April 18, 2025 · 48:48

Wil and Meeke Addison return to “The Corner” because He is Worthy of it All!

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0:00 - 15:00. Hosea 10:1 (NASB95). Stewardship of abundance requires godly character, commitment and devotion. 15:00 - 31:00. Wil and Meeke Addison return to “The Corner” because He is Worthy of it All! 31:00 - 48:00. Culture Proof Conference 2025 is here. You don’t want to miss it. or call: 800-326-4543 To donate call : 877-616-2396

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:02It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
0:10It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
0:20God has called you and me to be His ambassador.
0:24Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28And now, the Hamilton Corner.
0:32Good evening, everyone.
0:35Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
0:36My name is Abraham Hamilton, the third, joined by the real
0:41J. Mac who is often imitated and never duplicated.
0:44Producer extraordinaire, we are delighted, humbled,
0:52reflective as how we are broadcasting on this good Friday.
0:58You know, the events that transpired as recorded in history depicted in the scripture
1:09can only be described as good because we know the rest of the story.
1:17And one of the most, um, scary things about what I believe should be the high watermark
1:26of celebration really for the entire year is the spotless blood, I'm sorry, the spotless lamb of
1:37God that takes away the sins of the world for those who have placed faith in him for eternal life,
1:48invaded human history, divided our timeline according to the Roman calendar, lived a
2:03sinless incarnate life, lay down his life as the once and for all substitutionary atoning sacrifice.
2:13But that isn't the end of the story.
2:18He rose again.
2:21And when believers gather to celebrate the Lord's table, we do so as the Apostle Paul articulated,
2:28to show forth his death and to proclaim our anticipatory hope in his return.
2:36It is one of the things that continues to move me when I reflect on the fact that I will live
2:46eternally because of what he secured for me.
2:49And if you have similarly placed your faith in the King of glory, you too will live eternally.
2:57All kinds of writers and screenwriters and actors and actresses have attempted to depict things
3:05like immortality, you know.
3:08But the simple fact is that if you are in Christ, he has made way for you to be immortal, not
3:15this temporal body that is fading away, like a passing tent.
3:21But we have glorified bodies to look forward to.
3:27What a mighty God we serve.
3:28What an occasion to celebrate.
3:32What an opportunity to be overwhelmed and gratitude.
3:35Thank you so much for tuning into today's program.
3:38At this very moment, many of you are making your transitions
3:41from your part-time jobs to your full-time jobs,
3:44where you cultivate an outcome, part-time jobs,
3:48where we generate income, full-time jobs,
3:50that's where we cultivate outcome.
3:52I wholeheartedly, strenuously encourage you
3:57to draw your family near around the Holy Scriptures,
4:02to reflect on what Jesus Christ has secured for us.
4:09For those who are not yet members of God's eternal family,
4:13I simply would say to you,
4:14when you see the things that are happening,
4:20events swirling around us nationally, internationally,
4:24that internationally, they simply confirmed
4:26that the word of God is true.
4:29And because the word of God is true,
4:33I would encourage you and appeal to you
4:36to refuse to put off your humble submission
4:41to Jesus Christ, that you admit your desperate need
4:45for a savior, admit the fact that when the Apostle Paul
4:50So we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God that you acknowledge that that includes you and
4:56You recognize that it is not a matter a matter of works and performance
5:02That secures one's justification
5:04That we are saved solely by grace through faith that the theological term justification is
5:11a
5:13legal declaration that
5:16though you are
5:18deserving of
5:21The punishment for your sins, there is one who stepped into your place and bore the punishment for you.
5:26As a result, you stand before the Judge of the Earth as if you'd never sinned,
5:36because you are viewed through the blood of Jesus. That is available to you.
5:41It would be a fool's errand to reject the free gift of salvation.
5:52As a result of having been saved, the Word of God declares that the Spirit of God works within us to bear fruit and keeping with repentance.
6:01And when you have been born again, if you have said this repeated and I will continue to say it, you move away from merely giving offerings to becoming the offering.
6:12And all that your life consists of is impacted by the fact that you are once dead, you've been quickened alive together in Christ Jesus.
6:22To the Word of God we go, Hosea chapter 10.
6:27Hosea, minister and prophesied largely to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, his ministry and
6:36his writings were recorded in about the mid-700s BC.
6:40Now that is significant for a host of reasons, not least of which is this is several decades
6:46prior to the ultimate Assyrian conquest, an eradication of the Northern Kingdom of Israel
6:54as an entity. All right? He is warning the Northern Kingdom. And this portion of scripture, I cannot
7:07help but see how it could even be applied rightly to our own nation. Hosea chapter 10 verse 1,
7:16it's the one verse I want to focus on here. Hosea chapter 10 verse 1. The prophet Hosea says this,
7:23Israel is a luxuriant vine.
7:28He produces fruit for himself.
7:31The more his fruit, the more altars he made.
7:35The richer his land, the better he made the sacred pillars.
7:44Hosea is highlighting a feature of Israelite life.
