It's the Third and Final Day of Fall Share-a-thon in The Corner

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1. 0:00Corinthians chapter 16 verses 13 and 14 say,
2. 0:03Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith,
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5. 0:19it's faithful to generations,
6. 0:25so why would he feel now?
7. 0:29He won't.
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15. 0:56Welcome to the Hamilton Corner, day three of the fall
16. 1:002026 Share-A-Thon edition of the program.
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57. 4:08To the word of God we go, as I was praying about today's program, the Lord really directed
58. 4:12me to Psalm 1, just as a way of reminder, this is a familiar passage of Scripture, but the
59. 4:20Lord makes a clear distinction between the righteous and the wicked.
60. 4:24And often when I reflect on that, our world would say, and it's amazing, we have a world
61. 4:30that is largely biblically illiterate, but you have some seducers and wicked people who
62. 4:37would try to use the word of God against those of us who adhere to God's word to cause us
63. 4:44to self-center, if you will, in calling us pay to spade.
64. 4:48You know, but in order to obey what God requires of us, in order to qualify to become a blessed
65. 4:55man as Psalm 1 says, we have to make certain distinctions.
66. 4:58And this is what the scripture says.
67. 4:59Psalm 1 verse 1, blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked nor stands
68. 5:08in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of
69. 5:15the Lord and on his law he meditates day and night. A couple of things to note from this passage.
70. 5:22First of all, the psalmist is articulating this as inspired by the Spirit of God via inspiration
71. 5:29from God the Holy Spirit. And then he explains this is the criteria, a part of the criteria
72. 5:36that is necessary in order for you and I to be found among the ranks of the blessed man.
73. 5:43All right? The blessed man is one who walks not in the counsel of the wicked.
74. 5:48The description of walk there means, it doesn't just mean that you're going on a stroll.
75. 5:54It literally means that you are living your life, your pattern of life,
76. 6:00your manner of living is characterized by what will be described next.
77. 6:04when he says, blessed is a man whose life is not characterized
78. 6:10and what he's going to describe next.
79. 6:11Blessed is a man who walks not in the council of the wicked
80. 6:17in the council of the wicked.
81. 6:18So the Lord is telling us by his divinely inspired word
82. 6:22that if we want to be people who are blessed by him,
83. 6:26we must refuse to allow our lives to be characterized
84. 6:31by receiving council from the wicked.
85. 6:34Now in order to live up to the script,
86. 6:37you guess what that requires of us?
87. 6:38We have to be able to distinguish.
88. 6:42We have to be able to identify what is and what is not wicked.
89. 6:47We have to be able to identify and distinguish who is
90. 6:51and who is not wicked.
91. 6:54Brothers and sisters, that is what's called judgment.
92. 7:00So when people say, well, you're a Christian,
93. 7:02you're not supposed to judge, I say, objection.
94. 7:05I disagree.
95. 7:07Not just opinionatedly.
96. 7:09I disagree biblically.
97. 7:10I have an obligation to judge.
98. 7:14See with people's conflict, biblically, I have no authority to condemn.
99. 7:20I am not the one who puts anybody in heaven or hell.
100. 7:24I am not the one to sentence anybody to any type of conclusion.
101. 7:29However, I have a biblical responsibility to judge and not just make a judgment in kind
102. 7:35of a compartmentalized, separated fashion.
103. 7:39I have to make a judgment and a just my life to accommodate that judgment.
104. 7:45So as I'm living, how do I distinguish weakness from righteousness?
105. 7:48There's one book that gives you a great evaluative mechanism.
106. 7:51That's the book of Proverbs.
107. 7:52How do I make that assessment?
108. 7:53Do you make that assessment according to God's word?
109. 7:56Well once I make that assessment, I likewise have to make the judgment, make the assessment
110. 7:59as if whether or not I should be walking in their counsel.
111. 8:08Now that's wickedness there.
112. 8:09I probably shouldn't take their advice.
113. 8:11Oh, that's wickedness there.
114. 8:14I probably shouldn't heed their policy prerogatives.
115. 8:18You know, that is if I want to be blessed.
116. 8:20If you want to be blessed,
117. 8:23do not walk in a council of the weekend.
118. 8:26Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
119. 8:29North sit, sorry, North stands in the way of sinners.
120. 8:33So now you have this metaphor for walking, then standing and sitting.
121. 8:38And you notice a, a, a declension, right?
122. 8:42A decrescendo happening, walking in the council of the wicked, nor standing in the
123. 8:48way of sinners.
124. 8:48It's like you have a stroll occurring.
125. 8:51Remember to say metaphor for a manner of living.
126. 8:54And then you settle a bit.
127. 8:56The way of the wicked becomes a bit more comfortable.
128. 8:59You settle a bit to the point where now you're standing in the way of sinners.
129. 9:03Then that selling goes a bit more.
130. 9:05Then you sit in the seat of the scoffer.
131. 9:07It is a decrescendo to where the person becomes increasingly
132. 9:14ingratiated to the wicked.
133. 9:18But the blessed man does not do so.
134. 9:20The blessed man in contrast, his delight is the law
135. 9:23of the Lord.
136. 9:25Have you considered that you can delight in the law
137. 9:29of the Lord, delight in the law of the Lord?
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139. 9:43It makes me think about the scripture in the back and when Habakkuk says in response to his dialogue with Yahweh back and forth,
140. 9:49he said, oh my gosh, the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth just as the waters cover the seas.
141. 9:58Oh my goodness.
142. 10:00We seek to cascade the law of our Lord throughout the entirety of our nation.
143. 10:07That is what we're trying to accomplish.
144. 10:09I was on last hour with Brother Alex McFarland who was on his way to lead a Biblical worldview
145. 10:16seminar in Pennsylvania.
