("Best-of" Edition from 4/18/25) Wil and Meeke Addison return to “The Corner” because He is Worthy of it All!

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1. 0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
2. 0:02It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
3. 0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
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5. 0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
6. 0:18And the philosophies of this world.
7. 0:20God has called you and me to be His ambassador.
8. 0:24Even in this dark moment.
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10. 0:28And now, the Hamilton Corner.
11. 0:32Good evening, everyone.
12. 0:35Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
13. 0:36My name is Abraham Hamilton, the third, joined by the real
14. 0:41J. Mac who is often imitated and never duplicated.
15. 0:44Producer extraordinaire, we are delighted, humbled,
16. 0:52reflective as how we are broadcasting on this good Friday.
17. 0:58You know, the events that transpired as recorded in history depicted in the scripture
18. 1:09can only be described as good because we know the rest of the story.
19. 1:17And one of the most, um, scary things about what I believe should be the high watermark
20. 1:26of celebration really for the entire year is the spotless blood, I'm sorry, the spotless lamb of
21. 1:37God that takes away the sins of the world for those who have placed faith in him for eternal life,
22. 1:48invaded human history, divided our timeline according to the Roman calendar, lived a
23. 2:03sinless incarnate life, lay down his life as the once and for all substitutionary atoning sacrifice.
24. 2:13But that isn't the end of the story.
25. 2:18He rose again.
26. 2:21And when believers gather to celebrate the Lord's table, we do so as the Apostle Paul articulated,
27. 2:28to show forth his death and to proclaim our anticipatory hope in his return.
28. 2:36It is one of the things that continues to move me when I reflect on the fact that I will live
29. 2:46eternally because of what he secured for me.
30. 2:49And if you have similarly placed your faith in the King of glory, you too will live eternally.
31. 2:57All kinds of writers and screenwriters and actors and actresses have attempted to depict things
32. 3:05like immortality, you know.
33. 3:08But the simple fact is that if you are in Christ, he has made way for you to be immortal, not
34. 3:15this temporal body that is fading away, like a passing tent.
35. 3:21But we have glorified bodies to look forward to.
36. 3:27What a mighty God we serve.
37. 3:28What an occasion to celebrate.
38. 3:32What an opportunity to be overwhelmed and gratitude.
39. 3:35Thank you so much for tuning into today's program.
40. 3:38At this very moment, many of you are making your transitions
41. 3:41from your part-time jobs to your full-time jobs,
42. 3:44where you cultivate an outcome, part-time jobs,
43. 3:48where we generate income, full-time jobs,
44. 3:50that's where we cultivate outcome.
45. 3:52I wholeheartedly, strenuously encourage you
46. 3:57to draw your family near around the Holy Scriptures,
47. 4:02to reflect on what Jesus Christ has secured for us.
48. 4:09For those who are not yet members of God's eternal family,
49. 4:13I simply would say to you,
50. 4:14when you see the things that are happening,
51. 4:20events swirling around us nationally, internationally,
52. 4:24that internationally, they simply confirmed
53. 4:26that the word of God is true.
54. 4:29And because the word of God is true,
55. 4:33I would encourage you and appeal to you
56. 4:36to refuse to put off your humble submission
57. 4:41to Jesus Christ, that you admit your desperate need
58. 4:45for a savior, admit the fact that when the Apostle Paul
59. 4:50So we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God that you acknowledge that that includes you and
60. 4:56You recognize that it is not a matter a matter of works and performance
61. 5:02That secures one's justification
62. 5:04That we are saved solely by grace through faith that the theological term justification is
63. 5:11a
64. 5:13legal declaration that
65. 5:16though you are
66. 5:18deserving of
67. 5:21The punishment for your sins, there is one who stepped into your place and bore the punishment for you.
68. 5:26As a result, you stand before the Judge of the Earth as if you'd never sinned,
69. 5:36because you are viewed through the blood of Jesus. That is available to you.
70. 5:41It would be a fool's errand to reject the free gift of salvation.
71. 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.
72. 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.
73. 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.
74. 6:22To the Word of God we go, Hosea chapter 10.
75. 6:27Hosea, minister and prophesied largely to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, his ministry and
76. 6:36his writings were recorded in about the mid-700s BC.
77. 6:40Now that is significant for a host of reasons, not least of which is this is several decades
78. 6:46prior to the ultimate Assyrian conquest, an eradication of the Northern Kingdom of Israel
79. 6:54as an entity. All right? He is warning the Northern Kingdom. And this portion of scripture, I cannot
80. 7:07help but see how it could even be applied rightly to our own nation. Hosea chapter 10 verse 1,
81. 7:16it's the one verse I want to focus on here. Hosea chapter 10 verse 1. The prophet Hosea says this,
82. 7:23Israel is a luxuriant vine.
83. 7:28He produces fruit for himself.
84. 7:31The more his fruit, the more altars he made.
85. 7:35The richer his land, the better he made the sacred pillars.
86. 7:44Hosea is highlighting a feature of Israelite life.
87. 7:49And if you do any bit of research, you go back to Judges chapter 17 and 18, you can see the
88. 7:55history there of how the northern tribe of Dan was established and how idolatry was foundational
89. 8:02to the tribe of Dan. And that idolatry continued from Dan's establishment as a tribe all the
90. 8:10way until the Assyrian conquest. It's a sad thing. You'll recall that when Jeroboam becomes
91. 8:19the first king of the divided northern kingdom of Israel, one of the first things he does
92. 8:23is set up golden calves. One in Bethel, which the prophet Ozea describes as Beth Avon. The
93. 8:31word Bethel in Hebrew means house of bread, but the Lord through who Ozea described Bethel
94. 8:37as Beth Avon, house of evil. Avomon even means evil. They turned the house of bread into
95. 8:42the house of evil. Then Jeroboam set the other calf in the northern city of Dan, the capital
96. 8:48of the tribe of Dan's regional allotment.
