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Replay from September 29, 2020: GUEST is Pastor Paul Blair, Senior Pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma since 2001. He speaks nationwide about God in Government, as well as Apologetics and a Biblical Worldview. He serves on the Board of Directors for Bott Radio, and the Oklahoma Apologetics Alliance.

Paul was a football All Star at Oklahoma State University and was drafted by the Chicago Bears in 1986 playing under Coach Mike Ditka and alongside Hall of Famers Walter Payton, Dan Hampton, and Mike Singletary. 

He’s an author, and President of Reclaiming America for Christ and founder of Protect Life and Marriage OK.  He is also a member of the Council on National Policy. He and his wife of 31 years, Cindy, have two sons, Joshua and Jacob.

FREE: Click here to get Paul Blair’s book (pdf), Not Blind Faith: Verifiable Evidence God exists and Jesus Rose from the Dead

At the age of 37, Paul Blair was called into full-time ministry. His passion is for the salvation of souls and also the restoration of Godly morality and decency in America. He’s been a featured guest on the Glenn Beck TV Show, AFA Radio, the Mike Gallagher Radio Show, Focus on the Family Radio, Washington Watch with Tony Perkins, and many others.

In 2008, Pastor Blair was one of the original 33 pastors that worked with the Alliance Defense Fund on Pulpit Freedom Sunday challenging the constitutionality of the 1954 Johnson Amendment. The number of pastors participating has increased every year since with over 1600 participating in 2012. Following the 2012 Pulpit Freedom Sunday, the IRS admitted that churches are tax exempt and do not require approval or a letter of exemption from the IRS.

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Liberty Pastors: Presentations – pastor training at “America at the Crossroads” event, 9/2020

Battle for the Soul of America – David Fiorazo

Jonathan Project: Registering Christian voters through their churches

Biblical Voter – information & resources!

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Today’s guest John Loeffler: May and John look beyond all the ways that humans are lied to and consider the end game: coercion and persecution against the truth-tellers till they cry “uncle”. Silencing and cancelling truth is one thing; forcing believers to give up their absolutes to fit in with the globalists’ world order is an iron fist we will see at some point, depending upon how long the church is functional on earth. The Father of Lies, the author of confusion is working overtime to unite the world under his control. Technology is clearly the instrument of choice in realizing his temporary kingdom of enslavement.

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Repeat broadcast featuring former hosts Mike LeMay & David Fiorazo: 2019 will bring powerful and unique challenges and opportunities for the Christian Church in America.  Satan’s battle against the Church will intensify as he acquires more and more allies to join him in his plan to neutralize the Church by making it look more like the secular culture it is supposed to resist and oppose.

We start this new year by looking at the prophetic signs of 2018 that might be pointing to the return of the Lord, along with the increased persecution of true believers around the world.  Is this persecution a preview of the life coming for true believers in America?

Mike’s Opening Thoughts Transcript:  Stand Up For the Truth 2019

As we start a new year, our ninth year broadcasting Stand Up For the Truth, I want to give you an idea on an area we will be focusing on heavily in 2019.

We will continue to look at national and world news that affects Christians, but it is clear what is happening in the world.  The hatred of Jesus and His Word is increasing dramatically and Paul’s warnings in Romans 1 of God turning people over to a reprobate mind because they rejected His truth seems to be happening with greater frequency.

The persecution of Jesus’ true church is accelerating around the world.  China, India, Iran and Russia are sending clear warnings to Christians that their allegiance better be to government and not God.  In India, dominated by the Hindu religion which has always been seen and promoted as a non-violent religion, radical Hindus have went on a killing spree bent on destroying Christian churches in India.

Politically the intense battle between Globalists bent on world government, and Nationalists who believe individual nations should be able to enforce their own borders and laws, is raging throughout Europe and America.  And make no mistake Globalism is the vehicle through which a one-world government will one day be ushered in, just as the Bible warns.

We will continue to report and bring perspective on these and other issues, pointing us to the Bible to determine truth and understand the spiritual ramifications of what is going on.

But we are also going to take a more in-depth look at what is happening to Christianity here in America within our own churches.   I am convinced there is a great schism going on in virtually every Christian denomination; a schism we haven’t seen the likes of since Luther’s Protestant Reformation.  Once you get beyond the denominational quirks and peculiarities, we see something much more important happening: there is a spiritual war going on for the very soul of Christianity in America.