146. 10:18And he was sharing that he does that because he is endeavoring as the Lord has given him
147. 10:23strength as long as his breath in his lungs to execute our king's commission as often and
148. 10:29as broadly as God gives in that opportunity.
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150. 10:44That is AFR.net. Getting back to the scripture, the blessed man's delight is the law of the Lord.
151. 10:49Then look at this part. And on his law, does he meditate day and night?
152. 10:59Psalm 119, the Psalmist says, oh Lord, how I love your law.
153. 11:02It is my meditation day and night brothers and sisters which you help us to continue to
154. 11:10build sufficiently to where the law of the Lord is what is presented all across this country.
155. 11:16There are a lot of places you can go to hear talking heads.
156. 11:19There are a lot of places you can go to get commentary on various things.
157. 11:23There's very few places you can go where you have people that are willing to lift up God's
158. 11:29word and apply it to what we're facing as opposed to merely offering the musings of one of one's
159. 11:36humanistic opinion vis-a-vis or versus another person's personal opinion, but we seek to have the law of
160. 11:42the Lord exalted and most importantly not merely the law of the Lord but having the Lord Himself
161. 11:48exulted and brought to bear on the various issues we confront. 877-616-2396 is the number to call.
162. 11:59This is day three of the fall, 2026, Sharathon. This will be the last day that we're doing this.
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170. 12:55we're getting close to a break.
171. 12:58You think Satan is sheepishly hiding in the background?
172. 13:04Well, we're going to take a trek to Atumwa, Atumwa, Iowa,
173. 13:10where you're going to get a glimpse into a particular
174. 13:14invocation at a city council meeting.
175. 13:16Guys, I am not kidding.
176. 13:17I am not joking at all where you are going to hear
177. 13:22one of the most audacious displays of evil
178. 13:26that I've seen recently.
179. 13:28And I want to share it with you not merely for shock purposes,
180. 13:33but so that we can be like the Sons of Istacar,
181. 13:35understanding the times that we're in
182. 13:37and knowing what we should do.
183. 13:39In addition to that, we'll also hear a few listener testimonies
184. 13:43as we come around the bend.
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224. 16:41Good evening everyone.
225. 16:43Welcome back to the Shareathon edition of the Hamilton Corner Day 3 of the Shareathon.
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230. 17:24should you choose to do so now as I mentioned I want to take a trip to autumn
231. 17:30wall atum wa aside of her now said I believe atum wa Iowa atum wa atum wa
232. 17:36atum wa Iowa City Council meeting that is I believe in the southeast portion of
233. 17:45Iowa you would think I wouldn't think you would have these kind of displays
234. 17:52certainly not in the middle of our country yet, we nevertheless do. And in
235. 17:58order to assess what's happened there, we have to go back to January of this year.
236. 18:04In January 2026, January 20th, specifically, this Southeast Iowa City Council adopted a
237. 18:13policy allowing for invocations to be given at the start of official city
238. 18:18Council meetings. Now here's the problem the policy according to the
239. 18:23I will the a Tom Wai. I've you said better than me a Tom Wai is that it?
240. 18:29You're fine. Close. I mean am I in the ballpark a Tom Wai a Tom Wai. Thank you. You said it better.
241. 18:35The policy is intended to acknowledge and express the city's Council respect
242. 18:42That food diversity of both organized and unorganized religious denominations.
243. 18:51Now right now all of your body senses should be triggering because everyone just reading
244. 18:54this.
245. 18:55I got all kind of horns blaring flags flying fire raging.
246. 19:00This is not the way.
247. 19:02This is not the way.
248. 19:04They go on to say as well as other face belief systems or the lack thereof represented and practiced
249. 19:10among the citizens of the city of Atamwa. According to the policies,
250. 19:15invocation speakers are to be, quote, selected without preference to any specific religion,
251. 19:21belief, faith, or ideology from amongst a diverse pool of Atamwa citizens. In our
252. 19:28ass not to proselytize, disparage other beliefs and to keep their invocation under two minutes in
253. 19:34length. All right. That's, that's what it's supposed to accomplish. Despite the sense that
254. 19:38should already be going off. Your discernment should already be kicking in saying,
255. 19:43do not pass gold, do not collect $200. Like what's going on? The problem didn't start
256. 19:49with the City Council meeting. The problem started with the deliberation concerned in this policy
257. 19:54back in January. Now I want to remind you the number to call to make your gift is 877-616-2396.
258. 20:02That is the number to call 877-616-239-6 is the number to call or you can make your gifts securely online by going to
259. 20:13AFR.net that is AFR.net. Now, I'm going to share this with you
260. 20:19And I really debated as to whether or not how much I should share
261. 20:23But sometimes we have to look at the depths of the ugly and in this instance
262. 20:29I'm going to tell you playing this is demonic straight up. This is demonic
263. 20:32so that we can really grasp what's happening.
264. 20:36Because if I just describe this to you,
265. 20:38some of you might say, come on, surely, surely not.
266. 20:42Because I want you to see not only the demonic presentation,
267. 20:46but I want you to see the response, the immediate response.
268. 20:49I would argue the feckless response
269. 20:52to this demonic presentation.
270. 20:54So what you're gonna hear is a man by the name of Matthew Dalby,
271. 20:57who is himself a former member of the same city council.
272. 21:03Think about this. This man that you're about to hear is a former member of the same city council.
273. 21:08All right. And he now is in addition to being a former member of the same city council.
274. 21:15He's also a member of the Iowa chapter of the Satanic Temple.
275. 21:23I would encourage if you have young children, you may want to move them away.
276. 21:26I want to give you some time to do so because I would prefer for you to share this with your
277. 21:34children at your discretion when you think it's appropriate and then we have a wide array of
278. 21:39ages of children. I know if I were listening, I would prefer to be the one to approach this
279. 21:45topic with my children as opposed to having them here first and foremost on the radio. So having
280. 21:50given you that that warning, listen to and watch if you're watching the show because I want you to
281. 21:56see here and see what he says but also I want you to hear and see the response of the City Council
282. 22:02members. Listen to and watch clip one, clip one, go.
