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The month of June has been hijacked by the anti Christian culture

>> Chris Woodward: The month of June has been hijacked by the anti Christian culture to show their pride in something God calls an abomination. When you support afr, you help us continue to stand for godly values and provide the resources for you to stay in the know about the enemy's tactics. To say thank you for your gift this month we'll give you the booklet Inside the LGBTQ push of the 1990s. To help strengthen your convictions, just go to afr.netoffers afr.net offers.

>> Tim Wildmon: Welcome to today's.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Issues, offering a Christian response to the.

>> Tim Wildmon: Issues of the day.

>> Chris Woodward: here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.

>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network on this Thursday, June 12, 2025. Thank you for listening to AFR. Good morning. Ed Battagliano.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Good morning.

>> Fred Jackson: Hi 10.

>> Tim Wildmon: And Chris Woodward.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Hello.

>> Tim Wildmon: And we, again, we appreciate everybody who listens to this program and, or watches us on the Internet, Facebook, YouTube, what other we talk ticking.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, I, I don't have a cat to bring in and I'm pretty sure you don't want to dance. I don't know what we'd be doing on Tick Tock.

>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I, I, I've always, I mean, I don't know if it's Tic Tac.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Tic Tac, Tick Tock or Instagram, but these videos where people get in their car and then you either go on some rant or they make some observation and I just go, I just think.

>> Tim Wildmon: Why are you doing this?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, why?

>> Chris Woodward: I just keep scrolling.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, I know. That's the problem. We just keep scrolling for another one. Yeah, I, I don't subscribe to those.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't either either.

>> Tim Wildmon: But, but inevitably if you're on the Internet, you're going to run into a TikTok video or an Instagram, whatever, and they, and then they do have those. There's 30 second entertaining.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Little videos that you just click to the next one to the next. I'm going to stop right here. Wait, look at that. Come here, somebody. Come here. Look at this.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Mine, mine will just continue to roll. Go from one. I'm talking about, I don't know if it's Facebook and that's probably Facebook rather than X. Those are the only two social media platforms I'm on. But I'm pretty sure on Facebook, if you click on one of those video reels, the short ones.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: They just go from one to the next to the next. And you know, there's some times when, you know, if I'm during intermission between periods of a hockey game.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And I may look on social media, kill some time, but sometimes I'll take a little bit of a snooze and before you know it, there's a, there's a video of a alligator almost eating a dog. They never actually get to the end of the video.

>> Tim Wildmon: What I like about what you said was you're watching a, two, three hour hockey game.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: But in order, in between the game, during the game, in order to quote, kill time, you watch Instagram or whatever.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Like it's. No, this is on Facebook. They will post or whatever. Post those.

An Air India plane carrying 244 people crashed in India today

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Sadly, there's some tragic news on the other side of the world that's making hazards headlines. Chris?

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. We have some families to pray for and certainly, investigators. We need to ask God to give wisdom. An Air India passengers plane bound for London with 244 people on board crashed today in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad. I, looked this up. It's far north of Mumbai in India. but a deadly plane crash with more than 240 souls on board. Visuals on local television channels, showed smoke blowing from the or billowing from the crash site near the airport, which has a population of about 5 million people. Investigators are still looking into, things and they will be looking into a number of things for the next few days. and someone talking about that very issue is a former NTSB investigator by the name of Mike Cofield who said this on Fox.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Clip 2 Again, I've looked, I've seen the other video and if that is factual, and I know that there's concern about that, but if that's factual, you're right. The gear was down. It appears that the flaps were already up, which is very, strange that would not be occurring with the gear still being down. And then the airplane appears to just what we call it is behind the power curve. So it starts to just kind of sink. we're going to look at the black boxes at this point. We're going to see. Make sure that the power throttles or at full throttle. We're going to make sure to, that the engines themselves didn't, shut down.

>> Tim Wildmon: what is he talking about there, Fred?

