Point of View May 4, 2026 – Hour 2 : Monday’s Headlines

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View, Kerby Anderson. Second hour today, we're going to spend some time on working our way through some of the articles I've posted for you. And in some respects, these are a little bit of a review of what we talked about on Friday, but I wanted to expand it a little bit.

[00:00:32] And the first is a piece that Joseph Caliphant talks about. The Biden administration did what to Christians is the title of it. And it has to do with this Trump administration task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias. And it's published a report in that regard and gets into how they targeted various Christians through various policies and prosecutions.

[00:00:57] 200 page report that we talked about with Kelly Shackelford. And I might just mention that there's a very good press release about that, which we had on Friday. Or you can go to First Liberty and find out some more. We will be talking about this much more because not only does it help us identify what went wrong, but some of the things the current administration is trying to do to change that in the future.

[00:01:23] But again, this has to do with how the Biden administration ignored religious exemptions, prioritized preferred constituencies over Christians, used policy and regulatory rules to eliminate statutory protections for religious Americans. What's so interesting is there are a number of you that listen to this program that are Catholic.

[00:01:51] And you would appreciate the fact that even though Joe Biden's a Catholic, okay, at least in name only, there was something in the report that talked about how they wanted to have more leeway to target religious Catholics, one specifically saying he would like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit. I mean, that's how egregious some of this was.

[00:02:17] But nevertheless, one of the things the press relief says is while this report details the egregious actions of the Biden administration against Christians, it also demonstrates how the Trump administration is restoring the rights of Christians and all Americans to practice their faith without fear or retribution. If you go to the press release that we posted on Friday,

[00:02:43] you can see that Kelly Shackelford talks about the fact that this report is shocking. The Biden administration's record of hostility towards Christian Americans, he says, is despicable and should serve as a warning. We should never let this happen again. We are grateful to the current administration for recognizing that religious liberty is a foundation to all of our constitutional freedoms and for working to protect our first freedom.

[00:03:09] And you might be thinking, well, didn't you just talk with Philip about the prodigal court? Well, a lot of this, and I'll hold up my booklet that we came out with a number of years ago on a biblical point of view on the deep state, or what is oftentimes called the administrative establishment, and that is the fact that much of this was not happening through court rulings.

[00:03:33] It was happening through various, if you will, three-letter agencies and things of that nature. And so in some respects, you had, for example, the IRS targeting Christian churches and nonprofits sometimes. One of those is Christians Engaged. We'll get into that a little bit later when we talk about Bunny Pounds. You had the FBI going after certain groups.

[00:03:58] You have the DOJ, in some respects, working on certain issues and some of the cases against Grace New England, Summit Church, Anchor Stone Christian School, Christian Church. We talked about that before. And then, of course, you then just had the enforcement. Some of this, which came from states, like we can think of Dad's Place and Bryan, Ohio, which we can talk about, or the Rock in Castle Rock, Colorado,

[00:04:27] or the Gethsemane Baptist Church in Arizona. Many of those examples that were all part of this particular report coming out, and now the task force to change that. And that is, in a sense, overlapping, but also separate from something else we talked about on Friday. And I'm going to have a commentary coming out on that, because the Justice Department also provided a document on how the Biden administration

[00:04:57] used the FACE Act, in most cases, against Christians. Okay, what's the FACE Act? FACE stands for Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances. Now, the original plan was to just have it protect abortion clinics, but there were amendments added so that basically the FACE Act can protect both pro-life groups and pro-choice or pro-abortion groups.

[00:05:23] And yet, if you remember, going back to when the abortion case came down and the Dobbs case overturned Roe v. Wade, Jeremy Dice, in the piece that we talked about on Friday, talked about how angry mobs took out their frustration on pro-life America by spray-painting all sorts of threats of violence, and even some vandals throwing Molotov cocktails at pregnancy care centers.

[00:05:51] And so the FACE Act should be applied to both pro-abortion and pro-life groups. The Justice Department have the opportunity to deploy that evenly, but that's not what happened at all. And you can look at some of the numbers to look at the individuals that were prosecuted for any kind of violation, in some cases praying in front of an abortion clinic.