283. 22:16It was 530.
284. 22:17I'm going to this meeting to order. We will start with the
285. 22:19invocation and the pledge. So those that would like to participate
286. 22:22in the invocation, please stand.
287. 22:31This is a Tom. Thank you, Air Council. Let us pray. Dear
288. 22:35Dark Father, let us stand now unbound and unfed by arcane
289. 22:38doctrines born of fearful minds and darken times. Let us embrace
290. 22:42the loose fairy and impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge,
291. 22:45and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old.
292. 22:48Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not their
293. 22:52frailty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations.
294. 22:57Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism and all things, holding fast only to that which
295. 23:02is demonstrably true. Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens
296. 23:06the personal sovereignty of one or all. That which will not bend must break, and that which
297. 23:11can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. It is done. Hail Satan.
298. 23:16Now, look at the response.
299. 23:20Look at the response.
300. 23:23What is the meaning of the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
301. 23:29which it stands one nation, another God, individual with liberty and justice for all?
302. 23:38Now I played that because me describing it as one thing, but for you to witness it is
303. 23:44an entirely different thing. Now, again, we're in the middle of the Shareathon, the number
304. 23:51is 877616236. That is the number to call because this is the, this is one place where
305. 24:00you would get the clear presentation of something like this and the necessity of objecting to
306. 24:09it. Is this not an indication of the state of our nation? Because when you have such a
307. 24:16demonic display that takes place. A clear effort to be provoking, a clear effort to provoke
308. 24:24idolatrous disposition, a clear effort. And then we're going to just say, okay, let's
309. 24:28go forward and say our pledge. Let's go on and just say our pledge. Let's continue with
310. 24:37the normal order of events. To which I would say, like David, when you hear the Goliath,
311. 24:48uncircumcised Philistine taunting the armies of God, David came down and was like, is that
312. 24:55not a cause?
313. 24:56You not hear this?
314. 24:59But it's an indication of how do we become generally speaking to where even that won't
315. 25:05provoke a necessary response.
316. 25:07And you think that is something, then I want you to see what happens next because thankfully,
317. 25:13there is a pastor who was in the audience who stands up and says, wait a minute, wait a
318. 25:18minute. We can't just go on what business as usual and let that just go on unchecked. Listen
319. 25:24to and watch clip two, clip two, go.
320. 25:27So it looks like we have a citizen that would like to. So that would be an E or at the end,
321. 25:33correct? Yes, that's correct. So yeah, Rick, if you could just reverse that curse that was
322. 25:40just put on our city that ending with hail city and hail dart God. That's a that's not
323. 25:46the well here.
324. 25:47This should be done at the end.
325. 25:50That needs to be done now.
326. 25:52Okay.
327. 25:55I appreciate what Ms. Galloway saying,
328. 25:57but that was a curse put on a city
329. 25:59when he said, hey, all Satan and old dark God,
330. 26:01and most of you know that,
331. 26:04and we need to just stop and reverse it.
332. 26:06All right, so I'm gonna do right now.
333. 26:11I'm gonna invite us into a 30 second time of prayer,
334. 26:13or time of silence.
335. 26:14Time of silence.
336. 26:15No, we are at the consent agenda.
337. 26:17I'm sorry, but it's time to move forward.
338. 26:19So is mayor of the city of Etamol?
339. 26:22Is mayor of the city of Tumol?
340. 26:23On the one rolling this, running the meeting.
341. 26:26I'm gonna ask right now that we do a moment of silence
342. 26:29to reflect on whatever it is we need to reflect on it this time.
343. 26:33And then we will move to the consent agenda.
344. 26:35So with that, we'll go into a moment of silence.
345. 26:40Now, I'm going into a moment of silence.
346. 26:43Yeah, I hear that I'm talking over
347. 26:44because I don't want one to go dark on the airways,
348. 26:46but let's have a prayer.
349. 26:50Oh, no, let's have a moment of silence.
350. 26:52So that's what's happening right now
351. 26:53for those who are listening,
352. 26:54only you don't have the video in front of you.
353. 26:56This is their moment of silence I'm talking through
354. 26:58and then watch how they conclude.
355. 27:00Okay, thank you.
356. 27:03And that's it.
357. 27:04That's it.
358. 27:05Thankfully, that you have a pastor in the crowd
359. 27:08who say, wait a minute.
360. 27:09Y'all wanna just move on like nothing happened?
361. 27:12No, no, no, we need to address this.
362. 27:15And the mayor, that was his Benjamin Foote,
363. 27:17was the mayor who's conducting the city council meeting.
364. 27:21And my point in bringing this to your attention, guys,
365. 27:23is to look, think about this,
366. 27:25not only in the microcosm of that one city council meeting,
367. 27:28expand out to the status of our nation,
368. 27:31to where it was difficult for the mayor to say,
369. 27:36no, wait a minute, we gonna pray right now,
370. 27:38I can't say prayer.
371. 27:40Why is he stumbling over his words at that point?
372. 27:43Because that we've been so conditioned
373. 27:46to say that, oh, wait, we have to treat everybody the same.
374. 27:49We've allowed our first amendment to be twisted
375. 27:52to such a degree to where it's unrecognizable.
376. 27:55There is not a person alive who can tell me
377. 27:57that our first amendment was created,
378. 27:59so somebody can stand up on the City Council meeting
379. 28:01in the middle of America and pray to Satan.
380. 28:07No, no, absolutely not.
381. 28:10But we've become so transformed fundamentally
382. 28:16that the mayor himself can't even say,
383. 28:19Now we need to pray to Jesus right now out of fear of what litigation out of fear of what I'm presenting that to you
384. 28:28To consider where are we as a nation that's it
385. 28:32What have some other folks join us in a few minutes?
