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Jerry Newcombe is the Executive Director of the Providence Forum, a division of D. James Kennedy Ministries. Jerry serves as senior producer and an on-air contributor. He is the author or co-author of 33 books including The Book that Made America: How the Bible Formed Our Nation, George Washington's Sacred Fire and American Amnesia: Is America Paying the Price for Forgetting God, the Source of Our Liberty?The evangelist Charles Finney stated, "Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to their country as a part of their duty to God. God will bless or curse this nation according to the course Christians take in politics." Believers in Christ do have a special role: a stewardship before God of the vote we cast.The Scriptures tell us in Proverbs 29:2, "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn." Elections really do have consequences.Listen to find out why it is critical that we vote. Then go out and vote. Then PRAY EARNESTLY for America

Election news and much more. It's all here, including input from callers nationwide, on this edition of Crosstalk's News Round-Up broadcast. Here's your weekly sample:--Nearly 62 million Americans had already cast an election ballot by early afternoon yesterday according to the University of Florida Election Lab.--A democratic operative is on video explaining the process for influencing the results of an election.--GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign sent a letter to the Colorado Secretary of State's office requesting that it bolster election security.--A federal appeals court ruled that the Mississippi law that allows mail ballots to come in up to five days after Election Day is illegal, because voters need to cast their ballots by Election Day.--Someone in the control room at a local ABC-TV affiliate messed up. WNEP-TV in the Scranton area, was airing a Formula One race on October 27th when viewers noticed that Kamala Harris had won Pennsylvania by 5 points. They said it was a test for election night.--Many Pennsylvania voters are reporting that they still haven't received their mail-in ballots, days away from the 2024 election.--A glitch exists in some types of Dominion voting machines. Voters who use a Dominion ICX voter assist terminal will experience an issue if they want to vote for candidates of both parties according to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. --Monday's ruling from the Nevada Supreme Court on accepting mail-in ballots without a postmark, and after the election, strikes a devastating blow to election integrity for years to come.

Barbara Loe Fisher is the 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 has written that public opinion surveys and polls indicate that more Americans are doubtful that getting vaccinated over and over again is a reliable way to stay healthy, especially since the extreme response by governments to the World Health Organization's coronavirus pandemic declaration in 2020. The result is that more adults have lost trust in doctors and public health officials.Some people have experienced a COVID-19 shot reaction or know someone who has died suddenly or know someone that is suffering from chronic poor health problems after getting the shot. Others can't forget being terminated from their job or being denied medical care or a school education for refusing the jab. Others are still unable to access social media accounts that were suspended for simply talking about COVID shot reactions.Such negative experiences have prompted a growing number of Americans to question whether they or their children really need to get a flu shot each year or many other government recommended vaccines. Doctors are calling this Vaccine hesitancy.

This Sunday is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. When was the last time you prayed for the persecuted church, your brothers and sisters in Christ. Returning to Crosstalk to present the latest news concerning the efforts of the persecuted church was Todd Nettleton. Todd is the host of the Voice of the Martyrs Radio and is Vice President of Message for the Voice of the Martyrs-USA. Todd is author of When Faith is Forbidden: 40 Days on the Frontlines with Persecuted Christians.For Todd and everyone at Voice of the Martyrs, their hope is that every church would pray for persecuted Christians. To help people in this regard, VOM has resources that can help. The featured resource is a short 6 minute video that puts a face on the people all of us need to be praying for. It tells the story of the Martinez family in Colombia. Pastor Martinez leads a church in the "red zone", the areas of Colombia that are controlled by the guerrillas and the paramilitary groups. Those groups don't want churches there and they certainly don't want them growing. So pastors there are under constant threat and danger. This is just the beginning of an information packed program that features discussion on why children should be aware of Christian persecution, thoughts from Todd on his recent trip to the Middle East, persecution starts with the family, persecution intensifying on the continent of Africa, anti-conversion laws in India and much more.

