EP: 8 "All the Candy"

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Howdy, and welcome to episode eight of Hello Fairview, your local podcast made right here

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in Fairview for people in Fairview and the surrounding areas.

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This is a weekly show released every Wednesday featuring stories that aim to inform and maybe

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even inspire.

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Local radio stations like this don't exist in small towns like ours anymore.

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We'll use Hello Fairview to fill that void with news related to Fairview.

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This is a value for value podcast, which means you contribute what you can based on what

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value received. This concept was founded by the podfather himself, Adam Curry, and his co-host,

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John C. Dvorak of the No Agenda Show over 18 years ago. Currently, this is just a one-man

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operation. And so if you have any ideas, events, business opportunities, job openings,

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please don't hesitate to let me know. You are the producer of this show. You are not the product

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because your time and attention are not being sold to advertisers for value. Some shows are

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going to be longer than others some will be shorter but i'll do my best to keep things relevant

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um this is uh you know here we go all right traffic time it's the normal busy quimblin and

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100 have been a lot better for sure um there still continues to be closures here and there

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as they keep widening the road and having to big the culvert on 100 so we'll see how that goes t

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dot doesn't really give us that much notice of that officially there's not an official big plan

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that I've been able to find even after calling TDOT that shows any of the milestones or anything

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like that, but they're doing that. You may have also seen some lane closures throughout the city

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as Middle Tennessee Electric prepares for winter by trimming all the trees around power lines all

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around town. I even got blocked by them on two separate roads in the same day, but that is good,

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so hopefully that'll keep our power on if we get a good winter. Halloween related to traffic,

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It didn't really cause any major backups.

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Nothing really went red from there watching the Googles.

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And we were in Castleberry, and there was a lot fewer cars and trick-or-treaters, which was good in one sense.

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But there was also less houses doing stuff, too.

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I think we've maybe finally reached peak trunk-or-treating.

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and everybody was just had already wore their costume two, three, four times between the,

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you know, 20 plus they're around our little area.

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And that'll be what it'll be.

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We're growing city news.

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Yeah, the commissioner reached out and talked about the health department again,

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which is right across the elementary school recently was renovated and help.

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And they've got a stock of vaccines if needed, as well as other medical services.

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So please go check them out, especially if you're in need right now of any of that stuff.

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Fairview Police Department is still doing their shop with a cop.

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Applications are still open, and you can pick them up at the police department between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.,

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and everything must be completed and turned in for participants and child by November 14th at 4 p.m.

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So we continue to give thanks to our community and local businesses for their support throughout the year

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because these fundraising and donations and donations have done that.

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If you need to donate to the police department, you can mail that to the city of Fairview, P.O. Box 69 in Fairview, Tennessee.

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Real estate update related to We're Growing here.

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There's been eight property transfers here in Fairview, ranging from as little as $300,000 on Adams Preserve to $1.644 million at Bowie Meadows Phase 1, which is on Cox Run Drive.

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so there's definitely uh stuff moving around and the average price was around 500 and something

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thousand so there we go all right town meetings so uh right now there wasn't any board of zoning

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appeals no planning commission um other than the last one was 1014 which is 183 homes

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board of commission there is one meeting coming up tomorrow on november 6th at 7 p.m and the

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agenda was published the agenda is posted in the show notes but basically we've got some of the

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previous months planning commission stuff on here where we have 111 acres on pinewood road going

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from rs40 to rs10 this is the final second and final reading and the same thing on old franklin

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road 10 acres going from rs40 to r20 and then another one that was on there previously was on

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highway 96 rezoning 7.26 acres from rs40 to industrial general and that was planned to be

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a warehouse so that will be good new business for this upcoming meeting tomorrow is ordinance 2025

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523, which is 3.73 acres on Harrison Drive, moving from RS40 to RS10, and then 3.17 acres

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on Hall Road that is moving from RS40 to RS15.

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So a little bit bigger lots, 15,000 square foot versus 10,000.

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And there'll be some 2026 meeting date discussions as in which date they're going to put it on.

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and then there will be commissioner roundtable updates.

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So we'll look forward to seeing some of those because there's all kinds of good information

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sometimes sprinkled in those.

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Recap, we had a board of commissioner town hall in the previous meeting.

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That was on 1028.

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There was one public comment.

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She basically talked about the farmer's market and everything in between there.

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So that was good to hear and basically asking questions about what is going on with the

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farmer's market and when it's happening.

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Um, but we'll see that.

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And, uh, another gentleman talked about RS 40 and RS 10.

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And if it was going to do that and, uh, I put the rest of the stuff in the show notes.

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There was lots of good stuff there about some of the, uh, plays and things that are going

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on, uh, that are going on.

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And obviously some of the TPU DC things, some truck or treat stuff and everything in between

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there.

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Uh, but our next meeting planning commission meeting will be the 18th.

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No agenda has been posted yet for that.

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There's no new meetings for Board of Commissioners until November 6th, which is tomorrow and the 20th.

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And there's partial agendas.

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We have agendas for the sixth meeting, which we just went over.

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And then the town hall is on September 29th, 2026.

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That got moved out.

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November 3rd, we have the Park and Landscapes Board, which was this week.

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That was at Triangle School.

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There's no notes or anything recorded there.

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So I guess they're probably talking about the historic village, if I'm guessing.

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around town coffee is scheduled for next week november 12th at 7 p.m at the pearl so be there

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and then also on november 6th it is the beer board basically this only happens when someone

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actually applies so basically an off-premises beer permit which is the shell station at i-40

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and 96 at the red light is getting it and they had to also list what was interesting in the

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application if they're what the closest school church or daycare or nursery is which is loblolly

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preschool um an off-premise uh permit which means you can buy and sell beer that's consumed somewhere

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else unlike an on-premises uh permit which is where you can do it there and i posted the agenda

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stuff there state of tennessee obviously yesterday in november 4th 2025 was a big election day across

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the U.S. There were some governors, some Congress members, some propositions in many other races,

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especially state and local levels in many, many areas. So that happened there. The government is

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still shut down. So things are still getting wild at airports. The air traffic controllers calling

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in, TSA calling in as we head into beyond 30 days of the government shutdown. Tennessee has been

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trying to help with Bill Lee to fund some programs to feed some people while the government programs

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are down by helping donate money to food banks and some of the other organizations, some religious,

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some not, to help that happen. The Secretary of State released a report that they found 42

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possible non-citizens voted in the 2024 election out of the 4.3, so that's 0.0001%.

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no more news spots in memphis the national guard i guess is still doing things december 2nd is

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still going to be the special election for the 7th u.s district house seat which is us here in

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williamson county again with afton ben from the democrats and matt van epps from the republicans

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based on the primary results more news of them going back and forth and potential seats as we

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get closer there there was also a couple cool leaks from some budget hearings that i posted in

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here, which were just yesterday. So I did not have time to go through six hours of that.

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The Music City Loop, we're still digging and drilling things. They've purchased more land.

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Just like we talked about last week, the airport released a video about the Terminal 2,

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which will have 70 more gates and around 300 more acres. This is scheduled to start around 2038.

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In the bills, here's what we have this week. Nothing super detailed, but the agenda for today,

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which I could have watched live, with all the companies that are taking money and what they do.

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So I've heard some of these company names before.

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Some are new, but it also makes me wonder, and I can't find it,

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how much money is being sent to each one of these companies' way out of there.

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So if we go to correction for jails, Centurion of Tennessee, LLC,

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General Services, SSOE, Health Facilities Commission, Diversified Technologies, LLP and Health, Inductive Health Informatics, LLC, SA, Holdco, Infra, blah, blah, blah, Human Services, Alliance and Enterprise, Evident Change.

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That was all health-related companies.

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Secretary of State, Coughlin Companies, which is Capstone and Capstone Classroom,

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Dorger Software Architects Incorporated, Education.