97. 8:55Well that idolatrous position of Dan
98. 8:58and Jeroboam's leading Israel into idol worship,
99. 9:02literally saying, Israel, behold your gods
100. 9:04that saved you and taking you out of Egypt.
101. 9:09Very same thing that happened in the book of Exodus,
102. 9:10you'll recall.
103. 9:12Well here the prophet Ozea is confronting Israel
104. 9:16because it is materially prosperous.
105. 9:23But the northern kingdom of Israel's material prosperity wasn't used,
106. 9:27wasn't stewarded for righteousness's sake.
107. 9:31The scripture says the more his fruit, the more altars he made.
108. 9:38And I'll just tell you the Prophet Ozai isn't talking about Yahweh
109. 9:43authorized, authorized altars of pleasing worship.
110. 9:50He's talking about idolatrous pagan altars in Israel.
111. 9:53The richer his land, the better he made the sacred pillars.
112. 9:59The Prophet Ose is rebuking Israel because they have misappropriated,
113. 10:06not misappropriated, they have misused their material prosperity,
114. 10:11and their wealth became a vehicle that fueled rebellion against Yahweh.
115. 10:21This is one of the reasons why I continuously stress that a booming economy
116. 10:25economy doesn't make a nation great, a booming stock market doesn't make a nation great.
117. 10:31I wholeheartedly support the efforts to frankly decouple from China and to rid our nation from
118. 10:40the abuse that we suffer economically from China, but can I tell you something?
119. 10:48If the heart of the people in our nation don't change, if the hearts of the people, and I
120. 10:53I don't mean everyone, obviously,
121. 10:55the Lord reserves a remnant for himself.
122. 10:58By God's grace, I would express my desire
123. 11:03to be a part of that remnant that is not going along
124. 11:06with the wickedness of the day that's prevalent in our nation.
125. 11:10But the dominant reality in our nation
126. 11:15is that wickedness is normalized.
127. 11:18And if we have all of the proper trade balance
128. 11:23And we restore the manufacturing sector here in the United States of America,
129. 11:27which will be very, very important, which will be a great thing to experience.
130. 11:31That alone, and those things alone will not make our nation great.
131. 11:35Because if we are not a people who have hearts of brokenness and
132. 11:39contrition before the Lord, if we are not a people who hunger and thirst for
133. 11:43righteousness, we will repeat what Hosea is your book in Israel for right here.
134. 11:48We will utilize our resources for rebellious purposes.
135. 11:52will utilize technological innovation to advance wickedness.
136. 12:00Will utilize all of those things for purposes frankly,
137. 12:08that beckoned God's judgment.
138. 12:12And I don't want that to be.
139. 12:14So that is why I am appealing to our audience here
140. 12:18to recognize that if we are wicked people,
141. 12:22that's well-resourced, we're just a well-resourced wicked people,
142. 12:25well-resourced wicked people, we need to be a people
143. 12:33in whom's heart, in our heart,
144. 12:37that there's been a circumcision of the heart, man.
145. 12:41And as God and His divine providence allows those people
146. 12:45to be well-resourced, that we would stew
147. 12:47with those resources in such a manner,
148. 12:49to where the King of Kings and the Lord of Lord is glorified,
149. 12:56and that He finds in us a people
150. 13:02who worship Him in spirit and in truth.
151. 13:05That is what I'm seeking for.
152. 13:07That is what I'm yearning for.
153. 13:09I want people to enjoy higher paying jobs.
154. 13:14I want to see a restoration of the middle class and an economic boom in America, but not at
155. 13:19the expense of righteousness in our nation.
156. 13:25And this is why it's vitally important that the people who got in our nation cry aloud and
157. 13:30spare not that we are the ones who will say, listen, a resurgent economy does not alone
158. 13:36make a nation great.
159. 13:37It's a wonderful benefit to enjoy, but if we don't have a different heart condition, we
160. 13:43will utilize those resources for wickedness.
161. 13:48It's not lost on me, and I've shared these statistics with you before, that the pornography
162. 13:53industry enjoys revenues that exceed the National Football League, the NBA, Major League Baseball,
163. 14:04and NHL combined.
164. 14:05combined is a reason for that, guys.
165. 14:12And we have to see the connection between
166. 14:15having an increasingly wicked populace
167. 14:18and a refusal of that populace to submit
168. 14:21to constitutional standards.
169. 14:27Because our form and system of national existence
170. 14:32is only effective with the people
171. 14:38whose hearts are broken and contrite before God.
172. 14:44It's wholly and adequate for the governance of any other.
173. 14:46James George Washington is refrained that religion and morality are indispensable support of our nation.
174. 14:53The greatest need in our nation is repentance.
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183. 15:34Shining light into the darkness,
184. 15:37this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
185. 15:40Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton,
186. 15:43the third here and I am elated to have on the program with me.
187. 15:48This is my family.
188. 15:50I am talking about none other than Willamiki Addison,
189. 15:54the founders of straight-edge ministries and culture-proof, which is a movement to equip
190. 15:59followers of Christ to resist wicked cultural trends by applying God's Word, the straight-edge.
191. 16:06As the co-hosts of the Culture Proof Podcast, you will hear Will and Miki and their hand-picked
192. 16:12guests discuss the cultural issues of the day filtered through a biblical lens.
193. 16:17The Addison's are conference speakers with a specific focus on culture and its impact
194. 16:21on Christian families.
195. 16:23Mary, 20 years they are raising six incredible children,
196. 16:26equipping them to live for the glory of God.
197. 16:28They disciple and educate their children at home,
198. 16:30around the kitchen table, and on the sofa.
199. 16:34Will and Miki, thank you for joining me here
200. 16:36on the Hamilton Corner.
201. 16:37Once again, thanks for having us, man.
202. 16:39It's a pleasure to be here.
203. 16:40Yeah, it's always great to join you, Higgs.
204. 16:41Oh, the pleasure is mine.
205. 16:44Absolutely is mine.
