Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 28, 2023


Ep 913 ｜ Target Gayifies Christmas


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It's Thanksgiving week, which means it's time to talk about all the things we're thankful for! Today we're talking about the joys of getting sick, and how thankful we are that our kids aren't getting sick too!

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00:00:00.000 Target has not learned its lesson when it comes to pride-themed products.
00:00:07.480 Now they're LGBTQ-ifying their Christmas line as well.
00:00:12.720 And they've also just made a very interesting new hire when it comes to their pride division.
00:00:20.140 Also, Cosmo is promoting abortion as a satanic ritual.
00:00:25.200 Yes. So we are going to talk about all that in a little bit more today.
00:00:30.000 But we'll start with something a little bit lighthearted and, of course, end with something hopeful because that's how we do.
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00:01:03.760 That's one.
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00:01:08.860 It's black. It's got yellow letters.
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00:02:09.580 Hey, guys.
00:02:10.320 Welcome to Relatable.
00:02:11.360 Happy Tuesday.
00:02:12.960 Hope everyone is having a wonderful week.
00:02:14.920 And I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
00:02:16.960 So here's my announcement that I make or something that I tell you every few weeks is that I have a cold again.
00:02:27.820 I feel like I'm saying that once a month.
00:02:30.040 Look, if you are a mom of toddlers, you understand.
00:02:34.120 You understand there's always like a low-grade something going on.
00:02:37.980 And my mom's going to listen to this and she's going to be mad at me. 1.00
00:02:41.100 She's always telling me that I need to take more vitamin C.
00:02:43.580 I feel like I take supplements out the wazoo, though.
00:02:46.580 But here's what I was just talking about to my assistant, which I think that this is really cool.
00:02:53.020 So maybe there's a good reason why I keep getting sick.
00:02:57.960 So I apologize to the males in the room and also the Relatable's listening.
00:03:01.800 But I think that this is fascinating.
00:03:03.440 And you moms will think this, too.
00:03:05.100 And you probably already know this.
00:03:06.780 But I was thinking about the fact that my two older ones, you know, they've always got something going on, like, you know, intermittent cough or something like that.
00:03:15.500 And yet the baby, our newborn, who is almost three months old at this point, she has had no symptoms, no sickness, nothing whatsoever, which I just praise God for.
00:03:24.460 I'm so thankful for that.
00:03:26.020 And sometimes I wonder how in the world has she not gotten anything at this point?
00:03:30.940 She's got two sisters who love her so much, who are always in her face, coughing in her face accidentally and things like that. 0.97
00:03:38.340 And I've just been so thankful.
00:03:39.960 I think that actually I know that I am supplying her because I am getting sick.
00:03:46.320 My baby is not getting sick, but I am getting sick from the germs that are being passed around in our family.
00:03:52.060 I am giving the antibodies by breastfeeding to my child.
00:03:56.780 And so I kind of feel like, OK, if someone's got to get sick here, I would rather it be me.
00:04:03.160 And if getting sick means giving her my antibodies so that she stays healthy, then I'll take it.
00:04:11.320 I'll take it.
00:04:12.260 And so, Mom, don't get mad at me.
00:04:13.920 There is a good purpose.
00:04:15.140 There is a redemptive purpose for me getting a cold every few weeks.
00:04:18.440 It is keeping my newborn healthy, or at least that's what I'm going to tell myself.
00:04:22.440 I probably do need to get more serious about taking care of my immune system.
00:04:25.680 But I say all that to say, if I sound more nasally than usual, that is why I have yet again the beginnings of a cold.
00:04:35.920 Before we get into everything that we're going to talk about today, I just want to bring in Brie, producer Brie, to hear a little bit about her Thanksgiving.
00:04:44.780 Because I really haven't heard about it yet.
00:04:46.960 So I want to hear.
00:04:48.100 Brie, how was your Thanksgiving?
00:04:50.800 It was great.
00:04:51.940 It was very relaxing.
00:04:53.380 Yeah.
00:04:53.780 Were you with your parents?
00:04:54.660 Mm-hmm.
00:04:55.200 Okay.
00:04:55.840 Yeah.
00:04:56.700 And it was really low-key, which is, to me, the best kind of Thanksgiving, I feel like.
00:05:01.400 And what did y'all eat?
00:05:02.940 Okay.
00:05:03.420 So we had roast beef.
00:05:05.540 Roast beef.
00:05:06.140 Okay.
00:05:06.460 I know, which is controversial.
00:05:07.540 But we also had turkey.
00:05:09.580 And, you know, all the, like, normal sides.
00:05:11.880 I made biscuits.
00:05:13.040 I'm a good baker.
00:05:14.060 So I made pie, homemade pie.
00:05:15.680 Okay.
00:05:15.700 What are your biscuits like?
00:05:17.580 Like, what do you put in them?
00:05:18.680 What do you use?
00:05:19.760 Oh, you got to use buttermilk.
00:05:21.440 Okay.
00:05:21.660 Like, actual buttermilk.
00:05:22.460 Okay.
00:05:22.740 And they're, like, really simple.
00:05:24.320 It's, like, six ingredients.
00:05:25.640 Crisco.
00:05:26.180 Do you put Crisco in them?
00:05:27.540 No.
00:05:28.100 No.
00:05:28.440 I used to put it in, like, homemade pie crust.
00:05:32.000 But I figured I would use, like, just butter this time.
00:05:35.120 And it was so good.
00:05:36.340 The key, this is a tip for everyone who's never made, like, biscuits or pie crust, is to make sure the butter is, like, ice cold.
00:05:42.560 You have to freeze it beforehand and make sure it's cold when it goes in the oven.
00:05:46.400 And it'll create all the flaky layers.
00:05:49.000 Oh, my gosh.
00:05:50.060 Yeah.
00:05:50.500 Okay.
00:05:50.840 Hot tip for you.
00:05:51.720 Okay.
00:05:52.420 My dad and I used to make biscuits growing up with, like, Bisquick.
00:05:56.620 Yeah.
00:05:56.940 And whatever other ingredients.
00:05:58.540 And they were always really good.
00:05:59.540 But we called them cat heads.
00:06:01.620 What?
00:06:02.140 Yes.
00:06:02.620 Okay.
00:06:02.900 So people in the South, a lot of people in the South call them cat heads.
00:06:06.300 Because when you put them in the oven and they rise and you look in, they look like cat heads.
00:06:12.120 And so we always called them cat heads.
00:06:14.000 I thought it was normal.
00:06:15.060 But then I get this kind of reaction sometimes when I tell people.
00:06:18.480 It's adorable.
00:06:19.480 Yeah.
00:06:20.100 Cat heads.
00:06:21.120 A little kind of weird, I guess.
00:06:23.880 But I love biscuits.
