Yearly Archives: 2024

The Attack on Israel:  A View From Within

Date: April 18, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: David Rubin MP3 | Order

David Rubin is former mayor of Shiloh Israel as well as the author of seven books including, Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel. He’s the founder and president of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund, established after he and his then three-year-old son were wounded in a terror attack.  His websites are DavidRubinIsrael.com and IsraelChildren.org. He is in the region of Judea and Samaria.

David began by describing how he reacted upon hearing that Iran had sent missiles toward Israel.  Fortunately, 99% of the missiles were picked off by air defenses.  One child was wounded badly and there was some property damage.

He commented on President Biden who has warned Israel not to retaliate against Iran in a big way.  However, David pointed out the reality that Israel is currently fighting a war on five fronts: Lebanon where the Hezbollah terrorist organization is located, Judea and Samaria (West Bank), Gaza, and the south where Iran has been supporting the Houthis.  Iran is the fifth front, a nation that is on the nuclear threshold.  In the end, he says there will be a response by Israel, and it will be “pretty soon.”   

Is the Biden administration trying to play both ends in the Israel/Iran dilemma?  How large is Iran’s arsenal and what is the status of their nuclear program?  Is the attack by Iran giving Hamas time to regroup?  How does David view the anti-Israel protests on college campuses and in leftist cities?  These and other questions are answered on this edition of Crosstalk.    

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By Whose Authority?

Date: April 17, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: Shahram Hadian MP3 | Order

Shahram Hadian is a former Muslim from Iran who came to the states in 1978 and committed his life to Jesus Christ.  He has served as a pastor, a police officer, and a former candidate for Governor in Washington State.

Some people today are conflicted when it comes to the issue of what authority we must give our allegiance/submission to in various situations.  Some believe we must obey the government no matter what, while others take exception to that position.

So what does the Bible say?  Romans 13:1-7 lays out what our responsibility is to be to the governing authorities.  However, Shahram believes there are some who have misused this passage to justify false obedience to the government, especially if the government is in violation of God’s Word.

The foundation for his reasoning comes from his explanation of Romans 13:1.  He noted that modern translations use the phrase, “governing authorities” while the King James Version says, “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.”  He explained that the phrase, “higher powers” comes from an original Greek term (hyperecho) that refers to the highest authority.  From this he contends that since government isn’t the highest authority, that portion of the text must be referring to God.

Shahram then moved on to explain what he referred to as the four rulers or magistrates and the program wrapped up with input from listeners nationwide. 

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The Proliferation of the LGBTQ Movement

Date: April 16, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: Peter LaBarbera MP3 | Order

Our present society has been compared to a Romans 1 society.  Jim read verses 18-28 and if you do the same, you’ll see how this parallels America today.  It’s especially pertinent as we see the LGBTQ+ movement proliferating among us.  Is this rebellion against God’s design for mankind actually a judgment from God?

To help answer that question and update listeners on how this movement continues to affect Christians, Crosstalk welcomed the return of Peter LaBarbera.  Peter is founder and president of Americans for Truth.  He’s a former reporter for the Washington Times and LifeSiteNews.com and a former contributing editor for Human Events.

Here’s the list of stories that Jim had Peter comment on during the first quarter hour of the broadcast:

Males who are gender confused are no longer allowed to compete in women’s NAIA sports competition.  The vote was 20-0 and impacts about 83,000 athletes in universities around the U.S.

Idaho had placed a ban on so-called gender affirming care for adolescents.  A lawsuit was filed against this.  The court placed a hold on the ban and yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban while the case is pending.

The Kansas legislature passed the “Forbidding Abusive Child Transitions Act” that would protect minors from the harmful effects of the transitioning procedure.  Governor Laura Kelly vetoed this legislation but the senate has the ability to override the veto.

Pro-lifers in Michigan have condemned Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer for signing into law a pro-LGBT bill that allows women to be compensated for renting their wombs to people who are looking to obtain a child through surrogacy.  

Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin signed legislation that codifies so-called, same-sex marriage.

There’s much more to hear, including comments from listeners nationwide, on this edition of Crosstalk. 

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The Proliferation of the LGBTQ Movement

Date: April 16, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: Peter LaBarbera MP3 | Order

Our present society has been compared to a Romans 1 society.  Jim read verses 18-28 and if you do the same, you’ll see how this parallels America today.  It’s especially pertinent as we see the LGBTQ+ movement proliferating among us.  Is this rebellion against God’s design for mankind actually a judgment from God?

To help answer that question and update listeners on how this movement continues to affect Christians, Crosstalk welcomed the return of Peter LaBarbera.  Peter is founder and president of Americans for Truth.  He’s a former reporter for the Washington Times and LifeSiteNews.com and a former contributing editor for Human Events.

Here’s the list of stories that Jim had Peter comment on during the first quarter hour of the broadcast:

Males who are gender confused are no longer allowed to compete in women’s NAIA sports competition.  The vote was 20-0 and impacts about 83,000 athletes in universities around the U.S.