[00:06:18] By contrast, you had zero prosecutions later. I think there were half a dozen when there was so much press about prosecuting some of those individuals that were involved in all sorts of attacks on pregnancy resource centers. So the bottom line is we've sort of been following this for some time. Now we have pretty good documentation. The first one, of course, is this about 200-page report

[00:06:47] and now a task force to actually go out there and make a difference. And again, the Justice Department said, the task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias publishes a report detailing how the Biden administration's prosecutions, policies, and practices demonstrated anti-Christian bias to the federal government. You had some of the same things being posted by a number of key individuals.

[00:07:15] And whether you are pro-life or pro-abortion, you have to recognize that if we cannot accept and have the Justice Department apply the law, in a sense, evenly, without bias, then we are certainly going to be moving in a very dangerous direction. And I think you're starting to see a fair number of liberals and progressives saying,

[00:07:41] you know, we really do need to take this issue on because it could be someday, instead of debanking pro-life groups or debanking Second Amendment groups, they could be, I don't know, debanking Planned Parenthood or the National Abortion Rights League, or we could all of a sudden have all sorts of groups attacking some of these very important liberal organizations. And if the Justice Department has said, well, you know,

[00:08:08] in the past, the Biden administration turned a blind eye to what happened to conservative and Christian groups. We'll turn a blind eye to what happens to you. That's not what we want. We want an even application of the laws and policies across the board. And so, again, I thought it would be helpful for you to see maybe a summary of some of the material we talked about on Friday and to recognize that help is on the way.

[00:08:34] But a lot of this, as we talked about in the first hour, isn't necessarily happening with the courts. It's happening with the administrative state or what we call the deep state. And we'll keep watching that and talking about that on Point of View. But let's take a break. We'll be back with more right after this. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson.

[00:09:06] The editors of National Review said it best with their headline, Manufacturing Racism. They were talking about the recent revelations about the Southern Poverty Law Center. Half century ago, when it began, it was doing responsible work by pointing to racism and encouraging laws and governments to bring about change. Two weeks ago, the Department of Justice announced an 11-count indictment against the Center on Charges of Wire Fraud, false statements to a bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

[00:09:33] Apparently, the leaders had been secretly funding informants and providing funds to racist organizations. Essentially, manufacturing racism to supposedly fight racism. An even greater concern for many Christian organizations has been the Center's attempt to label worthwhile Christian and conservative groups with a hate label. Their so-called research led the group to attack groups like the Family Research Council, American Family Association, Alliance Defending Freedom,

[00:10:00] Focus on the Family, Turning Point USA, and Moms for Liberty. We've also learned that the federal government has used their materials to indoctrinate soldiers and encourage federal agencies to investigate law-abiding Americans. We've been told by some of the leaders that Christian nationalists and conservative haters are the greatest threat to America's security. Will this indictment lead to convictions? When we discussed the issue on my radio program, we concluded that it may not result in criminal convictions,

[00:10:28] even though the Center was certainly defrauding their donor base. The latest news has been an embarrassment for the Center and has served to educate many Americans about the harm that they have inflicted on worthwhile organizations. I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my point of view. Go deeper on topics like you just heard by visiting pointofview.net.

[00:10:56] That's pointofview.net. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Back once again, let's see Ken talk about our politicized culture, and to illustrate the fact that as we're talking about this right now, this has been around for some time. I'll hold up our booklet. This one was written in 2017, so it is, I guess, nine years old. And yet, even back then, we were talking about how politicized the culture was,

[00:11:25] the need for civility. As a matter of fact, a good portion of that booklet has to do with civility. And it brings us to this very good piece by Beckett Adams. And I would commend it to you. Sometimes we post these articles for you to reprint, and I would encourage you to reprint these. Certainly, we post them so you can read them any time. But this one certainly would maybe be worthwhile reprinting, or at least taking the time to read it all the way through, because it's seven pages,

[00:11:54] and it's called The Political Violence Whataboutism Has Gotten Out of Control. Now, whataboutism is whenever, as we had a week ago, the shooting or the attempted assassination of the president and his cabinet, the argument is, well, we certainly have people on the left that want to kill the president and want to kill people that are part of his administration. And immediately you get, well, what about?