00:06:26.320 Love biscuits.
00:06:27.480 One of my favorite things.
00:06:29.140 So you made biscuits.
00:06:30.160 What about dessert?
00:06:31.600 We had cherry pie, blackberry pie.
00:06:34.460 Cherry pie.
00:06:34.780 Okay.
00:06:35.100 And pumpkin pie, which I was telling my mom, every single year I get a piece of pumpkin pie.
00:06:40.900 And I'm like, I like pumpkin pie.
00:06:42.500 And I start eating and I'm like, I don't like pumpkin pie.
00:06:45.340 I just don't.
00:06:46.420 That's really sad.
00:06:47.200 Does nothing for me.
00:06:48.600 I like pumpkin pie.
00:06:50.020 Now, I would never eat it outside of Thanksgiving.
00:06:53.020 Yeah.
00:06:53.340 But I like it.
00:06:54.160 Now, cherry pie.
00:06:55.160 I love a cherry pie.
00:06:56.920 But I feel like, I don't know, maybe I'm alone in this, but fruit pies aren't typical for Thanksgiving.
00:07:02.900 Really?
00:07:03.360 You think so?
00:07:03.800 Yeah, maybe not.
00:07:04.700 I don't know.
00:07:05.400 For us, it was.
00:07:06.560 So maybe we're abnormal.
00:07:07.320 So you said you had cherry pie and then what was the other one?
00:07:10.200 Blackberry.
00:07:11.100 Blackberry.
00:07:11.720 Yeah.
00:07:12.000 Who made this?
00:07:13.060 I did.
00:07:14.060 Wow.
00:07:14.640 From scratch.
00:07:15.300 Yum.
00:07:15.880 I've made cherry pie from scratch.
00:07:17.800 I think it's, yeah.
00:07:18.560 Well, not the crust.
00:07:19.720 You made the crust from scratch?
00:07:20.940 Yeah.
00:07:21.380 Wow.
00:07:21.960 That's amazing.
00:07:23.060 I'm very impressed.
00:07:24.140 It's way simpler than you think it is.
00:07:27.000 It's also like six ingredients.
00:07:28.640 Yeah.
00:07:30.040 Okay.
00:07:30.480 We had pumpkin pie.
00:07:32.120 Now, that was store-bought by yours truly.
00:07:35.760 But the grocery store said that it was award-winning.
00:07:39.220 Now, I don't know if that was an internal award that they gave to each other.
00:07:42.960 Staff award.
00:07:43.600 Or what that was.
00:07:45.120 But it was actually really good.
00:07:47.260 Now, typically, I would try to make something.
00:07:50.700 Like, I would try to make a pie like last year or whenever it was.
00:07:54.980 We switch off between my in-laws and my family.
00:07:58.360 And so, the last time I was with my family, I made pecan pie and pumpkin pie.
00:08:01.940 And it was good.
00:08:03.100 But this year, I just couldn't do it.
00:08:05.060 Just couldn't do it.
00:08:06.280 And so, I bought it and it was good.
00:08:08.380 And then my aunt makes something called Chocolate Delight.
00:08:11.420 Some people might know it as Mississippi Mud.
00:08:14.080 But it's like this homemade graham cracker pretzel crust.
00:08:18.080 And then, like, a layer of chocolate, a layer of some kind of Cool Whip mixture.
00:08:23.640 It's really, really good.
00:08:25.340 We had chocolate pie.
00:08:27.880 The thing that I do what you just described about pumpkin pie about is dressing or stuffing.
00:08:34.860 It depends, again, on where you're from.
00:08:37.040 We call it dressing.
00:08:38.620 And I, every year, want to like it.
00:08:42.000 I want to like dressing.
00:08:44.080 And then I eat it and I'm like, I don't.
00:08:48.080 I want to.
00:08:49.380 I don't like it either.
00:08:50.600 Really?
00:08:51.340 But consistently.
00:08:52.420 Like, I know I don't like it.
00:08:53.540 You know.
00:08:54.060 So, you don't even try.
00:08:55.400 No.
00:08:55.500 Yeah.
00:08:56.340 I'm a big potato gal.
00:08:58.340 I love sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes.
00:09:01.320 I don't even really like the meat all that much.
00:09:03.380 I mostly like the sides.
00:09:05.400 Yeah.
00:09:05.720 The sides are good.
00:09:06.840 Yeah.
00:09:07.320 So, that was our Thanksgiving.
00:09:08.980 It was pretty chill.
00:09:09.760 I took a nap.
00:09:11.060 Love it.
00:09:11.620 Me too.
00:09:12.300 You did?
00:09:12.780 I never nap.
00:09:13.580 And I took a nap on Thanksgiving.
00:09:14.540 Yeah.
00:09:15.100 Same.
00:09:15.600 It's the day for that.
00:09:16.080 It is the day.
00:09:17.460 So, very thankful.
00:09:18.440 I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
00:09:20.880 I hope it was relaxing and not too stressful.
00:09:23.960 I know for some of you out there, some of you perfectionists who have to be the hostess
00:09:28.540 with the mostest.
00:09:29.520 I love people like you.
00:09:31.220 I think you're a wonderful additions to the world and to the body of Christ and probably
00:09:35.500 to your families too.
00:09:36.740 I am not like that, but I know that the holidays can be stressful for you types of people.
00:09:41.340 So, just remember to rest in the Lord that your value doesn't come from what you put on
00:09:47.180 the table or the creations that you make in the oven or how good of a hostess you are.
00:09:52.740 Okay, so, tis the season of buying gifts and I know it can be very tempting to just walk
00:10:11.560 into your local Target to get simple gifts and not just that, but to get good smelling
00:10:17.640 holiday scented candles.
00:10:19.240 First of all, you should give up your candles because they're bad for you and I'm not all
00:10:24.180 about living the non-toxic life because there are just some things, as I said on Instagram
00:10:28.420 the other day, that I will not give up like my magic eraser, which has formaldehyde in
00:10:32.280 it, but there are some things that over time I have given up and one of those is scented
00:10:37.460 candles.
00:10:38.040 I love scented candles so much, but they're really bad for your lungs and they're bad for
00:10:42.100 your air filters.
00:10:43.540 They're just not, they're not good, but if you're not giving that up, that's fine.
00:10:47.060 What I'm trying to say is go somewhere other than Target to get these things, to get your
00:10:53.000 stocking stuffers, to get your decor, because remember, it's just a few months ago back in
00:10:57.820 June when we were talking about all of the absolutely atrocious products that they had
00:11:03.720 on display and the artists that they were platforming to design these products were literally
00:11:08.320 publicly worshipping Satan through their art.
00:11:12.440 So very disturbing, chest binders, packing underwear, made for adolescents, all right?
00:11:20.080 That's what Target was selling.