7:49And if you do any bit of research, you go back to Judges chapter 17 and 18, you can see the
7:55history there of how the northern tribe of Dan was established and how idolatry was foundational
8:02to the tribe of Dan. And that idolatry continued from Dan's establishment as a tribe all the
8:10way until the Assyrian conquest. It's a sad thing. You'll recall that when Jeroboam becomes
8:19the first king of the divided northern kingdom of Israel, one of the first things he does
8:23is set up golden calves. One in Bethel, which the prophet Ozea describes as Beth Avon. The
8:31word Bethel in Hebrew means house of bread, but the Lord through who Ozea described Bethel
8:37as Beth Avon, house of evil. Avomon even means evil. They turned the house of bread into
8:42the house of evil. Then Jeroboam set the other calf in the northern city of Dan, the capital
8:48of the tribe of Dan's regional allotment.
8:55Well that idolatrous position of Dan
8:58and Jeroboam's leading Israel into idol worship,
9:02literally saying, Israel, behold your gods
9:04that saved you and taking you out of Egypt.
9:09Very same thing that happened in the book of Exodus,
9:10you'll recall.
9:12Well here the prophet Ozea is confronting Israel
9:16because it is materially prosperous.
9:23But the northern kingdom of Israel's material prosperity wasn't used,
9:27wasn't stewarded for righteousness's sake.
9:31The scripture says the more his fruit, the more altars he made.
9:38And I'll just tell you the Prophet Ozai isn't talking about Yahweh
9:43authorized, authorized altars of pleasing worship.
9:50He's talking about idolatrous pagan altars in Israel.
9:53The richer his land, the better he made the sacred pillars.
9:59The Prophet Ose is rebuking Israel because they have misappropriated,
10:06not misappropriated, they have misused their material prosperity,
10:11and their wealth became a vehicle that fueled rebellion against Yahweh.
10:21This is one of the reasons why I continuously stress that a booming economy
10:25economy doesn't make a nation great, a booming stock market doesn't make a nation great.
10:31I wholeheartedly support the efforts to frankly decouple from China and to rid our nation from
10:40the abuse that we suffer economically from China, but can I tell you something?
10:48If the heart of the people in our nation don't change, if the hearts of the people, and I
10:53I don't mean everyone, obviously,
10:55the Lord reserves a remnant for himself.
10:58By God's grace, I would express my desire
11:03to be a part of that remnant that is not going along
11:06with the wickedness of the day that's prevalent in our nation.
11:10But the dominant reality in our nation
11:15is that wickedness is normalized.
11:18And if we have all of the proper trade balance
11:23And we restore the manufacturing sector here in the United States of America,
11:27which will be very, very important, which will be a great thing to experience.
11:31That alone, and those things alone will not make our nation great.
11:35Because if we are not a people who have hearts of brokenness and
11:39contrition before the Lord, if we are not a people who hunger and thirst for
11:43righteousness, we will repeat what Hosea is your book in Israel for right here.
11:48We will utilize our resources for rebellious purposes.
11:52will utilize technological innovation to advance wickedness.
12:00Will utilize all of those things for purposes frankly,
12:08that beckoned God's judgment.
12:12And I don't want that to be.
12:14So that is why I am appealing to our audience here
12:18to recognize that if we are wicked people,
12:22that's well-resourced, we're just a well-resourced wicked people,
12:25well-resourced wicked people, we need to be a people
12:33in whom's heart, in our heart,
12:37that there's been a circumcision of the heart, man.
12:41And as God and His divine providence allows those people
12:45to be well-resourced, that we would stew
12:47with those resources in such a manner,
12:49to where the King of Kings and the Lord of Lord is glorified,
12:56and that He finds in us a people
13:02who worship Him in spirit and in truth.
13:05That is what I'm seeking for.
13:07That is what I'm yearning for.
13:09I want people to enjoy higher paying jobs.
13:14I want to see a restoration of the middle class and an economic boom in America, but not at
13:19the expense of righteousness in our nation.
13:25And this is why it's vitally important that the people who got in our nation cry aloud and
13:30spare not that we are the ones who will say, listen, a resurgent economy does not alone
13:36make a nation great.
13:37It's a wonderful benefit to enjoy, but if we don't have a different heart condition, we
13:43will utilize those resources for wickedness.
13:48It's not lost on me, and I've shared these statistics with you before, that the pornography
13:53industry enjoys revenues that exceed the National Football League, the NBA, Major League Baseball,
14:04and NHL combined.
14:05combined is a reason for that, guys.
14:12And we have to see the connection between
14:15having an increasingly wicked populace
14:18and a refusal of that populace to submit
14:21to constitutional standards.
14:27Because our form and system of national existence
14:32is only effective with the people
14:38whose hearts are broken and contrite before God.
14:44It's wholly and adequate for the governance of any other.
14:46James George Washington is refrained that religion and morality are indispensable support of our nation.
14:53The greatest need in our nation is repentance.
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15:34Shining light into the darkness,
15:37this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
15:40Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton,
15:43the third here and I am elated to have on the program with me.
15:48This is my family.
15:50I am talking about none other than Willamiki Addison,
15:54the founders of straight-edge ministries and culture-proof, which is a movement to equip
15:59followers of Christ to resist wicked cultural trends by applying God's Word, the straight-edge.
16:06As the co-hosts of the Culture Proof Podcast, you will hear Will and Miki and their hand-picked
16:12guests discuss the cultural issues of the day filtered through a biblical lens.
16:17The Addison's are conference speakers with a specific focus on culture and its impact
16:21on Christian families.