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390. 28:55alongside us during this Sharethon,
391. 28:57who says, along with us and several of the listeners
392. 29:01you've heard throughout the day, that this is something
393. 29:04that is worth committing to even with my material resources,
394. 29:08because this is something that I want to make sure
395. 29:10is available for myself, I want to make sure
396. 29:12it's available for my children, I want to make sure
397. 29:14it's available for my grandchildren, 8, 7,
398. 29:16877-616-2396 is the number to call or you can give securely online by going to AFR.net.
399. 29:23Next, let's take a few moments and listen to a listener testimony.
400. 29:26If we are ready, Mr. Arrosa, fire away.
401. 29:33Yes, my name is Gordon and from Kansas, AFA saved my life.
402. 29:39Thank you, Jesus, for all AFA staff.
403. 29:41I'm a truck driver.
404. 29:43I had an old homemade stereo in my jump seat.
405. 29:47Every night at 1130-ish my stereo would only pick up 88.3 for about a half hour.
406. 29:52I was not happy to hear Tony Evans or Alan Jackson preaching Jesus.
407. 29:56No matter what I did, and it was the only sound I could get.
408. 30:00Come on, man.
409. 30:01Pripy and Friday really caught my attention.
410. 30:02The computer laughter, the goodness, the camera.
411. 30:03I'm all my stuff.
412. 30:04Y'all didn't even know what you needed me to move out of the way.
413. 30:06It was so fun and got me to listening every Friday.
414. 30:09In one night, Alan Jackson gives his chance for an important double.
415. 30:12I got a two-legged boat.
416. 30:14I get a heart check.
417. 30:17And I have been sober for 22 months,
418. 30:21and I have been growing in the world ever since.
419. 30:24And now with the AFR app, I listen to every waking moment.
420. 30:28Thank you, Jesus, and AFR for being warriors for Jesus.
421. 30:32I'd add his hand on my radio that I thank him for his grace.
422. 30:35So don't give up.
423. 30:37Give your heart to him, and he won't pay off.
424. 30:39Support AFR.
425. 30:40Thank you.
426. 30:41Wow, wow, wow, wow, praise God, man.
427. 30:48That is what a powerful testimony and what a privilege it is to be a part of a ministry
428. 30:53that offers that type of ministry to where that brother is going to be ministered to in
429. 31:01that fashion.
430. 31:02Well, at this juncture, I'm delighted to have in studio with me seated to my right, just
431. 31:07physically but not politically.
432. 31:09None other than AFR President.
433. 31:11our president now you're a fan of our president which is a Wesley he's probably
434. 31:15he's to the right of you and me probably
435. 31:18Wesley my son that is the voice of a a a far president Tim Wildman who is
436. 31:24he to my right to my left we have the director of American fan of family
437. 31:27radio Jonathan Koker who has been the quarterback three men for share thought
438. 31:32I'll give it brother a hand give him a hand you're not sure I'm yeah I'm the
439. 31:36same I got it and he knows if you ever saw the movie remember the Titans the
440. 31:40quarterback Sunshine. Yeah, you think he was in Hollywood?
441. 31:43That is him right here. He was in a movie. I'm joking. He's not
442. 31:46but I call him Sunshine all the time. Fellas, thank you for
443. 31:49joining me here in studio. Help us wrap up where we are. What
444. 31:53a what an amazing time we've had so far. And people are even
445. 31:57still calling 877 616 23 96 Tim. I'll toss it to you first. Yeah,
446. 32:02if you want to go first. All right. Then I'll toss it over
447. 32:04to Jonathan. Sure. I'll tell folks where we are right now. This
448. 32:09This is of course our fall, Cherathon, our AKA pumpkin spice
449. 32:14Cherathon.
450. 32:15I don't know.
451. 32:19You know, by the time...
452. 32:20Did he really?
453. 32:21Yeah.
454. 32:22Pumpkin spice Cherathon.
455. 32:24I heard that one.
456. 32:25He did.
457. 32:26Maybe he stole my joke or something.
458. 32:28I don't know.
459. 32:29But anyway, listen, actually in all seriousness, it's our
460. 32:33stand firm.
461. 32:34Cherathon always comes from the scripture.
462. 32:36We always have a Bible verse that we use
463. 32:39as our theme, Breed, Shareth, Thine,
464. 32:40and this one comes from 1 Corinthians 16,
465. 32:43verses 13 and 14, which Abe has quoted many times
466. 32:46in the last three days.
467. 32:48And so we are just right at $4 million.
468. 32:55We're about $17,000 short of $4 million.
469. 32:59And we're right at 16,000 individuals or families
470. 33:04We have pledged to support American family radio.
471. 33:07And so we're very, very happy and we're very, very grateful.
472. 33:11Amen.
473. 33:12Grateful to the Lord God and grateful to His people
474. 33:16for supporting our ministry.
475. 33:17And it really blesses us.
476. 33:20Who knows, we may end up with 4.1, 4.2
477. 33:23by the time the weekend's over,
478. 33:24but also to have 16,000 pledges, Jonathan,
479. 33:28is quite a tribute to our listener.
480. 33:32Absolutely.
481. 33:33You know, it never ceases to amaze me every share of thine,
482. 33:36how God just calls people.
483. 33:38And these numbers just always amaze me.
484. 33:41Like how faithful our listeners are to...
485. 33:44They're all across the country.
486. 33:45That's right.
487. 33:46And they support what we do and believe in what we do,
488. 33:48trust in what we do.
489. 33:49And we're very, very thankful for that.
490. 33:51Amen.
491. 33:52I mean, we pass the virtual offer in plate twice a year,
492. 33:54what I call it.
493. 33:55That's right.