00:11:21.340 So the most grotesque and demonic movement of our age, which is the mutilation of people's
00:11:27.540 bodies to try to feed into the delusion that they can be the opposite sex, not just adults, 0.52
00:11:32.880 but also children.
00:11:33.880 That is what Target is promoting.
00:11:35.660 I know they've got Magnolia.
00:11:37.180 I know they've got McGee and Me or like whatever the line is.
00:11:42.120 I don't know what it's called.
00:11:43.720 I don't know who that influencer is.
00:11:46.020 I know they've got cute stuff.
00:11:47.540 I do.
00:11:48.080 I know.
00:11:48.660 I was a Target addict too back in the day.
00:11:52.420 But they also are platforming and promoting really, really destructive and deadly in a spiritual
00:12:00.380 sense and in some ways in a physical sense.
00:12:02.760 When you look at where gender ideology leads, they're promoting some of the most destructive 1.00
00:12:08.820 and deadliest stuff.
00:12:11.160 And I personally just want to stay away from it.
00:12:15.100 So I'm going to get into what they're doing now because they haven't really taken a break.
00:12:20.900 But I do just want to say as a caveat to that, because I don't want to put so much pressure
00:12:25.940 on us to say, OK, we can never, ever buy from any store that ever does anything that we disagree
00:12:34.660 with or anything that is objectively wrong.
00:12:37.500 Now, I do think that that is the movement that we that's the direction that we should
00:12:41.520 move in.
00:12:42.500 I do think that living lives that are fully integrated, so lives of integrity, where like
00:12:47.980 the money that we are spending is supporting the causes that like we believe in rather than
00:12:53.260 causes that we are actively opposing.
00:12:55.780 I think that is the direction that we need to go.
00:12:58.260 But myself included, we are not all always there.
00:13:02.800 So I'm not saying that you are a terrible person if you're not boycotting all of the things
00:13:07.700 that I'm boycotting or that if you don't give up every single secular progressive like
00:13:14.340 store or service in your life that you aren't like a real warrior or whatever, whatever it
00:13:20.980 is. I think just kind of like the non-toxic life, we have to do what we can.
00:13:26.900 And for some people, it's giving up scented candles.
00:13:29.960 And for some people, it's, you know, giving up toxic face wash.
00:13:34.060 And for other people, it's other things.
00:13:36.140 So I think the same is true when it comes to picking and choosing the kinds of stores that
00:13:41.260 we are going to frequent and buy from.
00:13:43.460 Um, I, there's still a few stores that I have hung on to that I know don't align with my
00:13:50.260 values that I try to buy from less, but that I still use.
00:13:55.280 But for me, Target is not one of them.
00:13:57.860 Like I don't shop at Target at all anymore.
00:14:01.040 And it's not just because they don't align with my values and they're contributing towards
00:14:05.120 this really awful thing.
00:14:06.760 But also I was just spending too much money there.
00:14:08.720 Like it was too easy for me to just stop in and say, Oh, I just need a couple of things
00:14:12.480 and then spend way more money than I needed getting stuff.
00:14:15.360 That's pretty low quality for too high a price and filling my home with junk.
00:14:20.360 And so there was really just no win for me continuing to support Target.
00:14:24.260 So I'm just saying you have to prayerfully and wisely decide what that is for you.
00:14:29.000 Now, some of you really do boycott everything and every store and every movie and every show
00:14:35.080 that doesn't align with their values.
00:14:36.460 And I think that's awesome.
00:14:37.700 I think that we should all be moving toward that direction one day as much as we feasibly
00:14:44.540 can.
00:14:47.160 So I just wanted to say that.
00:14:48.960 But let's talk about what Target is still doing because it wasn't just Pride Month.
00:14:52.620 They have decided that they are going to do this thing and promote this stuff all year
00:14:57.840 round.
00:14:58.240 They apparently didn't learn anything after what happened in the summer.
00:15:02.040 There was so much backlash about what they were promoting and what they were selling that
00:15:05.680 their sales tanked, at least temporarily.
00:15:08.300 But they have decided, you know what, we are going to continue down this road.
00:15:12.760 So they have recently hired.
00:15:15.520 This is according to Daily Wire, a senior LGBTQIA plus segmentation strategist and Pride
00:15:26.360 lead.
00:15:27.020 So this is a division of Target, apparently.
00:15:30.660 So according to Daily Wire, despite a second straight negative sales report following its
00:15:35.100 Pride backlash earlier this year, Target appeared to double down on its radical commitment to
00:15:39.680 the LGBTQ cause.
00:15:41.240 Target reportedly selected a man named Eric Thompson.
00:15:44.260 We'll put up his picture and his LinkedIn description as its senior LGBTQIA plus.
00:15:51.540 So you see like his cover photo if you're watching this on YouTube.
00:15:55.120 It's got the like Pride flag, which I've always thought is so weird when it includes like the 0.97
00:16:00.580 black and brown as if that's like a sexual or gender identity.
00:16:04.000 It's so strange.
00:16:04.800 And then it's got the communist raised fist.
00:16:07.340 You'll see this communist raised fist when it comes to BLM, when it comes to all kinds
00:16:12.340 of left wing causes.
00:16:13.500 It is literally the symbol of communism.
00:16:15.820 So that is what he has while working for one of the biggest corporations in America that
00:16:22.900 is basically owned by companies like BlackRock and Vanguard.
00:16:29.480 This person fancies himself a resistor of the mainstream and opposing, you know, I don't
00:16:38.460 know what he sees as like the oppressor.
00:16:40.600 And he's got his communist fist while he is, of course, part of this form of corporatism.
00:16:47.960 All right.
00:16:48.860 So let's read a little bit a little bit more about him.
00:16:52.300 So libs of TikTok flagged a post by Thompson, who goes by Gay Cruella on Instagram.
00:17:01.100 OK, the Daily Wire reported that Thompson wrote time to whip out the glitter.
00:17:08.380 This is this is what he posted on Instagram.
00:17:10.460 Time to whip out the glitter and hellfire flamethrowers.
00:17:13.380 It's so funny how just like the Satan worship is just so blatant nowadays and rip that old
00:17:20.020 world to shreds, darlings.
00:17:21.600 Let's flip that script and rewrite that narrative this time for all guests, all humans and all
00:17:27.720 hearts.
00:17:28.040 What does that even mean?
00:17:28.840 I don't know.
00:17:29.660 I don't know what that even means.
00:17:32.360 So he's been working for Target since June of 2014.
00:17:36.120 And then his more recent role became active in November 2023.
00:17:41.280 And so he is in charge, of course, of making sure that Target is that Target is going in
00:17:50.300 the direction of promoting Pride even more than they were before.