206. 16:46I was telling you guys before we came on
207. 16:48about beginning the program with Hosea chapter 10,
208. 16:53just being gripped by the reality
209. 16:57that material access alone doesn't make a nation
210. 17:01or any people great.
211. 17:02And the text I alluded to, the Lord was rebuking Israel,
212. 17:06the Northern Kingdom, frankly, for its idolatry
213. 17:09and its misuse of its material wealth to aid
214. 17:14in rebellious pursuits.
215. 17:16and I know that the passion of your heart
216. 17:19is for the body of Christ
217. 17:21to live according to what the Lord outlined.
218. 17:24So in light of that,
219. 17:26and what you guys do on a daily basis,
220. 17:29where do you see us, the body of Christ,
221. 17:32particularly in our nation,
222. 17:33in light of where we are,
223. 17:35in world history and in light of where the culture is today?
224. 17:40Yeah, that's a great question.
225. 17:41Aye, aye, I feel like we're in trouble.
226. 17:44I feel like if that's not a turning back
227. 17:46to the word of God, not turning back to holiness
228. 17:50in the standard of God.
229. 17:52Man, we're in big trouble.
230. 17:53We just had a podcast where we interviewed Bishop Vincent
231. 17:57Matthews and he said pretty much the same thing.
232. 18:00And he has traveled all over the world.
233. 18:03And we were asking him, how does America kind of measure up
234. 18:07to what's happening in other countries?
235. 18:09And he was like, man, we're at risk.
236. 18:12That's trouble, that's brewing because we
237. 18:15have gone away from the word of God,
238. 18:18we have gone away from the truth of the word.
239. 18:20And it shows there's a lack of discernment
240. 18:23because God's people is not in the word.
241. 18:26And so there's a lot of things that's coming in
242. 18:28from the outside that's entering in
243. 18:31because we don't have discernment to say,
244. 18:34man, that's not right, that's not right.
245. 18:36And a lot of the world has entered the church
246. 18:38and so we have been weakened.
247. 18:40Yeah, not only, I would say,
248. 18:41not only is it that we don't have the discernment,
249. 18:44you know, to recognize what's,
250. 18:46but we also don't have the boldness
251. 18:47that if we begin to recognize it, to even respond.
252. 18:50So it's like, we don't see it coming,
253. 18:52we don't recognize it.
254. 18:53And then the things that we kind of think,
255. 18:55well, maybe that's not right.
256. 18:56We feel like, well, you know, who am I to judge?
257. 18:58Who am I to say?
258. 18:59And so it's amazing how wickedness
259. 19:02has really discipled the church.
260. 19:03Like wickedness has infiltrated the church,
261. 19:06given us our marching orders.
262. 19:08And then we tend to like project that as if it's Bible.
263. 19:11And it's really not.
264. 19:12You know, I was thinking to the point of the scripture
265. 19:14that you read, like in a New Testament context,
266. 19:17it almost kind of sounds like the layout to seeing church.
267. 19:19It's like you can be so rich, so wealthy, so independent.
268. 19:22You can think that you have need of nothing
269. 19:24and be so totally unaware of yourself,
270. 19:27that you're naked, that you're blind, that you're poor,
271. 19:29and that you need Jesus.
272. 19:31And I feel like that's kind of where
273. 19:33the American church is today.
274. 19:35I feel like we're in this place where,
275. 19:37you know, we have all of the advances.
276. 19:39We have the huge mega churches.
277. 19:42We've got the smoke and lights,
278. 19:44and we've got the popular pastors.
279. 19:46We've got the youth leaders.
280. 19:48We've got the, we make worship album after worship album.
281. 19:51And so we are in this place where it's like,
282. 19:54we can mirror the world so effectively, right?
283. 19:57That we don't have to be close to Jesus,
284. 19:59because all we were really doing was competing
285. 20:01for like a sense of significance.
286. 20:03And we have found that by creating this sort of like
287. 20:05Christian culture that is popular, that people look at.
288. 20:08And really, if we would just kind of settle down for a second,
289. 20:12we would realize that man, we are wretched,
290. 20:14that we're poor, that we're naked, we're blind,
291. 20:17and we desperately need Jesus.
292. 20:19Mm.
293. 20:20Well, you mentioned Bishop Vincent Matthews.
294. 20:24Yes. I know who he is, but I don't know
295. 20:26if everybody here in our audience here knows who he is.
296. 20:29Who is Bishop Matthews?
297. 20:31And I'll ask you, Miki, after we'll explain to you is,
298. 20:36if you would then describe his engagement
299. 20:40and participation of what's coming soon,
300. 20:42Culture Proof Conference 2025 in Bartlett, Tennessee, June,
301. 20:4519th through the 21st.
302. 20:47But Bishop Matthews, well, who is he?
303. 20:49Yes, he's a great, great brother.
304. 20:51He's a bishop in the church of God and Christ
305. 20:54and has a church in South Haven,
306. 20:57Mississippi, Tabernacle Church of God and Christ.
307. 21:01But he served as a director of admissions
308. 21:04in the church of God and Christ for like 10 years.
309. 21:06And so he's, and he's still on the move,
310. 21:09even though he's not serving in that capacity.
311. 21:11Every time I see him on social media and things like that,
312. 21:14he's in another country.
313. 21:15And, but he has his thing on the pulse
314. 21:19of what's going on in the church.
315. 21:21And so, and he, and his local fellowship in South Haven,
316. 21:25many are doing great work for the community,
317. 21:27just reaching out and things like that.
318. 21:29So just a respected brother and the Lord,
319. 21:31and he will be a part of the conference.
320. 21:34Mm.
321. 21:35Yeah, he's, my goodness.
322. 21:36I feel like one of the reasons that we invited him,
323. 21:38not only because he has spoken and encouraged
324. 21:41Christian conservatives, he's been at value voters
325. 21:43at the time when they were having it,
326. 21:45but he's done incredible things for the body of Christ
327. 21:49to call us back to the authority of God's word.