When we look at the condition of Christian Churches in Communist China, I believe we see the future model of churches here in America.  The day is coming when the Supreme Court will uphold a government request to bring churches and Christian organizations more under government control.  When this happens, everything will change for Christian Churches in America and I believe we will see the “China Model” come to fruition in America where there will be state-endorsed Christian Churches that surrender to Caesar instead of submitting to God, effectively rendering them useless in proclaiming the gospel and truth of God’s Word.  Some churches who choose to remain faithful to God’s Word will slowly be driven underground.

I believe professing Christian Churches in America can be roughly divided into three camps presently:

We are seeing an increasing number of churches compromising with secular culture.  The Church Growth movement ushered in by Peter Drucker via Bill Hybels and Rick Warren seems to have become the gold standard by which many churches gauge success these days.  Rather than opposing secular culture and its growing sinfulness many churches who buy into the Church Growth movement seem to be embracing secular culture in their methods and teaching.

Americans who want more and more things of this world are finding an ally in the Prosperity Preaching movement, where we are told we can have all the things of this world as long as we have just enough Jesus to be saved.

A strange blend of Christian teachings and New Age philosophy is infiltrating an increasing number of churches.  Yoga and Transcendental Meditation, hallmarks of Buddhist and Hindu teachings, have established a foothold in a growing number of churches, creating spiritual confusion.

Recent studies over the past year that we will cover in the coming weeks show an alarming rate of ignorance about God and the Bible within professing Christian circles.  Only one in three people who call themselves “born-again believers” now think the Word of God is absolute truth, and experts predict that only 4% of our youth will ever become truly born-again believers.  So the future leadership of our church and nation are in peril.

We have seen increased pressure from government, education and media to dismantle Christianity in America.  To date, these efforts have often been more subtle, but they will intensify in the coming few years and the pressure on Christian churches will become increasingly intense.  What we faced here in DePere, Wisconsin, is but the first shot over the bow aimed at silencing biblical Christian Churches, and Satan has only begun his efforts.  He has government, media, education and public opinion on his side as true biblical Churches face increasing pressure to cave in or be marginalized.

Church leaders will be forced to make a decision that will have eternal spiritual consequences for their members:  Will they remain faithful to God and His Word or cave in to pressure for growth and acceptance, surrendering to secular culture?

Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4

FALLING INTO PLACE: Top Ten Bible Prophecy-Related Stories of 2018 – Jan Markell

Almost one-third of the Bible relates to eschatology or Bible prophecy. I think we can conclude that a lot of what is happening today foreshadows “things to come.”

Christians Hospitalized after Terrifying Christmas Attacks in India

‘We Will not Forfeit Our Faith,’ Say Chinese Christians Whose Church Was Closed

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TODAY’S GUEST: Dr. JB HIXSON – author, conference speaker, and pastor of Plum Creek Chapel and founder of Not By Works Ministries, his latest book is Spirit of the Antichrist – the Gathering Cloud of Deception. He and his wife, Wendy live in Sedalia, Colorado.

JB’s latest books, volumes 1 and 2, expose deeds of darkness on a global, historical level and feature extensive research. Today, we discuss the Luciferian agenda and timetable – according to their own words. JB shares a pastor’s perspective on how close we are to the predicted one-world system of government and religion.

JB Hixson and David Fiorazo discuss America’s independence and religious freedom as well as some Founders and history not taught in public schools. One topic is the so-called separation of church and state.

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TODAY’S GUEST: Gary Kah with Hope for the World. Gary is an author and the former Europe & Middle East Trade Specialist for the Indiana state government; he worked with economic staff at American Embassies on trade-related projects. 

 Gary writes: 

Unless we are firmly grounded in God’s Word and are walking closely with the Lord we will be overwhelmed by the magnitude of the coming deception. We’ve been forewarned about these times and events in 2 Thessalonians 2, Revelation 13 and 14, Matthew 24 and other passages. It is never God’s intent that we be caught off-guard.