00:17:55.920 And we see this on display in the Christmas items that they have the Christmas items, because
00:18:03.080 it's not enough just to have Pride Month.
00:18:05.280 We have to make December a form of Pride Month, too.
00:18:11.280 Okay, so some of these incredible Pride Christmas items.
00:18:23.980 We've got the snow globe here.
00:18:26.300 Well, I guess this isn't really Christmas, but this is winter.
00:18:29.640 We've got a snow globe.
00:18:30.660 It's very ugly.
00:18:31.580 I would say just like objectively ugly.
00:18:34.060 It's like we said, AI, make gay snow globe. 0.99
00:18:37.840 And this is what they came up with.
00:18:39.480 So love is love with a little rainbow heart in the middle.
00:18:44.280 And then this is just there's so many things to say about this that I don't think I'm going
00:18:49.480 to say.
00:18:50.200 There are just so many things that so many things.
00:18:54.200 The gay nutcracker. 1.00
00:18:56.560 OK, Pride Christmas nutcracker. 0.91
00:18:59.840 All right.
00:19:00.760 So if you are just listening to this, little nutcracker man has a like rainbow flag hat on
00:19:10.560 because, of course, he does.
00:19:12.680 And then I guess his whole get up is a different part of the pride flag.
00:19:17.700 And then he's holding the pride flag.
00:19:19.560 So this is obviously very important as you celebrate Christmas and the birth of our savior
00:19:25.600 that you need this pride nutcracker.
00:19:29.760 Again, just like objectively ugly.
00:19:32.720 But of course, like the flag itself is very aesthetically garish.
00:19:37.680 And then you've got Santa.
00:19:39.640 Now, this is based Santa because he just has the regular rainbow flag.
00:19:44.820 He doesn't have the new pride flag, which has the black and the brown and the trans.
00:19:49.660 And so now we've gotten to the point to where just the regular rainbow flag is considered
00:19:54.000 like conservative.
00:19:55.420 So we've got we've got Santa here.
00:19:57.960 He's got the rainbow flag that he's holding.
00:20:00.320 And then his shirt says love is love.
00:20:04.000 Kurt Adler, 10 inch.
00:20:05.820 OK, all right.
00:20:07.340 So this is the this is the Santa.
00:20:09.260 It's got three star reviews.
00:20:10.540 This is OK.
00:20:12.200 This is the most ridiculous part of it.
00:20:14.520 This little Santa is $80.
00:20:17.940 $80.
00:20:19.660 $80, $80, $80.
00:20:23.780 Oh, my gosh.
00:20:24.940 I was thinking like it's $12 like the other things.
00:20:28.480 No, this is $80.
00:20:32.860 His suspenders also have a rainbow flag on them, obviously.
00:20:39.500 Let's see.
00:20:40.600 We've also got an ornament that is $5.
00:20:46.220 Somehow the ornament is $5.
00:20:47.680 Even though it seems like it's made of actual metal and not just plastic.
00:20:51.780 Very ugly.
00:20:53.100 Again, that's got the pride metal snowflake Christmas tree ornament from Wondershop.
00:20:58.760 So Wondershop.
00:21:00.000 Someone should do some research into Wondershop.
00:21:03.020 It's because I feel like Wondershop also made some of their pride gear in June.
00:21:07.940 I think Wondershop is their Christmas line.
00:21:14.220 Oh, it is?
00:21:14.760 I think it is Target.
00:21:15.460 I think.
00:21:16.820 OK.
00:21:17.480 I don't know.
00:21:19.000 And then we've got wrapping paper.
00:21:21.260 Ugly, ugly, ugly wrapping paper.
00:21:23.480 Um, with black, brown, purple, blue, and blue, and green, and yellow.
00:21:32.680 See, the whole thing about like the pride movement is making us deny what we know to be true.
00:21:38.660 Like, obviously, when it comes to men trying to be women and women trying to be men, we have to deny biological reality and pretend that what someone feels about themselves or declare about themselves is reality and trumps physical truth and biological truth.
00:21:53.760 So you have to deny reality and biology.
00:21:56.520 You also have to deny humor because for all of time, men dressing up as women was seen as funny.
00:22:04.900 Like, everyone would just laugh out loud when the fat man with the beard came out wearing a dress on stage that was obviously a humorous, a comedic trope.
00:22:14.300 And now we have to even deny humor.
00:22:17.140 We have to deny that's funny.
00:22:18.480 We have to take it very seriously and say, oh, no, no, no, Rachel Levine's beautiful.
00:22:22.120 She's a gorgeous girl.
00:22:23.180 Gorgeous, delicate princess.
00:22:24.820 So we have to deny reality.
00:22:27.560 We have to deny humor.
00:22:28.640 We also have to deny beauty.
00:22:30.620 We also we have to say that someone like Dylan Mulvaney is just a beautiful girl, just like anyone else.
00:22:36.020 OK, you should test that.
00:22:37.200 Someone who says that Dylan Mulvaney or Rachel Levine or Will, Leah Thomas, that any of these people are just like gorgeous, beautiful girls.
00:22:47.220 You should say to the woman who says that, oh, yeah, you look like them.
00:22:51.520 Oh, you look just like Dylan Mulvaney.
00:22:54.820 You remind me so much of Rachel Levine.
00:22:57.560 Oh, my gosh.
00:22:57.960 It's just stunning.
00:22:59.260 It's actually in the shoulders and the jaw that she looks amazingly similar to Leah Thomas.
00:23:05.440 You should see what they say to that.
00:23:07.160 If they're offended by it, then you should wonder why.
00:23:09.420 But we have to deny beauty even in the pride flag. 0.94
00:23:12.080 Like we're supposed to look at this wrapping paper and say, wow, this is so beautiful.
00:23:15.900 Well, no one would ever put these colors together, except that we have to accept it as aesthetically pleasing because it apparently represents pride.
00:23:24.640 And just a reminder, pride goes before the fall, as the Bible tells us.
00:23:30.220 But also that love is love, as we see on many of these products, is a completely nonsensical statement, just as nonsensical as saying trans women are women. 0.52
00:23:39.160 Does it mean anything?
00:23:40.220 It's circular because people who say trans women are women can't actually define what a woman is.
00:23:44.620 So what does it mean that a trans woman is a woman if you don't even know what a woman is?
00:23:48.500 A woman is someone who identifies as a woman. 0.99
00:23:50.240 What's a woman? 1.00
00:23:50.720 Of course, that is the question that Matt Walsh popularized through his documentary.
00:23:56.380 But trans women are women. 1.00
00:23:57.400 It's stupid circular logic.
00:23:59.040 It's not logic at all.
00:23:59.880 But it's the same thing with love is love.
00:24:01.520 Well, what is love?
00:24:02.700 What is love?
00:24:03.360 Is love anything that you want it to be?