328. 21:52And whenever we're around Bishop Matthews,
329. 21:55we see the church in action.
330. 21:56So like they've got not only a crisis pregnancy center
331. 22:00at their church, but they've got like a birthing center
332. 22:03that they just put in at their church
333. 22:05where they are not only telling people what is right,
334. 22:08and this is how you align with God's word,
335. 22:10but then like practically meeting those needs.
336. 22:12And so when we're around Bishop Matthews,
337. 22:14we get the sense that he really believes
338. 22:16that the church is advancing.
339. 22:19The church is always supposed to be moving forward
340. 22:21as Saul and as light.
341. 22:22And so one of the reasons that we invited him
342. 22:24to the conference was so that he could paint a picture
343. 22:27for that we have several pastors who attend,
344. 22:29we have local ministries who attend ministries
345. 22:32from across the country who attend the conference.
346. 22:33And one of the questions that we feel like gets asked often
347. 22:37is, man, how do we remain faithful
348. 22:40in the midst of all we see happening?
349. 22:42There's a great falling away.
350. 22:44Even while people are attending church,
351. 22:46which is why we don't recognize it as a falling away
352. 22:48because seats are still filled,
353. 22:49but people's hearts have turned away
354. 22:51from the truth of God's word.
355. 22:52And so we wanted Bishop Matthews,
356. 22:54his task, if you will,
357. 22:57is to talk about the church occupying.
358. 22:59What does it look like for the bride of Christ
359. 23:02to truly occupy until the Lord returns?
360. 23:05What does it look like if we are making gains
361. 23:08as the bride of Christ?
362. 23:10And as you will hear when he presents,
363. 23:13and I think he kind of alluded to this
364. 23:15in the recent podcast interview,
365. 23:16but he talked about the church militant,
366. 23:19and he talked about sort of that military language
367. 23:21that is used to describe who we are
368. 23:23and how we live in this world.
369. 23:25And honestly, Abe, I feel like it's something
370. 23:27that people are uncomfortable to talk about
371. 23:28because we have been told that we need to be loving
372. 23:32to the exclusion of like being militant,
373. 23:35what we believe is what we believe. We're not going to cower. We're not going to back down. So
374. 23:40he's going to be lively. I am so looking forward to that. And I do want to
375. 23:46move here because I know the theme for the conference, Culture Proof 2025. I know you guys.
376. 23:53So I know you don't just conference or take a conference. Some people just like having events.
377. 23:56I know you're not like that. And frankly, I don't like just being a part of events. You all know,
378. 24:01I don't accept every invitation that I get and things of that nature.
379. 24:06The theme for the conference is worthy of it all, Miki.
380. 24:09How did you arrive at that theme?
381. 24:12Yeah, it's amazing.
382. 24:13I really appreciate the way Will the Great and I work together, how the Lord has gifted
383. 24:18us with like complimentary gifts.
384. 24:19And so usually from the time, I guess, 2018, we've been doing the conference, my task has
385. 24:24always been, you know, what will the theme be?
386. 24:27And so I really do ask the Lord.
387. 24:29I asked the Lord, like what's happening right now
388. 24:31in our culture that we need to respond to.
389. 24:34And if you're calling us to do this,
390. 24:36then Lord, you'll reveal it and you'll make it clear.
391. 24:38And the more I prayed about it
392. 24:39and kind of went back and forth with Will, the great on this,
393. 24:42I really felt like the Lord was showing us
394. 24:44in the various stories that we were covering,
395. 24:46the articles that we were reading,
396. 24:48the major falls that we were observing happening in the church,
397. 24:51seems like almost there's a pastoral fall a month
398. 24:54happening in the church.
399. 24:55And I started asking like, what would it look like
400. 24:59if believers really lived that Jesus is worthy of it all?
401. 25:03Not just worthy on a Sunday, you know what I mean?
402. 25:06Not just worthy on a social media posts
403. 25:08where everybody can marvel at like, you know,
404. 25:10how great you appear to be,
405. 25:11but Jesus is worthy of it all.
406. 25:13And we started to look at all of the areas of our culture
407. 25:16that need to be addressed.
408. 25:17Like, what does it look like, you know,
409. 25:19as we're navigating artificial intelligence?
410. 25:21What is that gonna look like for the integrity of the believer?
411. 25:24What does it look like that our kids are being deprived of an education that exalts God,
412. 25:29that God is central in their learning and all of their endeavors? And so we thought,
413. 25:34man, you know, we've got to equip believers this year that Jesus is worthy of it all,
414. 25:41of everything. What does that absolutely 100% mean? And so the more we came back to that,
415. 25:46it just seems that that's what the Lord was calling us to do. And then once we hammer that down,
416. 25:52It's amazing how the Lord just begins to put on our heart.
417. 25:56Who needs to speak to that?
418. 25:57Like, so who is it that the Lord has installed
419. 26:00in the various areas of culture who are equipped, passionate,
420. 26:05and sincere?
421. 26:06Like, they don't just have a message.
422. 26:08You know what I mean?
423. 26:08Like, they are living this conviction.
424. 26:11And then from that, well, the great starts kind of like,
425. 26:14plugging in, okay, this person,
426. 26:16I really feel like this person needs to speak to this.
427. 26:18And that's sort of how we get our speakers.
428. 26:20We don't look for the most popular speakers,
429. 26:22believe it or not. We don't look for the people who like everybody's heard from them and everybody's
430. 26:27going to be drawn to them just because of their name. We actually look for the people who are
431. 26:32actually doing the work. They are living this conviction. They have a particular area that God
432. 26:38has called them to and they're occupying that space. It's like if you think of a military line,
433. 26:43we each have our part on that line, right? And so who are the people who are at this particular
434. 26:48and then how are they navigating that?
435. 26:50Well, I know from the very first conference that you all led in 2018 under the auspices
436. 26:59of urban family communications.
437. 27:01As I mentioned earlier, I know, because I know y'all, y'all don't just conference for the
438. 27:05sake of conferencing.