[00:12:21] And then that's part of the issue that Beckett Adams is addressing. And he gives you some facts, some history, some graphs. And so if you've ever had one of those conversations with somebody, this would be good for you to read, or even better to print out and hand to them. Because Beckett Adams says, look, nearly as great a problem as left-wing violence is, is the left's refusal to admit it has a problem.

[00:12:46] Because oftentimes whenever a Republican or a conservative is shot at, stabbed, or even killed, or beaten, the activist adopts one of three responses. One, the violence was deserved. He had it coming. Two, it didn't happen. It's a hoax. And three, well, we have right-wing violence and it's worse. And he says of the three, the third is the most annoying. We'll get to that in just a minute.

[00:13:13] Because it's just raw whataboutism. But because the counterexamples that are offered are oftentimes, and he's being nice at first, mischaracterizations. And he says in most cases we're talking about outright falsehoods. And so again, there is so often the, well, we've got violence on both sides. Well, first of all, when there has been any kind of what could be right-wing violence,

[00:13:40] the conservative groups come out almost without even any prompting to condemn what is taking place. But here is a good example. Because he says here, as a left-wing would-be assassin tried to murder President Trump at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, he said this now marked the third such plot against the president. You can talk about some of those others.

[00:14:02] And he says, interestingly enough, we live in a world where a Bernie Sanders volunteer can try to murder the Congressional Caucus and nearly killed who now is the House Majority Leader Steve Scalise. And yet the argument that you heard on MSNBC is, well, I've looked at his voting record. He had it coming.

[00:14:25] Or when Charlie Kirk has his neck shot and a left-wing columnist says, well, yeah, but look at some of the things he said. And again, this idea he had it coming. But that's the first argument. The second one is even more troubling for those of us that live in the same world with people that buy into these conspiracies. Because, Beckett Adams says, speaking of assassins' bullets, we live in a world where Trump can survive a sniper attack,

[00:14:54] one in which a man was killed, two others were gravely wounded, and there's even a picture of the bullet flying behind Trump's bloodied head. And 47% of Democrats, these would be Kamala Harris voters, believe the incident was orchestrated by his supporters to increase sympathy for him. It's a hoax. By the way, that poll was done by the Manhattan Institute,

[00:15:20] and we are dealing with not quite a majority but close to majority of individuals to think it was a hoax. And, of course, you saw the number of people that said the attack on the White House correspondence was a hoax. And, I mean, there comes a point in time where you just say, well, we really can't get to this any further. But, again, he reminds us in some detail of all the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh,

[00:15:48] the murder of Charlie Kirk, the firebombing of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's home by a pro-MMA supporter, a Jewish couple gunned down in Washington, D.C. by a gunman shouting, and free Palestine, multiple shooting attacks at ICE facilities, a violent week-long siege of federal courthouse in Portland, social justice themes, as well as what we just talked about a minute ago,

[00:16:11] the various crisis pregnancy centers, pro-life groups, vandalizer firebomb since the Dobbs decision. And you constantly hear, yes, but the right-wing violence is worse. And so you usually get one of a few particular individuals. And I think it's helpful because Beckett Adams takes each one. I'm going to give you a very quick overview. The first one is Paul Pelosi.

[00:16:39] That is the husband of Nancy Pelosi. And this was an individual that attacked him, but he was an anti-war activist, a nudist, a man who'd been homeless and unstable. And to say that he was a right-wing person attacking Paul Pelosi, it's even hard for me to even take that seriously, but they go into the details of it. Another one is Gretchen Whitmer.

[00:17:07] Our listeners in Michigan would understand that there was this kidnapping plot and probably has more legs about a whataboutism because you do have some individuals. But again, there were all sorts of undercover informants, at least 12, equal in almost the number of plotters. And of those who were charged, five were acquitted because the defense successfully argued that this was entrapment by the FBI. The next one, of course, is Gabby Giffords.

[00:17:35] I won't go into much of the detail there, but this is a paranoid schizophrenic. It was not an individual that was a right-wing political ideologue or anything of that nature. If anything, this is a very crazed individual who had no political ideology, which is why you mostly hear now, when they want to make a case that there's violence on both sides, the story of Melissa Hortman in Minnesota.