00:24:05.640 Because if love is love, then it really is anything that you want it to be.
00:24:10.120 And you can define it however you want to.
00:24:12.080 So that could mean lust is love.
00:24:13.880 That could mean predation is love.
00:24:15.340 That could mean stalking is love.
00:24:16.960 Like it could mean all kinds of things.
00:24:18.840 It, of course, could mean, and we've seen the slippery slope go in this direction.
00:24:24.300 They could say that pedophilia is love.
00:24:27.340 If love is love, then anything is love.
00:24:30.020 It can be defined as anything.
00:24:31.640 But love actually has to have a definition.
00:24:33.720 And, of course, we who believe in the God of the universe knows that God, we know that God is love.
00:24:38.620 1 John 4, 8.
00:24:39.780 And therefore, he defines it.
00:24:41.500 He tells us what it is.
00:24:42.740 And 1 Corinthians 13 lays out exactly what love is.
00:24:46.620 Love cannot be something that the God who is love and who created love, who is the source of love, calls an abomination, a perversion, and sin.
00:24:54.560 And so love isn't just love.
00:24:56.000 Love actually has a definition.
00:24:58.000 And we read exactly what it is in Scripture.
00:25:01.340 That is one of the privileges, of course, of being a Christian is that we get wisdom from the Holy Spirit, but also access to God's Word,
00:25:09.020 which answers all the crazy, controversial, cultural war questions that we have today.
00:25:15.280 So that's Target.
00:25:16.520 So just a reminder to re-up your resistance to Target and to do everything that you can to not support them.
00:25:24.780 I think that this is also a particularly important boycott for my audience because most of you, not all of you,
00:25:33.320 but most of you are suburban moms like me. 1.00
00:25:37.460 And so Target is like your place and they should be catering to you.
00:25:43.780 That's what they're trying to do through Magnolia and McGee, whatever.
00:25:48.980 And you just need to send them the message that, no, you don't own us anymore.
00:25:52.420 If you want to try to go get the progressive urbanites, the communist college students, then have fun with that.
00:25:58.100 But we're not going to support you anymore because Target really has been buoyed, has been carried by like conservative, Christian, suburban women for decades. 0.99
00:26:10.520 And now they're saying, well, you don't matter.
00:26:13.500 We don't care about you.
00:26:14.440 We don't care about your values.
00:26:15.640 We're going to spit in your face.
00:26:16.820 We're going to double down on the things that you did not like in the summer.
00:26:21.160 And so we just need to say, OK, that's fine.
00:26:23.960 That is that's your right.
00:26:25.660 You can do that.
00:26:26.320 But we're not going to support you.
00:26:27.580 I think it would be really powerful if this particular demographic of just all conservative Christian women said, sorry, Target, you can do that if you want to.
00:26:35.200 But we're not going to be a part of it.
00:26:37.000 All right.
00:26:37.800 Speaking of things that I don't want to be a part of, speaking of very grotesque things that we need to make sure that we know about and just are able to absolutely repudiate.
00:26:48.240 I saw a post by Cosmopolitan, you know, that awful, awful magazine that has been awful for a very long time on Instagram.
00:26:59.260 And they featured a new New Mexico abortion clinic run by the Satanic Temple called Samuel Alito's mom's satanic abortion clinic.
00:27:08.800 Ha ha.
00:27:09.960 To mock the pro-life Supreme Court justice.
00:27:12.800 I mean, just extremely, extremely childish.
00:27:17.200 So here was the Instagram post.
00:27:19.520 It was a picture of a woman looking into like a shard of glass or a mirror looking at herself.
00:27:25.360 And it said, so how does a satanic abortion ceremony even work?
00:27:30.480 Patients of all faiths are welcome at Samuel Alito's mom's satanic abortion clinic in New Mexico. 0.98
00:27:35.240 Along with medical counsel, TST, the satanic temple, offers free ceremonial support to everyone.
00:27:42.600 Abortion ceremonies are totally optional and customizable.
00:27:45.660 Here's a simple one that TST recommends.
00:27:50.560 And so that is what their article is about.
00:27:53.300 And actually, a lot of the comments, even from people who said that they're pro-choice, they're completely against it.
00:27:58.580 They're like, this is really disturbing.
00:28:00.940 This is just giving more fodder to the pro-life movement, which it does, because it just reveals that abortion is exactly what we've always said it is.
00:28:09.220 That it's not this neutral choice that someone should be able to make.
00:28:14.000 It's not just something where you can say, well, I personally would never do that, but I want them to have the freedom to do that.
00:28:20.100 Why is this the one type of murder that you think should be a right?
00:28:24.100 Why is this the one type of murder that you think should be legal?
00:28:27.520 Would you say that about other forms of murder that you personally wouldn't murder, but you think it should be legal for other people to murder because they're in a desperate circumstance?
00:28:35.080 That doesn't make any sense.
00:28:36.300 It just shows that you don't really regard babies in the womb as what God regards them as, which is human beings with dignity made in the image of God.
00:28:42.940 And pro-lifers have been saying for a very long time that it is satanic, that it is the opposite, the demonic opposite.
00:28:51.940 And I did not come up with this.
00:28:53.440 I think it was Peter Kreeft.
00:28:55.420 I think that he was the first person who said this that I thought was really interesting.
00:28:59.040 It is the foil to the Eucharist where Jesus says, this is my body.
00:29:06.080 I am sacrificing my body.
00:29:08.020 This is my blood.
00:29:08.800 I am sacrificing these things for you.
00:29:11.880 It is the opposite.
00:29:13.600 This is saying my body, my choice.
00:29:16.440 You must sacrifice your body, your blood, baby, for me. 0.86
00:29:21.060 So it is its demonic counterpart.
00:29:24.240 You see that?
00:29:24.920 It's always been that.
00:29:26.560 It has always been profoundly evil.
00:29:28.660 It has always been satanic.
00:29:29.940 And like I said just a couple of minutes ago, it's incredible how this demonic activity and
00:29:37.460 how Satanism is just out in the open.
00:29:39.940 And we have become so desensitized to evil.
00:29:43.500 And we have mocked the existence of spiritual warfare.
00:29:46.400 We have mocked the existence of heaven and hell and demons and Satan and God and angels for
00:29:52.360 so long as a society that now it's just out there and most people don't even bat an eye.
00:29:59.240 And some people are actually cheering this kind of thing on.
00:30:03.380 Okay, so according to Cosmo, this New Mexico-based telehealth practice, so that's what it is.
00:30:21.200 It's an abortion clinic that offers a telehealth service that gives abortion pills, that sells
00:30:27.660 abortion pills to patients within state lines for around $91 up until the 11th week of pregnancy.
00:30:34.940 So this pill is taken, it's typically two parts, two different pills that starve and poison the baby
00:30:41.420 so that the baby then comes out.