439. 27:07This question is twofold for you.
440. 27:10What drove you to recognize this is something that God wanted you to take up and secondarily,
441. 27:16helped you to understand that there was a need for a conference this year in 2025.
442. 27:21Yeah, so initially what God put on my heart was a family conference, a conference where everyone
443. 27:30could come and be equipped, you know, from the adults all the way down to the children,
444. 27:36the grandparents, the singles, the blended families, it's a family conference.
445. 27:41And I felt like the Lord was calling for us to do that.
446. 27:44And that's when we started the NFL conferences.
447. 27:47And it's the same heart, the ministering to families.
448. 27:52And there's a lot of equipping that has to be done.
449. 27:56We know that the enemy has his sights on family.
450. 28:00His target is family.
451. 28:02And so we want to do everything that we can to share up
452. 28:05the families, to equip the families,
453. 28:07to live in a practical way, living through the Word of God.
454. 28:11And so that was the initial thrust.
455. 28:14That was the, where God put on my heart
456. 28:16and it remains the same today.
457. 28:18Now as far as the conference this year,
458. 28:21just it's the same, it's the same thing
459. 28:24that the Lord has continuously put on my heart
460. 28:26and our hearts about how can we strengthen the family unit?
461. 28:30And it has only gotten worse, you know,
462. 28:33as far as what the culture is throwing at our families,
463. 28:36our children.
464. 28:38And so just the necessity to be able to speak to those things
465. 28:42in the culture, to warn the body of Christ,
466. 28:46to encourage the body of Christ,
467. 28:47and to just know that we need to lean on God
468. 28:50as we navigate all these different things
469. 28:53that's happening in our culture.
470. 28:54So that's just been the heartbeat
471. 28:56of this conference, Culture Proof 2025,
472. 29:00just equipping for the entire family.
473. 29:02And, Mickey, you alluded to the necessity of having people
474. 29:06who are invested in various areas of culture and bringing them together for this event,
475. 29:13then frankly, I cannot wait for it.
476. 29:15And I told you guys, you know, I would come, if I wasn't invited to speak, I would want to
477. 29:20come to just be sharpened to be equipped because the people that you invite are always so effective
478. 29:30in delivering what God has communicated through them.
479. 29:32sometimes provoking me to consider things either a fresh, a new, or
480. 29:36can consider things differently than I've considered in the past.
481. 29:39Who are some of the people that you all have invited to be a part of the
482. 29:43speakers for Cultureproof 2025?
483. 29:46Well, of course, you, Abraham, now within the third, as you just kind of alluded to.
484. 29:51Um, but then in addition to you, uh, Dr.
485. 29:54Kathy Cook is joining us and Dr.
486. 29:56Kathy has been like a mainstay because my goodness, God has gifted her with an
487. 30:00incredible amount of wisdom to help encourage parents as they encourage and equip their kids
488. 30:06and also grandparents. So she's got like a multi-generational approach to helping understand
489. 30:11what's going on in the minds and the hearts of kids and how to respond to that. But not only that
490. 30:16last year at the conference, she's so overwhelmed us. We had some people who were kind of skeptical
491. 30:21to attend and they thought, well, I don't have any kids at home. I'm an empty nester. And their
492. 30:26Another question was, you know, what's in it for me?
493. 30:28Like, am I going to get something out of this?
494. 30:30And in fact, there was one attendee who was there who asked me that.
495. 30:33She said, I've kind of come in faith.
496. 30:35You know, she goes, I'm thinking, I don't have any kids.
497. 30:37And which is something that we try to drive home.
498. 30:39It's a conference for adults, but it doesn't forget kids, right?
499. 30:43So we do attract because usually kids are forgotten in conferences.
500. 30:46It's like, we want you to come as the parent or the grandparent or the aunt, the uncle,
501. 30:49whatever.
502. 30:50We want you to come, but you got to figure out what you're going to do with your kids.
503. 30:53We didn't want that to be the case for the Culture Proof Conference.
504. 30:56So last year, Dr. Cathy, just my goodness, knocked it out of the park and talking about
505. 31:00a board of directors in our life.
506. 31:02And this, this same woman, do you remember that one?
507. 31:05Oh, my goodness.
508. 31:06It was incredible.
509. 31:07It was incredible.
510. 31:08Well, this same woman, fast forward, who asked at the beginning of the conference, is
511. 31:12there something here for me?
512. 31:14I've come in faith.
513. 31:15I said to her without a doubt, 100 percent.
514. 31:18Yes.
515. 31:19fast forward, we revisited faith to do a window for this year's conference.
516. 31:23And that woman was there on a Sunday morning and she came running up to us and she said,
517. 31:27I've got to tell you, she goes, I was so blessed.
518. 31:30I can't wait for this conference this year.
519. 31:33She said, I just can't.
520. 31:34And then she specifically noted that particular session with Dr.
521. 31:38Cathy that had a major impact on her life that she reached out to someone living across
522. 31:43state lines who was a part of her board of directors.
523. 31:45And I won't go into all the details, but it had an impact on this woman's ministry who
524. 31:49who was thinking maybe she wasn't called to do what she was doing.
525. 31:52But as a result, it was just incredible to hear
526. 31:54to get this kind of praise report.
527. 31:56The bomb burgers.
528. 31:57Let me jump right there, because the music is still disrespectful.
529. 32:00And it's playing now.
530. 32:03But you mentioned what you went back to faith.
531. 32:05So Faith Baptist Church is the host church for the conference.
532. 32:10Because this woman you mentioned, she came to Faith Baptist Church
533. 32:13in faith for the conference.
534. 32:14But it's the host church for the conference.
535. 32:16When we come back on the other side of the break,
536. 32:18I want to invite you to continue describing the speakers
537. 32:22who are there and we'll talk more about culture proof
538. 32:23conference 2025.
539. 32:25You don't want to miss this.
540. 32:30All right, Sandy Rios with you.
541. 32:31One more drama playing out.
