, almost $2 billion, $1.9 billion distributed through USAID. The court decided,
70. 4:27now we're not going to roll president Trump. And we know who the dissenters are. Justice
71. 4:30Scalia, Alito wrote the dissent joined by Justice Thomas Gorsuch in Kavanaugh. Hmm, that's
72. 4:35four. Who are the five left remaining? Clearly it is Chief Justice John Roberts, Amy Coney
73. 4:40Baird, Justice Soan, so to my yard, Justice Katau Jibran Jackson and Justice Elena Kagan.
74. 4:44the five to which Justice Scalia wrote he stunned that a district court judge has the
75. 4:52authority which Alito Senua does not to direct to the federal government that you need to
76. 4:57make these expenditures.
77. 5:01It's amazing.
78. 5:03It's amazing.
79. 5:04Justice Alito said he stunned and one of the major things is because the district court
80. 5:10judge tried to present his order as if it was a temporary restraining order to his Justice
81. 5:16Alito says, how can you force the federal government to spend $2 billion, which they won't be able
82. 5:21to get back and say that that's a temporary order? It ain't temporary on no planet. But
83. 5:27we have to be intentional about not allowing those things to encroach upon our commitment
84. 5:33to be salt and light in the home. We'll deal with the Supreme Court, but not at the expense
85. 5:38of what happens at our home. This is why I remind us what goes on in your house is far
86. 5:43more important than what goes on in the White House. To the word of God, we go, do the right
87. 5:46I don't think you should underestimate just the downstream consequences of that would be a sassen who showed up on break. I'm sorry, I en route to justice break Kavanaugh's house with zip ties and duct tape and toe. Some of these justices are afraid, man, for themselves and for their families.
88. 6:08with zip ties and duct tape and toe.
89. 6:12Some of these justices are afraid, man,
90. 6:14for themselves and for their families.
91. 6:17You got pretty close, people, he was arrested.
92. 6:20To the word of God, we go Deuteronomy chapter four.
93. 6:25As you know, the book of Deuteronomy
94. 6:28includes Moses' address to the second generation
95. 6:31of wildernesses, your lights,
96. 6:32and he includes a portion there
97. 6:35that is something that I believe
98. 6:36that should be aspirational for all of us
99. 6:39to one degree or another, if not directly applicable to us.
100. 6:42Deuteronomy 4 verse 9 you see something there, a jewel is hitting there and in fact Jeff Shambly
101. 6:50from the stand radio, talked about this when he was on the program a while back, and there's
102. 6:56something that has stuck with me since then, listens to the text Deuteronomy 4 verse 9 it says
103. 7:01this, only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently so that you do not forget the things
104. 7:09with your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life,
105. 7:18but make them known to your sons and your grand sons. Make them known to your sons and your
106. 7:26grand sons. We talk on this program quite a bit about the responsibility to Biblical Mandate for
107. 7:33parents to rear our children in the nurturing admonition of the Lord. I want to present to you
108. 7:39hear the scripture given an indication that there also should be an aspiration for godliness
109. 7:45when we have grand. So to say that differently to be a more seasoned chronologically seasoned
110. 7:52saint and still be godly. We have, man, what a tremendous dearth in our nation of godliness
111. 8:03and family structure where we have more material wealth than we've had in times past.
112. 8:09of course with a little deflation to go with it of course.
113. 8:12But if you look at the core of our society, man, we have degraded in such a degree where
114. 8:19it's very difficult, very difficult.
115. 8:24We in fact have, and I understand the culture phenomenon, we have people who don't want to
116. 8:28age, you know, we don't want to be older and I'm not trying to throw shade on anyone, we
117. 8:32want to color our hair, we want to dye this and dye that because we want to look a certain
118. 8:35way.
119. 8:36But I just want to challenge that.
120. 8:37It is a good thing.
121. 8:39As the scripture says,
122. 8:40a holy head is a crown of life
123. 8:41if it's found in the way of righteousness.
124. 8:42It's a good thing to be older and wiser
125. 8:47and to be grounded and to be a vessel of honor
126. 8:50for the Lord's glory, to be a resource
127. 8:53for generations that are coming behind us.
128. 8:55Not because we are gonna be shelved.
129. 8:58I've explained before that the concept of retirement
130. 9:00is not a biblical concept.
131. 9:02And I'm talking about the mindset and the heart disposition.
132. 9:04I'm not saying you have to work.
133. 9:05He worked on a job for 20, 30, 40 years.
134. 9:08And you have to keep working on it.
135. 9:10I'm not saying that.
136. 9:11No, but I'm saying the mindset is even if you changed occupation and income generating capacity,
137. 9:16we don't develop the mindset that way, hey, that's it.
138. 9:19I'm just going to sit back here and flowery beds of ease and do nothing.
139. 9:25That's one of the major reasons why some of our people as they age, and I'm not diminishing
140. 9:29the reality of disease and other things of that nature, but as they age, one of the things
141. 9:33that exacerbates mental deterioration is a lack of stimulation, no longer engaged.
142. 9:40But if you're listening to me and you might and you would, I'd, and recognize that you
143. 9:44are among the more chronologically seasoned brethren, I just want to say it plainly, man,
144. 9:50we need you.
145. 9:51We need you.
146. 9:52We need you.
147. 9:53There's a reason why the intertestamental period doesn't is not broached until the Lord
148. 10:00articulates to the prophet Malachi that the hearts of the fathers will be turned to the
149. 10:04and the hearts of the children will be turned to the fathers.
150. 10:08This concept of this generational breakdown to where, you know,
151. 10:11we are age segregated in this segment of society,
152. 10:14where age segregated here, it deprives us of having this intergenerational,
153. 10:19uh, uh, fortitude, frankly.
154. 10:21That's derived from the youth being connected to the wisdom
155. 10:24and the wisdom being connected to the youth
156. 10:25in this free flow, this free exchange that transpires,
157. 10:28that causes vitality to abound in every segment.