16:23Mary, 20 years they are raising six incredible children,
16:26equipping them to live for the glory of God.
16:28They disciple and educate their children at home,
16:30around the kitchen table, and on the sofa.
16:34Will and Miki, thank you for joining me here
16:36on the Hamilton Corner.
16:37Once again, thanks for having us, man.
16:39It's a pleasure to be here.
16:40Yeah, it's always great to join you, Higgs.
16:41Oh, the pleasure is mine.
16:44Absolutely is mine.
16:46I was telling you guys before we came on
16:48about beginning the program with Hosea chapter 10,
16:53just being gripped by the reality
16:57that material access alone doesn't make a nation
17:01or any people great.
17:02And the text I alluded to, the Lord was rebuking Israel,
17:06the Northern Kingdom, frankly, for its idolatry
17:09and its misuse of its material wealth to aid
17:14in rebellious pursuits.
17:16and I know that the passion of your heart
17:19is for the body of Christ
17:21to live according to what the Lord outlined.
17:24So in light of that,
17:26and what you guys do on a daily basis,
17:29where do you see us, the body of Christ,
17:32particularly in our nation,
17:33in light of where we are,
17:35in world history and in light of where the culture is today?
17:40Yeah, that's a great question.
17:41Aye, aye, I feel like we're in trouble.
17:44I feel like if that's not a turning back
17:46to the word of God, not turning back to holiness
17:50in the standard of God.
17:52Man, we're in big trouble.
17:53We just had a podcast where we interviewed Bishop Vincent
17:57Matthews and he said pretty much the same thing.
18:00And he has traveled all over the world.
18:03And we were asking him, how does America kind of measure up
18:07to what's happening in other countries?
18:09And he was like, man, we're at risk.
18:12That's trouble, that's brewing because we
18:15have gone away from the word of God,
18:18we have gone away from the truth of the word.
18:20And it shows there's a lack of discernment
18:23because God's people is not in the word.
18:26And so there's a lot of things that's coming in
18:28from the outside that's entering in
18:31because we don't have discernment to say,
18:34man, that's not right, that's not right.
18:36And a lot of the world has entered the church
18:38and so we have been weakened.
18:40Yeah, not only, I would say,
18:41not only is it that we don't have the discernment,
18:44you know, to recognize what's,
18:46but we also don't have the boldness
18:47that if we begin to recognize it, to even respond.
18:50So it's like, we don't see it coming,
18:52we don't recognize it.
18:53And then the things that we kind of think,
18:55well, maybe that's not right.
18:56We feel like, well, you know, who am I to judge?
18:58Who am I to say?
18:59And so it's amazing how wickedness
19:02has really discipled the church.
19:03Like wickedness has infiltrated the church,
19:06given us our marching orders.
19:08And then we tend to like project that as if it's Bible.
19:11And it's really not.
19:12You know, I was thinking to the point of the scripture
19:14that you read, like in a New Testament context,
19:17it almost kind of sounds like the layout to seeing church.
19:19It's like you can be so rich, so wealthy, so independent.
19:22You can think that you have need of nothing
19:24and be so totally unaware of yourself,
19:27that you're naked, that you're blind, that you're poor,
19:29and that you need Jesus.
19:31And I feel like that's kind of where
19:33the American church is today.
19:35I feel like we're in this place where,
19:37you know, we have all of the advances.
19:39We have the huge mega churches.
19:42We've got the smoke and lights,
19:44and we've got the popular pastors.
19:46We've got the youth leaders.
19:48We've got the, we make worship album after worship album.
19:51And so we are in this place where it's like,
19:54we can mirror the world so effectively, right?
19:57That we don't have to be close to Jesus,
19:59because all we were really doing was competing
20:01for like a sense of significance.
20:03And we have found that by creating this sort of like
20:05Christian culture that is popular, that people look at.
20:08And really, if we would just kind of settle down for a second,
20:12we would realize that man, we are wretched,
20:14that we're poor, that we're naked, we're blind,
20:17and we desperately need Jesus.
20:19Mm.
20:20Well, you mentioned Bishop Vincent Matthews.
20:24Yes. I know who he is, but I don't know
20:26if everybody here in our audience here knows who he is.
20:29Who is Bishop Matthews?
20:31And I'll ask you, Miki, after we'll explain to you is,
20:36if you would then describe his engagement
20:40and participation of what's coming soon,
20:42Culture Proof Conference 2025 in Bartlett, Tennessee, June,
20:4519th through the 21st.
20:47But Bishop Matthews, well, who is he?
20:49Yes, he's a great, great brother.
20:51He's a bishop in the church of God and Christ
20:54and has a church in South Haven,
20:57Mississippi, Tabernacle Church of God and Christ.
21:01But he served as a director of admissions
21:04in the church of God and Christ for like 10 years.
21:06And so he's, and he's still on the move,
21:09even though he's not serving in that capacity.
21:11Every time I see him on social media and things like that,
21:14he's in another country.
21:15And, but he has his thing on the pulse
21:19of what's going on in the church.
21:21And so, and he, and his local fellowship in South Haven,
21:25many are doing great work for the community,
21:27just reaching out and things like that.
21:29So just a respected brother and the Lord,
21:31and he will be a part of the conference.
21:34Mm.
21:35Yeah, he's, my goodness.