Boeing 787 crashes in India, killing all on board

Now we're talking. What we're talking about, folks, is a story out of India where in the last 12 hours. Because when I went to bed last night, 11 o' clock or so I had not heard about this story and I thought I'd watch the news but a Boeing 787. 787 went down in India. It's a commercial aircraft, Air India and killing all on board. 280 something people.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah it was 240, some people on board. That's crew and passengers. 787, very reliable, came off the line in 2009. about a thousand of them, more than a thousand of them have been built. this is the first major crash of a 787. We've all heard the stories in recent years about the 737 Max. It was held, the production was held for a while because of two or three accidents involving that particular aircraft. But this was a very reliable airplane. It is a two aisle, it seats 250, 260 passengers roughly. This airplane was on its way to Gatwick, in London and it had just taken off. That's about a 12 hour flight. So it would have been fully loaded with fuel. We just watching pictures just before we went on the air. This aircraft has this gentleman that we just heard from the ntsb. The aircraft had enough power to take off so the engines were working fine to get it up into the air. But it looks like it didn't climb any more than five or six hundred feet and then it went down. The gear was still down. Not too unusual, but it was down. This guy mentioned from the visuals that he saw that the flaps were up. That is highly unusual if that is true. Because during takeoff if you've sat in an airplane by the window, you'll notice that the flaps, those parts of the wing at the back, they put them down. And the aircraft has in the front what's called slats. It rounds the top of the wing which allows for greater lift on takeoff. If those flaps were not extended, that would be extremely unusual. But we have to wait and see. The other part of this story is that it crashed into a residential area just off the end of the Runway. And I have not seen these pictures but they say there are bodies, corpses everywhere. We do not know yet whether you know what bodies, bodies on the ground, people who died on the ground, because of the explosion, the fuel as we were talking about, or if all the passengers are dead. We just do not know that. I'm seeing right now from a newspaper, one survivor in plane crash. They're showing his picture in the hospital. There were 169 citizens of India on board. There were a group of Portuguese that were on board and, one Canadian. so we'll wait on that. But this is really, really highly unusual. The circumstances, the pictures that we're seeing, but a very tragic day for Air India.

>> Chris Woodward: This passenger, that Fred just mentioned, I found it. It's a story from Hindustan Times. And the passenger on seat 11A says trouble started 30 seconds into flight.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, the most dangerous time for a aircraft is either taking off or landing. Right.

>> Fred Jackson: Low and slow is what they say.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yeah. Well, tragic, very Sad. And, 200. And how many?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Two, 244. I'm looking at American Family News. An article there. Two, hundred and forty four aboard.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And so with one survivor, it's 243M, apparently perished.

>> Fred Jackson: The pilot had enough time to call Mayday, so he obviously knew there was problems within seconds after liftoff.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: which may speak of engine failure.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, what's the next story, Chris?

State Department tells nonessential personnel to evacuate US Embassy in Baghdad

>> Chris Woodward: Well, I mentioned, we need to be praying for the families of these crash victims. We also need to be praying about what's going on in the Middle East. And I say that because the lead story throughout all of yesterday afternoon's newscast and through the night was this morning from the State Department for all non essential personnel, to evacuate the US Embassy in Baghdad, based on its latest review and commitment to keeping Americans safe, both at home and abroad. the department also was telling nonessential personnel and family members from Bahrain and Kuwait to get out of those countries. This seems to be, related to, talks between the US And Iran over its nuclear research program reaching an impasse. for those not aware, the United States, the federal government, has been talking with Iran about its nuclear weapons program. The US and many other Western countries do not want Iran to have access to nuclear weapons. and so we have been telling, Iran, hey, you shouldn't do this. Let's talk about some ways to. For you to move on, why it's important for you to move on and whatnot. And apparently those talks have reached an impasse, and we expect some sort of attack from Iran, perhaps on US Installations or properties in places like Baghdad, Bahrain and Kuwait.

>> Tim Wildmon: We about to go to war with Iran, Ed.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, it's. It's looking like that is, increasingly likely because the US Is pulling, family members of US Military out of the Middle East. then there's a reason for that. That's expensive. That's not cheap. You're flying people out you don't, you know, you don't cry wolf too, too often. So if you're going to do that, disrupt families, lives, it's got to be for a serious reason. Now, Chris, this is the first I'm hearing that they're expecting Iran to attack first.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes. There were some AP stories yesterday saying it was a warning from like Iran's foreign minister saying, you know, we will respond if, if these talks fall apart.

>> Tim Wildmon: But that's a response.

>> Chris Woodward: Well, like we, we will respond to you not working with us on this is how I read it.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay, so, so this would be a situation where Iran's not retaliating against U.S. bases, because the U.S. attacks their nuclear facilities. You're saying that right now it looks like Iran has threatened to attack US Military bases in. If the talks collapse.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes, that was one of the things that was reported yesterday from the Associated Press. I ran it in like the four or five o' clock newscast.

>> Tim Wildmon: That would be idiotic on the part of Iran to, initiate a hot war with the United States.

>> Ed Vitagliano: It absolutely would be.

>> Tim Wildmon: So, so I don't, Now again, what we're talking about here folks, is, and President Trump has asked about this, right? And he responded yes, because, it is being reported and confirmed that the United States is pulling people and families out. military, right?

>> Chris Woodward: Correct.

>> Tim Wildmon: Military, out of a, what, like a thousand mile range of Iran or.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Something like, well, Kuwait, Bahrain, probably Iraq. and anywhere we have bases.

>> Tim Wildmon: And that's a lot of people.

>> Ed Vitagliano: What are you, what are you doing? The family members of the military. Not all family members of all the military are overseas, but some are. Yeah. So it's not a small amount of people. That's why I said it's expensive. You don't, you don't do this and rush people out of their homes and away from school. Well, can you imagine summer?