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There was Cambion Assessment, NCS Pearson, Agriculture.

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There was MXI Environmental Services for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

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Beacon Technologies, which is part of TennCare, United Healthcare Community Plan,

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volunteer state health plan blue cross blue shield uh doing business as blue car blue care

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blue care tennessee sorry about that well point tennessee volunteer state uh health plan blue

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care tennessee 10 care select i guess a different business entity owns 10 care versus 10 care select

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optum rx council on affordable quality health care equifax workforce solutions keystone peer

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and Organization, LLC, KPMG, LLP, Mercer Health and Benefits, NTT, Data, State, and Health

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Consulting.

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So lots of agricultural and TennCare-related things.

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TennCare, obviously winning with the most things going on with over 10 companies, I guess,

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talking.

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And when it comes to that is then after that, November 13th, there is the State Building

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Commission.

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The agenda hasn't been posted for that, but we'll have to see how that is.

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Now to how's the hill.

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Well, it's definitely passable.

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Fall is rocking, but it's moving below freezing real soon.

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The lows this weekend are on Sunday and Monday expected to be in the 20s and the highs in the 40s.

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So you need to take your hose off your spigot before the weekend freeze gets here.

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Then they are also guessing highs of 60s and low of 40s for the rest of the week.

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So we'll have to see how that goes.

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New businesses.

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Nothing new spotted.

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Ace Hardware is definitely making a lot of progress across from Tractor Supply Co.

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There's still an open slot at Publix and Bowie Commons and Bowie Meadows.

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Other than that, I haven't spotted anything else new for there.

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Farmer's Market.

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We need to make sure we're heading there every Saturday morning and supporting some of our local businesses from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., not earlier.

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at Messick Chiropractic and Fairview Fresh Deli Donuts

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for their life-changing apple fritters

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and to get your back all fixed up at Messick,

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located down the road and across the street from Publix.

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So many good places for local beef and pork,

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breads and treats, local fruits and vegetables,

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along with some hot sauce, fishing lures,

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and a lot of holiday gifts this time of year.

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And I know you will also most likely see

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the Boy Scouts Troop 297 will be there

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to sell Christmas trees.

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later this year as we get closer Brick and mortar highlight So probably MJ and Sons Wrecker service this is our local towing company used by most people i used them a couple times and their responsiveness

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to get the job done uh has been awesome and that's really what you need in a tow truck company

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is you need them to show up when they say they're going to show up and uh take care of your vehicle

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as it's being towed and that's what they do and one of their quotes that i liked uh your go-to

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choice for towing and recovering, towing and recovery since 1989. You can call the rest,

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but you can, but you can't choose, you can choose the best with MJ son's record of service,

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trusted by families for over 35 years. Got a link to their website and to their Facebook page.

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And another local business highlight is another farmer's market attendee, doughy duos. This is

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another one of our great regular local farmer's market vendors is the mother daughter team that

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makes fresh sourdough breads from plain to jalapeno cheese. And if you make a grilled cheese

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with that, it will take it to the next level. Their treats are also excellent from chocolate

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chip cookies to their specialty loaves, cinnamon rolls, and you never know what type of bread it

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may be. It may be shaped like a pumpkin right now, and it was mummies about a week ago. So

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definitely check them out. You can follow them on Facebook and Instagram. Job openings, still a good

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pile of job openings throughout the city. There's still an associate planner position opened,

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and the police officer. Walmart still has multiple positions, Cornerstone Financial Credit Union,

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Publix, Dunkin' Donuts, Boys and Girls Club, Subway, The Pearl, Taco Bell, Sonic, McDonald's,

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Tractor Supply Co., Marmon Holdings, Hardee's, and Destination Pet LLC. And if you have any other

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job postings, just let us know. Our history nugget for the day is the name origin of Vicksburg Road

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During the Civil War, Vicksburg on the Mississippi River was a key battle that turned into the side of the Civil War.

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There were the Confederate Army.

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When the Confederate Army surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863, this was a vital link in the supply chain from the north and south.

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This victory split the Confederate Army in half, which was the beginning of the end of the war.

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So that's where that comes from, is from the Battle of Vicksburg in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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Upcoming events.

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Recap.

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Nothing really since last week.

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We have added a bunch of stuff to the calendar from the plays at FHS, FMS, and FHS.

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So some of the new events that are upcoming is this weekend, starting tomorrow, is the Fairview High School Rumors by Neil Simon.

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uh it's at 7 p.m and then on the 7th at 7 p.m and on the 8th it's a double header at 2 p.m and 7 p.m

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buoy park we've got uh november 6th if you're not wanting to go to the theater you can go there for

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some volunteer orientation earlier in the day from 10 to 11 uh november 8th there is at buoy there is

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the playground pop-up and dixon will have their christmas parade on november 9th starting downtown

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at 10 a.m. So if you're going to go there, Marine Corps birthday is next week, November 10th.

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This is their 250th birthday, just like the Army and the Navy earlier this year.

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Franklin, November 11th at 11 a.m. is the Veterans Day Parade. And I think there's also one in

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Nashville at the same time, too. On November 12th, 10 to 1130 and 1 to 230 is the Bowie Homeschool

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Mammals and Myths and Mammal Survival. It shows both of those full. But if you've got a

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kid that's at home school, make sure you're signing up for these things. There's a lot of

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really cool opportunities at the park. On November 13th, it's Kindness Rock Painting Day at Bowie

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Park. November 15th at 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the fall market is at the high school. Great place to

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get some Christmas gifts that are local and customized. And November 15th, the same day,

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GraceWorks will also have the mobile food pantry from 8 to 10 a.m. or until food runs out.

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This is a great opportunity, especially with the government shutdown, to do that.

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And this is usually the meals that are themed to Thanksgiving meals.

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So you'll get the gravies and the taters and that kind of stuff.

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November 18th and 19th at Bowie is the Intro to Feeder Watch.

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November 21st, 1 to 2 p.m., is the Leaf Critter Craft.

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November 22nd at Bowie is the Bowie Book Club.

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November 24th from 12 to 3 p.m. is a volunteer opportunity called Cider and Service Day, which sounds like it probably is fun.

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And then we get into December.

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We have the Christmas tree lighting December 5th at 5 p.m.

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And we have the Christmas parade December 6th at 10 a.m.

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Then we have the Adams family from the Fairview Middle School on December 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, with 11th and 12th being at 6 p.m.

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and December 13th being a 2 and 6 p.m. and Sunday being a 2 p.m. showing.

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And the links to sign up and get tickets for that are in the show notes.

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So make sure you click on it and click around.

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For the kids, there's still a ton of activities and sports in Fairview to keep your kids engaged.

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There's some cheer programs, recreation teams for baseball, basketball, football, and others.

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There is also a thriving Girl Scout and Boy Scout and Scouts BSA program here in Fairview.

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There are many recreation and travel teams if you're looking for that.

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If you're a homeschooler, make sure you're always continuing to check out the Bowie Park schedule for the clubs that meet there.

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Lala's Dance Studio and Elevate Gymnastics and Cheer is rocking for that genre.

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There is also an excellent taekwondo and jujitsu place that teaches way more than just moves called Vigilance Martial Arts.

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We also have a great jacket wrestling program with some summer options right now.

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So that's good.

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School news.

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Well, first part of school news is no school November 24th to 28th for Thanksgiving.

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So make sure you make the trip and eat the food.

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Hawk and Tiger news.

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I have not seen anything new on there.

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So that went down.

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I know some high schoolers went over there to go have some fun with them.

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Falcon News, there's a fundraiser on November 18th called McTeacher Night at our local McDonald's from 4.30 to 7.30.

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15% of the food sales and 100% of Apple sales will go to the school, so that's really good.