[00:18:02] And both Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman were murdered in June of 2025. The alleged killer is identified as a Trump supporter, anti-abortion, but also was claiming that he was a U.S. military-trained covert assassin. If you look at his voting records, he for a while supported Republicans,

[00:18:28] but having now no party affiliation, was apprehended, did have some anti-Trump paraphernalia with him, so it doesn't look like he was that much of a pro-Trump conservative. He also was an individual that claimed he was trained by the U.S. military. He wrote the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, who said Tim Walz told him to kill Democratic Senators Amy Kulbuchar and Tina Smith because the governor wanted to be a senator. Okay, this is just a crazy individual.

[00:18:57] And again, what is so interesting is whenever there's a shooting of a conservative, oftentimes what individuals do is bring out the story and the name Melissa Hortman. But here is where Beckett Adams helps you out because he actually shows you the Google trends and shows that when, of course, she was shot, that was a very significant trend. But then the trend went up again.

[00:19:24] It went, in fact, disappeared, went up again when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. So the idea is that many times people will not even talk about what happened to Melissa Hortman, which is horrible and actually had a plan to kill some other individuals as well. But it gets trotted out, and he shows how it was trotted out when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, trotted out again when you had the No Kings weekend protest,

[00:19:52] and then trotted out just a week ago with the assassination attempt of the White House Correspondents Dinner. And I think, if nothing else, it just illustrates again that what we are talking about here is the attempt to keep saying, well, there's violence on both sides. And as he points out, yes, there is right-wing violence sometimes, but the tendency is not to slough it off, as we've seen Democrats do.

[00:20:21] He says, ask any ordinary Republican legislature how far right is too right, and they'll give you names, Nick Fuentes, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson. If you ask them, have they ever apologized for right-wing violence, he says, they will do it even without being prompted. And I think it's just an illustration, as we've said before, that now, as you will see with my commentary, we also recognize that some of the things that were attributed to right-wing violence

[00:20:51] were paid for by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center. So, the last page, interesting enough, of the Beckett Adams article, which I make available to you, actually connects up to my Viewpoints commentary today on manufacturing racism, which we've talked about before, which we found out that the Southern Poverty Law Center was actually sending money to some of those groups,

[00:21:16] and, in a sense, creating that opportunity for whataboutism. Anyway, perhaps one of the best articles I've ever seen. If you ever find yourself in a discussion about that, this article's on the website at pointofview.net. We'll be right back. It was not that long ago that censorship appeared to be almost inevitable. Free speech was being attacked and strangled in many places. And some of us wondered if this was the end.

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[00:23:07] do not necessarily reflect the views of the management or staff of this station. And now, here again, is Kirby Anderson. Back once again, let me just mention, later in the week we have Dr. Paul Kanger, and we'll also be talking with former Senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum. Bill Federer will be with us as we get back to some of the things we'll be talking about right now in terms of the Bible and this very significant gathering called Rededicate 250.

[00:23:35] So a couple more articles that you might want to find on the website at pointofview.net. And one of those comes from our good friend Jerry Newcomb. America needs the Bible, he says. The Bible is needed by America more than ever. I think America needs prayer, which we'll be talking about in just a minute. And he says, thankfully, at the Museum of the Bible last week, we had various leaders read through the whole book, From Genesis to Revelation, and even the President of the United States participated.

[00:24:05] He wrote a commentary a while back about that, an ambitious Bible reading plan. AmericaReadsTheBible.com, if you want to go there and certainly find that link. Of course, he has it on his particular article that we've posted as well. Said that in honor of the 250th birthday of the United States, America Reads the Bible serves as a spiritual celebration of our nation's founding ideals and a call to rediscover the truth that still anchors today.

[00:24:34] Just in Bible days when the scriptures were read, revival would often break out. And the organizers of AmericaReadsTheBible desire the same outcome. I will give Jerry Newcomb credit because, as I pointed out before, poor Bunny Pounds, who is the one that came up with this idea, article after article has talked about the concept, talked about the vision, and never talked about the person that had the vision.

[00:25:02] And you heard her on this program talk about her vision. She is the head, of course, of Christians Engage, but on this program was talking about her vision of having people read through the Bible. And she was able to get that put together through our friends at the Museum of the Bible, and then work through pure flicks to have a live stream so that you could actually watch it if you would like to do so.

