Share-A-Thon, Day 3

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1. 0:01Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20 says,
2. 0:03God is able to do far more abundantly than anything we can ask or think.
3. 0:08It's Sharethon on American Family Radio.
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8. 0:39Good evening everyone welcome to the day three fall 2025
9. 0:46Sharethon edition of the Hamilton Corner.
10. 0:48My name is Abraham Hamilton the third.
11. 0:50I was on the air the previous hour
12. 0:52and I'm rolling with you for this hour as well.
13. 0:56I am joined by the corner contingent right across
14. 0:58from me my man 100 grand Mr. Bobby.
15. 1:01Herr, rrr, rrr, rrr, rrr, rrr, rrr, rrr, rrr, rrr, rrr,
16. 1:03and in the screening room produced extraordinaire,
17. 1:05the real Jay Mac ladies and gentlemen
18. 1:07we are ready to rock and roll with today's program.
19. 1:11You can still participate in the Shareathon.
20. 1:14The last chance challenge is over, however,
21. 1:17but the number to call to make your gift is 877-616-2396.
22. 1:23That number again is 877-616-2396,
23. 1:30or you can give securely online by going to AFR.net.
24. 1:35that is AFR.net. I want to reiterate that you can still make your gift. We welcome you to do so.
25. 1:44It is because of gifts like yours that we have the opportunity. Now, I don't want to be premature,
26. 1:49but if you stay tuned, you're going to learn about a new AFR station coming online in the not too
27. 1:55distant future. Stay tuned beyond today. But we're able to do those types of things because of people
28. 2:03who give, who support the work that God is doing through this ministry.
29. 2:07I was sharing the story before I was speaking at a church one time in the Dallas, Texas area,
30. 2:12and a young lady stood up. She was sitting next to her parents. She was a college age,
31. 2:17young lady. And she said, Mr. Hamilton, I grew up listening to you. And I said,
32. 2:22what? That was the first time I'd ever heard about her that and thought about that phenomenon.
33. 2:27I got to meet her and her parents later on. The parents told me how they were intentional
34. 2:32about making sure that children got to listen to my program in particular and it helped to kind
35. 2:38of contribute to where this young lady ended up wanting to do with her life. It was amazing to hear
36. 2:43that and it caused me to think how much would you be willing to give to ensure that AFR is available
37. 2:52for your children, your grandchildren, and your great-grandchildren. It's something that's worth
38. 2:57considering in my view 877-616-2396 is the number to call 877-616-2396 is the
39. 3:09number to call or you can make your gift securely online at aFR.net that is AFR.net
40. 3:19and I was on the air the entire previous hour I didn't sneeze one time and then
41. 3:23you two jokers coming to studio and now I got the sneezy wheezies again at this
42. 3:28This very moment, many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your
43. 3:31part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate
44. 3:36an outcome.
45. 3:37And as you do so, I want to remind you to make your transition with intentionality, understanding
46. 3:43the primacy that God places on family and welcoming that reality to govern and guide your engagement.
47. 3:528 7 7 6 1 6 2 3 9 6 is the number to call or you can give online securely at a fr.net. I want to direct your attention now to
48. 4:03The Word of God to the Word of God. We go James chapter 1. I'm gonna focus primarily on verse 17 exclusively verse 17 James chapter 1 verse
49. 4:1517
50. 4:17And this is one that I present to my children often
51. 4:20I ponder this verse often and simply this is what the word of God says.
52. 4:26Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above. Coming down from the
53. 4:39Father of Lights with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. I'm going to
54. 4:48read that again. Every good thing is given. Sorry, every good thing given and every perfect
55. 4:56gift is from above. Coming down from the Father of Lights with whom there is no variation or
56. 5:03shifting shadow. The simple notion that I wanted to communicate to you is the necessity of living
57. 5:10with gratitude. Note, one of the major concepts that has been weaponized in our society, we
58. 5:19We often describe it as entitlement.
59. 5:22Another way to describe entitlement is in gratitude.
60. 5:30It is truly overwhelming to consider, man, how God continues to provide for this ministry
61. 5:39through your support, through your gifts.
62. 5:45I am keenly aware that God has blessed some of us materially, where we have an abundance
63. 5:51of resources.
64. 5:53I'm also keenly aware that there are some amongst us
65. 5:57that you sacrifice to give.
66. 6:00I see testimonies all the time that you work feverishly
67. 6:07to put together the five bucks a month or the $10 a month.
68. 6:11And I wanna tell you that more than the quantity
69. 6:14that you've given God sees the heart that you've given with,
70. 6:18God sees the heart that you've given with.
71. 6:22And it is our distinct privilege and honor
72. 6:24cultivate within ourselves hearts of gratitude. So I know we're going to have some others that
73. 6:30are planning to join us later, but let me just be among the first to tell you. Thank you.
74. 6:37Every single person who has given during the Sherathon, I'm looking at Michelle and Arkansas,
75. 6:43Amy and Mississippi, Albert in Virginia. We had Michael, I'm sorry, Michelle, no, Albert,
76. 6:52I mentioned Albert Debi in Oklahoma, a Billy in Tennessee, Rodney in Georgia, Steven in Texas,
77. 7:01Brooke in North Carolina, Suzanne in Tennessee. This is just a few of the people. Every single one of
78. 7:07you, thank you so much for what you have done. Thank you so much for supporting this ministry.
79. 7:11I want to express my gratitude to God first, but I also want to express my gratitude to you.
80. 7:17It is because of the uncommon connection and affinity that we share.
81. 7:28You know, I mean this when I say one of my favorite things to do is travel our country
82. 7:32and to meet supporters and listeners to get to hug next and shake hands and meet people in person.