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FMS PTO is also starting to sell 24 inch and 36 inch wreaths that you can pick up at Lala's

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dance studio on 12 one from five to seven 30 PM. And thank you Lala's dance studio, uh, for

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supporting our schools like that. The book fair is rocking, uh, this week for fourth, uh, for fifth,

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sixth and seventh graders, uh, or sixth, seventh and eighth graders. Uh, so they're rocking out

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and having fun there for each day.

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So make sure you send some book money over there.

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On the 4th, there was a wrestling match at Woodland

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and a home basketball team against Harpeth Middle School.

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I don't think I saw them post on the scores on that,

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and it didn't come in the newsletter.

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So on November 6th, there's the Honors Orchestra will perform

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a home basketball game against Columbia

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and a home wrestling match against Thompson Station.

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So it's going to be a busy day tomorrow on the 6th.

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And just like we said earlier, you can get your tickets for the Adams family, which is on the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th with multiple time slots in the show notes.

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It still shows a Veterans Day assembly at the high school on November 11th.

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So we'll have to see there.

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I think I'm not sure if they're having that.

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Bowling tryouts are going to happen December 9th at 330 at the Franklin Entertainment Center.

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If you're wanting to be part of the bowling team for the middle school.

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Jacket news.

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The game against Waverly last week did not disappoint with a two point one two point conversion with the win at the last seconds.

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Basically, Fairview won by gaining 15 points in the last six minutes of the game, including a two point conversion within the last 30 seconds of the game to do that with the final score of 29 to 28 Waverly, which means they have clinched the region six championship.

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and they are proceeding so that's awesome november 6th is another or uh is another um

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yeah november 6th is another championship game against stratford at 7 p.m so be there

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it could be the last game of the season or the second to last if they win and get to keep

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progressing through the state championship uh regions fairview uh is at 8 2 and stratford is

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at 3-6. So we wish them all the luck to get there and they hope to have a good and safe game.

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If you're not into football and you're into theater, you can see the first showings of

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rumors starting on the 6th at 7 p.m. The pep rally is also November 7th and at 7 p.m. is showing

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rumors. And then on the 8th, there is the 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. showing of the same show if you want to

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make sure you get your chance to get in there. The fall market, just like we talked about,

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is November 15th, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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This is a great place to support your local businesses

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and get some Christmas shopping.

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Every Friday, Kona Ice and Tom's Coffee

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will be there at lunchtime.

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Senior portraits and senior ads are due by November 21st.

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November 21st is still marked down as the career day.

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I'm not sure if they're having it, though,

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because I think it's every other year.

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The ASVAB test is on December 9th,

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and if you're planning on joining the military,

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this is a must-have, so get your study on

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because this will determine what job you can actually pick.

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Looks like the high school bowling team is rolling with practices coming up on the November 13th and 20th and making some trips to Thunder Alley and Dixon to get your roll on.

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And if you have kids in 8th to 12th grade and they're looking for your creative outlet this winter, then there's an unforgettable season expired by the hit Broadway Waitress.

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Tryout dates are November 14th, 17th, and 21st at 430 to 730.

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rehearsals will be monday through fridays 4 30 to 7 30 no experience necessary bring your energy

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and enthusiasm tryouts and rehearsals take place at the fairview high school if you have a student

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who is starting to drive this year you need to make sure they send the email to the principal

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to get the schoolagy link to get the checkpoints driving training and then pay for your parking

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pass which is 15 per year so that is some good stuff faith moment if you haven't heard of the

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Patriot Academy. I suggest learning more, especially if you have kids and want to raise

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them as godly citizens. This is a sermon from Rick Green that did it at the Awakened Church.

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And this talks about the founding of the country and that this is just the first half of this

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sermon. But I think a lot of this stuff is really good and hopefully you'll do that.

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Bless you. Have a seat. Let's dive in quick. Make the most of every minute we've got together.

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I'm going to bring a lot at you really fast, so buckle up.

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David Barton and I both get accused of talking about 90 words a minute with gusts up to 350.

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Forget 90, we're starting at 350, we might even go above that.

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So I love being with you, it is so good to see God's people coming together.

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Didn't you miss that fellowship?

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Oh my goodness, just to get to see each other, smile at each other, hug each other, pray for each other, lay hands on each other.

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Man, we need you so bad, I'm so thankful for what you're doing.

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You're really a beacon to others around the country.

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You got great pastors here willing to bring.

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You know, I mean, John and Becky, Juergen and Leanne,

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they understand the importance of God's word

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applying to every part of our lives,

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not just these boxes we try to put Christ in,

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these boxes we try to put the word of God in.

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They understand the importance of even influencing government

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with the word of God.

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There are not enough churches in America doing that anymore.

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It used to be the role of the church.

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We used to even call pastors in the Revolutionary War

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the black-robed regiment, the British hated them because they were actually so engaged in the

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culture and they were teaching liberty to their flocks out of the Word of God. And then the pastors

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were grabbing the musket off the mantle and marching into battle with the people right out

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of their church. So the role of pastors and churches in American history has been huge.

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I want to bring it to maybe a point you may not expect, and that is when we think about our role

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as Christians in a free society like America, when we think about what it means to be a biblical

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a local citizen in the way that our nation works right now,

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I would suggest to you this morning

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that it actually goes back to the Great Commission That when you think about the gospel itself it is not just a one fire insurance salvation message that the gospel the actual idea of the Great Commission is not just to share the story

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of Christ and what Christ has done for you, but actually to make disciples of all men. And so when

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you look at it, it's therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the

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Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you.

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Now that means that there's nothing off limits.

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if you take the Bible as a whole,

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there is no area of our culture that is off limits.

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And so he's given us a way to approach

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not just our finances and our family,

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but also our community, also our freedom itself.

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And so there's a biblical way to do this.

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the whole culture would benefit from that.

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So if we, the church, are being salt and light

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and actually influencing what's happening outside,

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then everybody else benefits as well,

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because we're sowing in the right principles

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that produce good results.

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I'm gonna give you a little bit of an analogy here

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because I think it fits, and I actually,

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we got blessed about a year and a half ago

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and got a new truck in our family, okay?

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So this is our truck, it's a nice, beautiful Dodge Ram 1500.

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I say we somewhat liberally

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because it's actually my wife's truck.

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and she's of course driving, and I open the glove box,

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and guess what I found in the glove box of this new truck?

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A manual, and the manual was written by

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the creator of that truck.

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The manual was instructions for us

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on how to operate that truck and get the most out of it,

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have it last the longest, perform at its best,

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all of those things.

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written by the creator of the truck,

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Ain't nobody gonna tell us how to live our truck.

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and I throw the manual out the window.

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and we're gonna get gasoline for this gasoline truck,

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but as we're pulling in, I say, you know, honey,

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I just kinda feel like a diesel today.

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I'm like, no, it's okay, I feel like a diesel today,

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so let's be a diesel truck today.

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And she says, maybe that manual we threw away

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might have said something about this,

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but you know, we're gonna try it anyway.

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We fill her up with diesel.

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How far out of that driveway do you think we're getting?

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it's gonna turn into a Chevy and break down.

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That's probably what's gonna happen.

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look, God has given us an instruction manual for life.

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The Bible teaches us how the brain works,

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how the body works, how relationships work,

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how society should work.

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All of that instruction is in there.

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And yet we too often as Americans wanna say,

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nobody's gonna tell me how to live.

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I'm gonna have total freedom.

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I get to do anything and everything that I want.

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so that we can have a license for licentiousness

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rather than actually getting the best blessings of freedom

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by actually living within the boundaries

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that the author and the source of freedom actually gives us

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because he knows how we work

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and what's gonna produce a good result.

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So we wanna use the instruction manual.

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Noah Webster's one of our founding fathers.

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He said, all the miseries and evils

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which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice,

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oppression, slavery, and war

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proceed from their despising or neglecting

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the precepts contained in the Bible.