158. 10:33I'm gonna say it again, man.
159. 10:34We need the season saints.
160. 10:36We need the older brethren.
161. 10:38We need the wise men to pour wisdom into the young men.
162. 10:42We need the older sisters, the wise sisters to pour wisdom into the young
163. 10:46sisters without any dearth, without any breakage.
164. 10:50Much of what we're dealing with is generational breakdown simply because the
165. 10:54enemy has been effective in destroying families in our societies.
166. 10:58We don't have to allow that to continue though.
167. 11:01And if you're in a place where the Lord has been able to restore you and
168. 11:03we're storing this such a way, man, we need you until the Lord says this,
169. 11:08a wrap. This scripture is another one of those that I want to encourage you to put
170. 11:13opinion for those who are younger listening to the program. Man, aspire to be one of
171. 11:17these grands who has wisdom to pour into younger generations. If you are a younger
172. 11:22person, aspire to have the elders wisdom available to you and seek it, pursue it
173. 11:28to put into practice in your own lives. And I'm sick and tired of the world and in
174. 11:35and all these cultural forces robbing us
175. 11:38of things that God made to be an inheritance for us.
176. 11:43We don't need our old essays trying to hide
177. 11:45their age and wisdom.
178. 11:46And I'm not denying that some of the natural things
179. 11:49that are happening with, you know,
180. 11:51older, but I'm gonna tell you one thing,
181. 11:53it shouldn't necessarily be an automatic
182. 11:55that we just accept that as we age,
183. 11:58we are going to have poor health.
184. 11:59Says, ooh, why do we have to accept that?
185. 12:03Surely there are just ways that have to be made
186. 12:05and things that have to be taken into sitters,
187. 12:07But we shouldn't just automatically say,
188. 12:08oh, well, you know, this is the way it's going to be.
189. 12:13Brothers and sisters, and I'm particularly speaking
190. 12:17to our older brothers and sisters chronologically,
191. 12:19we need you, we need you, we need you.
192. 12:23We don't need you to go silent,
193. 12:25we don't need you to fade to the background,
194. 12:27we need you front and center, we need you front and center.
195. 12:33There's a reason why the scripture bears it, bears it out.
196. 12:37Then one of the indications of judgment on Israel
197. 12:39that had documented, for example,
198. 12:40Isaiah chapters one, two and three, it says that boys will be their
199. 12:44princes.
200. 12:45He's not just talking about useful in age.
201. 12:47There were times when you had God the king to came from being
202. 12:50used like Josiah, but those were the exceptions.
203. 12:53What the scripture is saying is that what the Lord is saying through the
204. 12:56scripture is that one of the indications of a lack of God's grace upon the land
205. 13:02is that they don't have any wisdom amongst the elders.
206. 13:07And so you have neophytes running the show.
207. 13:11And that's much of what we have in various segments of society.
208. 13:17I certainly am not one to despise youth.
209. 13:19There are a lot of people I'm younger, even though I'm not as young as I used to be.
210. 13:26It's amazing, man.
211. 13:27I've been here at AFA now going on nine years.
212. 13:31It's about to be a decade.
213. 13:35Well, that went by just like that.
214. 13:39This is something that we need to embrace and incorporate at a core level.
215. 13:44Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently so that you do not forget the things
216. 13:48with your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life,
217. 13:54but make them known, make them known to your sons and your grandsons.
218. 14:01Make them known, make them known.
219. 14:05We need the season saints man with all hands on death.
220. 14:07For the younger folks, this is something one of the things we should aspire towards, to
221. 14:13the Lord Terry.
222. 14:15For our less young folks we need you.
223. 14:18Don't disqualify yourself because the world says something about your age and I'm not excluding
224. 14:22If there are real limitations of various circumstances, I get that for sure.
225. 14:27But sometimes we self-sensor.
226. 14:32We check ourselves out of the game because we think, well, the world says they're done
227. 14:36with this.
228. 14:37Not in the body of Christ, man.
229. 14:38We need the season set.
230. 14:42We need to have the body of Christ filled with people.
231. 14:44But the stage of life when you could have grants or you do have grants, then you are a source,
232. 14:50a resource for the glory of our King because we need you.
233. 15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
234. 15:03In the tragic abortion debate today,
235. 15:06with people who say that they love the Lord
236. 15:08on both sides of the issue, who is right?
237. 15:11A bigger question is, who decides what is right or wrong?
238. 15:15Who decides what pleases the Lord
239. 15:18and what does not please him?
240. 15:20God does.
241. 15:21God tells us his perspective and thoughts.
242. 15:24He tells us what is right and what is wrong in his word.
243. 15:28In the present cultural landscape,
244. 15:30We can actually determine who is right and who is wrong.
245. 15:33We can see who is on the Lord's side and who is not.
246. 15:37It's not a matter of who is God's siding with.
247. 15:40God doesn't take sides.
248. 15:42He gives us his word, and if we line up with his word,
249. 15:46we end up on the right side of an issue.
250. 15:49Let's rise up and faithfully stand for life
251. 15:51and help end the tragedy of abortion in our culture
252. 15:55and world.
253. 16:06Shining light into the darkness.
254. 16:08This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
255. 16:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
256. 16:14The third here I am delighted to have on the show with me
257. 16:17in studio, a man who truly will go down in history.
258. 16:23As the very first, I'll give some of the other accolades.
259. 16:26I'll get to the very first in a moment,
260. 16:28but he is a best-selling author,
261. 16:31a dedicated Christian devoted family man,
262. 16:33which by the way my oldest son is reading several of your books.
263. 16:36Yeah, and he is host of JJ Jasper in the morning on American family radio
264. 16:43It is my honor to have on the program with me the very first
265. 16:48Host on American family radio in history when I hear a studio when they flipped the switch
266. 16:541991 seems like a long time ago
267. 16:56I was the very first voice on the very first morning to say good morning and that is
268. 17:02is amazing to have as a part of your history.