494. 33:56And people respond.
495. 33:58Hey, you've been with us.
496. 33:59How many years now?
497. 34:00It'll be 11 years.
498. 34:02I'm coming upon 11 years on the area, 11 years.
499. 34:04Wow.
500. 34:05Yeah, that's been...
501. 34:06I remember the first time you and I talked on the phone.
502. 34:08I remember.
503. 34:08I remember we talked on the phone after doing devotions.
504. 34:12Yeah.
505. 34:13You know, I was invited to devotions on a Wednesday
506. 34:15and you said, hey, you got a few minutes
507. 34:16before you leave and head back to Louisiana.
508. 34:18I want to talk to you.
509. 34:19Yeah.
510. 34:19And I thought, oh, what did you not talk to me?
511. 34:22Yeah.
512. 34:23I was just visiting.
513. 34:23I was on my way out.
514. 34:25Yeah.
515. 34:25Well, we could talk about this.
516. 34:27We could get back from the break.
517. 34:28We got a little break coming up.
518. 34:29We got a break coming up.
519. 34:30You're listening to the American Family Radio.
520. 34:32This is day three.
521. 34:33The final day of our Sharethon
522. 34:35used to have a few minutes if you need to get your gift in.
523. 34:37You hadn't been able to do so yet.
524. 34:39You can call 877-616-2396, but we are overly excited
525. 34:46about what God is doing.
526. 34:47And we are grateful to Him and to you for your faithful
527. 34:50and continue to support more Sharethon after this break.
528. 34:59Vice President, Wesley Wildman.
529. 35:01Yes, regardless of my last name being Wildman or not,
530. 35:04I prayed specifically where God would have me.
531. 35:08And so there were opportunities and different areas and things that I'm passionate about that
532. 35:13I was interested in.
533. 35:14And I laid the four or five opportunities out there before the Lord.
534. 35:18I had coaching was an option.
535. 35:22General business was an option.
536. 35:23Landscape architecture was an option.
537. 35:25Being a pastoral was an option.
538. 35:27And working at a Christian activist ministry like AFA was an option as well.
539. 35:30And I laid those five or six before the Lord and prayed for three or four months toward
540. 35:34the end of my college career.
541. 35:37And one by one over the next five or six months in my senior year of college, God began
542. 35:43to shut some doors and point me through other areas as a confirmation into the point where
543. 35:49it could not have been more clear that God was calling me to the work of AFA.
544. 35:53I had no selfish motive to try to climb a ladder or try to move my way up in any particular
545. 36:01timeline or anything like that. I was just interested in passionate about the ministry
546. 36:05that my pop-up all started back in 1977 and wanted to work in the ministry like AFA in
547. 36:11order to push the mission forward. If you look at our mission statement to inform, equip,
548. 36:16and activate, I've noticed that there are many, many good ministries that do the informing
549. 36:24and as it relates to Christian worldview,
550. 36:27there's some that equip,
551. 36:28and they do a little better job
552. 36:30with the equipment side of things.
553. 36:31And I believe we do both of those at the inception well,
554. 36:34but I think what really sets American Family Association
555. 36:36apart and what really inspires me
556. 36:39is the activate side of things.
557. 36:41So, the form equipment activate,
558. 36:43I believe the activate side of what we do
559. 36:45is an emphasis among the three,
560. 36:47although we do all three.
561. 36:49And doing that encourages me, encourages others,
562. 36:53and it fulfills a hole in a need that many Christians find
563. 36:57in their journey of growing and discipling as a Christian
564. 37:00because obviously we wanna evangelize and share God's word.
565. 37:04We want to see people get saved, but after that,
566. 37:08we have an opportunity with our time left on earth
567. 37:12to live out our beliefs and to be a good witness.
568. 37:16Jesus said to occupy until he returns,
569. 37:19and that's what we want to do is to occupy until he returns.
570. 37:22And AFA does that, gives listeners and supporters an opportunity to do that more so than any
571. 37:29other ministry that I can think of.
572. 37:31And there's some really good ones out there, but the activates side of what we do is very
573. 37:34special.
574. 37:37My name is Lindsay from Hot Springs, Arkansas.
575. 37:41A friend of mine introduced me to American Family Radio to date issues with Tim, Fred,
576. 37:49and Ed.
577. 37:50I also thoroughly enjoy exploring the word with Alex McFarland and Bert Harper.
578. 37:56My husband has now started this thing to explore the word podcast to become more biblically
579. 38:03sound.
580. 38:04I did listen to the 2024 election through the Washington sand which was encouraged through
581. 38:10American Family Radio.
582. 38:12has inspired me and Jesus has used it as a growing tool in my faith and I in turn get
583. 38:22to use it as a witness to other people because I am very frequently referring American family
584. 38:29radio to others.
585. 38:32Shearathon continues on American Family Radio.
586. 38:35Let's stand firm in the faith and do everything in love.
587. 38:50Now at 877-616-2396 or give online at aFR.net and thank you for partnering with AFR during
588. 39:00Shareathon.
589. 39:02Welcome back to American Family Radio.
590. 39:05Fall Shareathon day three as we are coming to a close here in the last 15 minutes or so.
591. 39:12Abraham Hamilton the third here, host of the Hamilton Corner, you usually hear at this time.
592. 39:17AFA and AFR President, Tim Wildman is in studio with us as well as the director of American Family Radio, Jonathan, Koker and Tim.
593. 39:24Before we went to the break, you were, I don't know if you want to continue.
594. 39:26Well, yeah, that's okay.
595. 39:27Yeah, I was wanting to, you and I was talking about when you came to work for us here.
596. 39:33Yes.
597. 39:34And that's been 11 years already?
598. 39:36Yes, it'll be 11 years in January.
599. 39:38Yeah, you came as a guest friend, Will Addison.