William J. Federer is a nationally known speaker, historian, author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc. He's the speaker on The American Minute daily broadcast. He has authored numerous books including, America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, Who is the King in America?, Socialism: The Real History From Plato to the Present - How the Deep State Capitalizes on Crises to Consolidate Control and the newly released, Silence Equals Consent: The Sin of Omission.There are tactics that have been used in the past such as gaslighting and projection. Could it be that these tactics are being employed on the American people today?William began by defining projection. It's a term for blaming your opponent for what you're guilty of. In other words, the attacker's narcissistic response mechanism causes them to blame the victim when they're caught doing something wrong. We see this in the Bible. For example, Potiphar's wife accused Joseph of lusting after her when actually she was lusting after him. When Elijah meets Ahab, Elijah is accused of being a troubler of Israel.This also comes to light in the New Testament in the book of Acts. Paul was accused of profaning the Temple and starting an insurrection when in fact, it was the Pharisees who stirred up the insurrection at Jerusalem. By using projection they placed the blame on Paul.Nero set fire to Rome and blamed the Christians.Even Jesus experienced this when he was accused of being demon possessed.Learn how this is all tied in to the following:The KGB, critical theory and color revolutions. Audio from MSNBC showing their projection as they criticize Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally.

William J. Federer is a nationally known speaker, historian, author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc. He's the speaker on The American Minute daily broadcast. He has authored numerous books including, America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, Who is the King in America?, Socialism: The Real History From Plato to the Present - How the Deep State Capitalizes on Crises to Consolidate Control.On this broadcast William goes through several examples throughout history to explain to listeners the importance of not being silent, not just as it pertains to elections, but to sin in general.Perhaps you're not aware that in early America, you had churches establishing cities where everyone was involved in the church and city government. Baptists were responsible for the founding of Providence, Rhode Island, while Hartford, Connecticut, was founded by the First Congregationalist Church in America. In other words, you had cities with a covenant form of government as the founders of such cities were looking back to ancient Israel and their first 400 years of existence after leaving Egypt. He went on to note how even our Constitution was modeled after a covenant government from New England for the same reason.William also pointed to Numbers chapter 30, the silence-equals-consent chapter in the Bible. For example, if a daughter binds herself with a vow while living in her father's house in her youth, and her father hears her vow and holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand. However, if her father overrules her on the day he hears, then none of her vows shall stand and the Lord will release her.

News headlines are the order of the day on Crosstalk each Friday. Here's a sample of what Jim presented for listeners during the first half hour. Later in the broadcast, callers added their input as well.--The program began with audio clips from Kamala Harris, J.D. Vance and Dr. Ben Carson.--During a campaign stop at U.W. Milwaukee, VP Kamala Harris appeared to publicly agree with a protester who interrupted her while accusing Israel of committing genocide.--At a Kamala Harris/Liz Cheney town hall meeting, moderator Maria Shriver indicated that the questions were "pre-determined."--A group called Trans Families for Harris says a Harris/Walz administration would be the most supportive regarding governmental adoption of the transgender agenda.--LGBTQ Nation reports that according to the Human Rights Campaign, queer votes will comprise nearly 20% of the electorate by 2040. --Former first lady Michelle Obama's voter mobilization initiative is using drag shows and the promise of seeing rapper Cardi B perform to energize voters to get involved in the election.--Female athletes worldwide have lost nearly 900 medals to transgender identifying male competitors who have intruded into women's sports.--An Ohio child welfare agency created a confidential spreadsheet tracking the sexual orientation and transgender identity of children as young as 5. --At a CNN town hall event, VP Kamala Harris attempted to answer why over the past 4 years she hasn't done the things she's promising now.--In other audio clips, Harris defends a pathway to citizenship, answers a question concerning high food prices and whether Donald Trump is a fascist.

Alex Newman is an award-winning international freelance journalist, author, researcher, educator and consultant. He is senior editor for The New American. He is co-author of Crimes of the Educators, author of Deep State: The Invisible Government Behind the Scenes and author of, Indoctrinating Our Children to Death. He is Founder of Liberty Sentinel.This program takes a deep dive as it looks at the timeline of the United Nations, the world organization whose beginnings go back to October 24, 1945. Alex believes that from the beginning, the U.N. was set up for nefarious purposes. At that time what you find is that the U.N. was dominated by communists, subversives and individuals that have no business being anywhere near global power. As Alex moves along the timeline you'll hear him discuss the following: Soviet agent Alger Hiss who was the first Secretary General of the U.N.John Foster Dulles, one of the key delegates to the founding of the U.N., who through his book War or Peace, admitted the U.N. goal was world government.The International Court of Justice.Planning documents like Agenda 21. The connection between the World Economic Forum/the World Health Organization and the U.N. How religion factors into U.N. history. The U.N. and internet control. How to get the U.S. out of the U.N. and much more.

