Good News Friday Kickoff

SPEAKER_01 0:07

It's good news Friday. Welcome to the intersection of Faith and Culture here on the Wall Builder Show, taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. And today we've got good news about those hot topics. I have no idea what the good news is going to be, but David and Tim have been collecting it and I've seen a lot of good news lately anyway. So if you haven't been listening to Wall Builders for very long, this is a fun tradition we've had now for years and years and years, where throughout the week things happen, or maybe even stuff happened in weeks and months before, and we didn't get a chance to cover it. And on Friday, we just compile as much of the good news as we possibly can and catch up on some of those stories. So David and Tim, appreciate you doing that. Let's jump right in. Well, by the way, website wallbuilders.com and wallbuilders.show. If you want more good news there at wallbuilders.show, you can go back to previous Friday programs as well. David and Tim Barton bringing the good news today. David, get us started, man.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

You know, I'm going to make an observation on something. When you look at America and you look at Europe, Europe is kind of like America with all the progressive professors running it. I mean, Europe takes all the progressive ideas that we have in our universities that have not quite fully penetrated government and everything else, and they're doing it over there. So in Europe, they're actually doing the stuff that professors over here want us to be doing here that we haven't got around to yet. And Europe, as the as a result, has become a pretty good laboratory for showing what doesn't work. And, you know, we're talking about just, I think last week, one of the good news items was the fact that Europe has now completely abandoned all that global warming nonsense, all the stuff that went with that. They recognize there's no science for it, that it's it's been billions of dollars spent and it hasn't made a single change, um, all the temperature change. You know, it's just it's not there. And that stuff we knew and we're talking about 25 years ago, 20 years ago, it just is not there because the science does not hold up what they believe, but they have all these progressive scientists who come up without science about saying, let's change the culture. Well, the same thing has gone Europe, they they've been real anti-religious, and that still concerns me, but we are seeing a turnaround in that. We're seeing Bible sales go back up. But with that anti-religion stuff, what we're seeing up in Canada particularly, it's just unbelievable now, and they're hate crimes. Uh, they're taking hate crimes. Finland, by the way, just imposed a fine on a member of parliament for two decades ago saying that marriage between a man and a woman is a proper thing. And this is two decades ago. Their church put out a pamphlet on the importance of marriage and the importance of a traditional family, and that that legislator now has been convicted and has to pay a fine for what happened to. I mean, that's how crazy it is in Europe. So having said that, I saw this article this week, and here's something else where Europe is finally getting around to what we've all known. And unfortunately, thank God we haven't had the professors running America fully. They're running the Democrat Party pretty fully, but not all of America fully. But in Europe now, lawmakers voted, the European lawmakers, and you've got um the European Parliament, and it's made up of about 600 members. So they've got all the different nations in Europe that are part of it. And so the European lawmakers voted last Thursday, they're going to start deporting immigrants that are there illegally. They're going to set up migration detention centers. They're going to start cleaning up all this stuff where they've had open borders in Europe and it has not worked for them. It's destroying their country. I remember, man, this got to be 15 years ago when I was asked to speak at military bases in Europe and in England and Germany, etc., American military bases, that I got there, I was at London two different times, and each time an explosion happened just before we got there. One was at the airport. They tried to blow up Gatwick Airport, and the other they tried to blow up subways in London, and it was a Muslim terrorist. And there were so many Muslims in uh in uh England at the time that they started doing these polls and asked Muslims living in England, would you be willing to blow up the country you live in? Would you be willing to blow up uh England? And about 23% of Muslims said, absolutely. I mean it's kind of why we're here. And so that should have been enough red flag to say, hey, immigration's broken, but because they're part of the EU, the EU said you're going to have open borders and you can't ha have you know control of your borders. And we talked about how that even the new nations like Poland and Hungary and others told the EU they can go jump in the lake over that because we are going to control our borders, and those young Christian nations have done a good job of that. But all that to say, Europe, the European um Parliament voted 389 to 206 to start deportations out of their countries in Europe. It may be too late, too little too late, but they're at least getting back to recognizing that open borders was a really, really, really bad idea. And again, Europe tends to be about 20 years ahead of where America is because what they do over there is what our professors over here are advocating in universities that hadn't just made policy yet. So I think that's a great story. The fact that it shows another failure of progressive thought, and hopefully Europe can write itself still yet. Uh they've got a long way to go. They gave so much over to progressives, but hopefully this is a step in the right direction for them, and maybe they can come back to be in powerhouse.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