00:30:44.480 And so in this case, you're still giving birth.
00:30:48.100 You're still a mother.
00:30:50.040 But you are deciding that the first act of motherhood that you are going to engage in is to
00:30:56.960 kill your child. 0.95
00:30:58.520 And I just don't want anyone to delude themselves into thinking that this is just a clump of
00:31:02.440 cells.
00:31:02.920 I mean, that's an illogical, unscientific statement anyway.
00:31:06.060 We're all clumps of cells.
00:31:07.980 This is just a human being at the earliest point of development.
00:31:11.280 And we don't measure someone's worth or their right to life based on how they look or how big
00:31:18.700 they are or what they can bring to the table or how productive they are.
00:31:22.800 Obviously, those aren't the measures that we give someone outside the womb. 0.99
00:31:26.180 So why would we apply that to babies inside the womb?
00:31:28.880 Just because they're helpless?
00:31:30.480 That seems really cruel.
00:31:32.060 But also, a baby at 11 weeks, I've had an 11-week sonogram.
00:31:37.220 That looks like a baby.
00:31:38.480 It looks like a full-grown baby.
00:31:41.540 Obviously, the baby is really small, but it's got arms and legs and fingers and toes.
00:31:45.520 It's kicking.
00:31:46.040 It's moving.
00:31:47.080 It's flipping around.
00:31:48.140 I remember being stunned by this when I had my 11-and-a-half-week sonogram with my first baby.
00:31:54.620 You can see the brain.
00:31:55.480 You can see where the teeth are coming in.
00:31:56.940 You can see the ribs.
00:31:57.740 You can see all of the organs.
00:31:59.480 So even though that baby has been a human being since the point of conception, don't delude
00:32:03.760 yourselves into thinking that this is just a tiny glob that's going to be expelled from
00:32:07.860 the uterus.
00:32:08.500 Like, this looks like a baby.
00:32:11.100 This looks like a child and just needs the time and the nourishment to grow.
00:32:15.880 And obviously, the abortion pill robs them of that ability.
00:32:21.600 And so they die.
00:32:23.140 This is also very dangerous.
00:32:24.800 I know that it's billed as women's rights and women's liberation.
00:32:28.280 But just like all forms of left-wing liberation, it actually is very damaging for the people that
00:32:34.040 it says that it's liberating.
00:32:35.480 And in this case, it is women. 1.00
00:32:37.720 Um, because this can be a very dangerous process.
00:32:42.720 Many times you actually need a sonogram to confirm what week of pregnancy you are.
00:32:48.280 Not every woman keeps close track of their periods or even, unfortunately, keeps track 1.00
00:32:53.520 of when they had the unprotected sex.
00:32:55.580 And so they don't know.
00:32:58.060 They don't know how far along they are.
00:32:59.980 Maybe they're guessing they're 10 weeks.
00:33:01.420 And so they order this abortion pill. 0.92
00:33:03.060 But really, they're 14 weeks.
00:33:04.420 That's obviously very dangerous for the child who is going to die.
00:33:07.540 But that's very dangerous for the mother.
00:33:09.340 And even if it is within that first trimester and the first 11 weeks, there are things that
00:33:13.840 can happen.
00:33:14.840 I mean, you can hemorrhage.
00:33:16.440 It can be extremely painful.
00:33:18.300 And you're just what left to cope with this in the bathroom. 0.98
00:33:22.120 And you don't get the medical attention right away that you need.
00:33:25.800 And you have to go into the ER.
00:33:27.380 Like, how is this helpful?
00:33:29.780 I mean, again, this is just satanic.
00:33:32.420 This is bloodthirst.
00:33:33.760 This is evil.
00:33:35.280 And they're owning that.
00:33:36.300 They're owning the satanic aspect of this.
00:33:39.340 The article claims that because of this distinction being categorized as a religious institution
00:33:43.720 rather than an abortion clinic, patients who don't have to be satanists themselves are
00:33:48.300 participating in a religious ritual.
00:33:51.080 And so that's how they continue to, I guess, make this service available.
00:33:56.960 According to the article, the Satanic Temple chose New Mexico because it has about 3,300 members in the state, which is also considered an abortion rights stronghold.
00:34:06.960 So just really disgusting stuff promoted by the magazine Cosmo, who, of course, they are part of the reason for people's so-called need for abortion,
00:34:20.860 because they have been pushing promiscuity and so-called sexual liberation their entire existence.
00:34:28.740 So Cosmo also on their on their Instagram, they actually give you a give you a tutorial for how to do this, for how to make taking the abortion pill some kind of religious ritual.
00:34:44.600 And it's very, very disturbing, like the slides that they show on on Instagram, they're dark red with white writing, and then they have an upside down cross, an upside down cross.
00:35:00.440 So it's just I mean, it's just out there and I won't even go through it because it's also dark and really just really disturbing.
00:35:08.920 But it actually so I didn't even realize this when I said what I did earlier about the Eucharist.
00:35:15.620 But one of the slides says this by my body, my blood, by my will, it is done.
00:35:21.460 That's what Cosmo is saying that women should say to themselves while they are having an abortion, while they are taking this abortion pill to kill their child.
00:35:31.660 Let me repeat that by my body, my blood, by my will, it is done.
00:35:38.120 Obviously, that is a distortion of what Jesus says in the garden as he is, again, about to sacrifice his blood for us.
00:35:49.080 He says, not my will, Father, but your will be done.
00:35:54.340 And then, of course, he goes to the cross to spill his blood on our behalf.
00:35:57.720 This is the exact opposite.
00:35:58.960 This is the God of self saying, by my will, let this be done.
00:36:05.840 You, child, sacrifice your blood in service to me.
00:36:11.280 Evil, evil stuff.
00:36:13.340 This is Cosmo.
00:36:14.920 And there is TikTok also about this.
00:36:17.840 This is a thing.
00:36:18.560 This is not just happening in New Mexico, but abortion witchcraft. 1.00
00:36:23.360 And here is someone on TikTok, a video with lots of views, sharing this.
00:36:29.200 How to practice abortion as a magical ritual. 0.57
00:36:32.400 I am a witch who has had abortions and has used them as rituals. 0.99
00:36:37.880 I've been through this twice.
00:36:38.800 And it's birthing magic and death magic simultaneously.
00:36:43.500 If you are a womb body who has made the decision to have an abortion, keep in mind that there is death and there is life. 0.71
00:36:51.480 There has been a conception.
00:36:53.100 There is life that has been conceived.
00:36:54.960 Second thing you want to keep in mind is that there is going to be an ending.
00:36:58.200 You're calling death.
00:36:59.060 You're calling ending to that conception.
00:37:01.040 You're calling ending to that cycle of growth within you physically.