Idaho had placed a ban on so-called gender affirming care for adolescents.  A lawsuit was filed against this.  The court placed a hold on the ban and yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban while the case is pending.

The Kansas legislature passed the “Forbidding Abusive Child Transitions Act” that would protect minors from the harmful effects of the transitioning procedure.  Governor Laura Kelly vetoed this legislation but the senate has the ability to override the veto.

Pro-lifers in Michigan have condemned Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer for signing into law a pro-LGBT bill that allows women to be compensated for renting their wombs to people who are looking to obtain a child through surrogacy.  

Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin signed legislation that codifies so-called, same-sex marriage.

There’s much more to hear, including comments from listeners nationwide, on this edition of Crosstalk. 

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New WHO Pandemic Treaty Unveiled

Date: April 15, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: Mat Staver MP3 | Order

Mat Staver is founder & chairman of Liberty Counsel.  Mat is a constitutional attorney with three landmark cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.  He’s an author and the host of the radio broadcasts Faith & Freedom and Freedom’s Call.

The new World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty has been unveiled.  The intergovernmental negotiating body of the WHO has been meeting and refining the pandemic treaty in preparation for the 77th World Health Assembly which takes place May 27th through June 1st in Geneva, Switzerland.

Multiple planning meetings have been underway since the last world health assembly and in recent weeks the World Health Organization released their revised draft of this pandemic agreement.

The Biden administration doesn’t refer to this agreement as a treaty, merely an agreement or an accord.  Mat contends that it is, in fact, a treaty.  Remember, a treaty must be affirmed/ratified by a two-thirds majority vote in the U.S. Senate.  Mat believes they won’t get that kind of vote, especially when it jeopardizes U.S. sovereignty.  The result is that there’s an attempt to re-categorize this as a pandemic agreement so that there’s no need for a two-thirds vote.

In addition to the pandemic treaty/agreement there’s also 300+ amendments to the existing international health regulations of the WHO.  Mat believes those are just as bad and the Biden administration is pushing to sign on to those amendments as well as the pandemic agreement next month.

Can President Biden do this unilaterally?  Will it be legally binding and if so, what will this mean for American sovereignty?  Find out more, and also hear what was said concerning Iran’s attack on Israel and what listeners had to say as well.

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To contact your congressman (HR-1425) or senators (S-444) on the pandemic treaty/agreement issue call 202-224-3121.

News Roundup & Comment

Date: April 12, 2024 Host: Dalton Windsor MP3 | Order

Today Dalton Windsor did us the honor of sharing several news stories. Here is a sampling of the various topics:

Federal law enforcement officials are concerned that the U.S. will come under attack much like Israel has

Dearborn MI: Protestors shout ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel’ in addition to ‘America is the most rotten country on the earth’

FBI arrests 18 year old in Idaho after uncovering a truly horrific and violent plot to attack churches on behalf of Isis

Milwaukee WI school receives second bomb threat in 5 days

Watertown WI police respond to threat on local church

Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu will invade Rafah despite international objections, one of which is from President Biden

Three sons of Hamas leader killed in air strike in Gaza

Hungary has condemned plans for NATO military alliance mission in Ukraine

Christians in Ukraine face torture and destruction of churches at the hands of Russia

Biden Administration still hasn’t set a trial date for the man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh

Clinton Administration had 9 opportunities to take out Osama bin Laden

When a Nation Forgets God

Date: April 11, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: Dr. Erwin Lutzer MP3 | Order

Many people are in distress as they see America as a nation in decline.  However, if you could go back to the early 20th century, Germany didn’t look like a nation that was on the brink of world-shaking terror.  It looked like many of us have known the U.S. to be.

The guest on this edition of Crosstalk wrote a book in 2010 and it’s as relevant today, perhaps even more so, than it was then.  It warns us of a nation and its future that none of us wants to see.  So what can we do in times like these?  

Joining Jim to answer that question was Dr. Erwin Lutzer.  Dr. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church where he served as the senior pastor for 36 years. He is the speaker on three radio programs that are heard on more than 750 outlets. He’s an award-winning author with multiple titles including, The Cross in the Shadow of the Crescent, Life Changing Bible Verses You Should Know, We Will Not Be Silenced, No Reason to Hide and the one discussed on this program, When a Nation Forgets God.

Is America currently experiencing a political problem or a spiritual one?  Dr. Lutzer believes it’s both.  He contends that there are problems that Washington cannot solve, yet in spite of that, he still believes that politics is very important.  After all, as he noted, “Would you rather live in North Korea or South Korea?”  On the other hand, for those of us as Christians, politics, as important as it is, is not supremely important.  What’s supremely important is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  

Dr. Lutzer brought up numerous critical points.  The first concerned laws.  He noted that if you don’t have transcendent values when you make your laws, you have Hitler’s laws.