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Now, just that little short list there,

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there's some personal things in there

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that would cause us pain in our lives,

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but there's some cultural things in there as well,

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societal things.

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And he's saying both personally and culturally

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and as a society, if we follow the Bible,

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we can avoid that pain.

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We're going to experience that pain in our culture.

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So let's specifically look at your role in America.

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If we're gonna teach people to obey all of Christ's commands,

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he said, render unto Caesar what is Caesar's

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and unto God what is God's.

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You say, well, Rick, how do I do that?

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How do I render?

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We don't have Caesar, right?

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But we do, actually.

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Who is Caesar in America?

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It's you.

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We the people.

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Government answers to you.

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Our system of government is different from the Roman Empire.

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When he uttered those words, that meant something different in terms of application.

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The principle was the same.

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But in terms of application, it was different because it was a different political and economic

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structure.

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In our political and economic structure, you are in charge.

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We the people are ultimately in charge.

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00:30:34,132 --> 00:30:38,912
So if we're going to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, then we have to do our job as

434
00:30:38,912 --> 00:30:39,172
citizens.

435
00:30:39,292 --> 00:30:41,972
We literally have to say, okay, well, what does that mean to be we the people?

436
00:30:42,452 --> 00:30:45,612
How do I live out being Caesar in a free society?

437
00:30:45,752 --> 00:30:50,912
How do I take the Constitution and actually apply biblical principles to my society?

438
00:30:51,652 --> 00:30:53,452
Well, Charles Finney told us how simple this is.

439
00:30:53,732 --> 00:30:55,852
He was a speaker in the second great awakening.

440
00:30:56,372 --> 00:30:59,332
In fact, this is a picture of him preaching, but that's not, it looks like John Travolta

441
00:30:59,332 --> 00:30:59,972
in Staying Alive.

442
00:30:59,972 --> 00:31:03,732
He just didn't have the white suit, but he was pretty good at that.

443
00:31:03,732 --> 00:31:05,092
Anyway, you know what inspired the movie now.

444
00:31:06,412 --> 00:31:11,032
He actually said the church must take right ground in regard to politics.

445
00:31:12,192 --> 00:31:14,552
Man, we can stop right there and say, wait a minute, Rick.

446
00:31:14,592 --> 00:31:16,152
What about separation of church and state?

447
00:31:16,232 --> 00:31:18,472
The church must take right ground in regard to politics.

448
00:31:19,192 --> 00:31:23,072
He's saying, yeah, politics, that's just part of a religion in a country such as this.

449
00:31:23,512 --> 00:31:27,852
And Christians must do their duty to their country as a part of their duty to God.

450
00:31:28,352 --> 00:31:32,832
He said God will bless or curse this nation according to the course Christians take in politics.

451
00:31:32,832 --> 00:31:34,772
Well, right there, think about it.

452
00:31:34,772 --> 00:31:40,132
He's just saying politics, that's just like family, work, relationships.

453
00:31:40,132 --> 00:31:44,012
It's all part of our religion because the Bible applies to everything.

454
00:31:44,012 --> 00:31:49,352
There's no secular spiritual split in this idea of an instruction manual

455
00:31:49,352 --> 00:31:50,692
applying to our whole life.

456
00:31:50,692 --> 00:31:54,612
I mean, you would never walk away on Sunday morning driving home with your wife

457
00:31:54,612 --> 00:31:57,532
or your husband and saying, man, Pastor John was on fire today.

458
00:31:57,532 --> 00:32:01,092
I mean, that was such a great sermon about how to treat your spouse,

459
00:32:01,092 --> 00:32:02,132
how to raise your kids.

460
00:32:02,132 --> 00:32:06,512
It was a really good sermon on being a good husband or father or wife or mother.

461
00:32:06,672 --> 00:32:08,812
But, you know, I wish we could apply it when we get home.

462
00:32:08,952 --> 00:32:11,312
But separation of home and church.

463
00:32:13,292 --> 00:32:14,232
Can't do it, you know.

464
00:32:14,612 --> 00:32:17,092
You've never driven away from this church and said,

465
00:32:17,092 --> 00:32:20,152
man, Pastor John was preaching so good on how to be a good servant leader,

466
00:32:20,292 --> 00:32:23,672
how to be a good employer or a good employee, how to have good work ethic,

467
00:32:23,872 --> 00:32:24,832
how to treat people right.

468
00:32:24,932 --> 00:32:26,692
I wish I could apply it tomorrow at work.

469
00:32:26,792 --> 00:32:29,072
But separation of church and work.

470
00:32:29,072 --> 00:32:35,792
Why in the world do we allow ourselves to say separation of church and state?

471
00:32:35,892 --> 00:32:38,892
I can't apply God's word to how I'm going to vote on Tuesday

472
00:32:38,892 --> 00:32:41,292
or how I'm going to testify at the legislature

473
00:32:41,292 --> 00:32:44,352
or how I'm going to influence the school board or the city council

474
00:32:44,352 --> 00:32:45,872
or all of these areas.

475
00:32:46,232 --> 00:32:47,992
There is no secular spiritual split.

476
00:32:48,132 --> 00:32:49,132
Psalms 24.1 says,

477
00:32:49,292 --> 00:32:52,132
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.

478
00:32:52,692 --> 00:32:54,712
Now, I'm just a country boy from Dripping Springs, Texas.

479
00:32:55,152 --> 00:32:58,132
Country boy interpretation of that is it's all his.

480
00:32:58,132 --> 00:33:03,952
every bit of it and if we are ignoring a part of it or we're pretending that a

481
00:33:03,952 --> 00:33:06,872
part of it doesn't belong to him then we're ignoring the instruction manual

482
00:33:06,872 --> 00:33:10,372
and we're ignoring what he actually gave us so we've got to take right ground in

483
00:33:10,372 --> 00:33:13,852
regard to politics well how do we do that in our culture you've been given

484
00:33:13,852 --> 00:33:18,052
just like in the parable the talents you've been given a talent of freedom

485
00:33:18,052 --> 00:33:23,152
you've been given the ability to influence who your leaders are and first

486
00:33:23,152 --> 00:33:27,232
of all recognize in the context of history most people who ever lived on

487
00:33:27,232 --> 00:33:32,372
the planet did not have that right, did not have that talent, that gift of freedom to be

488
00:33:32,372 --> 00:33:35,912
able to choose their leaders, to be able to choose what their government would look like.

489
00:33:35,912 --> 00:33:37,172
So first of all, it's just a blessing.

490
00:33:37,172 --> 00:33:40,672
It's incredible that we get to enjoy that and we need to be thankful for it.

491
00:33:40,672 --> 00:33:43,352
But secondly, there's a responsibility that comes with it.

492
00:33:43,352 --> 00:33:45,092
You know, we love to talk about our rights.

493
00:33:45,092 --> 00:33:47,892
I got the right to do this and the right to do that and I want freedom of speech and freedom

494
00:33:47,892 --> 00:33:49,392
of this and freedom of that.

495
00:33:49,392 --> 00:33:53,392
With every right comes a corresponding responsibility.

496
00:33:53,392 --> 00:33:56,972
We too often talk about the rights and don't talk about the responsibility that comes with

497
00:33:56,972 --> 00:33:58,972
But it's just like that parable of talents.

498
00:33:58,972 --> 00:34:01,272
I mean, God's given you this gift of freedom.

499
00:34:01,272 --> 00:34:03,012
Are you gonna be one of those two that he came back

500
00:34:03,012 --> 00:34:05,472
and said, well done, good and faithful servant?

501
00:34:05,472 --> 00:34:07,212
You know, you've been faithful with a little bit.

502
00:34:07,212 --> 00:34:09,212
I'm gonna give you even more to be responsible with.