00:37:04.660 And you're calling death to things.
00:37:06.940 A death to growth of something.
00:37:08.900 Something that's been growing in your life that no longer serves you, that you don't want.
00:37:13.820 Yikes.
00:37:14.900 Yikes.
00:37:15.760 So they admit that it's life.
00:37:17.480 So I just wish that those who call themselves Christian pro-choicers would at least be as honest as the pro-abortion witches. 0.99
00:37:27.300 Like, at least they're honest.
00:37:28.820 I can commend her for that.
00:37:30.120 That she is at least acknowledging that it's a life.
00:37:32.520 Because the people who try to reconcile somehow Christianity and the satanic ritual, which abortion always is, by the way, whether you acknowledge it or not. 0.78
00:37:40.820 Whether you do these incantations or not.
00:37:42.980 It's always a satanic practice.
00:37:45.120 It is always a sacrifice to Satan.
00:37:47.960 Wow.
00:37:51.740 At least be honest about it.
00:37:54.300 Like, at least be as honest as they are.
00:37:56.320 That they are saying that it is a life.
00:38:00.320 Whereas those who try to reconcile Christianity and abortion say that it's a potential life.
00:38:05.880 That's what I've heard.
00:38:06.580 That it's a potential life.
00:38:07.700 Well, that's just not scientifically true.
00:38:09.580 At least these people are saying what it is.
00:38:11.220 It is a life.
00:38:12.380 And you are taking that life.
00:38:13.780 It's murder.
00:38:16.400 And yes, if you have had an abortion, there is grace, even for murder. 0.93
00:38:21.420 There is.
00:38:22.140 I mean, God can forgive anyone.
00:38:24.120 He can make anyone new.
00:38:26.200 And you are not too far off.
00:38:27.860 You're not too far gone.
00:38:29.420 You are not too broken.
00:38:30.620 You are not too sinful for God to bring you in by his grace and make you new and to wipe your slate clean.
00:38:36.280 So I just want to make sure that you know that.
00:38:38.200 But that doesn't mean we have to downplay the reality of what abortion is.
00:38:41.660 The other side isn't doing that.
00:38:43.620 So that's why I also always hate when I hear, oh, pro-lifers need to compromise.
00:38:48.480 We need to compromise on abortion.
00:38:50.180 Just give them a little bit of baby murder. 1.00
00:38:52.080 Just give them a little bit of satanic murder ritual of babies. 1.00
00:38:58.380 And then we'll finally win elections.
00:39:00.920 Do you think you can compromise with something like this?
00:39:03.800 Do you think you need to give any concessions to this side, this satanic side?
00:39:09.500 Really?
00:39:10.380 Does that make any sense, any moral sense anyway?
00:39:14.420 I mean, I don't know.
00:39:15.600 Maybe it makes some pragmatic sense if all you care about is winning elections.
00:39:19.820 I wouldn't care if it did win us elections.
00:39:21.840 I wouldn't compromise with that side.
00:39:23.340 Um, so really, really gross stuff.
00:39:27.700 And so it's just a reminder that this is like Ephesians 6 is true, that this is way beyond
00:39:33.960 politics.
00:39:34.480 Like this is way beyond the culture war.
00:39:37.540 There is a spiritual battle that is ultimate.
00:39:41.320 There's a spiritual battle that is going on underneath, above and within all that we see.
00:39:48.340 Abortion is not just one of those, oh, divisive issues that Christians should really just
00:39:53.200 not talk about or think about.
00:39:55.500 Like this is a biblical issue.
00:39:57.340 This is a gospel issue.
00:39:58.880 This is a spiritual warfare issue.
00:40:01.220 The other side sees it as that.
00:40:03.700 It's time that we should too.
00:40:05.140 And maybe our problem may be the reason why abortion is a losing issue, as some people say
00:40:11.900 when it comes to elections, is because we've compromised too much.
00:40:16.280 Because the other side sees it as something that is profoundly spiritual, something that is
00:40:21.180 so necessary, and we kind of just see it as this, I don't know, this issue, rather than
00:40:27.720 something that is an existential threat to humanity.
00:40:31.340 I don't know.
00:40:32.360 Very dark.
00:40:33.480 But thankfully, as we know, and we'll talk about a little bit, a little bit more at the
00:40:38.680 very end, Jesus wins.
00:40:41.280 He wins.
00:40:42.080 And he will avenge the blood of every baby murdered in or outside of the womb.
00:40:47.160 He will avenge the blood of the innocent, and one day he will come back, and it won't
00:40:51.500 be as a baby.
00:40:53.020 It won't be as a lamb, but it will be as an avenger.
00:40:57.580 It will be as a warrior riding in on the white horse with the sword coming out of his mouth
00:41:02.140 and the tattoo on his thigh.
00:41:03.540 That is the Jesus that's coming back, and he cares about abortion. 1.00
00:41:06.800 He cares about innocent blood spilled.
00:41:08.500 He cares about injustice.
00:41:09.680 He cares about true oppression.
00:41:11.840 He cares about all of the wrong that's going on in the world.
00:41:14.320 And whenever you hear, why does God let wrong happen, it's very tempting to wallow in that
00:41:18.320 and to question God's goodness.
00:41:19.920 But the fact is, he's not doing nothing.
00:41:22.200 That his eternal plan of redemption and salvation and victory is always going off every moment
00:41:27.780 without a hitch.
00:41:29.800 And that the universe is his.
00:41:31.340 It's always been his.
00:41:32.520 It will always be his.
00:41:34.000 And he will take care of evil once and for all.
00:41:37.480 We can trust in that.
00:41:38.440 We can have joy in that, and we can move forward doing the next right thing in light of that,
00:41:46.660 knowing that victory is sure and that evil will not have the last word.
00:41:52.760 All right.
00:41:53.900 One more thing, speaking of evil, that I just want to mention at the end of this,
00:41:58.440 as we are talking about the victory that we have in the Lord, there is this awful story
00:42:03.980 coming out of Arizona, a man named Hans Schmidt.
00:42:08.600 He is a preacher.
00:42:10.320 He's the outreach director at Victory Chapel First Phoenix Church, and he was preaching
00:42:16.000 on the street.
00:42:16.760 He was sharing the gospel.
00:42:18.880 And on Wednesday, November 15th, around 6.15 p.m., he was shot in the head.
00:42:25.880 He was shot in the head while he was preaching on a sidewalk.
00:42:28.840 He is a father of two little girls, I think I saw, and married just a few years ago.
00:42:39.040 And as far as I know, he is in critical condition still.
00:42:44.240 And so we need to be praying for him.
00:42:47.360 We need to be praying for his family.