George Barna released a survey showing that 104 million people of faith, which includes 32 million Christian regular church goers, are projected to abstain from voting in the upcoming election. This is a staggering figure considering that we have important issues at stake such as religious liberty, the lives of the pre-born and sexual immorality being promoted in our education system. Recognizing this fact, Crosstalk invited Debbie Wuthnow as a guest. She is president of iVoterGuide, a division of American Family Association Action. Debbie joined iVoterGuide in 2011 as a data analyst and was named president in 2018. Debbie began by noting how the statistics tend to validate the idea that stewardship and civic responsibility are not being taught in the schools or even churches. Instead, apparently many people are just going to go on with their lives choosing to be ignorant of the impact that those we elect have over every aspect of our lives. This explains why we have the kind of government or school districts that we have because people aren't voting their values by participating in the voting process.Review this critical edition of Crosstalk and you'll discover just how important it is to recognize the stewardship of your vote. For example, Debbie covered the following:Do Christians really have an accountability before God as to if or how they cast their vote?Why are some Christians hesitant to vote?Can Christian voters impact the outcome of an election?How can illegal immigrants affect an election?How does iVoterGuide work?There's much more to take in, including plenty of input from Crosstalk listeners.

Dr. David Brown, Pastor Emeritus of the First Baptist Church in Oak Creek, has a Masters in Theology and a PhD in History, specializing in the history of the English Bible. In addition to his study of the English Bible he's also President of Logos Communications Consortium. For years he has conducted research on witchcraft and the occult. He is author of the book, The Dark Side of Halloween and also a research paper, Unmasking the Truth About Witches. There's an unleashing of darkness taking place throughout society today. Each Halloween seems to get darker as witchcraft, the occult and sensuality are all merging. So while you may think that witchcraft and those who deal with it are a thing of the past, you need to think again. According to Google Trends data, witch costumes were the most popular Halloween costume search in 2022. Last Wednesday, the most popular horror films in each state were released and some of the top movies by state deal with witches. Then on Monday of this week, LifeSiteNews.com ran a story indicating that the International Association of Exorcists recently published a book warning that Halloween, as practiced today, is closely connected to witchcraft and Satanism.So join Pastor Brown as he exposes the lies that witches tell and the proliferation of witchcraft, not only around the United States, but increasingly around the world. For example you'll hear:Why today's Wicca (meaning witch-like) isn't the oldest religion in the world like we're led to believe.The connection between Wicca and Satanism.Why it's a lie when Wiccans say they only engage in white magic, are family friendly and wholesome.

Mark Krikorian is a nationally recognized expert on immigration issues and serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies. They are an independent, non-partisan research organization that examines and critiques the impact of immigration on the United States. Mark has testified numerous times before Congress and has published articles in many outlets.Our country has never seen an invasion on our soil like has occurred in the last 3-1/2 years. On day one of the new Biden-Harris Administration in 2021, the Trump Executive Orders were lifted and the welcome mat was laid out. Millions have crossed our borders illegally. FEMA funds were depleted in order to supply housing, food, and medical care for those who are here illegally.Apartment complexes are being taken over by Venezuelan gang members. Just reported today, a small village near Cincinnati, OH is being invaded by Mauritanian illegal immigrants. Violent crime is a concern with many being released right back out to the streets. Much misinformation concerning border security is coming from national media.With an election looming, a major concern is illegal votes being cast in the election.

Looking for news headlines you won't find elsewhere? Crosstalk is the program for just that. Here's a sample of what Jim covered this week:--Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7th massacre in Israel, is dead. Sinwar was killed by an infantry soldier who was only 9 months into his service.--Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the U.S. that Israel is willing to strike Iranian military targets, not nuclear or oil targets.--Israel's military suffered one of the worst attacks since October 7th. That's the Hezbollah drone strike at a base dozens of miles from the Lebanon border where four IDF soldiers were killed and 58 others were wounded.--The U.S. has deployed the THAAD missile defense system along with a 100 member crew to bolster Israel's defense against a possible third direct strike from Iran.--Israeli forces on Monday killed Hezbollah's anti-tank missile commander Muhammad Kamel Naeem just days after his elite fighting brigade launched a lethal rocket attack on northern Israel that also killed a couple of civilians.--Hezbollah is facing a very serious financial problem as they are unable to pay rank and file members who've fled their homes and need to feed their families. --The Israeli Defense Forces captured a Hezbollah weapons cache a few dozen meters from a U.N. international force in Lebanon. --The U.S. embassy in Beirut issued a warning to Americans living in Lebanon urging them to leave the country immediately.--The Biden/Harris administration is quietly threatening an arms embargo against Israel citing humanitarian concerns.

