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Thursday, August 18, 2016
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Penna Dexter is your host today, and her first guest is Lisa Bevere sought-after international speaker, bestselling author, and the co-host of The Messenger television program. She discusses her book, Without Rival: Embrace Your Identity and Purpose in an Age of Confusion and Comparison.

In the second hour we hear from author, J.D. Vance. He discusses his book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.

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Point of View Co-Host, Penna Dexter frequently sits in as guest host for Kerby Anderson. Her weekly commentaries air on the Bott Radio Network. Penna’s heart is in educating and encouraging Christians to influence the culture and politics. She worked as a consultant overseeing the launch and production of the Family Research Council’s nationally syndicated radio program, Washington Watch Weekly. For eight yearsRead More

Guests
Lisa Bevere
Speaker | Author,
Lisa Bevere is a sought-after international speaker, a bestselling author, and the cohost of The Messenger television program, which is broadcast in more than two hundred countries. The author of Lioness Arising, Girls with Swords, and Fight Like a Girl, Lisa is a frequent guest on Life Today and has been a speaker at Women of Faith, Joyce Meyer conferences, and Hillsong Church. She and her husband, John, have four sons and live in Colorado.
Without Rival: Embrace Your Identity and Purpose in an Age of Confusion and Comparison
There is a reason we look at others as rivals and limit ourselves to comparison and competition. We have an enemy assaulting our mind, will, and emotions in the hope that we'll turn on ourselves and each other. It's a cycle that isolates us from intimate connections, creates confusion about our identity, and limits our purpose.

In Without Rival, bestselling author Lisa Bevere shares how a revelation of God's love breaks these limits. You'll learn how to stop seeing others as rivals and make the deep connections with your Creator you long for--connections that hold the promise of true identity and intimacy.
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J.D. Vance
Author
J.D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to the National Review and is a principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm. Vance lives in San Francisco with his wife and two dogs.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class

Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.

The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility.
Trump: Tribune Of Poor White People
I wrote last week about the new nonfiction book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance, the Yale Law School graduate who grew up in the poverty and chaos of an Appalachian clan. The book is an American classic, an extraordinary testimony to the brokenness of the white working class, but also its strengths. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. With the possible exception of Yuval Levin’s The Fractured Republic, for Americans who care about politics and the future of our country, Hillbilly Elegy is the most important book of 2016. You cannot understand what’s happening now without first reading J.D. Vance. His book does for poor white people what Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book did for poor black people: give them voice and presence in the public square.

This interview I just did with Vance in two parts (the final question I asked after Trump’s convention speech) shows why.
Trump Staff Shake-Up
The latest shake-up in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is rightly described as a move to “let Trump be Trump.” In reality, the sudden changes highlight the fact that a politician whose instincts appeared so sure during the Republican primaries has lost his way as a general-election candidate. It remains questionable whether he can find the equilibrium and the discipline needed to turn his flailing campaign around.

That probably is what is behind the shifts that were formally announced in a release the Trump team emailed at 5:38 a.m. Wednesday, hours after the Wall Street Journal first reported the news. Coming 82 days before the general election, the staff changes had the distinct bouquet of desperation rather than the kind of routine and orderly “expansion” that the candidate and his senior advisers were saying.
Trump must do everything in his power if he wants to beat Clinton
For years, I believed Democrat Bob Kerrey, the former governor and senator from Nebraska, would succeed in his quest to be president. After it was clear that it wasn’t going to happen, I asked him why.

His answer was both self-serving and true: “You have to want it more than life itself,” Kerrey said without hesitation.

It was obviously a question he had thought about a lot, and it’s one that Donald Trump now faces. How much does he want to win? Is there a limit, in money, discipline and humility, beyond which he refuses to go?
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