Another critical point concerned propaganda.  He indicated that it’s very powerful and it’s used on both sides of the aisle.  The result is that there are cultural streams that few people are willing to stand against.  It happened in Nazi Germany where the individual meant nothing and the state meant everything.

Hitler went so far as to reinterpret Christmas and Easter.  Sound familiar?  So just as Hitler wanted to diminish the impact of Christianity, we’ve been seeing that play out in contemporary America.

Finally, when chaos breaks out, people want order.  In Nazi Germany that meant the abolition of personal rights and the people were willing to accept it because they felt they’d rather live and have their rights taken away than keep those rights and die.       

Are we repeating the story of Nazi Germany?  You decide when you hear what else Dr. Lutzer had to say on this critical edition of Crosstalk.

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Abortion:  Same Day, Same Court, Two Different Decisions

Date: April 10, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: Mat Staver MP3 | Order

Mat Staver is founder & chairman of Liberty Counsel.  Mat is a constitutional attorney with three landmark cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.  He is an author and the host of the radio broadcasts Faith & Freedom and Freedom’s Call.

Since the Dobbs decision was released that overturned Roe v. Wade, a battle has been underway in many states in the matter of either protecting human life or targeting it.  

One of the more ironic happenings in this battle occurred in the state of Florida.  On April 1, on the same day and by the same court, two different decisions came about.  One affirmed no right to abortion in the Florida constitution, taking Florida from being the most liberal state on abortion to being the most pro-life state.  However, within moments of that decision, the same court released a 4-3 decision that allows a Planned Parenthood/ACLU-backed abortion amendment to move forward and possibly be placed on the ballot in November.  If it gets on the ballot and passes, it would undo that previous life affirming decision and make Florida more liberal than it’s ever been concerning abortion.   

Jim also had Mat comment on other states that will have abortion on the ballot in November.  Listeners wrapped up the program with their comments.

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Weaponization of Energy & Property Rights

Date: April 9, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: Tom DeWeese MP3 | Order

Increasingly, energy is being used as a weapon against the American people.  Some are being denied the use of energy or there are curbs, penalties or denials on the use of energy.  Couple this with the attack on personal property rights and you  can see that we have a government that is overreaching and simply out of control.  

Returning to Crosstalk to discuss the weaponization of energy and property rights was Tom DeWeese.  Tom is president of American Policy Center.  He is one of the nation’s leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence and protecting our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights.  Tom is also the grassroots coordinator for CFACT.

Tom began by noting that when you don’t have your own property to stand on, how do you declare your independence, such as your freedom of speech.  More and more property is becoming government property where they dictate to you what you’re going to say and if you violate that you’re in big trouble.  Don’t believe that?  Tom said he’s asking people around the nation to go to one of their city council meetings and ask the following question: What can I do on my property without your permission? 

Tom went on to describe a situation in Pataskala, Ohio, where the Chinese are moving in to build a “monster” solar panel assembly plant.  He believes the lead company in the project is merely a “shell” designed to get around U.S. regulations that would otherwise prevent a foreign company from owning property.  Local activists that are trying to fight back are up against a mayor and city council that are seeing dollar signs.  Hence, those that are fighting back are being referred to as “radicals” to be ignored.

Jim has Tom comment on other aspects of this issue including:

A green climate corps being put together by the Biden administration.

Electric vehicle sales are down.  Why the big push for us to buy them?

The “green invasion” of churches.

Squatters rights.

What can we do?

…and much more!

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Israel’s War Against Hamas Marks Six Months

Date: April 8, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: Dr. Jimmy DeYoung, Jr MP3 | Order

Dr. Jimmy DeYoung, Jr. is speaker, teacher, Mideast guide, videographer and speaker on Prophecy Today.  He lived and worked in Jerusalem for many years before  returning to the U.S. for continued ministry.  He’s a fully credentialed journalist and has led numerous tours to Israel.  He is one of the speakers on Prophecy Today.

6 months ago yesterday, Hamas launched its deadly attack on Israel.  More Israeli’s were killed on October 7th, 2023, than at any time since Israel became a nation.   

Dr. DeYoung noted that the Biden administration is definitely making its presence felt in the decision making process concerning what to do next.  He believes the Israeli people are in it for the long haul.  That means finishing the job at hand.  President Netanyahu and the war cabinet have pulled a key division out of southern Gaza to re-arm in order to do just that and finish the next stage of the battle which is in Rafah.  In addition, Dr. DeYoung believes the step after that would be to wipe out Iran.

He also indicated that 600 plus Israeli soldiers have been killed, 97 hostages are still alive and 36 bodies are being held by Hamas.  

Complicating matters is Iran as Israel has killed one of their generals and Iran has yet to retaliate.

This is a subject with a lot of variables and Dr. DeYoung attempts to touch on all of them on this important edition of Crosstalk. 

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