[00:25:29] And you had all sorts of faith leaders involved with that, including, as Jerry Newcomb points out, you had President Donald Trump read 2 Chronicles 7, verses 11 to 22, which, of course, is a powerful call for Israel at the time to humble itself, pray, and return to God. A lot of people try to apply that to America today, and I think the general principle is there, but the promise there in 2 Chronicles is to the nation of Israel.

[00:25:59] But certainly, does God honor prayer of faithful believers? Of course He does. And so I think that fits as well. Well, back to the Bible for just a few minutes. Jerry Newcomb also reminds us that the federal government, under, at that time, Ronald Reagan, declared 1983 as the year of the Bible. And he also then gives us some of the statements being made then. Not that I agree with all of them, but if nothing else, I would probably agree with them more then

[00:26:29] than what they would write now, which shows you how much has changed since the 1980s. Newsweek magazine in 1982 said, So far, so good. Now historians are discovering the Bible, perhaps even more than the Constitution, is our founding document. Still, so far, so good. The source of the powerful myth,

[00:26:58] okay, of the United States as a special sacred nation, people called by God to establish a model society, a beacon to the world. Now I know what they're getting at, and that is the promises, as I just illustrated a minute ago, in 2 Chronicles 7, are to the nation of Israel. The United States is not Israel. So I get that. But the myth that there's somehow, oh, this country is exceptional. Well, it is exceptional. I mean, let's face it,

[00:27:27] it is very different than many other countries around the world when it was formed, and even to this day. But we'll leave it at that. And certainly the idea that the Bible is a founding document wasn't so controversial back in 1982, even in Newsweek magazine. Again, I will hold up, if you want, some of the booklets that we've made available, One Nation Under God, and the Patriot Preachers, and the Federalist Papers, and all the other ones that we've been making available.

[00:27:57] The most recent ones are on the Declaration of Independence and America's Founding. And every one of those booklets in one place, either an extensive part of the booklet or part of the booklet, makes that documentation very, very clear. But then he also quotes from something else many years later from Time magazine, in which it was asking a question, whatever happened to ethics? Good question.

[00:28:26] And again, Time magazine wrote, ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. Again, so far so good. That good idea combines a commitment to man's inalienable rights with the Calvinist belief in the ultimate moral right and sinful man's obligation to do good. These articles of faith embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution literally govern our lives today. Uh, just again,

[00:28:56] just a reminder for some of you that are younger listeners, back in 1982 on Newsweek magazine, 1987 in Time magazine, they were saying the kinds of things that we say around this table here at Point of View. But you probably would have to look long and hard and probably come up with nothing if you were to look at the so-called legacy press today to see them saying anything like this. But not so long ago,

[00:29:24] in terms of America's history, 250 years, you go back 40 plus years and a lot of those statements were being made in Time magazine, in Newsweek magazine. And I appreciate Jerry Newcomb for pulling them out. I may find a place somewhere to put those quotes in a future booklet or Outlook magazine just so you have access to that. But then he reminds us of something else. Not only were people literate because they read,

[00:29:54] for example, the New England Primer, but they were also biblically literate. And so as a result, that was the way in which they could understand many of the speeches that were given at the time. He points out that for the first couple of centuries, even of this country, but certainly in Western culture, the number one book was the Bible, found in virtually every home. The number two book was Pilgrim's Progress, written by John Bunyan, which, of course, is based on the Bible.

[00:30:23] And then he gives us a couple of illustrations. Let's look first at George Washington, father of our country, knew the Bible well, and phrases from its pages flow into his writings and his speeches. He says, the public and private statements drip with phraseology from the Bible. And again, Jerry Newcomb and Peter Lillebeck are the individuals that wrote the book George Washington's Sacred Fire, and they point out

[00:30:53] that they have an entire appendix in that book of all the phrases from the Bible that were used in the speeches by George Washington. Measure of antiquity, the edict of Pharaoh, bricks without straw, the Lord of hosts, the Lord gives and takes, the Lord and ruler of nations. You know, it is interesting today that you will have people that will read the speeches of George Washington and say, well, I don't think

