Yearly Archives: 2024

2024 Presidential Election:  Voting Begins

Date: January 9, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider MP3 | Order

This Monday, January 15, the Republican caucus gets under way in Iowa.  After that comes the New Hampshire primary on January 23rd.  That is followed by the Democratic primary in South Carolina on February 3rd.  Nevada is next with their caucus and then Michigan votes on February 27th.  Super Tuesday is March 5th, the Republican convention is in July, the Democrats have their convention in August and it all wraps up on election day which is November 5th.

Jim indicated he believes that as Christians and citizens of the United States, we have been granted a stewardship.  We have what many people in other nations do not have.  It’s the right to vote and we can either squander it or use this stewardship for the glory of God.  Also, with that vote we can either uphold biblical truth or vote to work against it.  So how will you use the stewardship of your vote?

As Samuel Adams once said:

“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual—or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.”

Also, consider this from Proverbs 21:1:

“The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.”

It’s with these thoughts in mind that Jim opened the phone lines to allow listeners from across the nation to express who they’re voting for to be president and why.

COVID Shots & Vaccination Safety Concerns

Date: January 8, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest:  Barbara Loe Fisher MP3 | Order

From the earliest months of the release of the COVID vaccine, promises were made that if you were vaccinated, you would not get COVID.  We all know now that this isn’t true.  In spite of that, various mandates came forth along with a lot of “arm-twisting” to get people vaccinated.

The result is growing skepticism toward government agencies and now, 3 years since the COVID vaccine was released, there are more concerns including the lack of timely transparency on the part of pharmaceutical companies.

To bring listeners an update on these issues, Crosstalk welcomed Barbara Loe Fisher.  Barbara is president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a non-profit charity she co-founded with parents of DPT vaccine injured children in 1982.  NVIC is a national, grassroots movement and public information campaign to institute vaccine safety reforms and informed consent protections in the public health system.  She has researched, analyzed and publicly articulated the major issues involving the science, policy, law, ethics and politics of vaccination to become one of the world’s leading non-medical, consumer advocacy experts on the subject.

Barbara began by noting there’s a lot of push-back on the mRNA vaccines.  She described how last month, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Pfizer over its mRNA COVID vaccine, saying that the company misled the public by claiming that it had an efficacy rate of 95% against the SARS CoV-2 virus.  Barbara and her organization knew that the FDA had only required Pfizer and Moderna to show that there was a reduction in symptoms of COVID, not actual prevention.  Instead the public was told that if we got the vaccine, we wouldn’t get COVID nor would we transmit the infection to others.  

So the Texas lawsuit is seeking 10 million in fines against Pfizer for willfully and unlawfully committing false, unsupported and misleading acts, practices and claims and misrepresenting the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Then there’s the issue of the censoring of public discussion about the vaccine that’s also a part of this lawsuit.  All along there’s been concerns regarding the response policies by government (lock-downs, social distancing, masks, etc.).  People and organizations that questioned the vaccines and these policies were basically muzzled.  In fact, when the NVIC attempted to inform the public concerning the truth behind the mRNA vaccines, they were taken off of all four major social media platforms in 2021.

Barbara conducted a 3 month investigation as to who was involved in this effort.  She found that the agencies involved run much deeper than the Department of Health and Human Services.  Also involved in the censorship campaign were the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, the FBI, as well as the governments of other nations.

Barbara shared much more on this issue, while callers had their opportunity to respond as well.    

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News Roundup & Comment

Date: January 5, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider MP3 | Order

Coast to coast and around the globe, Jim wrapped up the week by presenting key news stories, some of which are listed below:

–Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine banned transgender transition surgeries on minors today with an executive order.  The move comes just a week after he vetoed a bill that would have banned the practice and required single-sex sports teams to be established at schools, colleges and universities throughout the state.   

–More information is coming out concerning the school shooting that took place in Perry, Iowa, yesterday morning.  The alleged shooter had posted on Tik Tok.  Those that were able to obtain screen shots of his online presence shows he had a pride flag in his Tik Tok bio and has allegedly participated in a transgender Reddit group.

–Hamas fired at least 27 rockets at the south and center of Israel as the nation attempted to celebrate the start of the New Year.

–Israeli Defense Forces announced Monday the killing of Hamas Commander Adil Mismah who took part in the October 7th invasion of Israel. 

–Saleh L. Arouri, Deputy Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, was killed in an explosion in Southern Beirut on Tuesday.

–Israel began withdrawing thousands of troops from Gaza as prolonged fighting is expected to continue. 

–Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas’s Political Bureau, said that they’re open to the idea of a national unity government to run the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

–ISIS is claiming responsibility for the suicide bomb attacks in Iran this week.  

–More than a dozen nations have issued an ultimatum to Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis after the militant group fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles in the Southern Red Sea.

–The TSA is monitoring a potential terror threat against the U.S. from an affiliate of Al Qaeda known as the AQAP.

–Over 100 anti-Israeli protesters shut down the California Assembly on Wednesday during its first legislative session of the year.

–Hundreds of godless Marxists and pro-Palestinian protesters took over historic Boston Common on New Year’s Eve chanting, “Biden, Biden, pick a side.  Cease-fire or genocide.”

–Many Texans living at the border say they are fed up and want Congress to shut down the border.

–The Justice Department is suing Texas over Governor Abbott’s new law that authorizes state authorities to arrest and deport illegal immigrants, arguing the state is overstepping its bounds by implementing immigration policy which only the federal government has the authority to do. 

–Republicans are taking the first steps to formally impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas for his handling of the southern border crisis.

