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June 12, 2026
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The Hamilton Minute is a power packed 60 seconds where we tackle the issues of the day through the lens of God’s Word. You don’t want to miss a moment of it.
The Hamilton Minute is a power packed 60 seconds where we tackle the issues of the day through the lens of God’s Word. You don’t want to miss a moment of it.
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“I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.” John 17:15 (NASB95)
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
In Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer recorded in John 17, He makes the observation that the world would hate His disciples. Yet, He follows that by praying not that His disciples would be removed from the world, but that we would be kept from the evil one.
As difficult as times have become, we Christ-followers must recognize that our God and King saved us and planted us in the world at this time intentionally. It would be an abdication of our assignment to adopt an escapist disposition. We’ve been ordained for this moment.
"Longing to see you, even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy.” 2 Timothy 1:4 (NASB95)
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Paul’s second epistle to Timothy was written near the very end of Paul’s life, while he was incarcerated awaiting an imminent, albeit uncertain execution under Nero.
He begins chapter one of this epistle describing how he prayed for Timothy night and day and how he longed to see him. This reveals a fiber and texture that undergirded their relationship. Paul and Timothy loved each other deeply.
This deep and abiding reciprocal love is necessary to effective disciple making. Knowledge isn’t enough to make a disciple. The love of Christ must abound.
“And he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze.”
My name is Abraham Hamilton III, and this is The Hamilton Minute.
This is a description recorded in scripture about a man named Hiram. His father was a Sidonian. His mother was an Israelite, of the tribe of Naphtali.
Because God filled Hiram with wisdom, understanding and skill for all manner of metalwork, Solomon summoned him from Tyre to work on the Lord’s temple.
We must understand, embrace and celebrate that God’s granting of wisdom includes our metalworkers, stone masons, carpenters, plumbers, truck drivers and more.
He gives wisdom for daily duty, and we need laborers filled with God’s wisdom.
“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” Matthew 19:5 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
God initiated human history and defined for all time what marriage is and identified the only two types of candidates that comprise a marriage: one man and one woman. He also identified the archetypical union from which these candidates would derive. The prospective husband and wife both come from the ancestral unit of a Father and Mother.
Though Adam and Eve didn’t have biological parents, this pronouncement reveals God had particularized specifics in mind as to what He ordained Fathers and Mothers to be. Fallenness didn’t change God’s plan.
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” Matthew 7:24 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Our world that is changing quickly and dramatically. But we do not have to fret. Jesus, as He concluded the Sermon on the Mount, already told us how to prepare ourselves. Submitting ourselves to his Word with regularity and consistency is one part of the preparation strategy. The other part is doing what He’s said.
The coming rain, floods, and wind are inevitable. He didn’t say “if” they come. He said “when” they come. Having Christ’s Word, but failing to obey Him qualifies one for the hall of fools.
“And He was saying to them all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.” Luke 9:23 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
As comforting as it is to know that eternal life in the tangible, manifested presence the Messiah is our home, salvation is not intended to focus us exclusively on the eternal state. In fact, Jesus explicitly instructed His disciples that we are to be reproducing disciple-makers.
Central to following Christ as his disciple is denying ourselves daily. Living self-willed, self-absorbed, and self-centered lives is actually contrary to the call to follow Christ. Denying ourselves is a daily priority if we are to follow Him.
“You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.” 1 Samuel 12:21 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Samuel admonished the Israelites, “… do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.” v. 20(b). The inevitable consequence of “turning aside” from the LORD is that you will give yourself to futility, things that “can not profit or deliver.”
Do you want your life to mean something? Do you want it to count? You actually were created for life eternal. The only way forward is to give your life wholeheartedly to Christ.
Eternal life is the only way to live now.
“Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way.” 1 Samuel 12:23 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
When the Israelites finally grasped the gravity of what they’d done in demanding a “king to judge us like all the nations,” they asked Samuel to pray for them that they “may not die” (1 Samuel 8:5; 12:19). Samuel agreed to both pray and instruct them in righteousness.
Christ-followers shouldn’t allow people to manipulate us into co-signing wickedness by saying, “just pray for me.”
We will certainly pray AND speak the truth in love.
“Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way.” 1 Samuel 12:23 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
When the Israelites finally grasped the gravity of what they’d done in demanding a “king to judge us like all the nations,” they asked Samuel to pray for them that they “may not die” (1 Samuel 8:5; 12:19). Samuel agreed to both pray and instruct them in righteousness.
Christ-followers shouldn’t allow people to manipulate us into co-signing wickedness by saying, “just pray for me.”
We will certainly pray AND speak the truth in love.
So the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.
My name is Abraham Hamilton III, and this is the Hamilton Minute.
First Samuel chapter 1 begins by introducing us to a woman named Hannah.
She was tormented and grieved by bareness.
Hannah wept continually and was so disturbed that she wasn't eating.
Yet she makes her way to the Lord's temple, poored out her heart to Him , moving her lips but not uttering a sound.