[00:31:23] he was a Christian. He really didn't know that much about the Bible. And these historians that make that statement, not the ones that we have on this program, but others, they say that because they don't know the Bible. By the way, Measure of antiquity, that one was new for me, but bricks without straws and the Lord gives and takes, well, these are phrases we would know if you are biblically literate, but the sad reality is is that many of our historians have not read the Bible, have not even memorized parts of the Bible,

[00:31:53] so they miss the fact that these were allusions to phrases that were understood by biblically literate people at the time. He also points out that the first president's favorite Bible verse was Micah 4-4, but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken it. And so, if nothing else, he just once again reminds us of all the places, if you do ever get a chance

[00:32:22] to travel to Washington, D.C., where you see Bible verses. For example, you have three Bible verses chiseled in stone, which are in the Lincoln Memorial, which were part of his second inaugural address. If you go to Philadelphia, you can see the Liberty Bell. It has a Bible verse on it. Proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants thereof. Well, you might not know that, but it comes from

[00:32:51] Leviticus 25, verse 10. And of course, he quotes even somebody who would probably less likely to be much of a church-going individual, Andrew Jackson, who summed it up best, in which he said, the Bible is the rock upon which our republic rests. And so, if nothing else, it's just a reminder that America needs the Bible, and we have just had an event in which you had the reading of the Bible. And so, if you would like to know more about that, of course, we've had those links up there before,

[00:33:20] but you can simply do a search for americareadsthebible.com, and you will find them. And I think you will find that to be very encouraging. So, if what precedes a revival is the reading of the Bible, when we come back, what is happening in Washington, D.C., that might be one of many events that bring about a revival? We'll talk about that right after this.

[00:33:59] You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. I thought I'd spend just a little bit of time talking about what's going to be happening on May 17th, and this is an event that will be taking place on the Washington Mall. It reminded me, at least, of the 1980 Washington for Jesus rally, which was also held at the National Mall back in April in 1980. I was able to attend that because I was there at the time going to graduate

[00:34:29] school at Georgetown University. You had Bill Bright and Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell and John Jimenez and a variety of other individuals speaking, all sorts of individuals, and interestingly enough, that event reminded me of this one, but I'm going to also quote from Robert Jeffress who says, in some respects, he thinks this event could remind him of something that took place here in Dallas, which was called Expo 72.

[00:34:58] So again, we will probably talk more about this, especially on, I guess it would be May 15th, on that Friday weekend edition, maybe even the day before, about that, because we will certainly want to be watching that, but this article from the Christian Post says it this way, thousands are expected to gather at the National Mall next month for a massive day of prayer and worship aimed at calling the United States back to God

[00:35:27] ahead of its 250th anniversary, with one pastor predicting it could be the nation's largest religious gathering in more than 50 years. What's so interesting is that you have multiple administration officials and many conservative faith leaders who say they will be attending and will speak at the May 17th. and it's called Rededicate 250, a national jubilee of prayer, praise,

[00:35:57] and thanksgiving. The event is one of many festivities I might mention that are planned to be part of a nationwide Freedom 250 celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States. Now, interestingly enough, Pastor Robert Jeffress, and I've asked Steve, who's not with us today, but when he gets back to see if he could get Robert Jeffress at First Baptist Church to maybe come

[00:36:26] and speak about that, because he's one of the individuals scheduled to speak at the event, and he's likened it to Expo 72. Now, if you're not familiar with that, and you probably aren't, unless you watch the Jesus Revolution film done by the Irwin Brothers, because they do talk about that, because in 1972, Campus Crusade for Christ, now known as CRU, had a conference that was attended by more than 80,000 college and high school students.

[00:36:56] My wife was part of that. A couple I was with yesterday, they were part of that, and it was a five-day gathering in which they gathered there at the Cotton Bowl, and many people think that it was really at the height of what was called the Jesus Movement. You had Billy Graham, and you had Chris Christopherson, and you had Jimmy Cash, and I mean, it was a who's who of individuals that were there, and I thought it was kind of interesting Robert Jeffress compared what is going

[00:37:24] to happen on May 17th to what happened on Expo 72 here in Dallas, but also, Robert Jeffress went on to say that I believe that President Donald Trump believes, yes, we should celebrate the 250th birthday of America, and we'll do it in a great and glorious way, but it's also time, he believes, for America to rededicate itself to God, and so that was a statement by Robert Jeffress. He went on to say, if America's going