600. 39:44Brother Will Addison invited you.
601. 39:46That's right. You guys were childhood friends, were you? Yeah, we went to the same church in the Orleans. Yeah, and so
602. 39:52You did devotion for us and then I talked to you because we had an opening which I didn't know
603. 40:00Isn't this how God works oftentimes, you know, we don't have to know everything God knows, but yeah, so God's
604. 40:05brings you up here
605. 40:07visiting with Addison's and then come here to share devotion with us and we had an opening for a turny position here because
606. 40:16Our lead attorney was planning on retiring.
607. 40:18That's right.
608. 40:19And so I talked to you about that.
609. 40:22And you came, you accepted, brought your whole family here.
610. 40:27And then you said, no, they said,
611. 40:29yeah, get home, talk to your wife, didn't call me.
612. 40:30That's what you said.
613. 40:31That's what you said.
614. 40:32Yeah.
615. 40:33Okay.
616. 40:34That's what you said.
617. 40:35I did, yeah.
618. 40:35And we worked out a situation where you could move your family here and come to work for us as our attorney.
619. 40:42And then Jonathan, what were your, you were,
620. 40:48no, you were like, I was just the operations manager.
621. 40:50You were like low on the total of the total.
622. 40:52Low on the total of the total.
623. 40:53But not low.
624. 40:54Low, lower.
625. 40:56Yeah, you were lower.
626. 40:57Yes, sir.
627. 40:58Now you're general manager.
628. 41:00So that's more responsibility.
629. 41:02Yes.
630. 41:03It's a bad, bad.
631. 41:05Bad.
632. 41:06That was funny.
633. 41:09More worries.
634. 41:10More worries is right.
635. 41:11But anyway, I was just wondering what you were doing back then.
636. 41:15So it brought your family here and then the show time became open at five to six o'clock
637. 41:22central time in the afternoon.
638. 41:25And Abe said, I said, Abe, be perfect for that.
639. 41:28And you can you handle that and your lawyer duties?
640. 41:31And it worked out.
641. 41:32Yes, that's worked out for us.
642. 41:34So praise God.
643. 41:36The Hamilton Corner was birthed.
644. 41:38How long has Hamilton Corner been going on?
645. 41:39It's been going on almost 11 years.
646. 41:41Well, soon enough, it'll be 11 years, 10 years of some change.
647. 41:45The good thing about it is that Abe doesn't charge per hour to be on the radio.
648. 41:51Other than that, he charges per hour.
649. 41:52If I thought, yeah, if I caught him on the phone, he's, excuse me, just a minute, let
650. 41:56me start my clock.
651. 41:57No.
652. 41:58I just don't send the bills to you.
653. 42:00That's all.
654. 42:01I'm glad we got a lawyer on the salary format here at American Family Radio.
655. 42:09No, I'm just teasing.
656. 42:10So the rest, as they say, is history.
657. 42:13And you've been doing this show for 11 years.
658. 42:14And I was wondering how many of you are,
659. 42:17how many of you are in your tribe now?
660. 42:19Children?
661. 42:20Yeah.
662. 42:20Six.
663. 42:21Six.
664. 42:22How many of you have more born here?
665. 42:24So my last three.
666. 42:27Yeah.
667. 42:28Yeah.
668. 42:29Last three, we're born here.
669. 42:30Yeah, that's right.
670. 42:31That's right.
671. 42:32So three of them are going to probably grow up
672. 42:33talking like New Orleans people.
673. 42:35And three of them are going to talk redneck English.
674. 42:37Like me.
675. 42:38like me, like job, you know.
676. 42:40Very confusing family.
677. 42:41I'm here to interpret whatever Jonathan says.
678. 42:44I live here long enough to know what he means when he's not.
679. 42:49He's my translator.
680. 42:50He and Bert Harper.
681. 42:52Bert Harper and Alex McFarland, they've developed quite
682. 42:55in a listening audience exploring the word.
683. 42:57Yes.
684. 42:58And so if you listen to Bert long enough,
685. 43:00you've learned down home, southern English by now,
686. 43:03at least how to understand it.
687. 43:06Listen, we are so grateful to all of you who've given donations during our
688. 43:10Shareathon Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
689. 43:13It's our fall of Shareathon.
690. 43:14So we won't be back again, you know, passing off or played until next April.
691. 43:19Right, Jonathan?
692. 43:19That's right.
693. 43:20That's right.
694. 43:21I got the email from Jonathan giving me the dates.
695. 43:24Yes.
696. 43:24Yeah.
697. 43:24So it'll be first of April.
698. 43:27We'll ask for donations again and then again in October of 2027.
699. 43:33Hey, let's hear from another listener.
700. 43:34How about they got a testimony?
701. 43:39My name is Fred from Wichita, Kansas.
702. 43:43I've been listening to AFR Radio since the days of Thomas A.
703. 43:48In his drive time show, I've been so blessed
704. 43:51by the combination of biblical and political commentary,
705. 43:56the news.
706. 43:57What did you say?
707. 43:58As a shout out to you.
708. 43:59Thomas A.
709. 43:59I've actually met JJ, your friend.
710. 44:02I'm a man.
711. 44:02As always.
712. 44:03And I really love the Todd Herman show.
713. 44:06So God bless all of you for all of your efforts.
714. 44:09And I hope to see you someday in Tupelo.
715. 44:14Welcome back.
716. 44:14Sorry if you heard me blurt out.
717. 44:16Who's he talking about?
718. 44:17I thought you were the translator.
719. 44:18Well, sometimes I don't blurt out often, but when I do,
720. 44:24what do you think?
721. 44:25I'm the most interesting man in the world.
722. 44:27So anyway, I was trying to think of who that gentleman was
723. 44:35talking about it and maybe talking about a local broadcaster we've had because we
724. 44:39didn't we used to have local people on some of our radio stations so that's maybe
725. 44:43who he's talking about anyway my apologies if you had heard hear me uh...