542. 32:33Is the sky falling?
543. 32:35Are we going into a recession?
544. 32:37Are you going to lose all of your 401k?
545. 32:39Are you going to lose your job?
546. 32:40Are you going to be able to afford groceries?
547. 32:41People better be training their kids,
548. 32:43getting back into church, Sunday school, reading the Bible.
549. 32:46That revolution will save this country.
550. 32:48We've had a political revolution now.
551. 32:50We need a spiritual revolution.
552. 32:53Sandy Rios on Sandy Rios 24-7.
553. 32:56Listen on the podcast page at AFR.net.
554. 32:59The Hamilton Quarter podcast and one-minute commentarits
555. 33:07are available at AFR.net.
556. 33:10Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
557. 33:14Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III,
558. 33:17and I am on with my family, Will and Mickey Addison,
559. 33:20discussing the Culture Proof Conference 2025,
560. 33:22which will take place June 19th through to 21st at Faith Baptist Church in Bartlett, Tennessee.
561. 33:30Bartlett is the suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. The church's address is 3755 North Germantown Parkway,
562. 33:36Bartlett, Tennessee zip code 38133. You can find all the details for the conference at
563. 33:43cultureproof.net that is cultureproof.net. But before we went to the break and I just
564. 33:48platform, you were describing the speakers who are participating in this year's conference
565. 33:54and you were wrapping up your description and a bit of a testimony from Dr. Kathy Cook's
566. 33:59presentation last year and her agreed participation again this year and you were about to transition
567. 34:05to another speaker.
568. 34:06Yeah, so Alex Newman, who you've had on your program several times, is also going to be
569. 34:11joining us of Liberty Sentinel Media.
570. 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
571. 34:21believers. Like what does it look like when we look at what's happening just sort of around the globe?
572. 34:26What are the spiritual implications of what we see happening?
573. 34:29There are reporters who can report that something's happening and maybe we should be concerned, but then there are
574. 34:35followers of the Lord Jesus in whom his spirit dwells.
575. 34:38They can report on what is happening, but they can also present to you the spiritual implications
576. 34:44behind what is happening and why we need to be concerned.
577. 34:47And Alex Newman is one of those people.
578. 34:50He's had an audience with the Trump administration, even presenting at Mar-Lago.
579. 34:54And so we're really excited to have him join us, not only talking about global politics
580. 34:58and how that points to the return of the Lord Jesus.
581. 35:01There are things happening on a global scale that we, as Americans, are just not aware of.
582. 35:07But these things as they are unfolding,
583. 35:10they actually point to the fulfillment of scripture
584. 35:13as we await the Lord's return.
585. 35:15So he is going to address that for us.
586. 35:17He's also passionate about education.
587. 35:19So he's gonna be doing a breakout session,
588. 35:21talking about the importance of education
589. 35:23and what a collective concerted effort
590. 35:25that has been made to dumb down our kids
591. 35:29and how it's been effective.
592. 35:30So we're super excited about that.
593. 35:32He's actually gonna be a part of one of those lunch
594. 35:34and learns that we've got planned.
595. 35:35You're gonna be on a panel with him.
596. 35:37It's just, it's gonna be like drinking from like a fire hose.
597. 35:40I feel like it's gonna be so much information,
598. 35:42but it's information that we are really kind of in a drought for.
599. 35:45Like we need to know what's going on.
600. 35:47So Alex Newman is joining us.
601. 35:49Of course the bomb burgers, Ryan and Bethany
602. 35:52of the Radiance Foundation, it's always great
603. 35:54to have them with us, they are bold.
604. 35:55They are literally out on the front lines,
605. 35:58arguing with people who believe that babies should be murdered.
606. 36:01I mean, they are literally doing the work.
607. 36:03And so they're gonna join us and talking about
608. 36:05where we go now in the pro-life movement,
609. 36:08when you can have, you know,
610. 36:10abort patient drugs just shipped to your home
611. 36:13and people are taking the lives of their babies,
612. 36:15which seems almost sort of like oxymoronic to think about,
613. 36:19but in the comfort of their own homes,
614. 36:21there's this brutality that is taking place.
615. 36:24So we're gonna talk about that with them.
616. 36:25And even, you know, the situation or the issue of IVF,
617. 36:29you know.
618. 36:30Yes, yes.
619. 36:31And Christians, we have to know where we stand on that.
620. 36:33And so those things would be addressed
621. 36:36and talked about as well.
622. 36:37So it's just important information for the body of Christ.
623. 36:40And I believe it's practical information
624. 36:42as well that you can put into an apply to your life.
625. 36:47Because the thing is,
626. 36:48it's one thing to have all this information,
627. 36:50but it's another thing to have the information
628. 36:52and know how to readily apply it to your life in a real way.
629. 36:56And so that's one of my hopes is that
630. 36:58as people leave this conference,
631. 36:59it won't just be, I heard some good stuff,
632. 37:02but it'll be, man, I heard some good stuff,
633. 37:04but I know how to apply this to my life.
634. 37:07Yeah, oh, I wanna mention Dr. Lena Abu Jomra.
635. 37:10She's the first time that we are having her
636. 37:12at one of the conferences that we've put on.
637. 37:14And the reason we invited her was because we talked to her.
638. 37:17Like we read her book and then talked to her
639. 37:20about deconstruction and about the lack of what
640. 37:23has been called purity culture,
641. 37:24but the lack of purity among single.
642. 37:26She is in her early 50s and she's never been married
643. 37:29and she's written a book, she's written a few books.
644. 37:32But one book in particular that she wrote is called Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This.
645. 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.
646. 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?
647. 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
648. 38:00that do not align with scripture. And so she started to collect information on that.