Fortunately, the same Bible that gives us these warnings also offers us incredible hope. We know that when Jesus returns, He will overthrow Satan’s world order and establish His millennial reign of peace on Earth. The events leading up to and including His return as Messiah are recorded in Zechariah 14:1-11; Joel 3:1-21; Revelation 19:11-21, 20:1-6 and Matthew 24:30-35, along with other passages. The apostle Paul in his writings describes this history-climaxing event in 2 Thessalonians 2:8.

And then the lawless one [the Antichrist] will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.

So, we can rest assured that God will win and all who remain faithful to Jesus will receive their reward. We will be with Him for all eternity. This is our great hope as believers. Between now and then, however, things are going to become difficult, so we must continue to stand firm in the faith, never succumbing to the lies and perversions of our enemy.

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An Accelerating One World Agenda

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TODAY: ‘Grace’s dad’, Scott Schara is the founder and president of Our Amazing Grace’s Light Shines On, Inc., and is an advocate exposing medical tyranny, as well as how hospital systems and personnel are being used for evil. 

Scott Schara and David Fiorazo discuss informed consent, frailty scoring, eugenics, hospital staff training, how the liberal media is responding, and the status of the historic lawsuit he filed earlier this year regarding Grace’s death. In light of ongoing deaths of Americans he hopes to warn and inform others about patient advocacy and what we now know are deadly protocols. 

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Previously with Scott:  Breaking the ‘Do No Harm’ Oath, a Life & Death Battle

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Plandemic 2 – the origins of big pharma:

‘You’re not God’: Doctors and patient families say HCA hospitals push hospice care

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TODAY’S GUEST: Todd Nettleton is the Director of Media and Public Relations for The Voice of the Martyrs-USA and host of VOM Radio. Todd serves as a voice for persecuted Christians, inspiring believers with the faithfulness of Christ’s followers in 70+ nations where they face persecution. During more than 20 years serving at VOM, Todd has traveled the world and conducted face-to-face interviews with hundreds of Christians who’ve endured persecution. His latest book is, When Faith is Forbidden – 40 Days on the Frontlines with Persecuted Christians.

We discuss the International Day of the Christian Martyr June 29, also a free live virtual event called Hearts of Fire on Friday July 14, as well as updates on persecution in various countries; SEGMENT 2: we tackle some news headlines and stories concerning church, government, and culture.

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TODAY: David Fiorazo shares articles, news stories, and headlines relevant to the worldview war against truth, Christians, and America. Today’s topics include gender ideology, parents rights, public school policies, youth suicide, woke corporations, Hunter Biden, Bill Gates, Rand Paul, Anthony Fauci, and Kirk Cameron’s kids book.  

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New York transgender guidance says schools should hide gender transitions from parents

Rejecting God but Claiming to be Happy, Youth Suicide Rates Spike

Bank of America Will Spend Half a Billion on “Diversity Initiatives”

‘Kids Are Being Totally Reprogrammed’: Actor Kirk Cameron’s Candid Message to Christian Parents About the Education Crisis

Rand Paul rips Bill Gates’ alleged tie to gain-of-function research: ‘Funding the biggest danger to mankind’

Hunter Biden Associate Devon Archer Cooperating with Republican Lawmakers, will Testify on $10 Million Biden-Ukraine Bribe

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Elijah Abraham and Mary Danielsen discuss what the Lord is doing in Eastern Europe. While we don’t seem to hear much about Islamic terror acts in the West, there are still hotspots around the world where ISIS and other similar groups continue their mayhem and bloodshed. Islam is the largest growing demographic in the world. Christians continue to be under attack by mostly Islamic groups, largely centered in Africa at this time. There are 360 million Christians under threat of persecution on a daily basis, slightly more than the population of the United States.

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TODAY’S GUEST:  Pastor Steve Smothermon, author and senior pastor of Legacy Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a patriot pastor who preaches the whole counsel of God and refuses to compromise on crucial issues involving faith, truth, and religious freedom. Steve and his wife, Cynthia have 3 children, and 8 grand-kids.

We discuss Legacy Academy, a Christian education ministry of Legacy Church focusing on discipleship and equipping children in the Word of God. 

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 so that we confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?”  Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” Hebrews 13:6-8

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Far Worse Than Bud Light?: Target Pride Collections Are ‘Actively Trying To Recruit Children’

Trans-rights activists bring Outagamie County board meeting to a halt, call for member’s resignation

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