[00:37:54] to experience revival, then I first have to have a revival in my heart, he says, for America to rededicate herself to Christ means I must rededicate myself to Christ, and that's the angle that I'm going to take in my talk, he says, on the National Mall on May 17th. For those of you that would like to maybe take some notes, let me talk about what are the three pillars of what is going to happen

[00:38:24] at this rededication. Again, it's called Rededicate 250, a National Jubilee for Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving. There are three pillars. First pillar is this, the miracles that made us, the miracles that made us, which really consist of a reflection of God's providence through the 250 years, something that George Washington spoke about, wrote about, and certainly others have as well, honoring faith

[00:38:53] that inspired America's founders and has carried us forward in every generation since. So the first pillar is miracles that made us. The second pillar is the miracles still in our midst, and that will really feature kind of the personal testimonies of God's healing in our lives and in our land. And then the third pillar is called a new birth of faith and freedom, which will involve a collective expression of gratitude

[00:39:23] for 250 years of freedom, and that will include a guided and unified moment of rededication asking for God's blessing, guidance, and grace for the next 250 years. Now, again, if you go down the list of who's speaking, first of all, I mentioned some of the cabinet members, but let's start with the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, who's been on the program with us before. He is slated to speak. The Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense, whatever you want to say, Pete Hegseth,

[00:39:53] the Chief of Protocol, Monica Crowley, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is going to actually deliver a video message. Ben Carson, who served, as you might remember, as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, retired neurosurgeon, will also give some remarks. And then if you look at some of the people that we've had on this program that will be speaking, I'll just give you the short list, Pastor Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church, Pastor Jensen Franklin of, of course,

[00:40:23] the Georgia Free Chapel, Pastor Jonathan Pocluda, an individual we've had on the program many times when we've done our Next Generation Roundtable with the Harris Creek Baptist Church, Pastor Gary Hamrick of Cornerstone Chapel in Virginia, and also Reverend Samuel Rodriguez, who is the head and president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership. As you might imagine, of course, you also have Franklin Graham, Billy Graham's son, who leads, of course,

[00:40:52] Samaritan's Purse. You also have a number of other notable individuals we've had on the program, people like Eric Metaxas, who is a radio talk show host and author, Sissy Graham Lynch, and a variety of others that are there. You, of course, have the U.S.ac. Marine Band and a variety of other topics, but nevertheless, wanted you to know about this opportunity called Rededicate 250 on May 17th. For those of you that live near that area,

[00:41:22] you may want to attend it. Some of you may want to attend it because it may be the largest religious gathering in the last half century, and maybe you would like to book a ticket, so I wanted you to know about it ahead of time, but nevertheless, just a great opportunity for us to rededicate ourselves to the Lord, and don't forget about this Thursday. You might remember back in 1952, President Harry Truman signed a resolution declaring an annual National Day of Prayer. 1988,

[00:41:52] President Reagan signed into law designating the first Thursday of May as a time for a National Day of Prayer. I would encourage you to be involved in those activities. Be listening to us on that day. Also, listen to your local radio station. They may be talking about events happening in your community, and I would encourage you to pray for America. I already talked about praying for those people on the Supreme Court, praying for those in positions of leadership.

[00:42:21] First Timothy 2 encourages us, really mandates us for us to pray for those in authority, so let me encourage you to do that as well. But that's all we have for today. I hope that this has been a great discussion of the parable of the prodigal court. That's in the first hour. I've given you a number of very good articles today that you might want to use, including ones about the importance of the Bible and this very significant religious gathering. And I am privileged to

[00:42:51] have both Megan's helping me today. Megan 1 and Megan 2, helping us both with engineering the program and producing the program. Steve is out, but I believe you'll be back with us tomorrow, so I hope you'll be back with us tomorrow right here on Point of View. The Bible tells us not to worry, and yet there is a lot of worrying

[00:43:20] stuff in our world today. Thankfully, the Bible doesn't stop at telling us not to worry. God gives us a next step. He says we need to pray. But sometimes even knowing what to pray can be difficult, and that is why Point of View has relaunched our Pray for America movement, a series of weekly emails to guide you in prayer for our nation. Each week, you'll receive a brief update about a

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