649. 38:04And then even in sharing her own testimony of having never been married while everybody on the
650. 38:09outside would say, here's a strong Christian woman, she had some internal wrestling, some battles with
651. 38:15purity that were able to kind of fly under the radar. So we invited her because we thought that
652. 38:20this would be an encouragement to singles and to young adults as well. Just powerful, powerful
653. 38:25story. She talks about deconstruction. She also talks about being content. She talks about what it is
654. 38:31to live according to where God has placed you, our installed you, which is so counter-cultural
655. 38:37today because everybody's trying to get to the next thing. Everybody's trying to move to the next
656. 38:40level. And so I think she's going to be an incredible addition to the culture proof lineup.
657. 38:44Mm, man. I cannot wait. Where do people need to go in order to get the information and to register
658. 38:53for the Culture Proof Conference 2025?
659. 38:56Yes, sir, everything is at cultureproof.net.
660. 39:00Cultureproof.net, when you go there,
661. 39:02you can see the breakout sessions, you can see,
662. 39:05the speakers and get all the information
663. 39:08that you would need.
664. 39:09So man, register today.
665. 39:12It's a conference is gonna be well worth it.
666. 39:14I know the Lord will speak to you.
667. 39:16Go to cultureproof.net.
668. 39:19Yeah, I would just say to your listeners,
669. 39:21to your audience, Abe, that registration does close down at the end of May.
670. 39:25And so I would encourage those who are interested in attending to pray about it and make that
671. 39:29decision. One of the sort of space limiting factors is our kids' tracks.
672. 39:33So if you have kids in particular that you want to get in the track and maybe even teens,
673. 39:37you'd want to register them ahead of time. Of course, for adults, for married couples,
674. 39:42if you don't have kids that are going to be in those tracks, then registration is open
675. 39:46for you. You don't have to worry about that. But we do try to limit the number of kids in
676. 39:51the track because we want them to receive quality instruction.
677. 39:55We're not just housing kids, we're not just giving them juice and crackers.
678. 39:58Uh, one of the things that we try to do is equip kids to be able and to be ready
679. 40:03to give a reason for the hope that lies within them.
680. 40:06And as you know, as your wife directs the kids portion of this conference,
681. 40:10my goodness, they just don't leave anything on the table.
682. 40:13It's, it's so serious, the equipping of young children.
683. 40:17So they're working on that right now.
684. 40:18And then of course the team track under the direction of Mark and Amy Warren,
685. 40:22Amy, a Colson fellow.
686. 40:23I mean, it's just, we really want to equip the next generation, which is now, right?
687. 40:28Even though we look ahead, they're with us right now and they've got to be equipped to stand in their time.
688. 40:35They are carrying the gospel.
689. 40:37And I think so often we don't think about it that way.
690. 40:40We think, well, we just babysit them until then they can really understand, but they can understand now.
691. 40:46And the thing that shocks me about this, Abe, is that the world gets it.
692. 40:49The world understands that they should be repetitive, that they should be persistent,
693. 40:55they should continue with the message over and over and over until they change hearts and minds.
694. 41:01But on our side, we are kind of like, well, you know, they don't get it now.
695. 41:05We'll just wait. We'll just wait.
696. 41:06And what all the data shows us is that in our waiting, they are already gone.
697. 41:11And so what we're trying to do is supplement what parents are doing at home.
698. 41:15And we don't see ourselves as stepping in the place of parents.
699. 41:18We see ourselves as coming alongside parents and helping to supplement what's already happening
700. 41:22inside their homes.
701. 41:24And Will, if you will, speak a little bit about the teens tract because everything you just
702. 41:28said is so true about our children and the necessity of their formation.
703. 41:32Dr. George Barnard has powerful research about the crystallization of biblical worldview,
704. 41:38but there is a teens tract available as well at Culture Group 2025, right?
705. 41:42Yes, definitely.
706. 41:43for kids 13 to 17.
707. 41:45And so the thing is, we know that there are a lot of things
708. 41:49bombarding our teens.
709. 41:50You know, when we think about media, social media,
710. 41:53we think about these devices and all of that,
711. 41:55they're getting messages from everywhere.
712. 41:57And we have a crew of people that's ready to equip the teens.
713. 42:03You have Mark and Amy Warren.
714. 42:05Mark is a pastor, Amy, a co-hosting fellow.
715. 42:08And look, they have a passion for equipping teens.
716. 42:11And so it's gonna be something that's gonna be great for them.
717. 42:14We have some of our speakers are gonna be a part of that as well.
718. 42:18And also Abigail.
719. 42:20Yeah.
720. 42:21Yeah.
721. 42:22I'm literally just pulled her up.
722. 42:24I just pulled her up.
723. 42:25Now go ahead.
724. 42:26Counter act USA, we met her at a convention.
725. 42:30And man, just was blown away by what she's doing, her crew,
726. 42:34ministering to young people, to college students,
727. 42:37and those who are singles.
728. 42:39And so she'll be a part as well.
729. 42:41So everyone will be equipped at this conference.
730. 42:44So can I just say something about Abigail?
731. 42:46So the thing that really struck us as we were talking to her
732. 42:49was that, you know, she, I said,
733. 42:50oh, is this similar to like turning point?
734. 42:52And she said, yes and no.
735. 42:55You know, she goes, I was a part of turning point.
736. 42:57And she said, and I really enjoyed, you know,
737. 42:59the work that we see happening.
738. 43:01She said, but we realized that there was not enough emphasis
739. 43:04on the spiritual aspect of what it is to be on a college campus
740. 43:08And so she was a part of her.
741. 43:10She was a part of her turning point.
742. 43:12And so Counter Act is sort of her response to that void.
743. 43:16Yes, we need to be politically engaged.
744. 43:18Yes, we need to understand how to hold our own
745. 43:20on a college campus.
746. 43:22But she said, at the end of the day,
747. 43:24where's the emphasis on the spiritual component of that?
748. 43:26That we're being shaped in our faith.
749. 43:28And so her organization sets up chapters
750. 43:31all across the country that equips students,
751. 43:33not only to give a political response,
752. 43:36not only to have a political position,
753. 43:38but to understand how their spiritual conviction
754. 43:41has to underpin that political position.
