On the show today we hear from Dr. Alex McFarland, author, radio host and evangelist and Jason Jimenez, pastor, apologist, national speaker and founder of STAND STRONG Ministries. They tell us about a book that they wrote together called, Stand Strong America: Courage, Freedom, and Hope for Tomorrow.
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Alex has interviewed hundreds of news makers, including, Christian leaders (such as James Dobson, George Barna, Tony Campolo, Ravi Zacharias, Franklin Graham, Ray Comfort, David Platt, and others), political figures (such as Dr. Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, Michelle Bauchman, Rick Santorum), skeptics (Christopher Hitchens, Michael Shermer, David Silverman), and musicians (such Brian Wilson and Jeffrey Foskett of the Beach Boys, Grammy winners Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., and others).
Jason is a worldview expert that specializes in cultural, philosophical, theological, and religious issues, and speaks on popular topics, such as: religious freedom, ISIS, Islam, same-sex marriage, America’s Christian heritage, the reliability of the Bible, biblical leadership, and many more.
Jason has authored several books: The Raging War of Ideas: How to Take Back Our Faith, Family, and Country, co-authored The Official Study Guide to I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, and The Bible’s Answers to 100 of Life’s Biggest Questions with Dr. Norman Geisler (published by Baker Books), and co-authored Stand Strong America: Courage, Freedom & Hope for Tomorrow with Dr. Alex McFarland, and the soon to be released book, Abandoned Faith: Why Millennials Are Walking Away and How You Can Lead Them Home (published by Focus on the Family and Tyndale). Jason and Alex also travel together speaking in churches all over America with the STAND STRONG TOUR. Jason and his wife, Celia, live in Charlotte, NC with their four beautiful children.
– Every day Americans nervously watch the national debt climb to a whopping $20 trillion (with no solutions in sight).
– Government bailouts are the norm, and entitlement spending is out of control.
– Civil unrest and racial divide intensify.
– Drug use, porn obsession, and human trafficking increase.
– Terrorist threats and attacks are a daily occurrence.
– The exercise of free speech is becoming a thing of the past.
Backroom unity talks failed, and so the party feuded publicly.
CLEVELAND — The Republican party came within a whisker of reaching the unity it had long sought Monday. What it got instead was convention floor chaos.
After mounting for weeks, tension exploded into a high-profile fight pitting the Donald Trump campaign and Republican National Committee leadership against a coalition of conservative activists and delegates from the "never Trump” movement.
The two sides were reduced to shouting at each other on national television after party leadership blocked a roll call vote on the convention rules, which virtually guarantee Trump the party nomination by requiring delegates to vote in accordance with their state’s primary or caucus results. Trump critics were unlikely to be able to vote down the rules — and even less likely to achieve their ultimate goal of replacing the rules with ones that “unbound” pledged delegates — but they were seeking a platform to voice their displeasure with Trump and demonstrate the strength of their movement.
Haitians like Andre may sound a bit strident, but he and the protesters had good reason to be disgruntled. They had suffered a heavy blow from Mother Nature, and now it appeared that they were being battered again — this time by the Clintons. Their story goes back to 2010, when a massive 7.0 earthquake devastated the island, killing more than 200,000 people, leveling 100,000 homes, and leaving 1.5 million people destitute.