21:36I feel like one of the reasons that we invited him,
21:38not only because he has spoken and encouraged
21:41Christian conservatives, he's been at value voters
21:43at the time when they were having it,
21:45but he's done incredible things for the body of Christ
21:49to call us back to the authority of God's word.
21:52And whenever we're around Bishop Matthews,
21:55we see the church in action.
21:56So like they've got not only a crisis pregnancy center
22:00at their church, but they've got like a birthing center
22:03that they just put in at their church
22:05where they are not only telling people what is right,
22:08and this is how you align with God's word,
22:10but then like practically meeting those needs.
22:12And so when we're around Bishop Matthews,
22:14we get the sense that he really believes
22:16that the church is advancing.
22:19The church is always supposed to be moving forward
22:21as Saul and as light.
22:22And so one of the reasons that we invited him
22:24to the conference was so that he could paint a picture
22:27for that we have several pastors who attend,
22:29we have local ministries who attend ministries
22:32from across the country who attend the conference.
22:33And one of the questions that we feel like gets asked often
22:37is, man, how do we remain faithful
22:40in the midst of all we see happening?
22:42There's a great falling away.
22:44Even while people are attending church,
22:46which is why we don't recognize it as a falling away
22:48because seats are still filled,
22:49but people's hearts have turned away
22:51from the truth of God's word.
22:52And so we wanted Bishop Matthews,
22:54his task, if you will,
22:57is to talk about the church occupying.
22:59What does it look like for the bride of Christ
23:02to truly occupy until the Lord returns?
23:05What does it look like if we are making gains
23:08as the bride of Christ?
23:10And as you will hear when he presents,
23:13and I think he kind of alluded to this
23:15in the recent podcast interview,
23:16but he talked about the church militant,
23:19and he talked about sort of that military language
23:21that is used to describe who we are
23:23and how we live in this world.
23:25And honestly, Abe, I feel like it's something
23:27that people are uncomfortable to talk about
23:28because we have been told that we need to be loving
23:32to the exclusion of like being militant,
23:35what we believe is what we believe. We're not going to cower. We're not going to back down. So
23:40he's going to be lively. I am so looking forward to that. And I do want to
23:46move here because I know the theme for the conference, Culture Proof 2025. I know you guys.
23:53So I know you don't just conference or take a conference. Some people just like having events.
23:56I know you're not like that. And frankly, I don't like just being a part of events. You all know,
24:01I don't accept every invitation that I get and things of that nature.
24:06The theme for the conference is worthy of it all, Miki.
24:09How did you arrive at that theme?
24:12Yeah, it's amazing.
24:13I really appreciate the way Will the Great and I work together, how the Lord has gifted
24:18us with like complimentary gifts.
24:19And so usually from the time, I guess, 2018, we've been doing the conference, my task has
24:24always been, you know, what will the theme be?
24:27And so I really do ask the Lord.
24:29I asked the Lord, like what's happening right now
24:31in our culture that we need to respond to.
24:34And if you're calling us to do this,
24:36then Lord, you'll reveal it and you'll make it clear.
24:38And the more I prayed about it
24:39and kind of went back and forth with Will, the great on this,
24:42I really felt like the Lord was showing us
24:44in the various stories that we were covering,
24:46the articles that we were reading,
24:48the major falls that we were observing happening in the church,
24:51seems like almost there's a pastoral fall a month
24:54happening in the church.
24:55And I started asking like, what would it look like
24:59if believers really lived that Jesus is worthy of it all?
25:03Not just worthy on a Sunday, you know what I mean?
25:06Not just worthy on a social media posts
25:08where everybody can marvel at like, you know,
25:10how great you appear to be,
25:11but Jesus is worthy of it all.
25:13And we started to look at all of the areas of our culture
25:16that need to be addressed.
25:17Like, what does it look like, you know,
25:19as we're navigating artificial intelligence?
25:21What is that gonna look like for the integrity of the believer?
25:24What does it look like that our kids are being deprived of an education that exalts God,
25:29that God is central in their learning and all of their endeavors? And so we thought,
25:34man, you know, we've got to equip believers this year that Jesus is worthy of it all,
25:41of everything. What does that absolutely 100% mean? And so the more we came back to that,
25:46it just seems that that's what the Lord was calling us to do. And then once we hammer that down,
25:52It's amazing how the Lord just begins to put on our heart.
25:56Who needs to speak to that?
25:57Like, so who is it that the Lord has installed
26:00in the various areas of culture who are equipped, passionate,
26:05and sincere?
26:06Like, they don't just have a message.
26:08You know what I mean?
26:08Like, they are living this conviction.
26:11And then from that, well, the great starts kind of like,
26:14plugging in, okay, this person,
26:16I really feel like this person needs to speak to this.
26:18And that's sort of how we get our speakers.
26:20We don't look for the most popular speakers,
26:22believe it or not. We don't look for the people who like everybody's heard from them and everybody's
26:27going to be drawn to them just because of their name. We actually look for the people who are
26:32actually doing the work. They are living this conviction. They have a particular area that God
26:38has called them to and they're occupying that space. It's like if you think of a military line,
26:43we each have our part on that line, right? And so who are the people who are at this particular
26:48and then how are they navigating that?
26:50Well, I know from the very first conference that you all led in 2018 under the auspices
26:59of urban family communications.