269. 17:07And here I am now being able to join that legacy
270. 17:10of American Family Radio and American Family Association.
271. 17:14And so we wanted to have you on the program
272. 17:18to discuss a host of things,
273. 17:19but I wanna start with you and how you first,
274. 17:25how the Lord saved you, and then how you were drawn
275. 17:28to become that first host on American Family Radio.
276. 17:30Well, I want to say thank you.
277. 17:31What an honor to be with you.
278. 17:33Boy, I'll tell you what,
279. 17:34Abe, you've got a lot of folks that love you,
280. 17:35that pray for you.
281. 17:37I love how you challenged me in.
282. 17:38Hey, you've had a tough day at work or a rewarding day.
283. 17:42Now you're a real job.
284. 17:43You know, all the ways that you just rightly divide the word.
285. 17:46And boy, I'll tell you, our family, we love you.
286. 17:49You and I have been able to travel internationally.
287. 17:51Yes, we were in India together.
288. 17:52We've shared meals together.
289. 17:54And I just say for the record, you're my hero.
290. 17:57And our family, we love you.
291. 17:59and so many people listening do as well.
292. 18:01I was, my parents work Christians per se,
293. 18:05grew up trying to be a good kid, pretty good athlete,
294. 18:09pretty good student, made good grades,
295. 18:12but there was always something missing,
296. 18:14trying to just sort of sort things out
297. 18:16between girls and coaches and teachers.
298. 18:19And then at around 12 years old,
299. 18:22heard the gospel, responded, walked the aisle.
300. 18:26For lack of a better word, I don't know if it took,
301. 18:28maybe someone will understand what that means,
302. 18:31lack of discipline, discipleship.
303. 18:34So fast forward, started making a lot of wrong decisions,
304. 18:38and someone has rightly said,
305. 18:39sin will take you farther than you wanna go,
306. 18:42keep you longer than you wanna stay,
307. 18:45and cost you more than you wanna pay.
308. 18:49Thumbnail sketch of it, just the reader's digest version,
309. 18:53I wound up just out of control.
310. 18:56My life was a dumpster fire.
311. 18:58moved in with my grandmother, my elderly grandmother.
312. 19:02She taught Sunday school for over 50 years.
313. 19:04The epitome of a good godly Christian woman.
314. 19:07I would watch her read her Bible, watch her go to church.
315. 19:09I wouldn't go.
316. 19:10I was running up and down the roads drinking every day,
317. 19:13smoking pot, just making so many wrong decisions.
318. 19:16And because of an uncle who got radically saved,
319. 19:19his boldness to share the gospel,
320. 19:21and I saw his life change, not perfect,
321. 19:24but it got better and better marriage language,
322. 19:27jokes, they told everything, became a new creature in Christ. I saw my uncle and he shared the
323. 19:33gospel repeatedly and because of my grandmother's prayers, I got down on my knees as a 19-year-old
324. 19:40and realized my need for God, repented of my sins, received Jesus Christ into my heart and life by faith
325. 19:46and I'm not over it. I've not gotten over it. Jesus is a life changer. Amen. Amen. And I know,
326. 19:53because among other things, my wife and I got to spend
327. 19:56a pretty significant amount of time with you and Maddie,
328. 19:59who is my favorite.
329. 20:00I know she's your favorite wife.
330. 20:02We have to arm wrestle for that one.
331. 20:04She's now a missionary here right now.
332. 20:06Yes, good job.
333. 20:07And I'll be kidding ya.
334. 20:08Yeah, and India just learning a whole lot about you.
335. 20:11I mean, you've taught Bible studies,
336. 20:12your time in the shack, all kinds of things
337. 20:14that have happened in your life.
338. 20:16And you've been a resource for people you speak
339. 20:19at events all around the country,
340. 20:20including pro-life events all over the country.
341. 20:22country, how did things culminate in your life where you were drawn to open up to hit the switch
342. 20:29in 1991 on American Family Radio? You know, again, long journey, but it's like with everybody,
343. 20:38you just start small and you just teach a Sunday school class, have a Bible study with a neighbor,
344. 20:45he who's faithful in little things will be faithful in much. And I was just faithful in the local
345. 20:51church started working with youth. We had a halfway house. And at one point, there were
346. 20:56seven of us guys living there. Everybody has one friend. So now there's 14 people at our
347. 21:01house every single night. And we just hit the streets, sharing the gospel. We'd go to laundry
348. 21:06mats. We just went where we thought people would be lonely or hurting. And as that just
349. 21:12continued, a little tiny corner of my heart, I thought it would be fun to be a DJ. You know,
350. 21:18what we were called back in the day.
351. 21:20And the Lord in Psalm 37,
352. 21:22He said that He can even give you the desires of your heart.
353. 21:25So someone listening, thinking about,
354. 21:27boy, I'd like to be a coach, a teacher, a pastor,
355. 21:29missionary, the Lord sees that.
356. 21:31And if you'll dedicate your life to Him,
357. 21:33if you'll continue to seek the Lord,
358. 21:36as it says in Matthew 633, Proverbs 3, 5, and 6.
359. 21:41Lo and behold, I was at the right place, at the right time
360. 21:44and got a job as an on-air radio,
361. 21:48a morning guy in Tupelo, Mississippi,
362. 21:51was there for five years,
363. 21:52and Brother Don would come over to that radio station.
364. 21:54That was in Tupelo, Mississippi.
365. 21:56And he said, I've got a vision to start a radio station,
366. 21:59develop it into a network.
367. 22:01And when we do this,
368. 22:01I want you to come over and be our morning guy.
369. 22:04And so, I knew Brother Don for many, many years,
370. 22:08and I knew of his hard work and his integrity
371. 22:11and his character.
372. 22:12I've never met a person like Don Womond
373. 22:14before or since.