726. 44:48yell out there my microphone was owned and did that's all that's a warning to
727. 44:53you people care for what you say and where you say it how loud you say it
728. 44:57Allison tells me you know I'll be talking to her about somebody you know in a
729. 45:02restaurant, she'll say, you know they can hear you, right?
730. 45:06I didn't say anything bad, I just said.
731. 45:08All right, so we're just about, I tell you what,
732. 45:11if somebody will call in and give $11,500,
733. 45:16we'll be at four million.
734. 45:18Before we get off the air.
735. 45:19And it very well could happen, 877616-239-6
736. 45:23is number to call 877-6162-3996,
737. 45:27is the number to call or you can still give.
738. 45:30securely online at aFR.net.
739. 45:32I wanted to ask Jonathan,
740. 45:33because he's kind of quarterbacking Sharethon,
741. 45:36because we have people who travel here from other states
742. 45:39to answer the phones for us.
743. 45:41What is it like corralling all of these people
744. 45:44who contribute in their various ways
745. 45:46to make Sharethon work for us?
746. 45:48Well, it's a lot of work from a lot of departments here,
747. 45:52not just in the radio.
748. 45:54We have a marketing and HR helps with tons of stuff.
749. 45:58It takes all of us, you know, two or three months
750. 46:00to get all this organized, come up with themes
751. 46:02and scripture verses and volunteers that do travel
752. 46:05and come in, they'll start emailing us, you know,
753. 46:08a couple months out in advance, asking if we have
754. 46:10a availability for them to come in.
755. 46:12How do you get to Tupelo?
756. 46:13Yeah, I get to Tupelo.
757. 46:15Is it a real question?
758. 46:16Is it a real place?
759. 46:17Yeah.
760. 46:18But we tell him it's right below one below.
761. 46:21Yeah.
762. 46:22You can find one below, you'll find Tupelo.
763. 46:24Tupelo, you know.
764. 46:25That's what it is there.
765. 46:26Yeah.
766. 46:27saw what you did there.
767. 46:28That's all right.
768. 46:30I do want to say like this,
769. 46:32for the past three or four share of thorns,
770. 46:34we've had a ton of volunteers.
771. 46:36Yeah, we have.
772. 46:37Side volunteers coming in, which is great to see.
773. 46:40They're either on way, you know, to get here.
774. 46:42That's right.
775. 46:43And we've even got one guy, Bruce Brown,
776. 46:45from Vincent's, Indiana.
777. 46:46This is his, I think he told me it's his 11th year.
778. 46:50Wow.
779. 46:51And he comes every single share of thine.
780. 46:52He stays in that room from six a.m. to six p.m.
781. 46:55A whole three day.
782. 46:56God bless him.
783. 46:57He absolutely loves what F-R and F-A does.
784. 46:59It believes in it.
785. 47:01And we had a friend from Wayne from Montana.
786. 47:04That's right.
787. 47:05Wayne came.
788. 47:05This was the first time that Wayne came.
789. 47:07And he's been in there all three days.
790. 47:09Oh, yeah.
791. 47:11They come to work.
792. 47:12Yeah.
793. 47:13And they're big breaks.
794. 47:15So he went from Great Falls, I think, to Denver,
795. 47:19to Memphis and drove down.
796. 47:20That's amazing.
797. 47:21That's amazing.
798. 47:22And it just speaks to the supporters.
799. 47:24Some of you listening now might want to log out away.
800. 47:27come around next time around, you may want to be one of the people in
801. 47:31Sherathon Central, you know, and these are a lot of the people when I
802. 47:34say on the radio that we don't outsource customer service that you're
803. 47:38going to meet a person here from a person who's right here on our own
804. 47:42campus in Sherathon Central. It's usually a lot of these volunteers
805. 47:47combined with some of our staff, and it's just amazing to see really
806. 47:50how the body of Christ comes together when we have a concerted purpose and
807. 47:54task maybe think about when the people had a mind to work, you know, and they were trying
808. 48:00to gather resources for the temple and then the finally said, okay, we have enough.
809. 48:04We have enough.
810. 48:06And God continues to bless us.
811. 48:08And by God's grace, we are going to continue to be true to the vision, Tim, that started
812. 48:13with your dad, that you're continuing on a leadership now.
813. 48:17It's a vitally, vitally important thing.
814. 48:18In many ways, AFR and AFA is more necessary now
815. 48:23than ever before in a lot of ways.
816. 48:24I mean.
817. 48:25Yeah, that's right brother.
818. 48:26Well, our Bible verse is stand firm.
819. 48:29And so that's what we encourage our listeners to do
820. 48:32is stand firm in a culture that is often hostile.
821. 48:36You've played that clip from that satanic leader there
822. 48:40and I will do in a quote prayer before a city council.
823. 48:44And so, I mean, we face a lot of adversity today
824. 48:48in the, you know, it's been that way for Christians
825. 48:51since the faith started, right?
826. 48:54Okay, so it's not new, but I'm just saying that
827. 48:58in our country, our beloved America,
828. 49:00it seems like it's an often ways becoming more hostile
829. 49:04for us as Bible believing Christians.
830. 49:06But I tell you what, I have the phone number here.
831. 49:08That's why American Family Association
832. 49:10and American Family Radio exist,
833. 49:12is to educate, communicate, activate, equip,
834. 49:15give Christians a voice across the country.
835. 49:18And that's what we do, that's what we've been doing.
836. 49:21And people believe in us and support us.
837. 49:23And we appreciate that very much.
838. 49:24And we take that very seriously.
839. 49:26You know, we're engaged in politics and government.
840. 49:29That's a very important role in our society.
841. 49:30And if Christians abandon that altogether,
842. 49:33like so many Christians think, well, that's of the devil.