83. 7:38People who I'm going to be able to spend eternity with who understand so clearly what's happening in our society currently
84. 7:46And they have embraced what God has called them to do,
85. 7:51to respond, doing the affirmative work that they're doing
86. 7:54in their neighborhoods and communities,
87. 7:56but also sacrificially using their own resources,
88. 8:01your own resources to support the work that God is doing here.
89. 8:05I said yesterday when Brother Don was asked,
90. 8:07how does he budget?
91. 8:08And he said, this is how we budget,
92. 8:10we spend less than we take in.
93. 8:13You know, that is a core conviction that we have,
94. 8:16that we endeavor to be good stewards.
95. 8:18God has blessed us here in this ministry
96. 8:21that we're debt-free ministry
97. 8:23because we believe when the Bible says,
98. 8:25the borrower is a slave to the lender.
99. 8:27So we wanna be able to be as streamlined as possible
100. 8:31to not have to factor in all kinds
101. 8:32of exorbitant interest payments and things of that nature,
102. 8:35but to function within the parameters that God has afforded
103. 8:38and the way that those parameters have been established
104. 8:41is by your support.
105. 8:43So I want to tell you from my heart, thank you for your gifts.
106. 8:47Thank you for supporting this work.
107. 8:49Thank you for the work that you are doing where you are.
108. 8:51And thank you for being apart of what God is doing in our country
109. 8:54to plant the flag of faithfulness to Jesus Christ
110. 8:57and to recognize that the most during and desperate need for our country
111. 9:01is salvation in Jesus Christ and repentance and faith in Him.
112. 9:05That's what we need, man.
113. 9:07And that's what we are committed to do.
114. 9:08So if you're listening and you would still like to make your gift,
115. 9:11You're like, Abe, I haven't been able to give yet.
116. 9:13Well, guess what?
117. 9:14You still have some time.
118. 9:15877-616-239-6 is the number to call
119. 9:19that we have people standing by to receive your call,
120. 9:22to process your gift, and to add it
121. 9:25to what has already been given.
122. 9:27877-616-239-6 is the number to call,
123. 9:31or you can go to afr.net and give online securely.
124. 9:36If you prefer to do that, some people are like,
125. 9:38man, I'd rather do that.
126. 9:39I don't want to get in the conversation necessarily.
127. 9:41I just want to give my gift and do so digitally.
128. 9:46Well, you can do that.
129. 9:48One of the things that we've been able to do here
130. 9:50in this era of information technology and hackers
131. 9:54and scammers is that our IT department has created basically
132. 9:58our own server room right here on our own campus.
133. 10:01So when I say you can give securely, I mean that.
134. 10:04I mean that.
135. 10:04And instead of having to outsource the foundational server
136. 10:07infrastructure, we have it right here on campus.
137. 10:10And that is something that was able to be constructed, frankly,
138. 10:13because of your faithful support.
139. 10:15877-616-239-6, it's a number to call.
140. 10:20Or you can give securely online at aFR.net.
141. 10:23The scripture I read focused on the reality
142. 10:26that all good and perfect gifts come from above,
143. 10:29from the Father of lights.
144. 10:30No matter how talented you may be,
145. 10:32no matter how talented I may be,
146. 10:34no matter how many connections we may have,
147. 10:36no matter how accomplished we may be,
148. 10:38Everything that we enjoy in terms of a provision and resources has been granted to us by God. Everything is his
149. 10:47Everything is his we get the privilege to steward it for season
150. 10:52Refuse to allow this culture to move you into a brogudging
151. 10:56Disposition of ingratitude, you know, it boggles my mind
152. 11:01How you have people that talk about you know how horrible America is and then at the same time
153. 11:07Jesus, some of the same people are saying, yeah, and we need open borders.
154. 11:09Bring them all over here, you know?
155. 11:11And man, the reality is, and I don't say this to diminish anybody's struggles because
156. 11:15we have people in this country who suffer.
157. 11:18That's a fact.
158. 11:19I know that to be a fact.
159. 11:21The reality, however, is that even those who have some of the most difficult circumstances
160. 11:26in our lives, there are people from other places around the world that would love to trade
161. 11:30you.
162. 11:31I'm just telling you the truth, man.
163. 11:33You know, I said in some people that I was joking, I said, America is one of the few
164. 11:37countries in the world where poor people gain weight. I'm just, guys, that's an American thing.
165. 11:45That's not a world thing in other places. When people don't have resources, they go without meals
166. 11:54regularly. Now, I know there are some people who are suffering in such a way in America that they
167. 11:58they go without meals from time to time. But it is not nearly the quantity of frequency
168. 12:04in our country that it is in other countries. That's just the truth, guys. That's the truth.
169. 12:10You know, one of the things I do, I teach this year, I'm teaching an economics class, the
170. 12:15high schoolers, to homeschool high schoolers.
171. 12:17And I would share with some of them some evidence to show in places like Cuba, you have a 50-something
172. 12:23year old man who said, I've never seen a strawberry.
173. 12:27Now think about this.
174. 12:30Cuba is a tropical island.
175. 12:33And you have people that have never seen a strawberry, not in person.
176. 12:39I know it, as I'm saying this, some of you having a hard time wrapping your mind around
177. 12:43that way, what do you mean, but I've never seen a strawberry?
178. 12:46Listen, what I'm telling you, adults who have never physically seen a strawberry, why is
179. 12:51that?
180. 12:52Because of the communist dictatorship, that is the governmental source in Cuba, the crushing
181. 12:58of the Amago day and liberty there that has resulted in death, poverty and destruction
182. 13:03and deprivation.