27:01As I mentioned earlier, I know, because I know y'all, y'all don't just conference for the
27:05sake of conferencing.
27:07This question is twofold for you.
27:10What drove you to recognize this is something that God wanted you to take up and secondarily,
27:16helped you to understand that there was a need for a conference this year in 2025.
27:21Yeah, so initially what God put on my heart was a family conference, a conference where everyone
27:30could come and be equipped, you know, from the adults all the way down to the children,
27:36the grandparents, the singles, the blended families, it's a family conference.
27:41And I felt like the Lord was calling for us to do that.
27:44And that's when we started the NFL conferences.
27:47And it's the same heart, the ministering to families.
27:52And there's a lot of equipping that has to be done.
27:56We know that the enemy has his sights on family.
28:00His target is family.
28:02And so we want to do everything that we can to share up
28:05the families, to equip the families,
28:07to live in a practical way, living through the Word of God.
28:11And so that was the initial thrust.
28:14That was the, where God put on my heart
28:16and it remains the same today.
28:18Now as far as the conference this year,
28:21just it's the same, it's the same thing
28:24that the Lord has continuously put on my heart
28:26and our hearts about how can we strengthen the family unit?
28:30And it has only gotten worse, you know,
28:33as far as what the culture is throwing at our families,
28:36our children.
28:38And so just the necessity to be able to speak to those things
28:42in the culture, to warn the body of Christ,
28:46to encourage the body of Christ,
28:47and to just know that we need to lean on God
28:50as we navigate all these different things
28:53that's happening in our culture.
28:54So that's just been the heartbeat
28:56of this conference, Culture Proof 2025,
29:00just equipping for the entire family.
29:02And, Mickey, you alluded to the necessity of having people
29:06who are invested in various areas of culture and bringing them together for this event,
29:13then frankly, I cannot wait for it.
29:15And I told you guys, you know, I would come, if I wasn't invited to speak, I would want to
29:20come to just be sharpened to be equipped because the people that you invite are always so effective
29:30in delivering what God has communicated through them.
29:32sometimes provoking me to consider things either a fresh, a new, or
29:36can consider things differently than I've considered in the past.
29:39Who are some of the people that you all have invited to be a part of the
29:43speakers for Cultureproof 2025?
29:46Well, of course, you, Abraham, now within the third, as you just kind of alluded to.
29:51Um, but then in addition to you, uh, Dr.
29:54Kathy Cook is joining us and Dr.
29:56Kathy has been like a mainstay because my goodness, God has gifted her with an
30:00incredible amount of wisdom to help encourage parents as they encourage and equip their kids
30:06and also grandparents. So she's got like a multi-generational approach to helping understand
30:11what's going on in the minds and the hearts of kids and how to respond to that. But not only that
30:16last year at the conference, she's so overwhelmed us. We had some people who were kind of skeptical
30:21to attend and they thought, well, I don't have any kids at home. I'm an empty nester. And their
30:26Another question was, you know, what's in it for me?
30:28Like, am I going to get something out of this?
30:30And in fact, there was one attendee who was there who asked me that.
30:33She said, I've kind of come in faith.
30:35You know, she goes, I'm thinking, I don't have any kids.
30:37And which is something that we try to drive home.
30:39It's a conference for adults, but it doesn't forget kids, right?
30:43So we do attract because usually kids are forgotten in conferences.
30:46It's like, we want you to come as the parent or the grandparent or the aunt, the uncle,
30:49whatever.
30:50We want you to come, but you got to figure out what you're going to do with your kids.
30:53We didn't want that to be the case for the Culture Proof Conference.
30:56So last year, Dr. Cathy, just my goodness, knocked it out of the park and talking about
31:00a board of directors in our life.
31:02And this, this same woman, do you remember that one?
31:05Oh, my goodness.
31:06It was incredible.
31:07It was incredible.
31:08Well, this same woman, fast forward, who asked at the beginning of the conference, is
31:12there something here for me?
31:14I've come in faith.
31:15I said to her without a doubt, 100 percent.
31:18Yes.
31:19fast forward, we revisited faith to do a window for this year's conference.
31:23And that woman was there on a Sunday morning and she came running up to us and she said,
31:27I've got to tell you, she goes, I was so blessed.
31:30I can't wait for this conference this year.
31:33She said, I just can't.
31:34And then she specifically noted that particular session with Dr.
31:38Cathy that had a major impact on her life that she reached out to someone living across
31:43state lines who was a part of her board of directors.
31:45And I won't go into all the details, but it had an impact on this woman's ministry who
31:49who was thinking maybe she wasn't called to do what she was doing.
31:52But as a result, it was just incredible to hear
31:54to get this kind of praise report.
31:56The bomb burgers.
31:57Let me jump right there, because the music is still disrespectful.
32:00And it's playing now.
32:03But you mentioned what you went back to faith.
32:05So Faith Baptist Church is the host church for the conference.
32:10Because this woman you mentioned, she came to Faith Baptist Church
32:13in faith for the conference.
32:14But it's the host church for the conference.
32:16When we come back on the other side of the break,
32:18I want to invite you to continue describing the speakers
32:22who are there and we'll talk more about culture proof
32:23conference 2025.
32:25You don't want to miss this.
32:30All right, Sandy Rios with you.
32:31One more drama playing out.