843. 49:38I don't wanna get involved in that.
844. 49:40Well, if we abandon that,
845. 49:42And who's that leave to make decisions for all of us?
846. 49:44You know, I'm not saying everybody has a run for office,
847. 49:47but at least vote.
848. 49:48That's at a minimum.
849. 49:48The second that you can support people who are good,
850. 49:52God, the people in office, right?
851. 49:53The rest are short of the believers don't participate.
852. 49:56Right.
853. 49:57And engaged to lead and engaged to vote,
854. 49:59the unbelievers will, the wicked will.
855. 50:00Absolutely.
856. 50:01And then they'll make laws that affect all of us.
857. 50:02Absolutely right.
858. 50:03Absolutely right.
859. 50:04No doubt about it.
860. 50:05You said about the hostility toward the faith.
861. 50:07Justice Samuel Alito just came out with a book called So Ordered
862. 50:11And he posits in his book that the date
863. 50:16when both governmental and cultural hostility toward
864. 50:21believers had a precipitous uptick was June 26, 2015
865. 50:27when the Obergefell versus Hodges decision was made.
866. 50:29In his book, he says that that is the point
867. 50:32in which it became, in vogue, so to speak,
868. 50:35to demonstrate hostility towards faithfulness
869. 50:38is when the Jack Phillips case came after that,
870. 50:41various lawsuits that came and some in rebuttal to his notions said well there
871. 50:45been a host of religious liberty cases that gone before the court that have been
872. 50:48ruled in favor of religious liberty to which he responded and said yeah that's my
873. 50:52point you see all of these lawsuits why are there so many lawsuits that are
874. 50:56going to be filed and you it dates back in in his assertion his estimation back to
875. 51:00the gay marriage decision from 2015 so Samuel ito what's the name of the book
876. 51:05so ordered well the book so ordered read that Samuel elito yeah hey what did it
877. 51:10But thank just a few folks who've called in the last hour or two, Toby and New Iberia,
878. 51:16Louisiana, Kimberly and McKinney, Texas.
879. 51:19Thank you to Maria, in Seminole, Texas.
880. 51:23So we adjusted and called in from West Jefferson, Ohio.
881. 51:26As you can see, folks, as I'm reading these towns and states, we really are American family
882. 51:31radio.
883. 51:32We've got Ronald and Belleville, Ohio, Shirley, and Wichita, Kansas, Janet, and Blue Springs,
884. 51:39Mississippi, which is the stone throne from where we are.
885. 51:43So anyway, there you go, just a sample of our fine devoted
886. 51:47listeners who maybe have never met us, many of them,
887. 51:50but they listen to us and they believe in what we're doing
888. 51:53in our ministry and what we're trying to accomplish here.
889. 51:57So we're about out of time, aren't we?
890. 51:58What do we get?
891. 51:59You want to pray for us, my friend?
892. 52:00Well, we have a couple minutes.
893. 52:01I definitely would love to pray to close.
894. 52:04But I want to take advantage of this time,
895. 52:06because it's not very often we get Jonathan on a microphone
896. 52:08here.
897. 52:09We have John as another, he's like,
898. 52:10why are you gonna ask me another question?
899. 52:12As general manager for the AFR
900. 52:15and director of American Family Radio,
901. 52:17we have all of these, the various personalities,
902. 52:20different things that we're offering.
903. 52:22If you were asked to describe what we're seeking
904. 52:24to accomplish particularly through the radio ministry,
905. 52:26what would you say?
906. 52:28I would say it's probably what our mission statement is,
907. 52:30which is to equip everybody to fulfill the great commission,
908. 52:35which is bringing people to Christ
909. 52:37and informing them on what it is that they need to know about today's culture.
910. 52:41Inform, equip and activate. That's right. That's basically the essence of our mission.
911. 52:45And I'm so glad you said he didn't know I was going to ask him that.
912. 52:48No, he didn't. It's why I'm here. You know, part of why I'm here.
913. 52:52Yeah, no, and it's fantastic. And one of the things I enjoy though from the
914. 52:57entire tier of our staff here all the way up, including radio hosts and everything,
915. 53:01we have people who are invested in the mission. Nobody's joining here because like,
916. 53:06like, oh, we just find this is a cool thing to do,
917. 53:08that we're invested in the mission.
918. 53:10And instead of merely being people who identify
919. 53:13and diagnose the darkness, we wanna be a part
920. 53:15of the ranks of those who put the light on the lampstand
921. 53:17to not merely complain about what is happening,
922. 53:19but we want to work towards building, towards an answer.
923. 53:24Amen, there's the music.
924. 53:26That's the music.
925. 53:27I know we normally head out with that music,
926. 53:28but I would like to take a few moments and pray for us
927. 53:30to close out this shareathon.
928. 53:31And again, thank you to every single one of you
929. 53:33who's given every family represented,
930. 53:35we give praise to God.
931. 53:36Amen.
932. 53:37and as well as yours.
933. 53:38Lord, we thank you Father for building this ministry
934. 53:40and planting us for such a time as this Father,
935. 53:43I pray that you would aid us as a ministry
936. 53:45to remain focused on the mission you have set before us
937. 53:48and that we would have all hands placed the plow
938. 53:50that you had before us and that we would not look back.
939. 53:53We're not daunted by the darkness surrounding us,
940. 53:55but we are committed to following you
941. 53:57and putting that lamp on the lamp stand.
942. 54:00Lord, the darkness cannot overcome the light that you are
943. 54:03and you have ordained for us to be your hands and feet
944. 54:07that we would be those who would carry about your gospel
945. 54:10to make disciples and to be effective in executing
946. 54:13the great commission as well as the cultural commission.
947. 54:15We ask for your strength and grace in Jesus' name.
948. 54:17Amen.
949. 54:18Amen.