Robert Knight is a former Los Angeles Times news editor and columnist for the Washington Times as well as other publications. Robert has had senior positions in a number of pro-family organizations. He's written several books including, The Coming Communist Wave: What Happens if the Left Captures All Three Branches of Government, Liberty on the Brink and Crooked: What Really Happened in the 2020 Election and How to Stop the Fraud.In one sense, the November 5th election is already underway. Absentee ballots are out with many being returned and the majority of states have already begun early voting. In the midst of all this is the concern over election integrity. Recently a PBS News/Marist poll reported that a full 58% of Americans are concerned that voter fraud will occur in the upcoming presidential election. While some states have shored up their election process, others have been running loose-knit operations. Then there are the activist judges that have been declaring void the actions of some states to bring about election integrity. Now the Biden/Harris administration has taken two states to court to prevent them from removing non-citizens from the voter rolls.So review this interview as Robert comments on voter I.D., drop boxes, fraud by the media, the desire by Tim Walz to abolish the electoral college, ranked-choice voting, Elon Musk and other points related to this critical issue.

Sheri Few is president and founder of United States Parents Involved in Education.Sheri described United States Parents Involved in Education as a coalition of states that have banned together to fight the indoctrination taking place in government schools. Their mission is to end the U.S. Department of Education and all federal education mandates. The reason they've chosen this as their mission is because they understand that most of the nefarious pedagogies originate from the federal government and they're incentivizing federal dollars. If schools don't comply with this leftist agenda, they threaten to withhold funding. Part of the problem, as Sheri noted, is that the Biden/Harris administration believes that children belong to the community. She believes children are a gift from God to the parents and thus no one else has any authority over those children.She sees an intentional agenda where children are taught lie after lie. Whether it's Mao or Hitler, such leaders understand that if they can control the minds of youth, they can change the future direction of the nation.Review this edition of Crosstalk to hear more on this issue including:How does the National Education Association factor into this?What is taking place in classrooms across America as it relates to Title IX?A protest related to a girls soccer team that had a biological boy on it in New Hampshire. School backlash to a silent protest by parents resulted in parents filing a lawsuit against the school district saying that their 1st Amendment rights were violated.Should parents simply remove their girls from sports where biological boys are allowed?What is "Gender Dysphoria"?

According to a recent Barna study, only half of the people of faith plan to vote this November. However, according to Troy Miller, Christians have a moral and ethical duty to vote.Troy Miller is president & CEO of National Religious Broadcasters, an organization officially formed 80 years ago in 1944 to advocate for access to the airwaves for religious broadcasters. NRB is a nonpartisan, international association of Christian communicators to protect the free speech rights of their membership to speak biblical truth, and to foster excellence, integrity and accountability in the membership.Troy began by noting that there are 25 to 30 million evangelicals in America and about one-third of them didn't vote in the 2020 election. That was about 7 million voters in the battle-ground states where such states were decided by small margins. This means there's a large impact when Christians stay home and fail to participate.Also disturbing according to the Barna report is that nearly half of evangelicals don't follow or even know what the major issues are.Is this people simply putting their heads in the sand? Troy indicated that there's so much apathy among Christians because the Christian community has been bullied/shamed into believing that they shouldn't be involved in politics. Some go so far as to communicate that to be involved in politics is to abandon your faith while others call it sin. So it's not so much a case of people shying away from politics but instead it's about people purposely staying away from it.

Dr. Richard Schmidt is pastor of Union Grove Baptist Church and founder of Prophecy Focus Ministries. He is the speaker on the weekly TV program, Prophecy Focus and the radio broadcast, Prophecy Unfolding. He spent 32 years in law enforcement including that of acting sheriff of Milwaukee County until his retirement. Dr. Schmidt began by noting how totally dependent we are today on technology where basically everything has a technology nexus and the explosion we're seeing during this information age of technology.He pointed to the ultra-rich who are driving the AI agenda with their end-goal to become gods. It sounds ridiculous until you realize these individuals don't believe in a biblical worldview, therefore they want to find immortality, omniscience and omnipotence through technology. At the same time they seek to de-throne the one true God of the Bible as Satan sought to do.So what is artificial intelligence? ChatBox, which many people use, is one example. When people use this to buy a particular product, in the corner of the screen, a little box might pop up trying to engage you in conversation. That's not a human being, that's artificial intelligence at work.The ten levels of artificial intelligence include:One rule or knowledge-based systems. Context-based artificial intelligenceNarrow domain or expert artificial intelligenceRational artificial intelligence-Development of extremely complicated systems Self aware artificial intelligenceArtificial general intelligenceArtificial super intelligenceTranscendence AICosmic AIGod-like AI

