Today we get to hear from one person that thinks it would be terrible to try to stop selling children over the internet as sex slaves. No kidding.

We also get to hear from Senator Portman, sponsor of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, as he shares how close we are now in the Senate to getting this historic piece of legislation passed to bring online sex traffickers to justice. We also get to share that the White House has stated they they are firmly in favor of this bill and will sign it as soon as the Senate passes it.

God is moving, friends.

Goodness! Today we have 3 stories! One out of Jonesboro Arkansas where a man was arrested for trying to have sex with what he thought was a minor girl he had made contact with on social media. She turned out to be law enforcement officers and when he showed up, boom, to jail he went, and in jail he now is.

Next we have 2 stories out of Washington DC about resolutions we have been following for months and months. They will enable minors being trafficked on web sites to sue the web sites, and the other is to require training for health care providers to recognize trafficking victims and how they can report and how they can help them. Both resolutions passed the House of Representatives last week and are now headed to the Senate.

We will continue to follow these issues in the days ahead.

God is at work!

This week we have a great report from CNN about the need to pass the SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act) that is before the US Congress now, and has been since August of 2017. Heart warming to see such a passionate story about ending the sex slave industry from CNN!

Today's story is about how some alert citizens last week led to the rescue of a 4 year old girl that had been kidnapped after her mother was brutally beaten. The perpetrator is now in jail.

Today we have 2 news stories from our nation's FBI web site about 2 recent FBI actions in the last two weeks. These actions were busts concerning perpetrators of girls and women in the area of what the web site calls ... sextortion.

Today we get to listen to a recent segment of the Today Show's story about human trafficking, the sex slave industry, here in America! I thought how wonderful that our major news networks are starting to pay attention to, and report on the scourge of human trafficking here in America.

Today we share a song by Casting Crowns, "Jesus, Break My Heart With What Breaks Yours." We ask ourselves, would we be willing to join in this prayer ourselves? Jesus, break my heart with what breaks Yours?

The news story broke last week about 3 ladies being arrested at a massage parlor in Sherwood really grieved me. I wondered if they were forced to do what they do? They are from the far East some where, some other nation. I wanted to go ask them, "Were you forced into this?"

I may try to see if I can meet them and ask them, "Were you forced into this?"

Jesus, break my heart with what breaks Yours.

Today we get to take a test! :-)

The test is to see how much we might know about the illicit "massage" industry in America. Now, there certainly are very legitimate massage businesses, but it is pretty amazing to find how many illicit massage places there are. We also get to learn some of the warning signs that a massage business might be part of the human trafficking evil.

For our first program of 2018 we share the audio of a great documentary produced by PBS about human trafficking. The program aired first a couple of years ago. ABC News later did a program using the documentary, "A Path Appears."

Today we get to interview Louise Allison and Glenn Ballard of PATH about their dreams for the direction of PATH in 2018.