Yeah, you know, it's been surprising to me some of the speeches from new prime ministers or uh even members of parliament in some of these countries. Um man, they've they've been stronger on their immigration language than than, you know, even well, as strong as President Trump, I guess I should say. Um so yeah, I mean, maybe there's a real turn happening uh across the entire nation, not even just Europe, as they've seen the I mean across the entire world. Um any Western civilization nation for sure has been the target of massive immigration and it's had just incredibly bad uh effects. So this is really good news to hear, David, for sure. Tim, how about you, man? Where are we headed?

SPEAKER_02 6:12

Well, this one is from American Idol, and Rick, I I know I don't this is not gonna be news to you. You know exactly uh watching this show on the daily. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

Um, I mean, this is okay, Tim. You know, this is so unfair because I haven't watched American Idol in 15 years, but goodness gracious, you would bring this up, and I watched it last week. I have to be honest with the audience. I can't lie to the audience only because my kids were all over the house and they were watching it. And I was like, why are we watching American Idol? And I think I know where you're going, and the audience will understand why I was willing to watch at least one episode of American Idol.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

Well, I I love that you just uh added yourself a little bit because I I was clearly joking. I had no idea this is gonna land.

SPEAKER_01 6:58

Uh, that's awesome. Yes, I could have just stayed quiet. My wife would say, Rick, you know, sometimes you just need to keep your mouth shut. That's what she would say. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:06

Well, that's probably a different context than here, but that's fine. Um, yes. So, Rick, you know uh that there was a faith night last week. And very cool. It was Christian songs. And uh, so after it happened, uh the headline of the article says Luke Bryan reflects on how church roots shaped his career during American Idol Faith Night. It was a blessing. Uh, and so this is a little bit from his perspective. There's certainly more than uh just his perspective that happened, but in the interview he had with Christian Post, he said, uh, growing up, I I could take a step out my back door and hit the Baptist church. Waking up on Sunday mornings, hearing the gospel, hearing a Southern Baptist preacher deliver the sermons really shaped a lot of things in my life. Uh, he said singing in the choir, going to youth group on Wednesday nights, that really shaped me as a young person, a young man, uh, and a young singer. He goes on to talk about how faith influenced him. Now, with this being said, uh I I don't listen to much of his music. I definitely know a couple of his songs, uh, but I don't I don't listen to much outside of like Christian music. And now I have little girls, and so there's a lot of young kid Christian music as well. I'm trying to teach him some great old 80s and 90s Christian stuff. Uh, they're getting a good kind of cultural uh experience with earlier versions of Christian music, but uh all this to say that he's not someone that I I think I would point to and say, hey guys, right, follow him as he follows Christ. I don't know if that's who he is, but it is still great that on kind of a center stage area, he talked about faith very openly. And then he also praised Carrie Underwood. He said, when you look at Carrie Underwood and how she has really vocalized her faith, I think she's very inspiring in that. When you hear people praising Jesus in this light, it's something that I feel like maybe this country's gotten away from for many, many years. So it's a great platform. And the fact he's even identifying that our country's gotten away from that foundational thing, and and we probably should get back to it, was very encouraging. And they did have a list in this article of some of the songs that were there that night, and there were some songs from Brandon Lake from Maverick City Music. So, some some kind of noted Christian worship people that they their songs were being sung on American Idol. Uh, so Rick, now I mean, not joking. Apparently, you and your kids did watch this. I didn't see it. I'm only reading the article. Uh, what what what was it like? Did they do a good job? Did you feel like maybe that the faith moments God was honored? Uh, did it feel a little Hollywood along the way? What did you see from it?