Crosstalk looks back each Friday at news stories that are of interest to you. Here's a sample of what Jim presented from the first half hour:--Hurricane Milton is suspected to have killed at least 16 people with St. Petersburg receiving approximately 18 inches of rain.--House speaker Mike Johnson slammed the Biden/Harris administration's response to Hurricane Helene during an interview with the Morning Wire News Podcast from the Daily Wire.--Jim presented audio clips featuring Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Senator Tom Cotton over the possible diversion of hurricane aid. Were adequate FEMA funds available or not? Did some go or not go to illegal aliens?--The number of Americans filing for unemployment rose much more than expected last week to the highest in 14 months driven up in part by the impact of Hurricane Helene.--An audio clip of VP Kamala Harris from The View on Monday saying nothing comes to mind that she would have done differently regarding, "...most of the decisions that have had impact."--Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during an interview that there needed to be more regulation and censorship on the internet or else the government will lose control.--60 Minutes interview featured VP Kamala Harris where she had her feet held to the fire on the issue of immigration.--Minnesota Governor Tim Walz reiterated his support for abolishing the electoral college and switching to a national popular vote as the sole means of electing presidents and their running mates. The Harris campaign walked back this claim.

Tom DeWeese is president of American Policy Center. Tom is one of the nation's leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education, American sovereignty and independence and protecting our constitutionally-guaranteed rights.As Tom pointed out at the start, Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, The Green New Deal, The Great Reset and the World Economic Forum are all the same in the sense that the aim is global control. Their efforts focus on our national sovereignty, independence and our ability to live our lives as we choose.Another aspect of control involves the American Planning Association, a part of the Planners Network, which is officially run by the Organization of Progressive Planners. They are the premier planning group operating across the U.S. The idea is to put together comprehensive plans for communities to make certain there's controlled growth for the future. So they make it sound as though their planning is coming from the local level. The problem is that you have non-governmental organizations in the background, moving forward with plans that are putting Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 plans in place. So in the end, such planning falls right into the playbook of the United Nations, with an emphasis on environmental control.Find out where this is headed as it relates to housing, social justice/social engineering and more, on this edition of Crosstalk.

Gary Kah is founder and director of Hope for the World. He's editor of Hope for the World Update, an author and former Europe & Middle East Trade Specialist for the Indiana State Government. This broadcast is part 2 of the audio from his speech at a September VCY America Rally in Southeast Wisconsin.Yesterday, it was mentioned that the United Nations is only one step away from being able to seize control over all its member nations, including the U.S., in the event of an international emergency. The way the U.N. would do this is through the Summit of the Future. The U.N. describes it as, "...a high level event bringing world leaders together to forge an international consensus on how to deliver a better present to safeguard the future." Part 2 of this special broadcast builds on that point as Gary walked listeners through some of the specific plans of the summit and the pact (treaty) that's been proposed. He noted that there's almost 60 action points in their working document. These are areas of agreement that were to be committed upon by national representatives within 2 days after Gary spoke. The idea is to tie everything into the environment and health management and establish restrictive rules. Nations that fail to comply will be severely penalized, making it difficult for them to function. The goal is for the U.N. to be fully empowered so that they can be the ones responsible for managing a range of complex issues at the global level.Supporters of such U.N. empowerment include the Vatican, the Climate Governance Commission (CGC) and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies.

Gary Kah is founder and director of Hope for the World. He's editor of Hope for the World Update, an author and former Europe & Middle East Trade Specialist for the Indiana State Government. The audio of this broadcast is from his speech at a September VCY America Rally in Southeast Wisconsin. Before looking in detail at the national and world situation, Gary reminded the audience about Daniel who was told by an angel that knowledge would increase at a rapid pace during the end-times and current events are bearing this out. He then went to Psalm 2 where it reminds us that God is in control and He, not scheming and powerful people, will have the final say.Gary noted that not since the 1860's has our nation been so divided and greatly deceived by the propaganda of socialists with their empty promises and lies. He believes that socialists, dedicated to a globalist, anti-Christ agenda, are firmly in control of most of America's government agencies. There appears to be no going back because as history shows, once socialists are in power, they stay there, often by force if necessary. He went through the recent history of Venezuela, a nation that once was the 2nd wealthiest nation on a per-capita basis, to prove his point. They went on to become a socialist nation and the leader has spent the past two months rounding up the opposition and placing them under house arrest.His point? The people of Venezuela didn't think this could happen. Could that happen here in the U.S.? Gary believes we are on a very similar track as socialism has become very fashionable.