374. 22:16And he just larger than life.
375. 22:17And it's amazing this movie that's made about his life
376. 22:20and his legacy.
377. 22:22And yeah, so that's the short version.
378. 22:25Yeah.
379. 22:26But Jesus is the hero of my story.
380. 22:29As I know, he is yours, Abe.
381. 22:31And boy, just like it says in Proverbs three, five, and six
382. 22:34and some of the other places in the Bible
383. 22:36to trust the Lord with all your heart
384. 22:38and lean on on your own understanding
385. 22:39and all your ways acknowledge him
386. 22:41and he'll direct your paths.
387. 22:43He's able to lead God in direct us if we'll open up that Bible and just get hungry for the word of God.
388. 22:50Prayer, that's simply talking to God.
389. 22:52If you want God to talk to you, He will reveal Himself.
390. 22:56He will personally reveal Himself to you as you read Scripture.
391. 23:00Amen.
392. 23:01You know, and I didn't even realize this when I was sharing this before you came in the studio,
393. 23:06I was sharing from Deuteronomy 4 about the godly legacy of grandparents.
394. 23:11And you just shared about the legacy and the example
395. 23:15that your grandmother lived in your life
396. 23:18and how that contributed to your development,
397. 23:21even just witnessing her faithfulness,
398. 23:22even when you weren't even interested in that.
399. 23:24Right, right.
400. 23:25I'm speaking at a widow's luncheon
401. 23:27in Capitol Arkansas next week.
402. 23:29And I've already been thinking about those widows,
403. 23:31God's heart for the widow and the orphan, James.
404. 23:33Here's what true religion looks like
405. 23:35if you'll look after the widow and the orphan.
406. 23:37And I'm sure not just the widow, but elderly.
407. 23:40Well, you know, I'm in my sunset years.
408. 23:43I don't have the energy.
409. 23:44I don't have the wherewithal.
410. 23:45I guess I'll just sit over here on the bench
411. 23:48and hear a grandmother's prayers
412. 23:50or what brought me to the cross.
413. 23:52And I realized that the life, the sinless life,
414. 23:55the life, the death, the burial,
415. 23:57and the resurrection of Jesus Christ that he's real.
416. 23:59He really is real.
417. 24:00It's not a myth or a fable or a fairy tale.
418. 24:03He's alive and Jesus is a life changer,
419. 24:06but a grandmother's prayers made that happen in my life.
420. 24:09and my grandmother was the most influential person in my life.
421. 24:12Wow.
422. 24:14I mean, I just pray that that's a great encouragement
423. 24:16for those who are listening who are at that stage in their lives,
424. 24:19you know, because our culture pushes against that, you know,
425. 24:22that, well, you need to retire.
426. 24:23You need to be put out to passion, all the kind of things,
427. 24:25and that's not a godly concept.
428. 24:26It's not a biblical concept.
429. 24:27And we need those who are at the stage
430. 24:29where they have grandchildren,
431. 24:30they could have grandchildren,
432. 24:32regardless of your life station,
433. 24:33we need, I call them, the chronologically seasoned saints.
434. 24:36Oh, I like that.
435. 24:37We need them just as much as we need everybody else.
436. 24:40You know, and so you refer to the movie that American Family Studios has just completed.
437. 24:46It's available free of charge.
438. 24:47You can go to culture, warrior, movie.
439. 24:49I'm sorry, culture warrior dot movie.
440. 24:52That site again is culture warrior dot movie and watch the movie free of charge and it chronicles
441. 24:57a life of brother Don.
442. 24:58And you had a particular vantage point with him coming to the studio you were, the radio station
443. 25:04you were working at before saying, when we start this, I want you to come up with a
444. 25:07come over. What was it about you that caused him to want you to be the one to come over
445. 25:11when he started American Family Radio?
446. 25:12Well, I feel like I'm saying too much about me. He would come to our radio station because
447. 25:16he had an insatiable hunger to learn. And he would come to our station to learn about
448. 25:22radio. And he had a newsletter and he was already, well, country boy who born in Dumas,
449. 25:30Mississippi, then a country preacher, but he was a visionary. And he had a heart for faith
450. 25:35family and freedom. And he had a newsletter, left the pulpit with a royal manual typewriter
451. 25:43in his den, clickety clacking to tell people, hey, movies and TV, you know, it would be better
452. 25:52without the cursing and the, you know, being vulgar and the violence. And he was mocked,
453. 25:58he was criticized, but he started that ministry in his den. And sure enough, he made good on
454. 26:03And that promise, he answered that call that the Lord put on his heart.
455. 26:06He started one radio station the summer of 1991, and then we added stations.
456. 26:12Ava, I've never seen a harder working person.
457. 26:15We just watched Donald Trump and we think, how can you get that much done in only a few
458. 26:21days?
459. 26:22And it's just like, how can one man make that kind of difference?
460. 26:24And the shock and all that people have seen watching President Trump, that's what we saw
461. 26:30in Don Wileman.
462. 26:31We gave you some numbers and wrap your brain around this.
463. 26:34We had our first station, summer of 1991.
464. 26:37In four years, Brother Don put a hundred radio stations on the air.
465. 26:42If you've ever built a house, if you've ever done a DIY project, the slab, the permits,
466. 26:47the towers, and most of these were out of town, out of state.
467. 26:54So you've got to call Indiana, Oklahoma.
468. 26:56What is this land for sale?
469. 26:58What about this zoning?
470. 26:59What about these permits?
471. 27:00So you're talking about how many a month, you know, for a hundred in just four years.
472. 27:06And it was a radio industry record, no country, top 40, no one had ever put that many radio stations
473. 27:13on the air and that record time.
474. 27:16And Brother Don knew they would move the goalpost because he was conservative and Christian.
475. 27:20And so he tried to do that feverishly and fear, you know, just.
476. 27:25And so sure enough, they moved the goal post and changed the rules because of American
477. 27:30family association, American family radio.