183. 13:04That's a fact.
184. 13:07I showed my students video after video of expats from other nation and they come into places
185. 13:14like Costco and they faint.
186. 13:18I'm serious.
187. 13:19They faint.
188. 13:21There's this one young man and I'm saying he's a young adult.
189. 13:25He went into a grocery store with his uncle who had been in America for a while.
190. 13:30And his uncle said, what do you want?
191. 13:32And he saw the grapes in his eyes welled up.
192. 13:35I would like some grapes.
193. 13:36And he said, well, get some grapes.
194. 13:37And the young man asked his uncle, how many grapes can I have?
195. 13:42And he's like, we mean how many?
196. 13:44Well, how many are you gonna afford?
197. 13:45And the young man said, wait, you mean to tell me I can get
198. 13:48as many of these as I want?
199. 13:49Like, yeah, why?
200. 13:51Because in his framework, again, this was another Cuban
201. 13:54young man, they have rationing.
202. 13:57So if you go to the little place,
203. 13:58you have a predetermined amount of what you can get.
204. 14:02It's easy to take that stuff for granted,
205. 14:04but we should be a people of gratitude
206. 14:06because good and perfect gifts flow from the Father of Life.
207. 14:10Thank you Lord for blessing us to be in this nation.
208. 14:13And again, thank you to all of you who have given.
209. 14:15If you want to give and have not yet been able to do so,
210. 14:17there's still time for you.
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251. 17:22Welcome back to day three
252. 17:24of the fall twenty twenty five
253. 17:26Share on edition of the Hamilton
254. 17:28Corner, Abraham Hamilton, the
255. 17:30third year.
256. 17:32is a big story that I'll get to, but I guess I'll start with the breaking news.
257. 17:36New York Attorney General Leticia James has just been indicted for fraud.
258. 17:43She was indicted in Virginia apparently for mortgage fraud.
259. 17:50If I be the best.
260. 17:52Yeah, yeah.
261. 17:54It turns out that as the New York Attorney General, she, according to the allegations and the
262. 18:00indictment represented that her primary residence was in fact in Virginia, which makes me, how
263. 18:07can you be the attorney general in New York if your house is in Virginia? You know, hey, listen,
264. 18:12I ain't my business, I'm a business, but now it's the Department of Justice's business apparently
265. 18:17because she's been indicted for federal fraud charges. This is the same LaTisha James who
266. 18:24attempted to bankrupt President Trump, who attempted to take a misdemeanor case.
267. 18:30What that was Alvin Bragg, who tried to take the misdemeanor case and make it into the felony.
268. 18:34But she sought to bankrupt his companies with a financial lawsuit.
269. 18:41It's very interesting how that has all unfolded.
270. 18:45So yeah, New York Attorney General, LaTisha James, has been indicted and she will face
271. 18:51federal charges in Virginia for her fraud for the allegations of fraud. So this is just
272. 19:04news that is happening at the very moment. Now I mentioned the big news and let me mention
273. 19:10again, thank you all. Thank you to every single one of you who has given in the Shareathon.
274. 19:16as I am talking to you, it's approaching 18,000 people
275. 19:22who have responded to this here, Thon.
276. 19:24It's amazing to see these numbers.
277. 19:27And it's just overwhelming.
278. 19:30And it really is overwhelming.
279. 19:31God is amazing.
280. 19:33It is encouraging and it is sobering and convicting
281. 19:37because it punctuates, for me,
282. 19:41the necessity of responding well
283. 19:44to what God is requiring at the moment.
284. 19:47If you would like to make a gift,
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290. 20:09And so you are welcome to make those gifts.
291. 20:11Now to the big news of the day, some of the biggest news of the day is that Israel and
292. 20:19Hamas have entered phase one of the peace deal that was brokered by President Trump.
293. 20:30The peace deal between Hamas and Israel.
294. 20:32And I just, the word Hamas is said so frequently today, I think sometimes people can forget that
295. 20:38Hamas is a terrorist organization.
296. 20:41Like full stop.
297. 20:43They're not like a subset of another group.
298. 20:46No, they are a terrorist organization.
299. 20:49They are the Gaza iteration of the Muslim Brotherhood,
300. 20:52which is a terrorist jihadist organization.
301. 20:56Now this peace deal, some networks are covering it
302. 21:01as a ceasefire.
303. 21:03And I guess let me say we have now eclipsed 18,000 total
304. 21:08gifts made during the Sheraton glory to God
305. 21:12for his faithfulness.
306. 21:14What an amazing, amazing God that we have.
307. 21:17But the peace deal that was brokered,
308. 21:20the most poignant component of it for the Israeli government
309. 21:26was the release of the remaining 20 living hostages
310. 21:30that had been a point of contention
311. 21:32because Hamas wanted to continue to slow roll that
312. 21:35because as you pay attention to this,
313. 21:37they want to keep hostages
314. 21:38because that's their main source of leverage.
315. 21:41And so they had been slow rolling this, but this negotiation today, and it's amazing,
316. 21:46it's been two years since October 7th, 2023 when the attack was launched by Hamas on Israel,
317. 21:52killing civilians, the most bloody attack on the Jewish nation and on the Jewish people
318. 22:03since the Holocaust.