>> Tim Wildmon: But yeah, so, so anyway, so it's very, very, And that's an unusual move. I mean, how do you.

>> Ed Vitagliano: It indicates the US Expects something, a military conflict, whoever initiates. Looks like there's a real possibility that we could be at war with Iran.

>> Fred Jackson: You have to add a bunch of things together that have happened in the last three days or so. We know that the United States, has been in, discussions with Iran about, And Trump has made it very clear we're not going to allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's the gauntlet.

>> Fred Jackson: That's the gauntlet, yeah. So, and what has happened in recent days, President Trump has made public statements saying those discussions, negotiations have not been going well. He has stated that publicly. You then had news in the last two days that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel have held discussions. Now we know that, President Trump had a vigorous discussion with Netanyahu about two weeks ago. And the report was Trump telling Netanyahu, do not do any strikes against Iran. We're in the midst of these Middle East, Gaza, peace negotiations or ceasefire negotiations. But this conversation between Trump and Netanyahu took place in the last couple of days. And so when you look at all of this, the tensions are rising. Obviously, they said evacuating family members, but they also said in this order from the State Department yesterday, we're moving out all non essential personnel. So that could be lower level military people.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Also embassy people are being pulled out of Baghdad. Yeah, yep.

>> Fred Jackson: so it, all of this, is it just theater to try to add pressure to Iran or is all of this signaling to us that something dire is going to happen?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, here's part of the problem for quote, unquote, negotiations. And you have the same situation in Gaza. In both Gaza and Iran, you have religious radicals and zealots in charge. Yeah, okay. Both in both of those areas, they want the destruction of Israel. This is why the west has said Iran can't get nuclear weapons. Because they have talked about destroying the little Satan, Israel and the great Satan, the United States. So it's not like they're just angry at Israel, they intend to obliterate them. And so that's why the west, that's why the United States has said Iran can't be allowed to get nuclear weapons. So the reason I think that the negotiations are not going well with Iran is because the mullahs who are in charge are saying, no, we are going to get nuclear weapons. If you want to make a deal, pick something else. But we're getting nuclear weapons. And when those negotiations go south, because all indications are Iran is getting very close to having the capability to produce nuclear weapons, the US and or Israel are going to attack. Iran knows that they might strike first.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, I did find a quote. Now I read something from the Associated Press today that or yesterday that was slightly different. But here is a Defense Minister of Iran quote on Al Jazeera. Okay, okay. it says, defense Minister so and so said on Wednesday that Iran would target US Military bases in the region if the US Attacked it first. And he went on to say, quote, some officials on the other side threaten conflict if negotiations don't come to fruition. If a conflict is imposed on us, all US bases are within our reach and we will boldly target them in host countries.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, if there's, if there's war between the US and, or Israel and Iran, it's not going to, it's not going to go well for Iran. Now whether or not we can stop their nuclear, their attempts to gain a nuclear weapon, they're, they're buried deep within the ground. I think perhaps we can collapse the ground on top of them, but we would for sure target their naval, capacities and their anti air capacities. And so it would be a hot shooting war.

Tim Goodman: A week from a confrontation between the United States and Iran

We'd be at war with them and who knows what the fallout is in other parts of the world because you have that kind of triad of evil, Russia and China and Iran, you might be able to toss north, Korea in there too. So who knows what's going to happen? We could have something very serious erupting here in the next.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, I've had about all the bad news.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: We're heading into the weekend and I understand this is depressing me.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And then who knows what happens to the economy? Tim.

>> Chris Woodward: This is why I have gray hair.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, listen, we're just layman talking here, right. We don't have obviously access, would we understand probably all the intelligence that the CIA has, that the FBI has, that President Trump and his team are privy to. we just know that as Fred mentioned earlier, all the circumstantial evidence that has led us to this point, is an indication that we're getting close. Who knows? A week, two, three from a confrontation, an armed confrontation between the United States and Iran. That's what it appears. now this would be a, this is one of the moments in a presidency that defines it, seems to me, potentially at least. Ah. Because President Trump has said, as has Benjamin Netanyahu. Right. And others. Prime Minister, Iran will not be allowed to. That's the language they use.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: May have a nuclear weapon. Well, what if Iran and Iran is saying stop? Oh yeah, stop us.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Is that where, that's where we are. And so it would be President Trump that would have to initiate a military attack on Iran to destroy their nuclear weapons, wherever they are, however they may be. Who knows? Well, I guess we know the United.

>> Ed Vitagliano: States, the nuclear research facilities.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And, and, and So, yeah, I don't know. This is, is somebody bluffing? you know what I'm saying?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, that's, that's, that's why I Said it's the same situation in Gaza as it is in Iran.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, Gaza doesn't have a nuclear weapon.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, no, but I'm talking about the fact that they're run by religious zealots. They don't. They. There's no need to bluff if you think Allah is on your side and is going to give you victory because you're going to get that nuclear weapon because Allah wills it, and with his help, you're going to eliminate both Israel and the United States. I guess that's what I'm talking about. Is that religious zealotry? Yeah, I don't think. I don't think they're bluffing is what I'm saying.