00:42:49.360 The statements that I've seen from his wife, it seems like she has all the confidence that
00:42:54.140 you can have in the Lord, that the Lord's will is going to be done, and that he is going
00:43:00.520 to be glorified, and that he is somehow going to bring good out of what Satan meant for evil.
00:43:06.780 But pray for his life.
00:43:08.480 Like, pray that he would survive.
00:43:11.860 Pray that the doctors would have wisdom, that they would have care.
00:43:14.820 And by the way, the criminal that shot him is still at large.
00:43:19.080 The last I read, anyway.
00:43:20.780 And the last I read, I think, was this morning.
00:43:22.760 He's still at large.
00:43:23.460 Pray for justice.
00:43:25.580 Although God is going to bring ultimate justice once and for all, in the end, he still demands
00:43:31.760 justice in this life.
00:43:32.840 Read Romans 13 and what he expects of earthly governments to be vessels of vengeance for
00:43:38.680 the wrongdoer.
00:43:40.580 This person needs to be brought to justice swiftly and charged with attempted murder.
00:43:49.300 And so pray.
00:43:51.200 Pray for his family.
00:43:52.200 Pray for Hans.
00:43:53.460 And I don't expect very much from our government or from the media when it comes to covering
00:44:01.260 Christian persecution.
00:44:02.260 Anything that goes against the narrative that white, so-called cisgender, straight, Christian,
00:44:10.880 evangelical Republicans are the source of all oppression. 0.95
00:44:14.840 We can't be oppressed.
00:44:16.400 We can't be victims of anything.
00:44:17.640 We are always seen as the side of the oppressor.
00:44:19.960 We're not going to get a shout out by the president or the media or anything like that.
00:44:23.500 No one will talk about Christian persecution, even though Christians are the most persecuted
00:44:27.780 religious group in the world.
00:44:29.440 I don't expect any of that.
00:44:32.800 I do still think this should be a bigger story than it is, and at least among the church,
00:44:37.020 at least among the body of Christ.
00:44:38.400 Let's do what we can to rally around them and just pray.
00:44:41.960 Because the prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working, as the book of
00:44:46.640 James tells us.
00:44:47.780 They do have a GoFundMe.
00:44:48.900 We'll put the link in the description of this episode.
00:44:53.580 And the great news is that to live is Christ and to die is gain.
00:45:01.300 And so we want him to live.
00:45:03.020 We want him to have many more years with his daughters and with his wife.
00:45:06.420 We want him to continue to be able to preach the gospel.
00:45:10.540 But if he dies, it is his gain.
00:45:13.840 He will get to be where he has always longed to be, where he hoped other people would end
00:45:18.880 up, too, when they turn from their sin to Christ.
00:45:22.420 And that is with Christ forever and ever.
00:45:24.940 So continue to pray for the Schmitz, for his wife, for his kids, and for him as well.
00:45:41.420 All right.
00:45:42.080 I know we had to talk about some really dark stuff today.
00:45:44.440 That's why I wanted to kind of start out lighthearted, but just also remind you of the
00:45:48.560 eternal truth that God is totally in control.
00:45:51.360 I mean, it's really tempting for me.
00:45:52.840 It's tempting for every individual.
00:45:54.460 But I think especially parents, as we look at the innocence and the vulnerability of our
00:45:58.060 kids and think about the world that they're going to grow up in, just to be anxious and
00:46:02.000 to be sad and to be scared and to just say, I don't want to go outside.
00:46:05.900 I don't want to reach out to the world.
00:46:07.500 Like, I don't want to confront this darkness.
00:46:09.140 I don't want to talk about it.
00:46:09.980 I don't want to think about it.
00:46:10.900 I'm going to pretend like none of this exists.
00:46:13.100 Now, I think some of that is OK, because we don't have the capacity to carry on all of the
00:46:17.900 worries and the troubles in the world because we don't have the capacity to do something
00:46:22.580 about everything.
00:46:24.060 It's, you know, the compassion fatigue is real and you do kind of have to just focus
00:46:28.100 on what's in front of you.
00:46:29.260 But we also can't pretend that the things outside our window are not happening.
00:46:34.320 Remember, all of these things matter because people matter.
00:46:36.700 These all affect people.
00:46:37.780 And while I don't think we should be obsessed with the news, we can't be obsessed with politics.
00:46:41.800 We can't put our hope and our trust in politics and winning the culture war and all of
00:46:45.720 those things.
00:46:46.340 We have to do what we can in obedience to make the city, make the community, make the
00:46:55.220 home, the place that we live in better than when we got there.
00:46:59.060 I do think that that is our responsibility and caring about politics and caring about these
00:47:03.360 things going on in the world are a part of that.
00:47:06.100 They're a part of that.
00:47:06.860 They're not everything, but they're a part of that.
00:47:09.240 Most of the time, it's doing the mundane things.
00:47:11.840 Most of the time, it's doing the things that don't seem like they matter.
00:47:15.140 Doing the things in private, doing the things that people never see, the changing the diapers,
00:47:19.220 the washing the dishes, the making the lunches, the sending the emails, the studying for the
00:47:24.600 test, the whatever it is, the conversations, the little things in life that seem like maybe
00:47:30.760 they're not a big deal, but when done in obedience, have the power to glorify God and
00:47:35.660 to change hearts and minds.
00:47:37.000 They all matter.
00:47:38.200 But sometimes we're called to do public things.
00:47:40.460 Sometimes we're called to do big outside of our home acts of faith.
00:47:45.280 And we just have to ensure that in everything we are trusting in the Lord and everything
00:47:51.200 that we do, we are doing it for his glory and he's using it all.
00:47:56.620 He's using it all to create for us a glory that far outweighs any trial and any evil that
00:48:04.880 we experience here on earth.
00:48:06.420 So let us just keep that in mind as we bring courage and clarity to every sphere and space
00:48:12.900 that we occupy.
00:48:14.080 The time is past for confusion and cowardice and all these things that we talked about
00:48:19.100 today.
00:48:19.620 The time is for clarity.
00:48:20.900 The church has always been a refuge of clarity and courage for the lost, and we should continue
00:48:25.760 to be that in every way that we can.
00:48:28.240 All right.
00:48:28.840 Before we head out, I do just want to tell you about a deal that's going on for The Blind.
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00:48:39.680 It's an incredible story, just an incredible testimony.
00:48:42.180 I love hearing testimonies, especially when it seems like the world is so dark because
00:48:46.420 God is in the business of redemption.
00:48:48.180 He's in the business of making new.
00:48:49.780 He's in the business of making beauty out of ashes.
00:48:52.140 And that's just very comforting to me.
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00:49:09.820 Share it with your friends, all that good stuff.
00:49:11.800 All right.
00:49:12.520 That's all we've got for today, and we will be back here tomorrow.
00:49:16.120 We'll be back here tomorrow.