319. 22:07The 20 living hostages will be released according to the parameters of the agreement as early
320. 22:13as Monday. Um, Hamas has also committed to finding this is what they said to the bodies
321. 22:21of the 28 and this this verbiage this verbiage causes the hair in the back of my neck to stand
322. 22:26up the bodies of the 28, 28 hostages who died in Hamas custody. What does that mean? What
323. 22:35does that mean? They they they died in Hamas custody of natural causes. Is that what you
324. 22:39John they say to me that the old age and let me can give him the facts and
325. 22:48information before I go too far in exchange brace yourselves with this part
326. 22:54in exchange Israel has agreed to release about 2,000 prisoners did you hear that
327. 23:07250 of the prisoners Israel has agreed to release the Israel has agreed to
328. 23:14release are people who have been convicted of murder and are serving life sentences in Israel.
329. 23:24250 known and convicted murderers serving life sentences in Israel. The additional prisoners,
330. 23:36some 1700 prisoners, all prisoners who were detained by Israel during the war in response to
331. 23:46to the October 7 attack that Israel is continuing to detain, but they are still in Gaza. So
332. 23:54250 criminals who have been convicted of murder, Hamas demanded them in this deal. And then
333. 24:051700, would it be right to call them terrorists? I do believe so, who are being detained currently
334. 24:11by Israel in Gaza. Additional provisions of this first phase and they're calling it this
335. 24:21first phase peace deal is that the IDF will retreat to a preset line in Gaza. This is not
336. 24:28any type of settlement line, but this is they've agreed to back up this far and while this peace
337. 24:46deal takes place. Now, one of the major things that is noteworthy, the fact that Hamas will no
338. 24:51longer have any living hostages assuming this peace deal holds true. I have no reason to say that
339. 24:58that it won't other than I study history.
340. 25:05I kind of understand history.
341. 25:07I am hopeful, hopeful that it holds true,
342. 25:12but you tell me I'm confident?
343. 25:14No way, I'm not confident.
344. 25:20What has happened practically from this point
345. 25:22is that the peace deal was supposed to be presented
346. 25:26to the Israeli, the Israeli, the Israeli,
347. 25:29And they can nest it today and they can nest it had to vote to approve or reject the peace deal.
348. 25:35If the peace deal is approved, the hostages could be returned as early as Monday.
349. 25:41Now, on the one hand, I could not imagine being a family member of one of the people who I've
350. 25:46not seen my loved one in two years, you know, fearful every day that they could be murdered,
351. 25:57tortured to I just
352. 26:01So my heart breaks for these people man who have endured this and while that is true and and more than one thing can be true at at at a time
353. 26:19Man, I you know
354. 26:21I'm I'm sick of hearing these things where you you know these terrorists
355. 26:26Attack and murder and kill and brutalize do all these things they kidnap and then oh yeah by the way release
356. 26:34these 2000 other terrorists.
357. 26:36What do you think these 2000 terrorists,
358. 26:38they're gonna now become basket weavers,
359. 26:40that's what's gonna happen,
360. 26:41they're gonna return to God's and say,
361. 26:42you know what, I made a change in life, J. Mac.
362. 26:45Last week, I was talking about chop heads off,
363. 26:48make bloodier ones neck, but you know what,
364. 26:50I'm gonna pick up basket weaving,
365. 26:52that's what I'm gonna do.
366. 26:54That's what I'm gonna do.
367. 26:59I do pray that the Lord opens the blind eyes
368. 27:02of people who are enthralled with this blood lust, man.
369. 27:11And I do pray for peace in the Middle East, but the type of peace that I'm praying for
370. 27:16is the peace that comes from the Prince of Peace.
371. 27:18Because what needs to happen and the only hope is for these people to get saved, man.
372. 27:27So this is phase one of the Broker Peace deal.
373. 27:33Apparently, there are further negotiations that will ensue thereafter.
374. 27:37That is what the objective discussions have been.
375. 27:43But to date, what has been formally announced and confirmed by the Israeli government, confirmed
376. 27:47by the United States, confirmed even by spokespersons for Takia, favorable Hamas, is that phase
377. 28:02one of this peace deal has been entered.
378. 28:04And so the Knesset should have met today to determine how they're going to proceed concerning
379. 28:10it.
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403. 30:04One other bit of information I wanted to share with you that with the announcement of it,
404. 30:11on in the announcement of you know bad bunny being the halftime NFL Super Bowl halftime
405. 30:19show act turning point USA has formally announced that they are conducting the all American halftime
406. 30:27show to compete with the Super Bowl halftime show and they will provide more information
407. 30:34more scheduling the artists and all later on but in the meantime they're inviting supporters
408. 30:40and even artists to say what type of music they want to hear.
409. 30:43The categories include things like anything in English,
410. 30:46Americana, classic rock, hip hop, country pop, worship,
411. 30:54but it is official that Turning Point is hosting their own competing
412. 31:00half time, Super Bowl half time performance.
413. 31:04And now it is my honor to welcome to the program president
414. 31:09of the American Family Association and American Family Radio, none other than Tim Wildman.
415. 31:14Good morning brother, eh?
416. 31:16Well, good afternoon.
417. 31:18If it was morning, I would say good morning right back at you, but it is morning somewhere.
418. 31:23Yeah, I'm used to saying good morning.
419. 31:25Yes.
420. 31:26So that was just happened to me.
421. 31:27You know, I was I'm thinking about having a rap career myself.
422. 31:30Well, I mean, this you could debut it right here, Tim.
423. 31:33Well, I was breaking.
424. 31:34I was he's bad bunny.
425. 31:36Yeah.
426. 31:37I was gonna be bugged.
427. 31:38But I think that's already taken.
428. 31:45Oh, isn't it?
429. 31:46Well, not the rapper.
430. 31:48I think Warner Brothers might have a problem with me.
431. 31:51I can hope you get around the copyright issue.
432. 31:53Copyright issue.
433. 31:54You get around that.