>> Chris Woodward: Representative, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania was on Washington Watch yesterday. I do not have the sound, but, he. He was talking with Tony Perkins, about how some people are like, well, you know, Iran, it's also interested in just nuclear energy research. They want to be able to power their country like us and some other countries or whatever else. and Congressman Perry went on to say that it is very clear, Iran is only interested in an only weapons nuclear research program, and therefore President Trump and others have a right to be concerned.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. well, we'll see what happens. There's nothing. There's. We've reached an impasse.

>> Chris Woodward: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Seems to me like, clearly that. So whatever is going to happen in the next three weeks, six weeks, whatever. Because it appears that, by the way, I said President Trump commented on this. Do we have that clip?

>> Chris Woodward: We do not. We were looking for it prior to the show.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, did he. Am I wrong about that? Somebody said at our show meeting that.

>> Ed Vitagliano: He said, I read it, I have not heard it.

>> Tim Wildmon: He said, we'll see.

>> Ed Vitagliano: When asked about it, in fact, I think he said, you'll see.

>> Tim Wildmon: You'll see. Talking to a reporter.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: And I asked, why are all these US Military, personnel being moved? And they need to respond. And he said, you'll see.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That's. That is what. The way I recall what I read.

>> Chris Woodward: Okay. I.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's something you really should say. No comment.

>> Chris Woodward: I'm seeing a will see if the Insurrection. Insurrection act needed amid protests in Los Angeles.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's not.

>> Chris Woodward: That's not the same thing.

>> Tim Wildmon: So, So I can't. We cannot confirm nor deny.

>> Chris Woodward: No, I got it. I got it.

>> Tim Wildmon: We can confirm.

>> Chris Woodward: This is from abc, so take it for what you want.

Donald J. Trump confirms US personnel are being removed from Middle East

Thank you very much. Trump confirms, US Personnel are being removed from parts of the Middle East. There is a quote in here from our Chief executive Donald J. Trump, who says, well, they are being moved out because it could be a dangerous place and we'll see what happens. But they are, we're given notice to move out. We'll see what happens. And I think probably what you saw may have been a snippet of that headline.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Chris Woodward: As his commentary.

>> Tim Wildmon: We'll see what happens.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, I guess.

>> Tim Wildmon: I guess so.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I mean, that's. That's not what I recall, but I don't want to sound like a politician. I do not recall.

>> Tim Wildmon: I do not recall.

>> Chris Woodward: I'd vote for you.

All right, let's go ahead and take our break early here. All right, we'll see if we can round up some happy news

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, let's go ahead and take our break early here.

>> Ed Vitagliano: let's go to the bunker.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, well, one of these days, it's just gonna be me and Brent on a remote AM signal on a random.

>> Tim Wildmon: Tuesday afternoon playing the Carpenters.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. Rainy days in mushroom clouds.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, we'll see if we can round up some happy news for the next half hour. Ladies and gentlemen, we do have Pastor.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Joseph, Parker coming in.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Talking about Ten Commandments.

>> Tim Wildmon: You gonna talk about the tank?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Hear that? Iran. Thou shalt not kill.

>> Tim Wildmon: And how. How to.

>> Chris Woodward: You should covet your neighbor's stuff.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Including nuclear weapons.

>> Chris Woodward: There you go.

>> Tim Wildmon: You don't want to covet nuclear weapons.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You just say nuclear.

>> Tim Wildmon: I did, George W. That's a Southern way of saying nuclear. We. We shall take a break right here. We'll be back. Mom.

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>> Chris Woodward: Him we were also chosen as God's own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him.

>> Fred Jackson: M, who works out everything by the.

>> Chris Woodward: Counsel of his will, in order that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be for the praise of his glory. Ephesians, chapter 1, verse 11 and 12.

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Countdown to nuclear war is what we've been focusing on on Issues

>> Tim Wildmon: Welcome back, everybody, to today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Countdown to nuclear war is what we've been focusing on for the first half hour of this program.

>> Chris Woodward: And, we're at defcon Negative one.

>> Tim Wildmon: Negative one.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. It's worse than you go. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. So it is a very serious, volatile situation. We don't mean to make light of it. President Trump, to repeat the top story, the U.S. Army, U.S. military personnel families are being m. essential employees only are being left right on bases in the Middle east, because. And President Trump says, we'll see what happens. That was his comment, right? Yeah, we'll see what happens. And so it's a. The negotiations between Iran and the United States such that they were to get Iran to stop making. How you say it, stop me?

>> Ed Vitagliano: I'm, not sure. Oh, nuclear.

>> Tim Wildmon: Nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear. Why. Why is it. I can't say that.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I don't know.

