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Release Date: Friday, September 4th 2026

Mary welcomes back Sheri Few, Founder and President of United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE), whose mission is to end the U.S. Department of Education and all federal education mandates. USPIE has established 20 state chapters and is growing rapidly amid the national outcry from parents who want to regain control of their children’s education. Today we talk about how to not sleepwalk through the school year, put it in park and just go through the motions. Getting parents engaged and alert, putting their child’s education back into their own hands is a worthy goal. As the years blend together, the woke crowd never rests in their goal to indoctrinate children into a destructive and many times evil agenda. How can parents take back public education, on the local level? Is it redeemable at all? Who are the movers and shakers and those who decide what the kids will learn? An important conversation with a true expert on the public schools of today.

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If you’ve ever wondered why marriage can feel like endless schedules, bills, and small arguments, we’re asking a bigger question: what if God designed your marriage to do more than make you happy? We close our Marriage as a Mission series by re-centering everything on faithfulness rather than perfection, and by treating marriage as a living picture of the gospel. When Christ stays in the middle, our relationship becomes more than companionship; it becomes a message people can watch.

We get practical about Christian discipleship and mentoring younger couples. We talk about why transparency matters, how shame isolates marriages, and why couples don’t need you to have it all together to learn from you. The goal is not to build followers of our advice, but to help couples depend on God’s wisdom. Purpose gives marriage staying power, and when a couple begins asking “Who can we serve?” instead of “What can we get?” the whole relationship starts to expand.

We also walk through the legacy of Jim and Elizabeth Elliott and why their short marriage still echoes around the world. Their story is a powerful reminder that obedience outlives comfort and purpose outlives longevity, and that God can use ordinary people and painful chapters to bring eternal fruit. Then we bring it home to everyday life: messy kitchens, thermostat debates, parenting pressure, and the quiet choices to forgive, pray, serve, and invite others in.

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Sermon Overview
Scripture Passage: Matthew 20:1-15

Fairness is a wonderful human attribute we learn about when we’re young and demand of each other as we grow.

In Matthew 20:1-15, Jesus shares the parable of the vineyard workers. The owner of the vineyard rises early to hire laborers, then adds hired laborers at various times throughout the day. At the end of the day, he pays his laborers all the same wages.

This may not seem “fair” in our human understanding, but we must remember that God is not fair, but He is good.

First, this passage shows us that it’s always too soon to quit, but never too late to start.

Though it is better for us to start serving God early in life, it is never too late; He calls us to the vineyard, even at the eleventh hour.

Second, if we bargain with God, we will cheat ourselves. Matthew 20:2 reveals that the early workers had haggled with the owner for more money until they finally came to an agreement. Yet, they are surprised when the owner offers the same wage to the later laborers.

Third, it is wise to let God keep the books; if we try to keep a record of our service, we run the risk of taking credit we don’t deserve.

Fourth, don’t look for fairness; ask for mercy. Fairness is based on the idea that we are owed something, but God does not owe us anything. As sinners, He deals with us on the basis of justice and mercy, and if we ask for justice, we will get exactly what we deserve. Instead, we should beg for mercy.

Finally, another’s blessing is never our own loss; just because the vineyard owner blessed the later workers doesn’t mean the early workers lacked. Likewise, when we see God bless others “more” than He blesses us, we are not losing anything.

Adrian Rogers says, “We will be much happier in this life if we take our eyes off of our brothers and sisters, put our eyes on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be grateful for what He does.”



Apply it to your life
Have you been called to the vineyard to serve our Lord Jesus Christ? It’s never too late to start. If you have served Christ for a while now, remember there is no seniority in the kingdom of God. Welcome your brothers and sisters in gratitude and rejoice in each other’s blessings.

“Town Destroyer.” It sounds like a verdict, and for a lot of people it becomes instant proof that George Washington was a monster. We take that claim head-on and rebuild the story from the ground up, starting with what the Seneca title meant in its own cultural setting and why the nickname is tied to the Washington family before the Revolution even begins.

From there, we zoom out to the bigger issue: how modern ideology can turn history into a single, predictable script where one side is always innocent and the other side is always guilty. The American Revolution does not fit that mold. We talk through the Iroquois Confederacy and its internal split, why tribal alliances shifted between Britain and the Americans, and why it matters that many Native nations fought alongside Washington and provided intelligence, troops, and scouting that shaped the war.

We also confront the brutal reality of frontier warfare, including raids and massacres that targeted civilians, and we explain why Washington’s 1779 order to General Sullivan is presented as a response aimed at enemy villages involved in repeated attacks. You may still wrestle with the morality of what happened, but you will at least be working with the whole timeline instead of a slogan.

Then we switch gears to a question we hear all the time: if the founders were influenced by Christianity, why doesn’t the US Constitution quote the Bible? Our answer is federalism. We compare the federal Constitution’s purpose to the Declaration’s purpose, and we point listeners to state constitutions that openly required belief in God and shaped who got sent to national office.

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