434. 31:55Hey, that is a great.
435. 31:56By the way, thanks for welcoming me and Sherathon.
436. 31:59We're also happy around here because we're breaking records.
437. 32:02Yeah.
438. 32:03I think we're going to break records.
439. 32:04It looks like.
440. 32:05our amount donated and also a number of pledges.
441. 32:08It looks like both of them are gonna be,
442. 32:11you know, right around the record.
443. 32:12We'll find out tomorrow, I'm not even more on Sunday
444. 32:15or Monday for sure, but we're trending in that direction.
445. 32:19But yeah, what a great idea by turning point.
446. 32:22I was thinking about doing that ourselves, you know,
447. 32:24joining up with some other groups like FRC
448. 32:27and maybe some other groups and then having
449. 32:29putting something together.
450. 32:31but so maybe turning point to do that.
451. 32:35You know.
452. 32:36Yeah, I mean, I guess that was thought plus from doing that.
453. 32:38Well, that's true.
454. 32:39We could collaborate with them because I think what you could do
455. 32:42is put together a halftime show that's patriotic
456. 32:47and also God honoring.
457. 32:49And then you put it, would you stream it?
458. 32:52Like you could stream it on like a streaming service
459. 32:56of some kind and boom, there you go.
460. 32:58You could stream it on a streaming service
461. 33:00and on all of our website simultaneously,
462. 33:01if we did it together and have that and say.
463. 33:04Remind me about that,
464. 33:05because I think we need to join in on that.
465. 33:07I think that's a great idea.
466. 33:08I do think it's a great idea.
467. 33:10And I think it's something that our country is ripe for
468. 33:13because in spite this, almost like a divide,
469. 33:15not almost, there is a divide between the people
470. 33:17who probably deem themselves as the cultural elite
471. 33:20and the regular American people.
472. 33:21And frankly, the regular American people
473. 33:23as this presidential election just bore out
474. 33:26kind of sick and tired of the woke stock mercy
475. 33:29telling us what we need to like and love
476. 33:31and what we need to be about and what we need to appreciate.
477. 33:34And we just sickened out of it.
478. 33:35You know, I saw last night, I didn't watch the game,
479. 33:38and I can't verify what I'm about to say is absolutely true.
480. 33:41I just saw the headline.
481. 33:42Let me just say that.
482. 33:43But it was a picture of this rapper, Bad Bunny,
483. 33:47who is Puerto Rican, right?
484. 33:49Yep.
485. 33:50Anyway, he was attending the New York Yankees baseball game.
486. 33:54Have you talked about this already?
487. 33:55I have not.
488. 33:56And they were in a playoff series.
489. 34:01with Toronto. And it showed him bad money sitting when God
490. 34:07bless America was performed. And they were making a point this
491. 34:12rapper doesn't like America. Or at least he doesn't like what he
492. 34:16would call quote Trump's America. I don't know. But he
493. 34:19wouldn't stand during God bless America. For whatever that's
494. 34:22worth, there are a lot of people who say, you know, we need
495. 34:25somebody who's at least patriotic to the US. So anyway,
496. 34:29There you go.
497. 34:30There you go, folks.
498. 34:32You're listening to the Sharethon Day 3 edition of The Hamilton Corner.
499. 34:35I'm joined in studio by AFA and AFR President Tim Wildman, who is explaining the need to
500. 34:41have counter programming to rival the, dare I say, anti-Christ, anti-American, demonically
501. 34:48inspired, Super Bowl performance of books.
502. 34:51No, I mean, bad money.
503. 34:59My name is Bill Bradford.
504. 35:01I've served on the board of AFA for about eight and a half years, and I'm the pastor of
505. 35:09Longdale Presbyterian Church in Tupelo, Mississippi.
506. 35:13Every Sunday I want people to leave going, the gospel is true, Christ is the Redeemer,
507. 35:18I need them a broken sinner who needs grace.
508. 35:21AFA lives by that.
509. 35:23At the same time they're also applying that in a number of different areas that they can
510. 35:27give a lot of focus and directness to religious liberty, the family, the unborn,
511. 35:33things like that that we cherish as a local church but they can give more effort
512. 35:37and intensity too. So I'm very thankful for that. In addition to that there's just a
513. 35:41variety of resources that AFA puts out. Some of the ones that I've really
514. 35:46appreciated of late is the God who speaks and we've done the God who speaks in our
515. 35:51Sunday School. It's a good resource for local church as well as being able to see
516. 35:57the effects of Christian discipleship carried out and put on the ground in a very directed
517. 36:03way.
518. 36:09My name is Darryl, I live here in Conroe, Texas.
519. 36:13Started listening to your station about a year and a half ago when I discovered them here.
520. 36:19Thank God for a great Christian radio station and what you guys do in impacting the kingdom
521. 36:25as well as trying to mobilize and inform people about issues that they can take up and help
522. 36:31to glorify and honor God in the way that we approach the issues going on in this world today.
523. 36:38So God bless you. Keep doing great work.
524. 36:41It's Shareathon on American Family Radio.
525. 36:47Call now and partner with AFR at 877-616-2396
526. 36:54or give online at aFR.net.
527. 36:57It's Shareathon on American Family Radio.
528. 37:00Yes.
529. 37:01Yes.
530. 37:04Yes.
531. 37:07Welcome back to the Cherathon edition day number three of the fall 2025 share on edition, frankly,
532. 37:14of the Hamilton corner where a F A and A F R president, Tim Wildman is in the studio where we
533. 37:19are thanking God for his great man and his provision that it seems that we are on pace
534. 37:24for record breaking.