>> Tim Wildmon: Fred, can you say it?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Say it.

>> Fred Jackson: Nuclear.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Well, you're a newsman, a veteran newsman. so anyway, it's a very serious situation. And, as you said, we need to pray for President Trump and, in this situation. but it seems to be coming to a head, right?

>> Ed Vitagliano: It's. It does, yeah, it does seem to be coming to a head. And it's one of those things where there is no real room for compromise. The west and Israel, including Israel, has said Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons. The mullahs in charge of Iran have said, yes, we will. And they're trying to, you know, perhaps have some negotiations, but it does not seem, it seems to be falling apart because I think this is an intractable, unsolvable problem. Someone's going to win and someone's going to lose on this.

>> Fred Jackson: Apparently the other ingredient in this story is that. And I think that's why President Trump made the comment he did the other day about talks are not going well. There is a belief that Iran was trying to extend the talks. Extend the talks, Extend the talks while it is moving towards uranium level nuclear, weapons for nuclear weapons. So I think Trump was believing, and his security people were believing that Iran was just stalling to give a time to either full blown nuclear weapon.

>> Tim Wildmon: How do we know they don't have them now?

>> Fred Jackson: Well, we don't. And the other factor is that it's believed that Iran keeps pushing these weapons down deeper and deeper to avoid being destroyed by any, whether it's Israel attacking or United States.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. All right, well, we'll see what happened. I'm quoting President Trump, quote, let's see what happens.

>> Ed Vitagliano: See what happens.

>> Tim Wildmon: See what happens right there. But President Trump did use, were a dangerous situation, didn't he?

>> Chris Woodward: I believe so.

>> Tim Wildmon: You know what you quoted a few minutes ago. All right, so, that's, we got some other, news stories to cover.

American Family Radio has a project called the Ten Commandments Project

But, on a, on a good, a good note, we have Pastor, Joseph Parker here. he's host of Hour of Intercession, heard weekdays at 3 in the morning Central time on American Family Radio. Good morning.

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: Morning, Tim, Joe, Good to be with you all today.

>> Tim Wildmon: Pastor Joseph Parker, how long you been hosting that show?

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: I think about 12 years now.

>> Tim Wildmon: 12 years, but not, not daily, right?

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: Monday, through Friday.

>> Tim Wildmon: No, but not daily. The whole time. It seems like it started out as a weekly, but. But maybe I'm wrong about that. But you're not gonna tell your boss you're wrong, right?

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, sir, that's right. No, we've got something going on called the Ten Commandments Project. Talk about that.

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: Right. We've had this project going on for several years now, and I think it gets more exciting with every passing year. It's a youth discipleship project. And one aspect of it is very simply, if a young person memorizes 10 commandments and recites them to their dad or mom, dad or mom can call us, give us their size and mailing address, and we'll mail them a free Ten Commandments T shirt. specifically during the month of June, we're having the part of the project that's called the Ten Commandments Speech Challenge. It's where a young person will put together a speech based on the commandment for the year. This year, it's the first commandment, you shall have no other gods before me. And we're inviting young people basically to, to write a speech and they're welcome to get help from dad and mom if they need to. Three to five minutes is the suggested link. Record it and send it to us. Either email it to faqfa.net or j parkerfa.net and put in the four column Ten Commandments project speech Challenge. And I remember, I think last year we ended up with I think about 57 speeches. And it's been an exciting discipleship project from this standpoint. It's helping young people plant the word of God in their minds and their hearts, but also teaching them how to take truth, ingest it and share it with others. And so we're looking forward to the speeches. They've already started pouring in and so as I said it gets more exciting every year. And for those that participate, they'll get a free Ten Commandments T shirt, a bookmark and a free shipping, coupon code to use in the AFA Resource Center.

>> Tim Wildmon: Ed?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah. I love this project and you, every year after it's finished will take some of the best and put a collection of those together. We get to watch those in our AFA devotions. So the staff gets to see these as well. But I'm always blown away by the capacity, the ability of these young people. And they're not all teenagers. These, some of them are what I would say, little kids, small children, small. And they love God's word. They love God and they, that comes out in these videos and they're the ones who have to create the wording as they speak. I don't want to say in defense of one of the commandments, in explanation of what the commandment means and how it applies. And these young people, some of them are going to make a good preacher. And it's almost like raising up a generation of, of young people, whether they become, you know, officially become members of the clergy or not, as you said, Joseph, they're, they are going to develop an awareness of how to explain the scriptures to their community.

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: Very much so. And you know, I think of this too, that this is true, you know, that the Ten Commandments are found in their entirety in Exodus and Deuteronomy and they're the moral law of God. And it's so important for us to understand it's the basics of our faith. And some people make the big mistake of saying, well that's Old Testament, they're old fashioned. The moral law of God never changes. And the biggest problems in our society and in the news are a result of people violating the wisdom behind the Ten Commandments. So knowing Them and learning them and living by them is a very wise thing on our part as believers, obviously. So it's a great curriculum God has given us.