32:33Is the sky falling?
32:35Are we going into a recession?
32:37Are you going to lose all of your 401k?
32:39Are you going to lose your job?
32:40Are you going to be able to afford groceries?
32:41People better be training their kids,
32:43getting back into church, Sunday school, reading the Bible.
32:46That revolution will save this country.
32:48We've had a political revolution now.
32:50We need a spiritual revolution.
32:53Sandy Rios on Sandy Rios 24-7.
32:56Listen on the podcast page at AFR.net.
32:59The Hamilton Quarter podcast and one-minute commentarits
33:07are available at AFR.net.
33:10Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
33:14Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III,
33:17and I am on with my family, Will and Mickey Addison,
33:20discussing the Culture Proof Conference 2025,
33:22which will take place June 19th through to 21st at Faith Baptist Church in Bartlett, Tennessee.
33:30Bartlett is the suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. The church's address is 3755 North Germantown Parkway,
33:36Bartlett, Tennessee zip code 38133. You can find all the details for the conference at
33:43cultureproof.net that is cultureproof.net. But before we went to the break and I just
33:48platform, you were describing the speakers who are participating in this year's conference
33:54and you were wrapping up your description and a bit of a testimony from Dr. Kathy Cook's
33:59presentation last year and her agreed participation again this year and you were about to transition
34:05to another speaker.
34:06Yeah, so Alex Newman, who you've had on your program several times, is also going to be
34:11joining us of Liberty Sentinel Media.
34:14I mean, he's an international reporter and it just kind of seems to always be hot on the trails covering the topics that are important to us as
34:21believers. Like what does it look like when we look at what's happening just sort of around the globe?
34:26What are the spiritual implications of what we see happening?
34:29There are reporters who can report that something's happening and maybe we should be concerned, but then there are
34:35followers of the Lord Jesus in whom his spirit dwells.
34:38They can report on what is happening, but they can also present to you the spiritual implications
34:44behind what is happening and why we need to be concerned.
34:47And Alex Newman is one of those people.
34:50He's had an audience with the Trump administration, even presenting at Mar-Lago.
34:54And so we're really excited to have him join us, not only talking about global politics
34:58and how that points to the return of the Lord Jesus.
35:01There are things happening on a global scale that we, as Americans, are just not aware of.
35:07But these things as they are unfolding,
35:10they actually point to the fulfillment of scripture
35:13as we await the Lord's return.
35:15So he is going to address that for us.
35:17He's also passionate about education.
35:19So he's gonna be doing a breakout session,
35:21talking about the importance of education
35:23and what a collective concerted effort
35:25that has been made to dumb down our kids
35:29and how it's been effective.
35:30So we're super excited about that.
35:32He's actually gonna be a part of one of those lunch
35:34and learns that we've got planned.
35:35You're gonna be on a panel with him.
35:37It's just, it's gonna be like drinking from like a fire hose.
35:40I feel like it's gonna be so much information,
35:42but it's information that we are really kind of in a drought for.
35:45Like we need to know what's going on.
35:47So Alex Newman is joining us.
35:49Of course the bomb burgers, Ryan and Bethany
35:52of the Radiance Foundation, it's always great
35:54to have them with us, they are bold.
35:55They are literally out on the front lines,
35:58arguing with people who believe that babies should be murdered.
36:01I mean, they are literally doing the work.
36:03And so they're gonna join us and talking about
36:05where we go now in the pro-life movement,
36:08when you can have, you know,
36:10abort patient drugs just shipped to your home
36:13and people are taking the lives of their babies,
36:15which seems almost sort of like oxymoronic to think about,
36:19but in the comfort of their own homes,
36:21there's this brutality that is taking place.
36:24So we're gonna talk about that with them.
36:25And even, you know, the situation or the issue of IVF,
36:29you know.
36:30Yes, yes.
36:31And Christians, we have to know where we stand on that.
36:33And so those things would be addressed
36:36and talked about as well.
36:37So it's just important information for the body of Christ.
36:40And I believe it's practical information
36:42as well that you can put into an apply to your life.
36:47Because the thing is,
36:48it's one thing to have all this information,
36:50but it's another thing to have the information
36:52and know how to readily apply it to your life in a real way.
36:56And so that's one of my hopes is that
36:58as people leave this conference,
36:59it won't just be, I heard some good stuff,
37:02but it'll be, man, I heard some good stuff,
37:04but I know how to apply this to my life.
37:07Yeah, oh, I wanna mention Dr. Lena Abu Jomra.
37:10She's the first time that we are having her
37:12at one of the conferences that we've put on.
37:14And the reason we invited her was because we talked to her.
37:17Like we read her book and then talked to her
37:20about deconstruction and about the lack of what
37:23has been called purity culture,
37:24but the lack of purity among single.
37:26She is in her early 50s and she's never been married
37:29and she's written a book, she's written a few books.
37:32But one book in particular that she wrote is called Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This.
37:35And in her role as an ER doctor, she serves as, well, now she's doing telemedicine, but she served as an ER doctor.
37:43And she said she realized that the kinds of conversations that she was having are the same kinds of conversations that Christians are having, right?
37:52Like they're the results of sin because we present as if we are living these pure and upright lives, but really we've got behavior and we've got some practices
38:00that do not align with scripture. And so she started to collect information on that.