535. 37:26Cherathon, Tim, I hope you're not mad at me.
536. 37:28I let the cat out of the bag.
537. 37:29I didn't say when that was in the bag.
538. 37:31Well, the cat was.
539. 37:32But Peter, where are this?
540. 37:33Well, you know, I'm really not concerned with people.
541. 37:36Oh, this is a metaphor.
542. 37:37Never mind.
543. 37:37Go ahead.
544. 37:39That we very soon will have a new station that didn't say where.
545. 37:42Yeah, I didn't say when.
546. 37:43I've already said that.
547. 37:44That's coming on.
548. 37:45Well, Tim has already said it.
549. 37:47But that second guess when is where it's going to be?
550. 37:49You're coming out.
551. 37:50No, you go ahead.
552. 37:51Should say.
553. 37:52Well, if you are in the Des Moines, Iowa area,
554. 37:55you should stay tuned because we will have a new station, 89.3 FM
555. 38:01in Des Moines, Iowa.
556. 38:03the largest station, frankly, into more in Iowa will be coming online later this month,
557. 38:08that once we finished the last few legalities and we'll hit the switch and then 89.3 year
558. 38:16American Family Radio Broadcasting, that will be the sixth station we have in Iowa to be
559. 38:23not to be coy about it, but trying to saturate the airways and looking forward to seeing that
560. 38:28come true fruition.
561. 38:29probably give us, you know, 60, 70% of all the population of Iowa covered once we get that
562. 38:36station on the air. Of course, I mentioned we bought a station in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa,
563. 38:41Alabama in the last year, year and a half. And so that gives us a lot. That's probably going
564. 38:47to give us probably 75, 80% of the coverage in the state of Alabama. So we are American
565. 38:52and family radio. And if you give money to us, it's going to help us to keep going and
566. 38:59growing and impacting our country. And the more we can impact Christians and encourage
567. 39:07them for a deeper walk with the Lord and also to be more concerned about what's happening
568. 39:13in our nation so that we can make a difference. Because you've talked about this often on your
569. 39:20program Abe. I don't know who invented this saying, but it's so true. Freedom is not free.
570. 39:26That's true.
571. 39:28And we live in the land of the free, the home of the brave. For all our problems,
572. 39:36we still have a constitution with rights and liberties, and we have a way of life
573. 39:42that we have come to enjoy including freedom to worship God according to our conscience.
574. 39:49and to train up our children in that way and just share our faith. So all those
575. 39:56things are at jeopardy. If you let the secular progressives take over our country.
576. 40:03Am I exaggerating? No, you're not exaggerating and what the main reason why I was eager to
577. 40:09share that information was because I wanted our listeners to know that these
578. 40:14are tangible outlets for what happens when you give to this ministry. That's right.
579. 40:17These are the things that God is leading us to do with it.
580. 40:20And now through the Sheraton, I can't refer to your dad's,
581. 40:23but the Don Wildman's quote, our founder,
582. 40:26well, how do we run a budget?
583. 40:28Right.
584. 40:29Spend less than we take in.
585. 40:31That's what he's saying.
586. 40:32I mean, it's simple, but it's profound.
587. 40:34And it's simplicity that we spend less than we take in.
588. 40:37And it's because operating with that kind
589. 40:39of stewardship disposition allows us to do these things
590. 40:41without being indebted to anyone.
591. 40:43And so we are endeavoring to be salt and light
592. 40:47nation is one of the ways we're doing something. I remember of course I worked
593. 40:50with my father three decades right since 19 he started in 77 and I joined the
594. 40:59staff in 86 when I got out of college and so I've been on staff every since so I
595. 41:05went to a lot of board meetings with my dad and I say went to where they were
596. 41:11here in our office but to board meetings during the financial part when my dad
597. 41:15would be asked about them about them. They would say, well, Donna, give us a financial
598. 41:21report. Well, we took in a little bit. We spent a little bit and we got a little bit left
599. 41:27over. That's my report. Of course, it was the left to the CFO to give all the details
600. 41:37of what my dad just said there. But yeah, my dad was a very frugal man. He didn't believe
601. 41:44in a waste at all.
602. 41:47And he believed in just getting every ounce
603. 41:50you could out of the dollar that was given,
604. 41:53because he knew people were given sacrificially
605. 41:55to us to America.
606. 41:57They still are.
607. 41:58Yeah, and they still are.
608. 41:58They're given sacrificially to us.
609. 42:01People don't have, you know,
610. 42:02it didn't like you go to a church
611. 42:04and someone knows whether you're tithing or not,
612. 42:07which I'm not saying people's soup and find out who's tithing,
613. 42:11but you know, the Lord knows, right?
614. 42:14If you're, if you're, and people know whether you give to your church or not, you know,
615. 42:19for most people, we're American family radio.
616. 42:21We're not, we don't even live with folks who give to us in their town, some talking about,
617. 42:26but yet they feel like they know us and they trust us and they believe in our mission and
618. 42:29what we're doing.
619. 42:30And so they give to us, which makes it even more special to us that they would invest in
620. 42:36the ministry of AFR so that we can keep buying stations all over America.
621. 42:41The more stations we have, the more people that subscribe to our app, the more Christians
622. 42:46we can impact, a lot of times we get testimonies about people who come to know the Lord in the
623. 42:53first place by listening to Efhar.
624. 42:57But secondly, impacting people to train them and having a biblical worldview.
625. 43:02They may know Christ, but the faith is not deep enough to have developed a biblical worldview.
626. 43:08That's what we do here is we help train Christians to think biblically.
627. 43:13So you're listening to Sherathon.
