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(re-aired from week of Sept. 23, 2019) “Daddy is leaving. In order for daddy to be a good daddy, he needs to be happy. Daddy’s not happy right now. You want daddy to be happy, don’t you?” “I know your dad and I just got divorced, but mommy really wants to marry Sam. I’ll be happy if I can just marry Sam—and I know you want a happy mommy.” Parents, hear this clearly. Your children are not interested in your happiness. Nor should they be. They are children. Their job is not to mak...

2021 | Week of June 14 | Radio Transcript #1416 Fatherhood. It’s a concept we don’t hear about all that frequently, at least positively, in our society. And yet it is a paramount theme in Scripture: God the Father, God’s instructions for fathers, admonitions for children to obey their fathers, the joys and pains of fatherhood, the relationship between the Father and the Son. Like the institution of marriage, fatherhood was designed by God and illustrates a unique aspect of His character. ...

Critical race theory. That phrase is being bandied about across the country. While the phrase is new, the ideas behind the words aren’t. Christopher Rufo, founder and director of Battlefront6, a public policy research center, in a speech given earlier this year at Hillsdale College, says “[c]ritical race theory is an academic discipline, formulated in the 1990s, built on the intellectual framework of identity-based Marxism.”1 So, what does Rufo mean by “identity-based Marxism”? Essent...

2021 | Week of May 3 | Radio Transcript #1410 The late Phyllis Schlafly was one of my heroes. This diminutive in stature but giant in character woman fought battle after battle for our nation’s best natural resource—our nuclear mom-and-dad married families. During her lifetime, Mrs. Schlafly was given nearly every conservative award, honor and recognition you can think of, but she said that the highest honor she ever received was in 1992 when she was named Illinois Mother of the Year. Here ...

2021 | Week of April 26 | Radio Transcript #1409 For biblical Christians, what is more powerful than prayer lifted up to the Creator God?  What is more necessary than God’s grace?  What is more ennobling than the prayer that beseeches that God’s grace be shed abroad in the hearts of mankind and that our homeland be the beneficiary of that inexplicable grace? Next Thursday, May 6 is National Day of Prayer. As I think about that day, Hebrews 4:16 comes to mind, where we read “[l]et us the...

Charles Dickens wrote a timeless work entitled A Tale of Two Cities. What follows is most likely not a timeless tale, but rather a very timely tale of two governors—with a sequel involving a third governor. Last month, Governor Kristi Noem, a Republican governor from South Dakota, who became a darling of the conservatives because of her positions and policies regarding COVID in her state, suddenly became pretty unpopular in many circles. Governor Noem lost her Miss Popularity award when she ...

2021 | Week of March 8 | Radio Transcript #1402 Doug and Sally have decided their ten-year marriage isn’t working, and they want out. They just aren’t happy anymore; the love they once felt is gone—and working it out just isn’t going to happen. They agree to divorce—as amicably as possible—and take the legal steps to make that happen. They of course will share custody of their two minor children, ages eight and six. During the time it takes for them to finalize the divorce, Sally’...

2021 | Week of March 1 | Radio Transcript #1401 A 1996 survey revealed that less than 1% of Wisconsin citizens, or about 32,425 residents were problem gamblers and that the annual social costs related to those problem gamblers was over $300 million, or $9,469 per problem gambler in general and over $10,000 per casino problem gambler. Those numbers clearly should have told us something.  But they didn’t. And now, in 2021, Wisconsin has approximately 7% of its adult population, or  about 333,...

2021 | Week of January 18 | Radio Transcript #1395 On January 22, 1973, seven of nine US Supreme Court justices, in a show of raw judicial activism, determined that nationwide a woman deciding to kill her unborn baby was her constitutional right based on a perceived right to privacy provided in the 14 th Amendment of the US Constitution, even though the word privacy, not to mention any explicit right to privacy, cannot be found in that rule-of-law document anywhere. To get to that distorted vi...

2020 | Week of December 21 | Radio Transcript #1391 “Daddy, Daddy! More yites! More yites! We need more yites!” That was my child-like and constant comment at Christmas growing up. Dad never could get enough lights on the inside tree, the house and the outside trees, or anywhere else to satisfy me. To this day, I love the lights of Christmas.  Frankly, I really like light in general. The months and weeks leading to and just after the Winter Solstice are often difficult. When we reach Decem...