38:04And then even in sharing her own testimony of having never been married while everybody on the
38:09outside would say, here's a strong Christian woman, she had some internal wrestling, some battles with
38:15purity that were able to kind of fly under the radar. So we invited her because we thought that
38:20this would be an encouragement to singles and to young adults as well. Just powerful, powerful
38:25story. She talks about deconstruction. She also talks about being content. She talks about what it is
38:31to live according to where God has placed you, our installed you, which is so counter-cultural
38:37today because everybody's trying to get to the next thing. Everybody's trying to move to the next
38:40level. And so I think she's going to be an incredible addition to the culture proof lineup.
38:44Mm, man. I cannot wait. Where do people need to go in order to get the information and to register
38:53for the Culture Proof Conference 2025?
38:56Yes, sir, everything is at cultureproof.net.
39:00Cultureproof.net, when you go there,
39:02you can see the breakout sessions, you can see,
39:05the speakers and get all the information
39:08that you would need.
39:09So man, register today.
39:12It's a conference is gonna be well worth it.
39:14I know the Lord will speak to you.
39:16Go to cultureproof.net.
39:19Yeah, I would just say to your listeners,
39:21to your audience, Abe, that registration does close down at the end of May.
39:25And so I would encourage those who are interested in attending to pray about it and make that
39:29decision. One of the sort of space limiting factors is our kids' tracks.
39:33So if you have kids in particular that you want to get in the track and maybe even teens,
39:37you'd want to register them ahead of time. Of course, for adults, for married couples,
39:42if you don't have kids that are going to be in those tracks, then registration is open
39:46for you. You don't have to worry about that. But we do try to limit the number of kids in
39:51the track because we want them to receive quality instruction.
39:55We're not just housing kids, we're not just giving them juice and crackers.
39:58Uh, one of the things that we try to do is equip kids to be able and to be ready
40:03to give a reason for the hope that lies within them.
40:06And as you know, as your wife directs the kids portion of this conference,
40:10my goodness, they just don't leave anything on the table.
40:13It's, it's so serious, the equipping of young children.
40:17So they're working on that right now.
40:18And then of course the team track under the direction of Mark and Amy Warren,
40:22Amy, a Colson fellow.
40:23I mean, it's just, we really want to equip the next generation, which is now, right?
40:28Even though we look ahead, they're with us right now and they've got to be equipped to stand in their time.
40:35They are carrying the gospel.
40:37And I think so often we don't think about it that way.
40:40We think, well, we just babysit them until then they can really understand, but they can understand now.
40:46And the thing that shocks me about this, Abe, is that the world gets it.
40:49The world understands that they should be repetitive, that they should be persistent,
40:55they should continue with the message over and over and over until they change hearts and minds.
41:01But on our side, we are kind of like, well, you know, they don't get it now.
41:05We'll just wait. We'll just wait.
41:06And what all the data shows us is that in our waiting, they are already gone.
41:11And so what we're trying to do is supplement what parents are doing at home.
41:15And we don't see ourselves as stepping in the place of parents.
41:18We see ourselves as coming alongside parents and helping to supplement what's already happening
41:22inside their homes.
41:24And Will, if you will, speak a little bit about the teens tract because everything you just
41:28said is so true about our children and the necessity of their formation.
41:32Dr. George Barnard has powerful research about the crystallization of biblical worldview,
41:38but there is a teens tract available as well at Culture Group 2025, right?
41:42Yes, definitely.
41:43for kids 13 to 17.
41:45And so the thing is, we know that there are a lot of things
41:49bombarding our teens.
41:50You know, when we think about media, social media,
41:53we think about these devices and all of that,
41:55they're getting messages from everywhere.
41:57And we have a crew of people that's ready to equip the teens.
42:03You have Mark and Amy Warren.
42:05Mark is a pastor, Amy, a co-hosting fellow.
42:08And look, they have a passion for equipping teens.
42:11And so it's gonna be something that's gonna be great for them.
42:14We have some of our speakers are gonna be a part of that as well.
42:18And also Abigail.
42:20Yeah.
42:21Yeah.
42:22I'm literally just pulled her up.
42:24I just pulled her up.
42:25Now go ahead.
42:26Counter act USA, we met her at a convention.
42:30And man, just was blown away by what she's doing, her crew,
42:34ministering to young people, to college students,
42:37and those who are singles.
42:39And so she'll be a part as well.
42:41So everyone will be equipped at this conference.
42:44So can I just say something about Abigail?
42:46So the thing that really struck us as we were talking to her
42:49was that, you know, she, I said,
42:50oh, is this similar to like turning point?
42:52And she said, yes and no.
42:55You know, she goes, I was a part of turning point.
42:57And she said, and I really enjoyed, you know,
42:59the work that we see happening.
43:01She said, but we realized that there was not enough emphasis
43:04on the spiritual aspect of what it is to be on a college campus
43:08And so she was a part of her.
43:10She was a part of her turning point.
43:12And so Counter Act is sort of her response to that void.
43:16Yes, we need to be politically engaged.
43:18Yes, we need to understand how to hold our own
43:20on a college campus.
43:22But she said, at the end of the day,
43:24where's the emphasis on the spiritual component of that?
43:26That we're being shaped in our faith.