478. 27:33But he, he was remarkable.
479. 27:35You mean change the rules of how you can.
480. 27:38That's right.
481. 27:39Yes.
482. 27:40The time limit you can do it within the vicinity within local stations, translators versus
483. 27:45four power stations.
484. 27:46The whole gamut was literally you heard the phrase change the game.
485. 27:49It literally changed because of the pace that brother Don worked that in building the American
486. 27:52family radio network.
487. 27:54That's right.
488. 27:55what happened and they stonewalled him for years and years,
489. 28:01what took a matter of months for everybody else.
490. 28:04When he applied for the license,
491. 28:05they kicked the can down the road
492. 28:07and gave all kinds of excuses and you say,
493. 28:09well, it would take an act of Congress.
494. 28:11Well, it did.
495. 28:12He had to contact his senator and stuff,
496. 28:15filed all the paperwork and once,
497. 28:17oh, well, we lost it, do it again.
498. 28:19Well, we've had a different deadline
499. 28:22And I mean, it took years for him to get that very first
500. 28:25radio station, but I can't say enough good about Don's
501. 28:29integrity, his character, his work ethic.
502. 28:31I would get to work about 530 in the morning.
503. 28:34Brother Don was always here before me.
504. 28:36And I had a little part time business,
505. 28:38and sometimes I would leave some equipment here,
506. 28:40and I'd come after dark, summertime, eight or nine o'clock.
507. 28:43His light would be on us, oh, somebody, you know,
508. 28:46they've left the light on.
509. 28:47I'd go over there to turn the light off,
510. 28:49and it was Brother Don praying,
511. 28:51talking to somebody in Washington on the phone,
512. 28:54talking to someone in a Hollywood, writing a letter.
513. 28:58I mean, it's just relentless and it's just amazing.
514. 29:03Brother Don really larger than life
515. 29:05in terms of how hard he worked
516. 29:07and what he's able to accomplish in just one lifetime,
517. 29:09almost two understations, 36 states,
518. 29:12movie makers, one million moms, a magazine
519. 29:15and all of that for the glory of God.
520. 29:17It sounds like I'm elevating a man,
521. 29:19but I wanna be quick to say,
522. 29:21that's the Lord working through, Brother Don.
523. 29:24And from what, and I did not have the privilege
524. 29:26of working with him directly,
525. 29:27but everything that I've learned about him
526. 29:29is that he would affirm what you just said,
527. 29:32because he was not interested in bringing attention to himself.
528. 29:35He was interested in glorifying the Lord.
529. 29:36Or a $10 watch, humble servant leader.
530. 29:41He emptied the trash himself.
531. 29:44We've got a picture around here somewhere
532. 29:46where someone took a picture.
533. 29:47we grew to the place where we had buildings
534. 29:49on both sides of the road.
535. 29:51And he was walking across the street
536. 29:53with a plunger on his shoulder.
537. 29:55And he had crossed the street to unclog a toilet.
538. 29:59And this is a guy who at one point had a law firm.
539. 30:03And as I mentioned, nearly 200 radio stations
540. 30:06in the internet presence.
541. 30:08And yet here I'll unclog the toilet.
542. 30:11I'll empty the trash.
543. 30:13And I was privileged to be one of the speakers
544. 30:15at his funeral.
545. 30:16Instead of trying to go by memory, I actually wrote down some words to describe Brother
546. 30:21Don Wildman, dedicated, fearless, tireless, courageous, hardworking, relentless.
547. 30:28He was humble wise.
548. 30:30He was a warrior.
549. 30:31He was focused.
550. 30:32He was determined, a visionary, a modern day prophet, intimidating, and a servant leader.
551. 30:39And so I'm so thankful.
552. 30:40It took over two years to compile some of these, all of these victories and people behind the
553. 30:47scenes speaking out about his influence and his impact for the kingdom.
554. 30:53But yeah, I encourage everybody, please watch this movie, Culture Warrior, Don Weilman in the
555. 30:59battle for decency.
556. 31:01Now, probably 12 and over because he would take on Playboy and all these different, you know,
557. 31:07the drag queens, they were just getting started.
558. 31:10And he was, you know, in the middle of that,
559. 31:11hey, let's show up and say this is not wholesome.
560. 31:15This is not good for society.
561. 31:17And again, mocked and criticized all along the way,
562. 31:20but boy, when others see a shepherd boy,
563. 31:24God sees a king.
564. 31:27And that's profound.
565. 31:28I want it, we only have about a minute or so
566. 31:31before this segment is over,
567. 31:32but I want to get you to explain
568. 31:35because when Brother Don started,
569. 31:36he began with the National Federation for Decency,
570. 31:39but his work in that endeavor,
571. 31:41which led to the Name, Change,
572. 31:42the American Family Association,
573. 31:43we didn't have a radio network then.
574. 31:45So what were the types of things that you recall
575. 31:49that Brother Don encountered that led to,
576. 31:52okay, no, no, we need to make a pivot.
577. 31:54We need to have a radio network.
578. 31:56What were the types of things that led into that decision
579. 31:59before leading to this rapid growth
580. 32:01and all these other things?
581. 32:02And you can hear the disrespectful music,
582. 32:04So we'll have to get to that on the other side of the break.
583. 32:06But you are listening to the Hamilton Corner.
584. 32:08My in-studio guest is JJ Jasper, host of JJ Jasper
585. 32:13in the morning, the first on-air personality
586. 32:16on American Family Radio who got to work hand-in-hand
587. 32:18with brother Don Wildman.
588. 32:20The new film, Documenting His Life,
589. 32:22the development of the American Family Association Ministry
590. 32:25and American Family Radio is available.
591. 32:28Simply go to culturalwarrior.movie.
592. 32:30You can watch it free of charge online.