>> Tim Wildmon: Give that information, tell it again. Maybe there are people going, I didn't write that down. What are we asking for now?

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: We're asking them just again to write the speech. They record it with their cell phone or any other means that they.

>> Tim Wildmon: You mean a video of them reading their speech? And what's the speech about?

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: it's on the 10th first commandment. You shall have no other gods before me. And we suggest three to five minutes. And again, ages 7 to 17 is the, is the as the age range. And some of all of this, all of the speeches every year, to be quite honest, are good. They're really good.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Do we post those?

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: Well, sometimes we'll post them on our social media. But also, like, like for example, at the, at the Activate Conference, we're actually going to share a montage of some of the speeches with some of the young people. And one of our goals is to inspect, inviting young people to share truth. See, like one of the things that we do is we encourage each young person. Also ask your pastor if he'll let you share it on Sunday morning. Well, actually a minimal number of them actually do that for different reasons. But like for example, a little girl in the church that I pastor, she sent me her speech this morning. She's just turned seven. Powerful little speech. I fully intend to let her share her speeches coming Sunday morning. And so it's inviting them to learn to share truth in their.

>> Tim Wildmon: Give us an example of what a speech might say. We're talking to Pastor Joseph Parker. He's called the Ten Commandments Project. We do it every year here at AFA and AFR. Joe hosts the hour of intercession heard overnight 3am in the morning on American Family Radio weekdays. So, how to contact you and and what would you. You talking about? A three to five minute speech about the first commandment of the ten, sharing that. The first command challenge this year for me. Right, and everybody who participates gets free.

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: T shirt and they get Ten Commandments trophy. And they also get a coupon to use in the in the AFA Resource Center.

>> Tim Wildmon: How do they contact you?

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: Well, again, you can email us@faqafa.net or G J. Parker fa.net either one.

Joe: People can go to afr. netforward/ten commandments

>> Ed Vitagliano: Or they can go to afr.netforward/ten commandments.

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: Exactly.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Because then they can find out more information about this particular ten Commandments speech challenge.

>> Chris Woodward: I also posted a link to the topic you guys are discussing on our Today's Issues Facebook page.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, thank you, Joe. Appreciate it very much.

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: Thank you.

>> Tim Wildmon: Stopping by.

AFA and AFR promote the word of God and sound biblical teaching

>> Pastor Joseph Parker: Thank you.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I just want to just, Just, say, Tim, that this is. A lot of times people, if they listen to afr, they may think, well, all they do is talk about politics. But we don't. We have preaching programs. We have, Truth for Youth Bible Week coming up in, in August. There's all sorts of ways in which AFA and AFR promote the word of God and sound biblical teaching. And this is another way of reaching out to young people to get them acclimated to not only reading the scripture, but bearing witness to it.

>> Chris Woodward: I think, too, this is a great opportunity for parents to make sure that their kids know what the Ten Commandments are, because, praise God, we have several states now that are requiring a copy of the Ten Commandments be on display in even public school classrooms. and then, of course, Christian schools teach this too. Sunday schools go over the material. But this is an effort to make sure that you, parent, your child knows what the Ten Commandments are. And it's an opportunity for you to do some Bible study with them and that we all need to read the Bible more. Even our pastors need to study our Bibles more. So, I mean, this is, it's a great opportunity. And again, I did post that on our, Facebook page. AFN has covered these kinds of things in the past with Joseph. So stay tuned to afn, at the top of every hour on afr, because we do oftentimes do stories on these kinds of, projects.

Everything that connects to the Internet can be hacked by malware

>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, I wanted to, I want to get to Los Angeles. You know, we talked yesterday about how, what was it, all this? The eight. Well, we talked about the AT&T data breach. Yeah, yeah, Affecting millions and millions of people. And, the, I was reading another story. It's getting to where you don't even want to touch, touch anything that has technology to it. This is, today on, On Fox, news. I'm just going to read it like it is. The story says, everything that connects to the Internet can be hacked by malware. This includes your phones, and laptops, devices like your WI fi router. Security cameras aren't safe either. But who would have thought that hackers are now targeting your smart TVs, streaming boxes, projectors, and tablets, too? That's right. The FBI warns that bad actors have hijacked over a million of these Devices with malware turning them into unwitting participants in a global cyber cybercrime network.

>> Ed Vitagliano: what are they doing with the television?

>> Tim Wildmon: The FBI is warning that more than a million smart TVs, streaming boxes, projectors and tablets have been infected by a malware massive malware operation called bad box 2.0.

>> Tim Wildmon: Now I don't know what Bad Box is, but evidently it's some kind.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That's the malware sounds like.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, well, and I don't. The malware turns home electronics into participants in a global network of crime cybercrime, often before the user even powers them on it's pre installed malware from a Chinese. Chinese.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Chinese again.