43:28And so her organization sets up chapters
43:31all across the country that equips students,
43:33not only to give a political response,
43:36not only to have a political position,
43:38but to understand how their spiritual conviction
43:41has to underpin that political position.
43:44And we were like, Abigail, you are speaking our language
43:48in the so sincere.
43:49So she's joining us, she's gonna be speaking to our teens
43:51and young adults, it's gonna be great.
43:53Mm, man, I can't wait.
43:55And you haven't booked your ticket yet.
43:57What, what are you doing?
43:59What are you doing?
44:01What are you doing?
44:01This is not the proper response to this.
44:04Oh.
44:04Dr. Renton Rathbun, he'll be there as well, right?
44:09Oh, yeah.
44:10Oh, Sander Kamando's.
44:11Um, listen, Dr. Renton Rathbun, who directs Biblical World View at Bob Jones University and
44:17just recently launched his own podcast, which is incredible.
44:20He is just a walking brain, right?
44:22And a conviction that we have got to tell the truth about who God is.
44:26And so we have tasked him with what may seem insurmountable, but he's going to address artificial
44:32intelligence like in the development of all the technology that we have, what is a biblical
44:38world view on this technology?
44:41How do we navigate this for the glory of God?
44:43You know, are there places or areas where we're crossing the line here?
44:47How do we equip our kids to utilize technology in a way that glorifies God?
44:51So I'm really excited to hear what he comes up with.
44:54Man, and then our brother, Dr. Brother, Dr. Israel Wayne.
45:00Come on.
45:01Oh my goodness.
45:02Definitely has a huge part for the family.
45:05Yes.
45:06And man, discipleship in the home and all those things.
45:09And he's just a great brother.
45:11He's a brother that I always think about,
45:14if certain people that are connectors,
45:17and he's one, he's like, man, you need to know this person.
45:20He needs to know this person.
45:20And he makes those connections with the body of Christ.
45:22But he has a heart for families,
45:24and he's gonna be ministering to our families.
45:26Yeah, it's gonna be so good.
45:27I remember last year, there was just sort of,
45:30as he wrapped up his presentation,
45:31and the Lord had really pressed on his heart
45:35to change his presentation the night
45:38before he was going to speak.
45:39Then he was also hit with his huge migraine,
45:42and in the midst of all of that,
45:44he brought such a convicting message
45:47that it was like the air just went out of the room
45:49as he talked about the role of fathers,
45:51and he talked about the family
45:53and what it's supposed to look like,
45:54what God has entrusted.
45:56Oh, it was so heavy, but it's a good heavy.
45:58You know what I mean?
45:59you feel the weight of it and you want to respond affirmatively.
46:03It's not that you're condemned, you're just like, yes, Lord,
46:06this is what we've been missing
46:07and we want to see that conviction restored to the church.
46:10Man, oh, man, my heart feel like I'm on the road to you.
46:13May it's my heart is burning.
46:14You remember it.
46:16Oh, man, it was so good.
46:18Well, you mentioned this and you alluded to this earlier
46:20because sometimes people, some folks,
46:23the apostle Paul said, ever learning,
46:24I've never come into the knowledge of the truth
46:26that I know the heart of God frankly,
46:29and your heart in this is not for people
46:31just to come and have their heads filled
46:33with a bunch of information,
46:34but to be sharpened and equipped to take things home.
46:36Would you just speak a bit to that as to how this is
46:40an equipping conference as opposed to just an event?
46:45Yeah, yeah, definitely,
46:47because the focus and the heart of it is that,
46:50first of all, their families and individuals are equipped.
46:52That's, we come into it with that.
46:54And so everything that we're doing,
46:56the teaching, the way that it's taught, the speakers,
46:59and the way that they will speak
47:01is all for equipping the body of Christ.
47:03So yeah, come prepared to take notes.
47:06Come prepared to have things that you can take back with you,
47:10that you can talk to your children
47:11about as you go back home, on a ride home,
47:15because they will be able to tell you practically
47:18what they've learned.
47:19These things we have to begin to implement.
47:22And if we can do this across this country,
47:24to implement the things that's in the Word of God,
47:26the things that we are being equipped to do,
47:29man, things would change.
47:30It could start right there in our homes.
47:32Right in our homes, we have the opportunity
47:34and responsibility that those places would be lighthouses.
47:38Right in our communities.
47:39And so, yes, in a practical way, be ready to learn,
47:43be ready to implement the things that you are learning,
47:46because I think it's gonna make a big difference
47:49in individuals lives.
47:50And be ready to engage with the speakers.
47:52Like one of the things that we love about the Culture Proof Conference is that it's not
47:55celebrity driven.
47:56So these people, while they are experts in their field and we love to bring them in to
48:00equip and encourage, they are right there on the ground.
48:03So you will find conversations happening with families and other attendees talking to these
48:08speakers.
48:09We're not a celebrity driven event, if you will, but it's an equipping ministry.
48:13And so you've got people who have questions after the fact and they get those questions
48:16answered.
48:17Yeah.
48:18And I just want to mention, you know, where we're hosting this.
48:21this pastor brand. Yes, he has a heart for this conference and he will be speaking as
48:25well. And man, he has a heart for families. And so it'll be a treat to hear him as well.
48:30And then cultureproof.net is where you go June 19th through 21st. You do not want to miss this.
48:36The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
48:44Family Association or American Family Radio.

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