503
00:34:09,212 --> 00:34:11,352
Are you gonna be that one that buried the talent,

504
00:34:11,352 --> 00:34:13,732
hid the talent, maybe said, oh, I'm not voting,

505
00:34:13,732 --> 00:34:15,552
I'm not gonna get involved, I can't make a difference,

506
00:34:15,552 --> 00:34:17,792
or it's too risky, or whatever?

507
00:34:17,792 --> 00:34:19,132
And then what did he say?

508
00:34:19,132 --> 00:34:22,232
Wicked and slothful servant.

509
00:34:22,232 --> 00:34:24,272
My friends, if we don't use our freedom,

510
00:34:24,272 --> 00:34:26,612
if we don't exercise this citizen duty,

511
00:34:27,052 --> 00:34:29,292
I believe we're being wicked and slothful servants.

512
00:34:29,492 --> 00:34:31,572
We're not doing the best that we can

513
00:34:31,572 --> 00:34:33,132
with what God has given us.

514
00:34:33,172 --> 00:34:34,752
He's blessed us with so much,

515
00:34:34,812 --> 00:34:36,232
so we've gotta be engaged in this.

516
00:34:36,652 --> 00:34:38,652
In fact, right now, and what's happening in our culture,

517
00:34:38,732 --> 00:34:40,052
I think this verse applies as well.

518
00:34:40,512 --> 00:34:42,092
Whoever knows the right thing to do

519
00:34:42,092 --> 00:34:43,932
and fails to do it for him it is sin.

520
00:34:44,372 --> 00:34:46,452
I think that is true with regard to our culture.

521
00:34:46,572 --> 00:34:48,632
I mean, we're dealing with a culture war right now

522
00:34:48,632 --> 00:34:49,972
of worldviews.

523
00:34:50,592 --> 00:34:52,412
There are competing worldviews.

524
00:34:52,412 --> 00:34:54,912
Some that say that life is not precious,

525
00:34:54,912 --> 00:34:56,512
that you can take life in the womb

526
00:34:56,512 --> 00:35:00,612
up to literally to birth or even after birth.

527
00:35:00,612 --> 00:35:03,252
I mean, we're talking about evil right now.

528
00:35:03,252 --> 00:35:04,852
And for us to stand back and say,

529
00:35:04,852 --> 00:35:06,152
I'm not gonna be involved,

530
00:35:06,152 --> 00:35:09,692
or for us to say, I'm gonna vote for a candidate

531
00:35:09,692 --> 00:35:12,832
that supports that kind of infanticide

532
00:35:12,832 --> 00:35:14,872
because the other candidate said something

533
00:35:14,872 --> 00:35:16,372
that offended me.

534
00:35:16,372 --> 00:35:19,312
Are we seriously gonna make moral equivalence

535
00:35:19,312 --> 00:35:20,432
of those two things?

536
00:35:20,432 --> 00:35:25,432
We've got to have discernment, right?

537
00:35:26,872 --> 00:35:28,212
We've got to have discernment,

538
00:35:28,212 --> 00:35:30,732
and there is evil in our world right now,

539
00:35:30,732 --> 00:35:32,372
and we have got to step up

540
00:35:32,372 --> 00:35:34,392
and have a voice of reason with that.

541
00:35:34,392 --> 00:35:36,032
Now, I gotta sidetrack just a little bit,

542
00:35:36,032 --> 00:35:37,872
because as I say be a good citizen

543
00:35:37,872 --> 00:35:39,672
and be involved in this,

544
00:35:39,672 --> 00:35:41,852
I used to go around and give this presentation over here

545
00:35:41,852 --> 00:35:44,512
that says, saving America begins with you.

546
00:35:44,512 --> 00:35:46,992
But right now, America's on trial.

547
00:35:47,832 --> 00:35:49,332
There's many of you that may be feeling,

548
00:35:49,332 --> 00:35:51,352
You may be worried, in your gut you're wondering,

549
00:35:51,352 --> 00:35:52,832
is this system even worth saving?

550
00:35:52,832 --> 00:35:55,812
I mean, should I save the American Constitution?

551
00:35:55,812 --> 00:35:58,612
Is the American value system good or bad?

552
00:35:58,612 --> 00:36:01,052
And there's a lot of things we could discuss today

553
00:36:01,052 --> 00:36:02,672
to answer that question.

554
00:36:02,672 --> 00:36:04,392
But again, I'm a country boy from Trippie Springs,

555
00:36:04,392 --> 00:36:06,212
so I'm just gonna make it really, really simple.

556
00:36:06,212 --> 00:36:10,432
We're gonna look at one basic, easy to analyze question.

557
00:36:10,432 --> 00:36:12,932
If you wanna know whether or not a nation is good or bad,

558
00:36:12,932 --> 00:36:15,332
whether or not a nation is worth saving,

559
00:36:15,332 --> 00:36:17,932
whether or not a nation's principles and values

560
00:36:17,932 --> 00:36:20,492
and system of political and economic structures

561
00:36:20,492 --> 00:36:22,172
is producing good results or bad results.

562
00:36:22,172 --> 00:36:24,352
Very simple question to ask.

563
00:36:24,352 --> 00:36:27,692
Are people trying to get in, or are they trying to get out?

564
00:36:28,892 --> 00:36:31,212
Because if they're trying to get in,

565
00:36:31,212 --> 00:36:32,712
there must be a reason, right?

566
00:36:32,712 --> 00:36:36,972
If they're not fleeing to get out, there must be a reason.

567
00:36:36,972 --> 00:36:41,972
America has one out of every five immigrants on the planet.

568
00:36:42,692 --> 00:36:44,512
Now that's not illegal or illegal,

569
00:36:44,512 --> 00:36:46,072
I'm not distinguishing between those two.

570
00:36:46,072 --> 00:36:50,552
That means you're living in a nation in which you were not born.

571
00:36:50,552 --> 00:36:58,592
There are more immigrants living in America than the second, third, fourth, and fifth nations combined.

572
00:36:58,592 --> 00:37:05,152
There's more immigrants living in America than the bottom 159 nations combined.

573
00:37:05,152 --> 00:37:09,252
That tells you right there, there is something about the American value system

574
00:37:09,252 --> 00:37:11,372
that's working pretty darn good, right?

575
00:37:11,372 --> 00:37:13,272
Does it mean we're perfect? Absolutely not.

576
00:37:13,272 --> 00:37:14,872
Does it mean we're flawed? Absolutely.

577
00:37:14,872 --> 00:37:18,472
Guess what, because America is still made up of human beings.

578
00:37:18,472 --> 00:37:20,392
People, as one of my guys says,

579
00:37:20,392 --> 00:37:23,352
the joys of working with people, right?

580
00:37:23,352 --> 00:37:25,412
I mean, that is part of being in a society.

581
00:37:25,412 --> 00:37:27,552
We're gonna have flaws and we're gonna have sinners

582
00:37:27,552 --> 00:37:28,972
and we're gonna have things like that,

583
00:37:28,972 --> 00:37:31,932
but the American dream is still real.

584
00:37:31,932 --> 00:37:35,172
Have you ever noticed that you don't hear that phrase?

585
00:37:35,172 --> 00:37:37,592
Have you ever heard of the North Korean dream?

586
00:37:39,332 --> 00:37:40,072
Anybody?

587
00:37:40,072 --> 00:37:41,092
No, I don't think I've ever,

588
00:37:41,092 --> 00:37:43,712
have you ever heard of the Cuban dream?

589
00:37:43,712 --> 00:37:47,252
Right, it doesn't happen in socialist or communist countries.

590
00:37:47,252 --> 00:37:50,572
The American dream is what the entire world looks to

591
00:37:50,572 --> 00:37:52,272
and says, that's the model.

592
00:37:52,272 --> 00:37:53,752
They've gotten the results.

593
00:37:53,752 --> 00:37:55,552
They've created a society that's a blessing.

594
00:37:55,552 --> 00:37:57,552
But right now, man, we hear it in our streets

595
00:37:57,552 --> 00:38:01,012
all over the nation saying, America's evil, America's bad.