755. 43:44And we were like, Abigail, you are speaking our language
756. 43:48in the so sincere.
757. 43:49So she's joining us, she's gonna be speaking to our teens
758. 43:51and young adults, it's gonna be great.
759. 43:53Mm, man, I can't wait.
760. 43:55And you haven't booked your ticket yet.
761. 43:57What, what are you doing?
762. 43:59What are you doing?
763. 44:01What are you doing?
764. 44:01This is not the proper response to this.
765. 44:04Oh.
766. 44:04Dr. Renton Rathbun, he'll be there as well, right?
767. 44:09Oh, yeah.
768. 44:10Oh, Sander Kamando's.
769. 44:11Um, listen, Dr. Renton Rathbun, who directs Biblical World View at Bob Jones University and
770. 44:17just recently launched his own podcast, which is incredible.
771. 44:20He is just a walking brain, right?
772. 44:22And a conviction that we have got to tell the truth about who God is.
773. 44:26And so we have tasked him with what may seem insurmountable, but he's going to address artificial
774. 44:32intelligence like in the development of all the technology that we have, what is a biblical
775. 44:38world view on this technology?
776. 44:41How do we navigate this for the glory of God?
777. 44:43You know, are there places or areas where we're crossing the line here?
778. 44:47How do we equip our kids to utilize technology in a way that glorifies God?
779. 44:51So I'm really excited to hear what he comes up with.
780. 44:54Man, and then our brother, Dr. Brother, Dr. Israel Wayne.
781. 45:00Come on.
782. 45:01Oh my goodness.
783. 45:02Definitely has a huge part for the family.
784. 45:05Yes.
785. 45:06And man, discipleship in the home and all those things.
786. 45:09And he's just a great brother.
787. 45:11He's a brother that I always think about,
788. 45:14if certain people that are connectors,
789. 45:17and he's one, he's like, man, you need to know this person.
790. 45:20He needs to know this person.
791. 45:20And he makes those connections with the body of Christ.
792. 45:22But he has a heart for families,
793. 45:24and he's gonna be ministering to our families.
794. 45:26Yeah, it's gonna be so good.
795. 45:27I remember last year, there was just sort of,
796. 45:30as he wrapped up his presentation,
797. 45:31and the Lord had really pressed on his heart
798. 45:35to change his presentation the night
799. 45:38before he was going to speak.
800. 45:39Then he was also hit with his huge migraine,
801. 45:42and in the midst of all of that,
802. 45:44he brought such a convicting message
803. 45:47that it was like the air just went out of the room
804. 45:49as he talked about the role of fathers,
805. 45:51and he talked about the family
806. 45:53and what it's supposed to look like,
807. 45:54what God has entrusted.
808. 45:56Oh, it was so heavy, but it's a good heavy.
809. 45:58You know what I mean?
810. 45:59you feel the weight of it and you want to respond affirmatively.
811. 46:03It's not that you're condemned, you're just like, yes, Lord,
812. 46:06this is what we've been missing
813. 46:07and we want to see that conviction restored to the church.
814. 46:10Man, oh, man, my heart feel like I'm on the road to you.
815. 46:13May it's my heart is burning.
816. 46:14You remember it.
817. 46:16Oh, man, it was so good.
818. 46:18Well, you mentioned this and you alluded to this earlier
819. 46:20because sometimes people, some folks,
820. 46:23the apostle Paul said, ever learning,
821. 46:24I've never come into the knowledge of the truth
822. 46:26that I know the heart of God frankly,
823. 46:29and your heart in this is not for people
824. 46:31just to come and have their heads filled
825. 46:33with a bunch of information,
826. 46:34but to be sharpened and equipped to take things home.
827. 46:36Would you just speak a bit to that as to how this is
828. 46:40an equipping conference as opposed to just an event?
829. 46:45Yeah, yeah, definitely,
830. 46:47because the focus and the heart of it is that,
831. 46:50first of all, their families and individuals are equipped.
832. 46:52That's, we come into it with that.
833. 46:54And so everything that we're doing,
834. 46:56the teaching, the way that it's taught, the speakers,
835. 46:59and the way that they will speak
836. 47:01is all for equipping the body of Christ.
837. 47:03So yeah, come prepared to take notes.
838. 47:06Come prepared to have things that you can take back with you,
839. 47:10that you can talk to your children
840. 47:11about as you go back home, on a ride home,
841. 47:15because they will be able to tell you practically
842. 47:18what they've learned.
843. 47:19These things we have to begin to implement.
844. 47:22And if we can do this across this country,
845. 47:24to implement the things that's in the Word of God,
846. 47:26the things that we are being equipped to do,
847. 47:29man, things would change.
848. 47:30It could start right there in our homes.
849. 47:32Right in our homes, we have the opportunity
850. 47:34and responsibility that those places would be lighthouses.
851. 47:38Right in our communities.
852. 47:39And so, yes, in a practical way, be ready to learn,
853. 47:43be ready to implement the things that you are learning,
854. 47:46because I think it's gonna make a big difference
855. 47:49in individuals lives.
856. 47:50And be ready to engage with the speakers.
857. 47:52Like one of the things that we love about the Culture Proof Conference is that it's not
858. 47:55celebrity driven.
859. 47:56So these people, while they are experts in their field and we love to bring them in to
860. 48:00equip and encourage, they are right there on the ground.
861. 48:03So you will find conversations happening with families and other attendees talking to these
862. 48:08speakers.
863. 48:09We're not a celebrity driven event, if you will, but it's an equipping ministry.
864. 48:13And so you've got people who have questions after the fact and they get those questions
865. 48:16answered.
866. 48:17Yeah.
867. 48:18And I just want to mention, you know, where we're hosting this.
868. 48:21this pastor brand. Yes, he has a heart for this conference and he will be speaking as
869. 48:25well. And man, he has a heart for families. And so it'll be a treat to hear him as well.
870. 48:30And then cultureproof.net is where you go June 19th through 21st. You do not want to miss this.
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