593. 32:32I certainly wouldn't encourage parents maybe
594. 32:34You watch it first, before you watch it with children, so you can get an idea of what's in
595. 32:37it, because it includes, as JJ mentioned, some of the battles that Brother Don led against
596. 32:42some of the panographers in our society and getting 7-11 to stop publishing that point.
597. 32:49You've ever wondered how to print things, ended up having to be putting bags behind the shelves?
598. 32:53Don Wildman has something for you on that point.
599. 32:55CultureOria.movie is the website.
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614. 34:11Back to the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
615. 34:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III here in studio with J.J. Jasper.
616. 34:21And before we went to the breakout, I asked JJ to share a bit because as I mentioned, he
617. 34:26was the very first American family radio host on the network.
618. 34:31So he was around for the transition to where Brother Don, who started the ministry as the
619. 34:35National Federation for Decency, then the name was changed to American Family Association,
620. 34:39but they came to a particular juncture to where he, Brother Don, that is, determined,
621. 34:45no, we need to have a radio network.
622. 34:46So I wanted to have you share a little bit about that and that whole arc in the history
623. 34:50of the ministry.
624. 34:511977, the National Federation for Decency.
625. 34:54And then as you mentioned, he was early on, he was battling pornography a lot, along with
626. 35:00sharing the gospel and just speaking anywhere he could, any small church, any civic, you know,
627. 35:07Civitan, the Rotary Club.
628. 35:09And he was almost like a lone wolf just saying, hey, look, pornography is a scourge.
629. 35:14This is something that's just going to permeate the country and it's going to do so much damage.
630. 35:18It's not a victimless crime.
631. 35:20Well, whenever he would have interviews, almost always,
632. 35:24and I was naive, I didn't realize how corrupt media was
633. 35:28and that they had a narrative and an agenda.
634. 35:30And they would quote him wrong,
635. 35:32they would put things in the article,
636. 35:34or edit the tape to have him say something he didn't say
637. 35:37because he took it way out of context.
638. 35:40And he said, if I had my own radio station,
639. 35:42I could tell the truth, be a truth teller,
640. 35:46and it would be unvarnished news and information.
641. 35:50And so his idea actually was to have a talk station
642. 35:53and not music so much, but our very first station,
643. 35:57mostly music, a little bit of talk,
644. 35:59but he was so excited about the news
645. 36:00because he could tell the truth from a Christian perspective
646. 36:03and it would be different than what you were getting
647. 36:05from the legacy news.
648. 36:07So that was one of the things driving him
649. 36:10is to not be censored.
650. 36:11And he was amazed just shocked at how dishonest
651. 36:15and how wicked these people that would try to interview him
652. 36:20But yeah, so the first radio station I made mention,
653. 36:23summer of 1991, we grew rapidly,
654. 36:26almost two understations and 36 states.
655. 36:28If I could share some personal stories.
656. 36:30Yeah, please.
657. 36:31So Brother Don was very, very frugal.
658. 36:34We would say that he was tight,
659. 36:36but I'm trying to be diplomatic here
660. 36:37because he wasn't my boss for 20 years.
661. 36:41But he says, it's not our money.
662. 36:42This is hard working people in factories, farmers,
663. 36:47people in fixed income, give me $5, $10 a month.
664. 36:49and he knew that and he was such a good steward.
665. 36:52And the minister was built on that and still is to this day.
666. 36:55But just one example of that,
667. 36:57we'd added on to our building, we had metal buildings,
668. 37:00a very, very economy carpet.
669. 37:03Anytime it rained, there'd be a leak here and there.
670. 37:05So we added on and it was our new building,
671. 37:07we're so excited.
672. 37:09And there were several pallets or half dozen pallets of sod.
673. 37:13And so Brother Don got on the intercom and he said,
674. 37:16that's grass for y'all to go to the side.
675. 37:17That's right, that's right.
676. 37:19Green side up, plop.
677. 37:21Yeah, so you have to have somebody,
678. 37:23green side up, whoever the foreman is.
679. 37:25So Brother Don got on the overhead intercom and said,
680. 37:30Hey, we just talked to the people that are going to install
681. 37:33the side and they're just wanting way too much money.
682. 37:37So everybody's not wearing a dress,
683. 37:40I need you out front.
684. 37:42And we're gonna lay this side ourselves.
685. 37:44It was in August.
686. 37:45And all the employees out there, you know,
687. 37:48in khaki pants, white shirt, mini with a tie on,
688. 37:52we were out there on our hands and knees, laying that sod.
689. 37:55And that was brother Don,
690. 37:57we're not gonna pay an exorbitant price.
691. 37:59I'm gonna save-
692. 38:00And I love-
693. 38:01Ministry money.
694. 38:02And I love this story because brother Don
695. 38:04didn't just summon staff till they decided.
696. 38:07He was out there doing it himself.
697. 38:08He was out there laying the sod.
698. 38:09You're exactly right.
699. 38:10I've traveled with him.
700. 38:12I've shared a meal at his table.
701. 38:15And he really, he really was a servant leader.
702. 38:17I was not in the military, but I think I know what it was like to be around a general because
703. 38:22he, though he was a very humble man, he was like a military general and Abe, there's never
704. 38:28a doubt in anyone's mind that he was in charge.
705. 38:31He commanded the utmost respect from others and struck fear in the hearts of the bad actors
706. 38:37in Hollywood and Washington, D.C.
707. 38:40He really was a champion, a true hero of the faith.
708. 38:44And Don Weilman never in his lifetime ever backed down from a fight.
709. 38:48Speaking of his character, one of the things I learned and I did not know this until I came
710. 38:52to AFA, but the whole tea party movement, a lot of people don't know, but he started that.
711. 38:56Had a lot to do with it.
712. 38:57And I had a lot to, yes, sir.
713. 38:59And was intentional about not associating his name with any of it, but just getting the
714. 39:04work done, getting the work done.
715. 39:06And that's indicative of his character.
716. 39:08And I know you have more experiences with them.