628. 43:15It's the Hamilton Corner, Abe's home each afternoon here on American Family Radio from five to
629. 43:21six o'clock central time and we'll be wrapping up Sherathon in about 11 and a half minutes.
630. 43:27Just so you'll know folks, we are right now after three days of Sherathon, we're at $4.2
631. 43:33and I don't know exactly but I think our record here for a
632. 43:38sheriff's on is like four three something of that nature
633. 43:43somewhere right in there. So I think we're gonna get that if not
634. 43:47go over that and we're at 18,000 pledges. I think individual
635. 43:52pledges that's either either individuals or families you know
636. 43:57not seven people in a family all of them don't call them make a
637. 44:00call and make a pledge one person does so that represents family so I think our record somewhere
638. 44:05between 18-19 right in there so we're we're we're boarding that we we're not going backwards
639. 44:12that's for sure that's amazing we're content even in you know tough times for people a lot of people so
640. 44:17we just say thank you thank you thank you everybody who's given and if you want to call in and make
641. 44:21a pledge at this late hour I would say we're gonna make you the CEO or the president of the procrastinators
642. 44:30club of America. If you if you
643. 44:32waited till now to call in with
644. 44:3410 minutes to go after three
645. 44:37days, you qualify for a membership
646. 44:40in the in the procrastinators
647. 44:42club. So what's the phone number
648. 44:44of folks want to call in eight
649. 44:45is eight seven seven six one six
650. 44:48two three nine six that is eight
651. 44:51seven seven six one six two three
652. 44:54nine six or if you rather give
653. 44:57online, you can do so by
654. 44:59given securely at a fr dot net that is a f r dot net that is a website
655. 45:06uh... to go to to accomplish that
656. 45:08uh... eight seven seven six one six two three nine six or you give securely online
657. 45:12at a f r dot net
658. 45:14that is a f r dot net
659. 45:17uh...
660. 45:18who you get some folks on the on the uh...
661. 45:20screen that we can think of the call it a few minutes absolutely we have
662. 45:25eric and and
663. 45:27tenet see debra and west virginia wanted to say the city so i do you want to get
664. 45:31out of the area we have uh... debra's and
665. 45:35cap on bridge
666. 45:37i want to miss it
667. 45:38but what was for jennia where that town is you know what i do not okay i do not
668. 45:44uh... donny weeling
669. 45:45i know that we leave west virginia so maybe that's near we'll be in the field
670. 45:49yeah
671. 45:51uh... donna and to below
672. 45:52Mississippi, Evangelinea, and Corpus Christi, Texas,
673. 45:56Brian and Pensacola, Florida.
674. 45:57I don't know what station Brian would be listening to.
675. 46:00We don't have a station in Pensacola,
676. 46:01unless you listen to the, to the app.
677. 46:05Maybe on the app, yeah.
678. 46:06Oh, by the way, let me just say this.
679. 46:08I learned this afternoon, got some sad news
680. 46:12that Brian Fisher had passed away.
681. 46:15Have you already mentioned this?
682. 46:16I have not mentioned it.
683. 46:17I knew about it, but I have not mentioned it.
684. 46:18Brian was on the air with us for, I don't know, almost a decade, maybe something like that.
685. 46:27And from one to two o'clock, something, one to three o'clock, one to two o'clock central
686. 46:32time each afternoon with focal point, the home of muscular Christianity.
687. 46:38That's right.
688. 46:39That was Brian's phrase.
689. 46:40He came up with that.
690. 46:41Yeah.
691. 46:42He was a wonderful Christian brother, loved the Lord,
692. 46:46and he and his family,
693. 46:52they moved back to the state of Washington.
694. 46:55He had a Pacific Northwest.
695. 46:57Yeah, after he left, he went back there.
696. 47:00And so anyway, he passed this afternoon,
697. 47:04and again, I'm sad to report that,
698. 47:07but also we know that Brian knew Christ,
699. 47:09and he went to heaven.
700. 47:10Yes.
701. 47:11that's good news.
702. 47:13That is good news.
703. 47:14That's the greatest news because, as they say,
704. 47:18Father, time waits on no man
705. 47:20and that's abouting 100,000%, right?
706. 47:24So we all need to be ready to go.
707. 47:27The only way you can be ready to go from this world
708. 47:30to the next is to trust and have faith in Christ,
709. 47:33Jesus Christ, and that's what he offers,
710. 47:36is salvation from sin, death, and hell,
711. 47:38and offers us life abundant and life eternal.
712. 47:41Amen. Right?
713. 47:43So why the book of Ecclesiastes says,
714. 47:44it's better to go to the house of mourning
715. 47:46than the house of feasting because the living take it to heart.
716. 47:50You know, you can't get by that exhibit A,
717. 47:52that the reality, it is truly appointed unto man
718. 47:55once to die and then the judgment.
719. 47:56You know, and so that reality of the finite nature
720. 48:01of our temporal life should cause all of us
721. 48:03to ponder, consider eternal life.
722. 48:06And when it is time for us to go, well, can we confidently say,
723. 48:10we know for a fact that we'll be able to join Brother Brian
724. 48:13and Pastor Vody Bockum and Charlie Kirk and Pastor Dominic
725. 48:17Arthur, and others who passed recently.
726. 48:20I mean, Dr. Dobson, James Dobson.
727. 48:22The last month to too much, we've had a lot of deaths
728. 48:24in the Christian leadership community.
729. 48:26Yeah.
730. 48:27You know?
731. 48:28That's right.
732. 48:29And so Brian, anyway, Debbie, Brian's wife, she let folks know
733. 48:34that I guess through Facebook and I,
734. 48:38friends told me that Brian had gone on to be with the Lord today.