>> Fred Jackson: I'm shocked.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I'll read one other thing. In the statement the FBI says bad box 2.0 is commonly found on cheap Android based devices manufactured in mainland China. These include uncertain uncertified tablets, connected TV boxes and other. Anyway, it's not funny but it's like everywhere you turn every day there's some huge data breach or

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well I, I tell you what, as I'm thinking about this, I had not heard about this. we don't have a smart tv.

>> Tim Wildmon: We just use our you dumb one.

>> Ed Vitagliano: No, we don't use to have a dumb TV either.

>> Chris Woodward: It's got a tube in it.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well listen, y' all go ahead and that's what I had nobody be our little tablets and I watch what I want. Diane watches what she watches. But any. Anyway, what I was going to say as I'm thinking about this, I all the time if I get on my phone and go to Fox to check on a story a little or even on my iPad a little pop up comes up and it says do you want to cast to your television so if there's a video playing you can put it on your tv. So I'm wondering if it can do the opposite. If these TVs affected with malware can access your phone or your tablet and retrieve information that's stored there. Or if it's simply the TVs used to spy on on the people because it probably has a little camera on it, you know, Are they just checking out to see what you've got?

>> Tim Wildmon: Careful walking around your house.

>> Ed Vitagliano: it really is insane.

>> Chris Woodward: Good night everybody. Sleep tight.

Tim: I typed in happy news. See what comes up here

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, and here you are.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I thought you were going to bring us a happy story.

>> Tim Wildmon: I know. Well, I was trying to, I was searching for one. let me search for happy story real quick.

>> Chris Woodward: I can give you one in the meantime pops up.

>> Ed Vitagliano: All right. Go ahead.

>> Chris Woodward: Okay.

>> Ed Vitagliano: While Tim's looking for happy, I just.

>> Tim Wildmon: Typed in on brave. I, typed in happy news. See what comes up here. Good, inspiring, positive stories from the Good News Network. Good news. The first thing that comes up.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You clicked on it without checking?

>> Tim Wildmon: I did. I made your computer with malware. Okay, so the story. Let's, see. We got a. We got a good news story right here. Rural fishermen entrusted to manage pristine Caribbean shoreline to safeguard their fish in future. That. That's a good.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Does the fisherman get eaten by. That's the only reason I'm clicking.

>> Tim Wildmon: here's another good story. 17th century Dutch painting rescued from a dusty attic in Connecticut. Sells for $7 million.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That's not good.

>> Tim Wildmon: Why? Can't end up in the attic of a house I buy. Oh, that's not good news to you?

>> Ed Vitagliano: You actually sent around a good news story?

>> Tim Wildmon: What did I send around?

>> Ed Vitagliano: It was the cancer story. Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. You have that?

>> Chris Woodward: I do. Let me, dig it up off my phone.

>> Tim Wildmon: Anyway.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes.

>> Ed Vitagliano: It wasn't important enough for Chris to have in his stack of stories.

>> Chris Woodward: I got it here.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, you got it. All right, go ahead.

>> Chris Woodward: All right, this is from Daily Mail online. And the headline is Cancer breakthrough as Doctors unveil Way to Zap Tumors into Oblivion Without Chemo.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's. That's. That's. That's almost here. That was. That was a good news story I sent around because I found that and I thought.

>> Ed Vitagliano: This is actually. I read it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, go ahead.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I read it.

>> Tim Wildmon: You want to read any part of that? Yeah. Now with the Daily Mail, which I look at in the evenings, they are a, tabloid type news service.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: But they got a lot of good, good hard news on there. They just use, sensational headlines to get you to click on everything. And it works.

>> Ed Vitagliano: It works.

>> Tim Wildmon: But what. What. But that.

Texas researchers develop way to use infrared light to destroy cancer cells

Well, that story. That story caught my attention.

>> Ed Vitagliano: This says Texas researchers have devised a way to use infrared light as a jackhammer that can tear cancer cells apart from the inside. Showing in trials to have eliminated melanomas, the deadliest form of skin cancer. A synthetic blue dye often used in hospital imaging naturally binds to cancer cells. Researchers found that when the cancer cells were zapped with infrared light, it triggered violent shaking that tore through the cancer cells membrane, causing it to die without any heat or harsh drugs. But this says that it leaves healthy cells alone. It says it has a 99%. It's obviously just being tested. Has a 99% efficiency against lab cultures of human skin cancer cells and. And half of the mice with melanoma tumors became cancer free after just one treatment. That's startling.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. You want to. We can put that on our Today's Issues Facebook page. I got it on, but I just found. I thought that, you know, having a lot of our listeners, have had cancer themselves or had a family member like I did with Alison, my wife, or they. They know. So everybody's touched by this. Fred. Fred experience. He had to go through treatment for,

>> Ed Vitagliano: My mother died of cancer.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I mean, it's everywhere.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: but it would be. But now the treatments today, while they've been proved greatly, still a lot of them involved the chemotherapy, which can be very rough. Can be very rough. Chemo. It's chemical. It's short for chemicals.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: So, I mean, you're. You have to use. You have to, I'm going to be coarse about this, but you have to poison your body to get rid of something worse.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And you're hoping that your body is able to take. It outlasts the cancer.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. And the key there, too, is these new treatments can zero in on tumors and not affect the good cells.