717. 39:10You have any other particular accounts you'd want to share.
718. 39:13stories, like you said, behind the scenes. And I think this was just a one-sentence thing
719. 39:18in the movie because there was so much to put in the movie. But Brother Don, as I mentioned, was a
720. 39:23visionary. And he saw that all the major ministries, all the major denominations, seemed to be all
721. 39:30going in different directions. And he saw that the liberals, the people on the left,
722. 39:34they were united with the LGBT community, the gay community back then.
723. 39:40And so he made some strategic calls.
724. 39:44He really was like a general and just being strategic.
725. 39:48And he said, guys, we have to all be on the same page.
726. 39:51Will you meet me in Washington, DC?
727. 39:53Actually Arlington, they met.
728. 39:55And here were some of the names.
729. 39:56Some of our older listeners will remember,
730. 39:58Dr. D. James Kennedy, Adrian Rogers, Dr. James Dobson,
731. 40:03the who's who of leaders and the Christian community,
732. 40:05they met Brother Don, cast his vision.
733. 40:08We really need the whatever college you're working on,
734. 40:11whatever building you're building,
735. 40:13we need to be on the same page for faith, family, and freedom,
736. 40:16advancing the kingdom, telling people about Jesus Christ.
737. 40:20And so they agreed and they said,
738. 40:23well, the first thing we need is a leader.
739. 40:25And Brother Don, we want you to bear our leader.
740. 40:28He said, oh, hey, I'm just a country boy from Mississippi.
741. 40:31The Lord just put this on my heart,
742. 40:32but you guys are more qualified.
743. 40:34And they said, no, we'll only do this.
744. 40:37He'll be our leader and you never ever heard about that ever.
745. 40:41And it was called the Arlington group and they would fly out and meet and
746. 40:44strategize and implement plans. One more quick story. I'm walking down the hall.
747. 40:49This was the first George Bush walking down the hall. Now,
748. 40:53Brother Don's office, no entourage, nobody guards door open,
749. 40:57cluttered office. You could just come in as I mentioned $10 watch.
750. 41:02No cabin and the mountains are on the beach or condo.
751. 41:05Humble, modest.
752. 41:08So I'm walking down the hall and over there in the comm,
753. 41:11it said, Brother Don, President Bush on line one,
754. 41:14President Bush on line one.
755. 41:16Abe literally stopped in my tracks walking down the hall.
756. 41:20And I thought and later learned that President Bush
757. 41:24called Brother Don for advice,
758. 41:27send me advice on a family policy.
759. 41:30I thought however clever I think I am
760. 41:32or whatever I think I may accomplish in my lifetime,
761. 41:35with 100% certainty.
762. 41:37I know the president of the United States of America
763. 41:40is not gonna call me and say,
764. 41:42what do you think about this?
765. 41:44And brother Don, he didn't mention it into motion
766. 41:46the next day, he didn't mention it to any of his neighbors.
767. 41:49Hey, guess who called me yesterday?
768. 41:50Asking me for advice.
769. 41:52But I could just go on and on with those stories
770. 41:55behind the scenes, but here's why you need to watch the movie
771. 41:58because they tell a lot of those things
772. 42:00and bring a lot of family friends
773. 42:02and people that went to his church.
774. 42:05His pastor's wife told me as fierce as he could be,
775. 42:08and sometimes stern, he worked on the nursery.
776. 42:13Like if somebody didn't show up,
777. 42:14and there was the paneling
778. 42:15between her Sunday school room and the nursery,
779. 42:17and she heard him in there with a little two and three-year-olds
780. 42:20rocking them and singing a little Christian song
781. 42:24to them, and Jesus loves me.
782. 42:26But she said, she would think if the people in the Hollywood
783. 42:31and Washington, D.C., this person that battles them,
784. 42:34and is not intimidated by any of those corporate monsters.
785. 42:39If they knew how tender he could be,
786. 42:43having these little children in his lap
787. 42:44and singing these songs.
788. 42:46But yeah, the movie is a culture warrior,
789. 42:49Don Wyleman in the battle for decency
790. 42:52and it's streaming for free.
791. 42:54Be great for your small group, for your church,
792. 42:56for your family, maybe 12 and older,
793. 42:59but culturewarrior.movie, culturewarrior.movie,
794. 43:03the life, the legacy of Don Weillman,
795. 43:06he would famously say,
796. 43:07one person can make a difference.
797. 43:09Well, oftentimes, well, I can't talk,
798. 43:11I can't go to the school board,
799. 43:13I can't run for an Alderman or mayor,
800. 43:15I can't do anything in my neighborhood, watch person.
801. 43:18And he said, oh, you can.
802. 43:20You know, one person can make a difference.
803. 43:21And he would say that routinely
804. 43:23and look what happened with just one lifetime.
805. 43:26I mean, this is not a dress rehearsal.
806. 43:29This is the real deal.
807. 43:30We only have one lifetime to live for Jesus.
808. 43:32And he was surrendered and yielded.
809. 43:35And look what God did,
810. 43:37how he was able to glorify himself
811. 43:38through the life of Brother Don.
812. 43:40That's amazing.
813. 43:41You know, you don't have to talk to you very long,
814. 43:44JJ, to see your heart for the Lord.
815. 43:46It comes out.
816. 43:46It oozes out of you, even you saying here,
817. 43:49that you've never gotten over the Lord saving you
818. 43:52as you had to experience when you were 12,
819. 43:53but really having a really come to Jesus at 19.
820. 43:58They all did, yeah.
821. 43:59And never having gotten over that.
822. 44:01What would you say to the people who were listening to now?
823. 44:03We're talking about the example that the Lord left for us
824. 44:06through Brother Don, his witness's legacy.
825. 44:09But the Lord really calls every one of his children
826. 44:12to serve him.
827. 44:12Not all of us are gonna be Brother Don.