Critical Court Cases on the Horizon

Date: January 4, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: Mat Staver MP3 | Order

There are some very significant matters facing appellate courts as well as the U.S. Supreme Court for 2024.  With a review of the past year as well as what’s ahead, Crosstalk welcomed Mat Staver.  He 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.

Discussion began with Mat commenting on the case of Ermold v. Davis.  In this case, Liberty Counsel will be filing a motion to set aside the jury verdict against former Rowan County Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis who was sued by two same-sex couples for not issuing them marriage licenses.  Mat believes there was insufficient evidence to award damages to the plaintiffs.  If the motion is denied, Liberty Counsel will also file an appeal which would take it to the Court of Appeals.  Mat believes this case could rise to the level of overturning Obergefell.

Other critical cases Mat referred to involved one where the court shut down the affirmative action for college admissions.  This overruled a precedent that goes back to 1978.  There was also the overruling of a 1977 case (Trans World Airlines) regarding religious discrimination in the workplace.  There was the overturning of both the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and also the 1971 Lemon v. Kurtzman decision, the latter of which did immense damage to the First Amendment.  

Mat also sees action at the appellate and Supreme Court levels with cases that began in 2023.  One is in regard to the government’s coercion of private, social media entities, requiring/forcing them to censor the private speech of individuals.  This involves speech concerning COVID-19 shots, the lock-downs, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the elections, etc.

Another big case from 2023 that will spill over into 2024 is the abortion pill decision from the Court of Appeals. 

The cases mentioned here are just some of what was discussed in the first quarter hour.  There’s much more for you to consider when you review this important edition of Crosstalk.

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Answers in Genesis:  30 Years-Upholding Biblical Authority!

Date: January 3, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: Ken Ham MP3 | Order

Today there are numerous attacks taking place upon the authority of God’s Word.  The mantra in society today is often what we see communicated by Satan in Genesis 3:1–”Yea hath God said?”  The result is that many are turning their backs on God’s Word and the result is that great efforts have been underway to remove God from the halls of government and academia.  However, even more alarming is the increasing number of churches and other Christian institutions that are doing much the same thing.  This merely echoes the words of the serpent from Genesis 3.

Joining Jim to bring his perspective on this battle as he looked back at 30 years of ministry, Crosstalk welcomed Ken Ham.  Ken is the founder and CEO of Answers in Genesis-US, and the highly acclaimed Creation Museum, and the world-renowned Ark Encounter.  Ken is a biblical apologist and is one of the most in-demand Christian speakers in North America.  He became internationally known for his 2014 creation/evolution debate with Bill Nye “the Science Guy.”  He’s the host of the daily radio broadcast, Answers…with Ken Ham heard on stations across the country.  He is the author of more than 30 books including Creation to Babel: A Commentary for Families, Divided Nation, Six Days, Will They Stand? and numerous others.

Ken moved to the U.S. in 1987 and he compared the spiritual atmosphere then in the U.S. with what it’s like now.  He described America now as “…very, very secularized and anti-Christian.”  The result, as Ken noted, is that Christians have become the enemy in American culture.  So if you stand for God’s Word in regard to marriage, pro-life or male/female genders, you’ll be accused of hate speech, intolerance, misogyny and homophobia.  This has even impacted the church as many have gone “woke” and become soft on such issues.

Ken described how this goes hand-in-hand with the generational loss in the church.  Less than 9% of Generation “Z”  attends church whereas if you go back to the 1700’s, 75-80% of the population attended church in America. 

So it was December of 1993 that Answers in Genesis became legally incorporated due to the concern from Ken and his co-founders over the spiritual erosion that was taking place and the attack upon the authority of God’s Word.

Listen and discover how Answers in Genesis, the Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum are uniquely positioned to uphold the authority of God’s Word as Ken describes how the life-size Noah’s Ark was built, Bill Nye’s reaction when going through the ark, the new executive CEO of Answers in Genesis, the burden Ken has regarding the state of today’s church, Ken’s rebuttal of statements from Pastor Andy Stanley and much more.

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Scriptures for a New Year: 2024

Date: January 2, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider MP3 | Order

In days like ours, when the world is in turmoil like never before and with the current state of the family and the church, it’s good to be reminded of Scriptures like this one that Jim noted from Isaiah 40:

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

As Jim also noted, it’s critical that as we begin 2024, we keep our focus on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, and his word.  After all, as Jesus said in Matthew 24:35: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Then there’s 1 Peter 1:25 which says: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. 

With these thoughts in mind, Jim dedicated this first Crosstalk of 2024 to the truth and infallibility of God’s word.  He asked listeners to provide specific scriptures that they believe we need in such a time as this.

Find out how your fellow listeners responded, and be blessed, when you review this edition of Crosstalk!

Mysticism and the Coming World Religion

Date: January 1, 2024 Host: Jim Schneider ​Guest: T.A. McMahon MP3 | Order

T. A. McMahon is the President and Executive Director of The Berean Call ministry. He is also editor-in-chief and contributing writer for the Berean Call newsletter. He is co-author of The Seduction of Christianity and America: The Sorcerer’s New Apprentice. He is the author of Showtime for the Sheep? and Temporal Delusion. He has also researched and written numerous documentaries.

If you are a regular listener to Crosstalk, you will know that we have warned about deception and how it is on the increase just as Scripture said it would be. Many have wondered about the end times, such as how one would be able to control what people buy or sell, but look at how rapidly countries around the world are accepting and even mandating a central bank digital currency. This advancement is happening rapidly in the U.S. as well.

Others have wondered how there could be a one-world religion. With all of the different religions out there, what makes anybody believe this will actually come about? This will not happen suddenly, but rather, such a system has been at work for a long time, slowly and subtly. In 2 Corinthians 11:13-14 it is written: For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

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