735. 48:41Yes.
736. 48:42So anyway, Brian played a vital role in the Ministry of AFR
737. 48:50for many years.
738. 48:51You're listening to a Shareathon,
739. 48:53we're winding down here four and a half,
740. 48:55no, five and a half minutes to go here on Shareathon.
741. 48:59And we won't do this again until spring.
742. 49:01We're here every spring and every fall
743. 49:02for three days in the spring three days in the fall that we tell you hey here's
744. 49:07our financial needs we pass the virtual offering plate and our listeners like
745. 49:11yourself always always always respond and we thank you for that eight seven seven
746. 49:17six one six two three nine six is the number for those who Tim has now appointed
747. 49:23as the CEOs of the procrastinators club we've been waiting for you eight seven seven
748. 49:30six one six two three nine six is the number for you or you can go to a fr.net
749. 49:35a fr.net is where you can go to make your gift it is shaking out to be quite a record
750. 49:45setting share thong we will know as you said Tim in the next couple days where
751. 49:51we land finally but it's amazing just to see how many people across the country
752. 49:55have responded frankly to God's prompting of them to support the work
753. 49:59that we're doing here. It's amazing to see that.
754. 50:01Amen. Hey, I was mentioning that some people come to know the Lord through the
755. 50:07ministry of AFR and well, a lot of people have. We've gotten testimonies over the years,
756. 50:13but I never will forget one. There was a lady and I've mentioned this before. It was a lady
757. 50:18in New Mexico. She let us, she called us. She let us know that she had taken her car.
758. 50:23She listened to AFR. This is, guys, 20 years ago, I guess, but never will forget it. She
759. 50:28He called us and said, hey, I took my car to get it worked on.
760. 50:32She said, and I left it on AFR.
761. 50:36So she said, I came back to get the car like three days later
762. 50:40and the mechanic said, hey, excuse me, ma'am.
763. 50:44She said, are you the one who, did you leave that radio
764. 50:48on that religious station?
765. 50:49And she goes, well, yeah, American family radio.
766. 50:52And he goes, well, just wanted to tell you,
767. 50:54I got to listen to that Pastor Rogers,
768. 51:01and I listened to every,
769. 51:02listen to all three days or something like that.
770. 51:05He said, I became a Christian.
771. 51:07Wow.
772. 51:08Because you left your radio station on AFR.
773. 51:11And when I turned the radio on boom, there it was.
774. 51:14And this gentleman was a brand new Christian.
775. 51:17He didn't know what I'd explain it.
776. 51:18He just said that religious radio station,
777. 51:21and he's talking, but he did know enough to know
778. 51:24listing today, Adrian Rogers, which we by the way,
779. 51:26still there.
780. 51:28Love Worth Finding, even though Dr. Rogers
781. 51:29has been going for a decade or more,
782. 51:33going on to heaven, we still air his program
783. 51:36because there are timeless messages
784. 51:39that he preaches on.
785. 51:40So, but anyway, yeah, how about that story like that?
786. 51:44And that's just, you know, it's amazing.
787. 51:46The God thing, yes they say.
788. 51:48It is absolutely a God thing.
789. 51:49I've heard stories very similar,
790. 51:51you know, from many different backgrounds and circumstances and contexts.
791. 51:57And it's one of those things, man, that just, it causes you to just bask in awe at the glory of God,
792. 52:04because you can't make that kind of stuff up. You can't pre-program.
793. 52:07I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. And then that's going to happen.
794. 52:09All you can do is marvel at the wonder that God truly is.
795. 52:14And he truly is still, at this very moment,
796. 52:18appealing to the hearts and minds of men and women and boys and girls all over the country and by God's grace
797. 52:23We pray that it would continue and we are grateful
798. 52:27That the Lord continues to sustain this work and thankful to all of our listeners to support us because without them
799. 52:32Wouldn't be able to do the things that we are doing
800. 52:34Amen
801. 52:35Sheraton is closing out for the spring. What's our Bible verse? We've been using a Ephesians chapter 3 verses 23 21 now to him
802. 52:42Who was able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask with think according to the power at work within
803. 52:48to Him being glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations
804. 52:53forever and ever. Amen. Amen. Throughout all generations. Amen. So God, our
805. 53:02theme song is yes He can because God can. God can. Absolutely. That's what the
806. 53:09Bible teaches. God can to the power of, through His power He can change your life.
807. 53:14and as somebody said earlier today, change your destiny.
808. 53:19God can change your destiny
809. 53:21if you're willing to submit your life to Him.
810. 53:23Amen.
811. 53:24Absolutely right. Amen.
812. 53:25Amen.
813. 53:26All right. Thank you brother.
814. 53:27A beach day for your bringing the news and information
815. 53:30and analysis to our listeners and encouraging them
816. 53:33in their faith and in their walk.
817. 53:34Absolutely. My pleasure.
818. 53:36My pleasure.
819. 53:37Thank you to everyone of you for tuning in.
820. 53:39And in addition to what you've done so far,
821. 53:41if you can find another person,
822. 53:42if each one of you find two or three people,
823. 53:44you tell them about AFR, you will be aiding in building what we refer to as the American Family
824. 53:50Association and together we can fight the good fight of faith, plant the flag for faithfulness
825. 53:55to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. That is Jesus Christ. You all have a wonderful,
826. 54:00wonderful evening. By God's grace we will be back here tomorrow.
827. 54:04Sharethon 2025, the fall Sharethon.
828. 54:08It's a wrap folks.
829. 54:09May God bless you and your families richly.
830. 54:12We'll be back tomorrow.