828. 44:14You know, our names may not be etched anywhere here
829. 44:16on this side of eternity, but guaranteed what is available
830. 44:19to every single person is for our names to be written
831. 44:21in the last book of life.
832. 44:22And no matter what your, you're like the testimony you had,
833. 44:25even though you may not get George Bush online one,
834. 44:28you can fulfill your purposes.
835. 44:29How would you encourage our audience to submit themselves to the Lord's leading in that way?
836. 44:32You know, in the last couple of years, I've tried to be faithful to read the Bible every
837. 44:36day in our church, our pastor, just over and over.
838. 44:39He says, I can't overstate how important it is to feed daily from the Word of God.
839. 44:43Jesus said, in Matthew 4, 4, as well as Luke 4, 4, man should not live by bread alone, but
840. 44:48by every word that proceeded from the mouth of God.
841. 44:51As I mentioned earlier, prayer, that's just simply us talking to God.
842. 44:57But if you want God to talk to you, if you want Him to visit you, if you want the Chicana glory
843. 45:02of God, if you want Him to fill that space in your kitchen, in your car, if you'll open
844. 45:07up your Bible and start reading, it's amazing.
845. 45:10It really is life changing.
846. 45:12I need more faith.
847. 45:13We all do.
848. 45:14Faith come up by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
849. 45:16It says in Romans 10, 17.
850. 45:18And as you start to read your Bible, maybe start in John.
851. 45:21If you're not used to that, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, read the Psalms.
852. 45:26It's a love letter and God loves you.
853. 45:28He's not mad at you.
854. 45:29He's not out to get you.
855. 45:31He longs for a close personal relationship with you, not religion, but a relationship.
856. 45:37Spirit led faith-filled relationship where he just wants to woo you and draw you and say,
857. 45:42come on in a little closer, come on up a little higher.
858. 45:45And if a person will start reading their Bible faithfully and just learn the fallen love
859. 45:52with the author of that book. It's a love letter. And then you'll be able to
860. 45:57bloom where you're planted. Just to your point, you know, you may work in the nursery, teach a class,
861. 46:04work with youth. It doesn't have to be on the grand stage. Someone said, just last night at church,
862. 46:09they said, I've noticed reading through the Bible that God calls us all to do little things
863. 46:15and leave the big things to him. And I thought, isn't that the, you know, he said,
864. 46:18you just go catch a fish. I'll be the one to put those coins in the fishes mouth to pay your taxes.
865. 46:24You just go over there and get that little sack lunch from that boy. I'll take care of feeding
866. 46:29the 5,000 plus. So he's mighty, he's majestic, he's miraculous, and if we'll just surrender,
867. 46:36if we'll just be yielded to him, then he'll glorify himself through our life.
868. 46:40Man, that's so good because so often, especially in our day and age, we can get accustomed really
869. 46:45to people almost reading the Bible for us, you know, to where we even go to when we gather
870. 46:50for worship is on the screen and in many places because of technology, you don't even bring
871. 46:54Bibles. But I can't underscore more strongly what you just said for every single person to
872. 47:01get in the Lord's Word daily. You know, I've heard Pastor Parker say for years, three chapters a day,
873. 47:06you know, as it he says all the time, I encourage big chunk readings. But for each of us to get in God's
874. 47:11word daily, often says there is a result of reading God's word, God reads me through his
875. 47:15word.
876. 47:16Oh, that's good.
877. 47:17And it's a mirror.
878. 47:18Yeah, yeah.
879. 47:19Not about it.
880. 47:20Now, Sharper, he's letting you do two-edged sword.
881. 47:22And so, yeah, I just would encourage you listening.
882. 47:26And you know, some people don't like to read, but if you'll just start that practice, start
883. 47:31that habit, get your Bible out, start to read.
884. 47:34And we're reading the, you know, it's a one-year Bible.
885. 47:38And so it's all right there laid out for you, the daily walk Bible.
886. 47:41But thank you for listening to American family radio.
887. 47:44Thank you for listening to my hero, Abe, who just rightly divides the word and offers so much
888. 47:49encouragement and inspiration.
889. 47:51And boy, I wish everybody could see your family like we have.
890. 47:54You got a beautiful family.
891. 47:55God has blessed you, Abe.
892. 47:57And again, I'm so thankful guys, we were Abe and my daughter, Matty, Abe and his wife, we
893. 48:03traveling to India, long flights, long days, dusty, way back in the jungle, and almost every meal
894. 48:11and every opportunity able to see that and use that as a teaching moment. And he'd say,
895. 48:16let me tell you something that I was reading in Joshua. Let me tell you something Lord laid on my
896. 48:20heart yesterday. And I just thought, he really is the same 24-7. And it was a privilege and a joy
897. 48:27to travel with you. It's honored to be on your show and it's just a real honor to call you a friend.
898. 48:32pastor and radio host and former assistant DA in New Orleans.
899. 48:37Man, you've lived an exciting life.
900. 48:40Well, man, to God be the glory.
901. 48:42That's all I can say. To God be the glory.
902. 48:44I was going to ask you, initially, maybe about 20 seconds.
903. 48:47You had the honor of speaking at Brother Don's funeral.
904. 48:51I did. I want to end our time together like this.
905. 48:53How much has Brother Don impacted and inspired me?
906. 48:56We were having a little boy born.
907. 48:58We wanted to name his middle name after someone who
908. 49:01who a spiritual giant who's influenced our life the most.
909. 49:05Donald Ellis Weilman, we named our son,
910. 49:09Bodie Ellis Jasper.
911. 49:12And I think that tells you everything you need to know
912. 49:14about how much influence and impact he's had in my life
913. 49:17personally that I would name my son after him.
914. 49:20Go and check out the movie, folks.
915. 49:22CultureWarrior.movie is the website.
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918. 49:29all about what JJ shared here today and even more by checking out the film.
919. 49:33Y'all have a great evening. God bless you.
920. 49:39The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those
921. 49:44of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.