596
00:38:01,012 --> 00:38:02,472
We need to destroy America.

597
00:38:02,472 --> 00:38:05,132
The Marxist philosophy that's being taught

598
00:38:05,132 --> 00:38:08,192
to tear down the American system is on purpose.

599
00:38:08,192 --> 00:38:10,992
It's part of what Karl Marx said 150 years ago.

600
00:38:10,992 --> 00:38:13,452
To destroy us, you have to divide us.

601
00:38:13,752 --> 00:38:16,152
You have to put black against white, rich against poor,

602
00:38:16,792 --> 00:38:19,292
country boys against the intellectuals of the Northeast.

603
00:38:19,552 --> 00:38:20,972
I mean, whatever you can come up with.

604
00:38:21,252 --> 00:38:24,332
You've got to come up with something that will divide us

605
00:38:24,332 --> 00:38:25,832
because they don't want us united.

606
00:38:25,972 --> 00:38:29,072
They don't want us coming behind these principles and saying, this works.

607
00:38:29,152 --> 00:38:31,092
So let me just speak to the elephant in the room, all right?

608
00:38:31,132 --> 00:38:33,132
Everybody looks at these guys and says,

609
00:38:33,212 --> 00:38:34,692
well, weren't they all racist slave owners?

610
00:38:34,812 --> 00:38:36,632
Why should we be proud of America?

611
00:38:36,632 --> 00:38:39,032
Why should we be proud of what we have at all?

612
00:38:39,032 --> 00:38:42,052
Let me tell you, I've studied these guys for 30 years,

613
00:38:42,312 --> 00:38:45,532
and I discovered something in that study, an amazing thing.

614
00:38:46,232 --> 00:38:47,292
They were human, too.

615
00:38:48,272 --> 00:38:49,532
They were sinners, too.

616
00:38:50,092 --> 00:38:53,472
They did evil things, just like you and just like me.

617
00:38:54,192 --> 00:38:56,072
They were depraved, just like us.

618
00:38:56,552 --> 00:38:59,592
And when you go back to 1776 and you look at the world,

619
00:39:00,072 --> 00:39:01,372
every nation had slavery.

620
00:39:02,092 --> 00:39:06,832
Black on black, black on white, white on black, white on white,

621
00:39:07,312 --> 00:39:08,872
yellow, red, you put it all in there.

622
00:39:09,032 --> 00:39:11,832
Every combination you can possibly think of.

623
00:39:11,832 --> 00:39:13,572
And believe it or not, three fourths of the men

624
00:39:13,572 --> 00:39:16,332
you see in this picture were abolitionists,

625
00:39:16,332 --> 00:39:17,672
wanted to end slavery.

626
00:39:17,672 --> 00:39:34,608
Even some of the ones that had grown up in slavery and owned slaves abhorred it hated it and spent their lives trying to end the institution Am I putting these guys they not angels I not deifying them I not putting them on a pedestal I just telling you they were humans like us And somehow someway God used

627
00:39:34,608 --> 00:39:41,948
these flawed men to put a document together that said we hold these truths to be self-evident,

628
00:39:42,348 --> 00:39:46,628
that all men are created equal, that they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable

629
00:39:46,628 --> 00:39:50,768
rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights,

630
00:39:50,908 --> 00:39:55,728
governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

631
00:39:56,348 --> 00:40:00,608
Use those flawed men to put those principles in place, and it was those principles upon which

632
00:40:00,608 --> 00:40:04,808
Abraham Lincoln stood with the Emancipation Proclamation. It was those principles that

633
00:40:04,808 --> 00:40:08,688
Martin Luther King Jr. marched in the streets. He quoted from the Declaration almost as much as he

634
00:40:08,688 --> 00:40:14,308
quoted from the Bible. Those principles laid out the ideal of America, and ever since then,

635
00:40:14,308 --> 00:40:16,348
and we have constantly worked hard

636
00:40:16,348 --> 00:40:18,388
to become a more perfect union.

637
00:40:18,388 --> 00:40:19,508
And we've done that.

638
00:40:19,508 --> 00:40:22,588
We have become the most powerful, the wealthiest,

639
00:40:22,588 --> 00:40:25,828
the most free, and the most benevolent nation

640
00:40:25,828 --> 00:40:27,988
in the history of the world.

641
00:40:27,988 --> 00:40:29,448
But we don't know our history,

642
00:40:29,448 --> 00:40:31,628
and therefore we're buying the lies.

643
00:40:31,628 --> 00:40:34,788
We're buying the idea that somehow we should destroy America,

644
00:40:34,788 --> 00:40:36,628
that it's not salvageable.

645
00:40:36,628 --> 00:40:38,528
That's what critical race theory is all about.

646
00:40:38,528 --> 00:40:41,768
It's creating this idea that America is so evil and so bad,

647
00:40:41,768 --> 00:40:43,468
it must be destroyed.

648
00:40:43,468 --> 00:40:47,888
And that's why these kids are in the streets tearing down statues and tearing down the culture and rioting in that way.

649
00:40:48,168 --> 00:40:50,368
And a lot of them have a righteous indignation.

650
00:40:50,488 --> 00:40:52,448
They believe they're fighting for a good cause.

651
00:40:52,528 --> 00:40:53,448
They've been lied to.

652
00:40:53,928 --> 00:40:55,388
And we have truth.

653
00:40:55,708 --> 00:40:58,528
We have biblical truth that can teach people.

654
00:40:58,848 --> 00:40:59,708
Depraved, yes.

655
00:41:00,168 --> 00:41:03,628
But the principles of God, the instruction manual of God when followed,

656
00:41:03,628 --> 00:41:08,088
will bless even a flawed community and flawed men and women.

657
00:41:08,248 --> 00:41:09,888
That's what the American story is.

658
00:41:09,928 --> 00:41:12,228
I've got to tell you about a couple of these guys that we leave out of history.

659
00:41:12,588 --> 00:41:15,008
Peter Salem was a black patriot that fought at Bunker Hill

660
00:41:15,008 --> 00:41:18,588
and got 13 military commendations for what he did in that one day,

661
00:41:18,648 --> 00:41:20,988
one of the great military heroes in American history.

662
00:41:21,108 --> 00:41:23,248
James Armistead was our first double agent.

663
00:41:23,508 --> 00:41:25,488
This was the James Bond of the Revolutionary War.

664
00:41:26,348 --> 00:41:29,848
This guy actually convinced the British that he was a runaway slave

665
00:41:29,848 --> 00:41:32,748
and that he hated the Americans and he wanted to beat the Americans,

666
00:41:33,088 --> 00:41:35,308
so he gets into their camp, gets up to the highest levels,

667
00:41:35,548 --> 00:41:37,528
gets all this great information, starts sneaking out,

668
00:41:37,928 --> 00:41:39,768
giving it to the Lafayette and the Americans.

669
00:41:40,048 --> 00:41:41,648
We start using it to win some battles.

670
00:41:41,648 --> 00:41:43,488
as we start winning battles, the British are going,

671
00:41:43,568 --> 00:41:45,048
man, these Americans are getting smart.

672
00:41:45,668 --> 00:41:48,068
We need some spies to find out what they're doing.

673
00:41:48,168 --> 00:41:49,968
Who do we know that could go spy on those guys?

674
00:41:50,088 --> 00:41:51,448
We need a...

675
00:41:51,448 --> 00:41:53,368
Hey, Armistead, you'd be really good at this.

676
00:41:54,148 --> 00:41:55,688
Would you go spy on those Americans?

677
00:41:55,708 --> 00:41:56,828
No, I hate those Americans.

678
00:41:56,908 --> 00:41:57,908
No, we need you to go spy.

679
00:41:57,988 --> 00:41:58,908
No, I'm not going back.