>> Tim Wildmon: Healthy cells. Right.

>> Fred Jackson: Quite often, you know, in the past, broad chemotherapy, radiation, it killed a lot of the good cells. And so the wonderful part about this, when I had prostate cancer, it was. I've got proton treatment. And proton treatment, one of the best. It's the heavier component of the nucleus, and they're able to control the direction of the proton and it narrows in on the cancer cells. And it's. It's terrific. so we're, you know, we're living in. There's a lot of stuff going on in our day and age today that isn't good. But these. These advancements and treatments are terrific.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's in trial. That was a trial result. So.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Who knows how long it'll take if that. You know, you have to have trials and then you have to be approved and everything. It should take some time, but at least it's good to know that they've discovered this, which would. They weren't exclusive to melanoma, was it?

>> Ed Vitagliano: It was. No, I think they just.

>> Tim Wildmon: That was. They named other cancers that it can be used for.

>> Fred Jackson: I believe it's. Prostate cancer can be used for that.

>> Tim Wildmon: So this is.

>> Fred Jackson: This is really neat stuff.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Fred Jackson: This is just, they put this dye, this blue dye in there which attaches itself to the cancer cell, and then they. They basically take that area of your body and they shoot infrared light in there, and it's I guess it's the, type of light, the frequency, the radiation level, whatever the case may be, and it blows apart the cancer cell. So. That's terrific.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, it says it has already shown in, follow up trials to kill collection colectoral, Colectoral cancer, prostate, colon cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer cells.

>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Big news that.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That is big news. And as we promised, good news.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. Amen.

US President Ronald Reagan famously entreated Soviet leader to tear down Berlin wall

All right, you're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Thanks for listening. I'm Tim with Fred and Ed and Chris. What's your next story, Chris?

>> Chris Woodward: Well, this is just a bit of trivia as we end the, in end of this segment here,

>> Tim Wildmon: As we end the world, go out with a bang of trivia. Okay. Well, I mean, we're a little on edge here.

>> Chris Woodward: Famous moment on this day in history.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Chris Woodward: 1987, speaking about the Berlin Wallace, he stood at the gate in Berlin. US President Ronald Reagan famously entreated the Soviet leader with, quote, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, that was, I, for some reason I saw that within the last couple of months. Saw that speech or part of it.

>> Tim Wildmon: That was, today in history.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, today in history was that speech. I remember the Berlin Wall coming down. I was like eight. I didn't really understand, but, I wasn't even that old. It was like six or seven. But, I don't remember this, this particular speech, but I've certainly grown up and heard it a lot. And I sometimes like bringing these up because you guys remember this, you live through it, whatnot.

>> Tim Wildmon: President Ronald Reagan, he gave that speech in Berlin, right?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: And was the wall the backdrop? I mean, was it. I think it was.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I think it was. I think he was on the wall.

>> Tim Wildmon: Because he said, tear down this wall.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: And the Soviet Union did. I mean they, two years later, they either collapsed and as some would say, Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, was a willing participant. He helped, he helped in the,

>> Fred Jackson: Was it glasnost?

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, that was the, like the cooling of tensions or something. It was a Russian word for something.

>> Tim Wildmon: So. Yeah, so that's this day in history. President Ronald Reagan. I just know I have fond memories of his eight years.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: In office. I know the left hated him like they hate President Trump.

>> Ed Vitagliano: But by the way, you recommended, and I did watch a couple of months ago, the movie Reagan with Dennis.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I really reckon that's good.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Really shows how he was determined to resist communism. And I don't know if a lot of people know this. There was a strong communist movement.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.

>> Ed Vitagliano: In this country while the Soviet Union existed.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Now people will recognize that Marxism is still alive and well and kicking on college and university campuses. But they had infiltrated. Well, as it turns out, they had infiltrated the US Government and so on and so forth. But they were trying to take over Hollywood, and Reagan stood in the way of that.

>> Fred Jackson: Yep.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And you can imagine, as much as Hollywood uses propaganda now in their movies and television series, if they had cast captured, Hollywood way back then, he. He is one of those individuals that I believe was used by God in a powerful way.

>> Tim Wildmon: yeah, that movie is Carl, Reagan, and it stars Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: And. All right, thanks for listening this hour. We shall take a break for news and be back with Steve Paisley Jordal in just five minutes. Stay with us.

>> Ed Vitagliano: The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.