Immediately, as she concluded her prayer, the matter was settled.
Though she didn't have any tangible evidence of an answer to her heart's cry at the moment, she had the tangible confidence in the one to whom she cried.
The matter was settled, in prayer.
“So that you will walk in a manner worthy of the LORD, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.” Colossians 1:10 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
In Paul’s Epistle to the Colossians, he noted that he prayed continually for the Believers there to be filled with the knowledge of God’s will “in all spiritual understanding.” 1:9. The answered prayer would result in lives lived in a manner worthy of the LORD and pleasing to Him in ALL RESPECTS.
The sanctifying work of the Spirit of God in us touches every area of our lives. Christ-following cannot be siloed or selective. He is LORD of all.
“God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston has agreed to stop administering puberty blockers to children, pay $10 million in penalties, and open the first “
This conclusion follows the courageous whistleblowing efforts of Dr. Ethan Haim, who revealed the hospital was performing “transition” services in violation of the law.
Under this agreement, Texas Children’s will establish the first-ever multidisciplinary clinic designed to provide medical care to patients who’d previously been subjected to “transition” procedures.
“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.” Galatians 6:7 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The Department of Justice announced that 94 year-old former Cuban President and longtime Defense Minister Raúl Castro and five co-defendants have been indicted by a federal grand jury for four counts of murder, conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, and destruction of aircraft in connection with a 1996 incident where Cuban jets shot down humanitarian flights of the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue.
It is noteworthy, that indictment preceded Operation Absolute Resolve in which the Venezuelan Marxist dictator Nicolas Maduro was grabbed up.
Does the Castro indictment point to additional action in Cuba?
“God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
God, prayer, and the understanding that mankind is created in God’s image have become so foreign to some, that MS Now’s Katy Tur was so bewilderedSpeaker Mike Johnson’s prayer during the “Rededicate 250” rally that she said:
What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government? “They come from you, our creator and heavenly father.” Is this him putting God over the Declaration of Independence? (emphasis added)
How many more of our countrymen have no fundamental understanding of our founding and our Declaration of Independence?
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Genesis 2:24 (KJV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
According to recent data, 91% of American women and 81% of American men were married by age 30 in 1975. Those numbers have plummeted to where only 25.6% of American women and 16.5% of American men were married by age 30 in 2025.
That is a catastrophic drop. There are a number of factors that have contributed to this. The sexual revolution, feminism, pornography, no-fault divorce, sexual deviancy and more. But, the main problem is that we no longer understand biblically what God designed marriage and family to be.
So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
My name is Abraham Hamilton III, and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Before she ever became aware of the possibility of a kinsman redeemer, Ruth the Moabite demonstrated a strong work ethic and confidence in the God of Israel.
The way toward God's destiny for our lives is through faithful obedience to Him and diligent execution of what He's put in our hands to do right now.
Before concerning ourselves with what may be next, we should first ask whether we've been faithful where we are.
Faithfulness and diligence now yields clarity later. Let's put our hands to the plow we have now.
“When we heard [it,] our hearts melted and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you; for the LORD your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.” Joshua 2:11 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
When Israel was poised to enter the promised land, Rahab, the Canaanite harlot, risked her very life to protect YHWH’s people. This woman, whose life was filled with immorality, with no knowledge of YHWH’s law yet she risked her life for His people after only hearing of His exploits.
How much more then, should we give our lives for Him. We have His word. We know His ways. She we be any less committed?
Rahab’s conviction is provoking.
“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.” 2 Timothy 4:2 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
As Paul was incarcerated, facing imminent execution by Nero, he told Timothy perilous times were coming. Evil men and seducers would wax worse and worse.
But, he instructed Timothy to continue in what he knew to be true.
Then, he emphatically stated, “preach the word!”
As darkness mounts and wickedness increases, you and I must continue to cling the God’s Holy word and yield to the Lordship of Holy Spirit in our personal lives.
“I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because He judged me faithful, appointing me to His service.” 1 Timothy 1:12 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
In Paul’s first letter to Timothy, he expressed his awe, wonder and amazement at the inexhaustible grace and mercy of God in that He saw fit not only to regenerate Paul, but to also find him worthy for appointment to Gospel ministry.
Paul knows his history as a blasphemer and a terrorist who sought to destroy The Way of Christ following.
He stands as a witness to the fact, that no one—and I mean no one— is beyond the grace of God.
Keep praying for your unsaved loved ones!
“And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.” Mark 5:15 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Mark described the Gadarean demoniac, who said “My name is Legion, for we are many” as living among the tombs, breaking free from shackles and chains, howling in the night and cutting himself with stones.
But Jesus cast the demons out of him. And when the townspeople saw him with Jesus, free, clothed in his right mind… that is when they were afraid.
If you’ve recently been freed by Jesus don’t be surprised if it makes your old friends uncomfortable. It’s not you. It’s them.