680
00:41:58,988 --> 00:41:59,848
We really need...

681
00:41:59,848 --> 00:42:01,948
All right, I guess I could do that for you.

682
00:42:04,988 --> 00:42:07,588
So now he's got free passage, right?

683
00:42:07,668 --> 00:42:09,528
So now he's getting the good stuff.

684
00:42:09,528 --> 00:42:11,048
He's taking it to Lafayette and the Americans,

685
00:42:11,048 --> 00:42:14,568
giving them all the good information they cook up a disinformation came go back go back and give the

686
00:42:14,568 --> 00:42:19,208
disinformation campaign to the british that guy right there sets up yorktown we end up ending the

687
00:42:19,208 --> 00:42:22,888
war because of what he did we just don't talk about him anymore prince whipple oliver cromwell

688
00:42:22,888 --> 00:42:27,048
black patriots that fought side by side with washington throughout the revolutionary war

689
00:42:27,048 --> 00:42:30,328
jump forward to the civil war these are all black patriots that got the medal of honor

690
00:42:30,968 --> 00:42:37,768
for protecting the american flag this guy right here william carney marched across that battlefield

691
00:42:37,768 --> 00:42:39,948
after the guy carrying the colors was killed.

692
00:42:40,068 --> 00:42:42,128
He took up the flag, did not let it touch the ground,

693
00:42:42,428 --> 00:42:44,188
was shot seven or eight times,

694
00:42:44,888 --> 00:42:46,668
and continued across that battlefield

695
00:42:46,668 --> 00:42:48,148
refusing to give up the flag.

696
00:42:48,628 --> 00:42:49,688
And when he got to the other side,

697
00:42:49,728 --> 00:42:51,388
he said, I never let old glory touch the ground.

698
00:42:51,488 --> 00:42:52,748
They ended up writing a song about it.

699
00:42:53,068 --> 00:42:54,468
He got the Medal of Honor for it.

700
00:42:54,488 --> 00:42:55,528
Just phenomenal stories.

701
00:42:55,928 --> 00:42:56,208
Why?

702
00:42:56,388 --> 00:42:56,968
Now think about it.

703
00:42:57,028 --> 00:42:59,628
I mean, you think we got racial problems in America today.

704
00:43:00,188 --> 00:43:01,468
I mean, this was a civil war.

705
00:43:01,828 --> 00:43:03,268
This was slavery still around.

706
00:43:03,348 --> 00:43:04,588
You talk about systemic racism.

707
00:43:04,588 --> 00:43:06,408
Absolutely there was systemic racism

708
00:43:06,408 --> 00:43:07,388
in the South at that time.

709
00:43:07,768 --> 00:43:14,088
but yet he still said that flag is the ideal of america that flag stands for the value system that

710
00:43:14,088 --> 00:43:18,808
we're trying to achieve to that was the mindset i you know alvita king probably taught me more

711
00:43:18,808 --> 00:43:24,488
about this than anybody we were we were she's the um niece of of uh mlk her dad was actually a d king

712
00:43:24,488 --> 00:43:28,648
i don't know if you know mlk was actually a pastor but uh the reverend martin luther king jr and the

713
00:43:28,648 --> 00:43:33,368
reverend a d king were known as the sons of thunder and and uh she was she was this is the

714
00:43:33,368 --> 00:43:36,648
church where they all grew up and preached their first sermons and everything and we did one of

715
00:43:36,648 --> 00:43:38,528
of our Chasing American Legends episodes with Alveda,

716
00:43:38,608 --> 00:43:39,688
and we're sitting there in a church,

717
00:43:40,548 --> 00:43:41,988
went to the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum.

718
00:43:42,188 --> 00:43:45,188
I got to see the cell from which MLK wrote

719
00:43:45,188 --> 00:43:46,648
the letter from the Birmingham jail.

720
00:43:46,728 --> 00:43:47,808
If you never read it, you need to read it.

721
00:43:47,848 --> 00:43:49,888
One of the greatest political works in American history.

722
00:43:49,988 --> 00:43:52,508
He didn't even have no research, nothing, no resources.

723
00:43:52,808 --> 00:43:54,428
He literally was writing on toilet paper

724
00:43:54,428 --> 00:43:55,628
and in the corners of magazines.

725
00:43:56,088 --> 00:43:57,548
So when you read that letter, you're gonna be like,

726
00:43:57,608 --> 00:43:59,668
how in the world, I mean, supernatural what God did

727
00:43:59,668 --> 00:44:00,288
through him.

728
00:44:00,348 --> 00:44:02,188
Anyway, Alveda was just, she was telling us the story

729
00:44:02,188 --> 00:44:03,808
of their home getting burned, bombed,

730
00:44:03,808 --> 00:44:06,228
and the house catches on fire,

731
00:44:06,228 --> 00:44:08,748
and her dad AD gets the kids, everybody out of the house.

732
00:44:09,108 --> 00:44:11,608
People start rioting in response to the bombing.

733
00:44:11,988 --> 00:44:13,488
And he goes out and he stands up on a car

734
00:44:13,488 --> 00:44:14,348
and he gets everybody's attention.

735
00:44:14,528 --> 00:44:15,908
He says, stop the violence.

736
00:44:16,328 --> 00:44:18,028
If you're gonna hurt someone, hurt me

737
00:44:18,028 --> 00:44:20,348
because we will never win with violence.

738
00:44:20,448 --> 00:44:21,868
We must win with peace.

739
00:44:21,948 --> 00:44:24,548
That's exactly what his brother MLK said all along.

740
00:44:24,628 --> 00:44:26,828
It's why they were able to change the world

741
00:44:26,828 --> 00:44:28,588
because of that peaceful message.

742
00:44:28,708 --> 00:44:30,008
But the part that stuck with me the most,

743
00:44:30,068 --> 00:44:31,668
I don't know if you can tell there in the church,

744
00:44:31,968 --> 00:44:33,148
my kids were all sitting down there

745
00:44:33,148 --> 00:44:34,168
on the first couple of rows

746
00:44:34,168 --> 00:44:36,588
and Alvy's telling us all these stories,

747
00:44:36,628 --> 00:44:38,188
and all of a sudden she stops, she looks at my kids,

748
00:44:38,468 --> 00:44:41,348
and she goes, you know, we're the same race.

749
00:44:42,548 --> 00:44:44,788
My kids are about as lily white as you can get, all right?

750
00:44:45,268 --> 00:44:46,568
She says, we're the same race.

751
00:44:46,848 --> 00:44:48,868
They're looking at her confused, I'm looking at her confused,

752
00:44:48,948 --> 00:44:50,868
and she goes, there's only one human race.

753
00:44:51,528 --> 00:44:53,208
And she said, I got white brothers and sisters,

754
00:44:53,328 --> 00:44:55,248
I got black brothers and sisters, I got red brothers and sisters.

755
00:44:55,608 --> 00:44:58,148
I said, man, that is, and she literally, she said to us right then,

756
00:44:58,168 --> 00:44:59,868
she said, that was Uncle Martin's dream,

757
00:45:00,148 --> 00:45:02,028
that we would be judged by the content of our character,

758
00:45:02,028 --> 00:45:03,728
not the color of our skin.

759
00:45:03,728 --> 00:45:06,728
See, if we can get a hold of that, we can solve all this racial...

760
00:45:15,728 --> 00:45:18,368
I'm telling you, watch that episode, Chasing American Legends.

761
00:45:18,588 --> 00:45:21,008
It's called Communist King or Peaceful Crusader.

762
00:45:21,328 --> 00:45:23,388
People used to accuse MLK of being a communist.

763
00:45:23,488 --> 00:45:27,968
Absolutely not true, and we reveal all that in the episode, and it'll inspire you.

764
00:45:28,068 --> 00:45:31,768
But all of that to say, I was giving you some of those military heroes, Civil War and Revolutionary War.

765
00:45:31,768 --> 00:45:35,688
I just think it's important for us to recognize the freedom that we have comes at a cost.

766
00:45:36,508 --> 00:45:37,988
We're a little bit spoiled in America.

767
00:45:38,128 --> 00:45:38,768
I mean, let's admit it.

768
00:45:38,828 --> 00:45:42,988
We have all these blessings of liberty, and most of us have never had to pay a price for that.

769
00:45:43,448 --> 00:45:44,648
Others have paid that price.

770
00:45:45,228 --> 00:45:48,668
And so we've been given this freedom, and now the question is, what are we going to do with it?

771
00:45:48,728 --> 00:45:50,188
Are we going to be responsible with it?

772
00:45:50,228 --> 00:45:51,948
Are we going to actually live it out?

773
00:45:51,968 --> 00:45:54,948
The Bible tells us we should render honor unto whom honor is due.

774
00:45:55,548 --> 00:45:58,908
So whether it's our military veterans, our first responders, our police officers,

775
00:45:58,908 --> 00:46:03,208
all those people that put their lives on the line so that we can be free,

776
00:46:03,508 --> 00:46:06,648
part of how we honor them is actually living the freedom.

777
00:46:07,408 --> 00:46:09,328
Now think about what it says to a military veteran

778
00:46:09,328 --> 00:46:11,448
that was willing to go lay down their life,

779
00:46:11,508 --> 00:46:13,588
or someone that did die for our freedom,

780
00:46:14,068 --> 00:46:16,228
and then we don't even use our freedom.

781
00:46:16,788 --> 00:46:18,188
We don't even show up to vote.

782
00:46:18,348 --> 00:46:21,708
We don't even do the very thing they died to protect.

783
00:46:22,608 --> 00:46:25,048
See, we do the opposite whenever we actually follow

784
00:46:25,048 --> 00:46:26,948
what Abraham Lincoln said at the Gettysburg Address.

785
00:46:26,948 --> 00:46:34,508
He said, it's from these honored dead that we take an increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

786
00:46:34,908 --> 00:46:39,148
An increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

787
00:46:39,228 --> 00:46:42,608
Well, what's the cause for which they were willing to die?

788
00:46:42,968 --> 00:46:44,608
It's called American exceptionalism.

789
00:46:44,688 --> 00:46:45,428
It's the system.

790
00:46:45,608 --> 00:46:47,848
It's the political and economic structures.

791
00:46:48,088 --> 00:46:49,388
And some people don't like that term.

792
00:46:49,468 --> 00:46:50,548
They say, oh, Rick, you're bragging.

793
00:46:51,308 --> 00:46:52,488
Now, look, I'm a Texan.

794
00:46:54,448 --> 00:46:56,568
We Texans know a little something about bragging.

795
00:46:56,568 --> 00:46:59,688
I mean, we Texans tend to believe there's only two kinds of people in the world.

796
00:47:00,208 --> 00:47:03,288
There are Texans, and there are those that want to be Texans.

797
00:47:03,448 --> 00:47:03,828
That's it.

798
00:47:04,848 --> 00:47:07,248
Now, that is not a true statement, right?

799
00:47:07,308 --> 00:47:08,148
So that's bragging.

800
00:47:08,568 --> 00:47:11,568
My mom always said, though, if it's true, it ain't bragging.

801
00:47:12,208 --> 00:47:15,628
And when we say American exceptionalism, it's true.

802
00:47:16,048 --> 00:47:19,168
America is the exception to the rule.

803
00:47:19,688 --> 00:47:22,268
And actually, just to give you some proof that I'm not bragging here,

804
00:47:22,268 --> 00:47:25,808
this whole thing was created, this phrase was created by a Frenchman.

805
00:47:26,568 --> 00:47:31,208
de toqueville's the one that came up with this idea he saw what was happening in america and so

806
00:47:31,208 --> 00:47:37,848
what it really means exceptionalism actually just means extraordinary it means extra ordinary not

807
00:47:37,848 --> 00:47:44,568
ordinary beyond ordinary beyond normal that's the story of america and it's because of the principles

808
00:47:44,568 --> 00:47:49,928
not even because of the people but because of the principles that were put in place and we've enjoyed

809
00:47:49,928 --> 00:47:53,528
the blessings of that here's the danger here's where we are now president reagan said if we

810
00:47:53,528 --> 00:47:59,048
forget what we did, we won't know who we are. He said, a morning of an eradication of the American

811
00:47:59,048 --> 00:48:05,168
memory that could result ultimately in an erosion of the American spirit. Are we experiencing that

812
00:48:05,168 --> 00:48:09,248
or not? Let's start with some basics, more attention to American history, and a greater emphasis

813
00:48:09,248 --> 00:48:15,728
on civic ritual. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I would submit to you this morning

814
00:48:15,728 --> 00:48:23,108
that both the riots in the streets and the what I call COVID crackdowns, governors across the

815
00:48:23,108 --> 00:48:29,828
country acting like dictators and trying to control the movement and the lives of every person in their

816
00:48:29,828 --> 00:48:34,368
state without constitutional authority, literally acting as dictators and emperors and empresses,

817
00:48:34,848 --> 00:48:40,508
I believe that both of those things are the result of the true pandemic which has been

818
00:48:40,508 --> 00:48:47,828
festering underneath for now five decades, civic ignorance. It's not an insult to our intelligence,

819
00:48:47,828 --> 00:48:48,828
It just means we don't know.

820
00:48:49,428 --> 00:48:51,828
We haven't been taught our true history,

821
00:48:52,188 --> 00:48:56,188
and we haven't been taught what is the formula that actually produces freedom.

822
00:48:56,508 --> 00:49:00,008
If you want freedom and liberty and prosperity and all those things on this side of the equation,

823
00:49:00,308 --> 00:49:03,888
you've got to think about what are the inputs that produce those outputs,

824
00:49:04,188 --> 00:49:09,268
and what are the inputs that actually produce division,

825
00:49:09,888 --> 00:49:13,308
that produce causing us to hate each other and causing us to fight.

826
00:49:13,388 --> 00:49:15,548
So what are we inputting on this side of the equation

827
00:49:15,548 --> 00:49:18,188
is going to determine what we get on the other side of the equation.

828
00:49:18,188 --> 00:49:21,108
And we have to know where we came from in the first place to do this.

829
00:49:21,348 --> 00:49:21,948
And welcome back.

830
00:49:22,868 --> 00:49:28,388
If you want to learn more, I suggest visiting the Patriot Academy or the YouTube link if

831
00:49:28,388 --> 00:49:32,348
you want to watch the rest of the sermon and go track down Rick Green's talks and some

832
00:49:32,348 --> 00:49:35,468
of his family and some of the people on the Patriot Academy team.

833
00:49:35,628 --> 00:49:39,548
You're going to learn a lot about the founding of our country and the values that were baked

834
00:49:39,548 --> 00:49:44,328
into our constitution and government and how we can make a better future together.

835
00:49:44,328 --> 00:49:56,188
What they are doing with young people is amazing with their mock halls of Congress, where they learn how things actually happen in government from nominations to bills passing and voting and everything in between there.

836
00:49:56,488 --> 00:50:10,428
And another essential reference for biblical citizenship, which is one of their classes they do, is the Founders Bible, which walks through the history of our nation and the founders and the references to the Bible in unison there.

837
00:50:10,428 --> 00:50:29,388
And if you want to see that letter that first referenced separation of church and state from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Church that was used to push to prove that Christianity didn't belong in the government, then check it out and get to hear the rest of the story like Paul Harvey would say.

838
00:50:29,968 --> 00:50:32,168
And I also have a link to the letter in below.

839
00:50:32,688 --> 00:50:33,128
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00:50:43,688 --> 00:50:46,328
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00:50:46,888 --> 00:50:49,288
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