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SPEAKER_01 9:43

The answer to that is yes. It was both. It really was. It was there was a couple of the singers that um this one girl sang at the cross, and it was it was powerful, man. I mean, it was you you could just people were crying. It was she was clearly worshiping the Lord. It was, it was really, really good. One guy sang, um, Cody Johnson, I'm a big Cody Johnson fan. He's a country artist that that is a Christian and he's got a Christian song called By Your Grace. Um, and and but then there were some, and it was so funny, man. There was a couple of them that sang songs because it was faith night. The songs had faith, the word faith in them, but it was like faith in me, faith that you know, and I was just laughing. I was going, okay, they clearly don't understand what faith actually is. They have faith in themselves. So anyway, um, so it was a mix. It was definitely a mix of of both, but it was really cool to see the ones that that sang those songs, and you could tell it was from the heart, uh, being able to worship the Lord on such a big stage. That was awesome. All right, so let's see, we've been around to Europe on on uh stopping immigration uh insanity. We've been to Hollywood and American Idol. David, where are we going next?

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Across the United States, by way of all the military bases, post forts, garrisons, et cetera. Um, Secretary of War Hedgehog made an announcement this week um that he is lifting the ban on service members carrying personal firearms on U.S. military bases. This has always been one of the great enigmas to me that the guys who are best trained in arms are not allowed to carry arms where they live and where they're around. I remember back with the Fort Hood shooting, what was that, a dozen years ago? Uh Major Hassan went wild on Fort Hood. He killed 13 and injured 32 more because all the people around him didn't have guns to fire back. It was just a uh uh shooting ducks in a gallery for him. And so Pete had mentioned just over the last few years three other incidents. Uh Fort Stewart, um, there was not only Fort Stewart, but there was Holloman Air Force Base and Pensacola Naval Air Station, all had shootings kind of like that. This most recent one, Fort Stewart, was last August, where an Army sergeant opened fire with his personal handgun. He hit five other soldiers before they tackled him, took him down. Um you had the the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, where Saudi trained, uh carried out a terrorist attack. He killed three service members, wounded eight others, and nobody could defend themselves. I mean, the the the bad guys have the guns, the good guys don't. And so Hedge SIS has now announced that on military basis, um, subject to the approval of that military commander, it's not that everybody can now bring all their guns out and start walking around with them, but the the base commander can now authorize people to carry guns on the basis, and that's a new policy for the military. I think that's a really good policy. I don't I now granted, when you're in the military, you lose a lot of your basic bill of rights. You can't file suit over basic things. Now you can in a lot of ways, but you just give up some of your rights as a soldier. You're a government issue, you are a GI, you you belong to the government. So the government can't openly violate all your rights, but it can do things that it can't do with other citizens. But taking away your right of self-defense is is never one of those options. And I love the fact that Hed Sys has has now said that service members can carry firearms on military bases, so that's great news.

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SPEAKER_01 13:06

Yeah, of all people to not have their constitutional rights, the very people that are tasked with defending the Constitution more than any of us. So, yeah, good news there. Let's take a quick break, guys. We'll be right back. We've got more good news for you when we return. You're listening to the Wall Boulder Show. Have you noticed the vacuum of leadership in America? We're looking around for leaders of principle to step up, and too often, no one is there. God is raising up a generation of young leaders with a passion for impacting the world around them. They're crying out for the mentorship and leadership training they need. Patriot Academy was created to meet that need. Patriot Academy graduates now serve in state capitals around America, in the halls of Congress, in business, in the film industry, in the pulpit, and every area of the culture. They're leading effectively and impacting the world around them. Patriot Academy is now expanding across the nation, and now's your chance to experience this life-changing week that trains champions to change the world. Visit PatriotAcademy.com for dates and locations. Our core program is still for young leaders, 16 to 25 years old, but we also now have a Citizen Track for Adults. So visit the website today to learn more. Help us fill the void of leadership in America. Join us in training champions to change the world at Patriotacademy.com. Welcome back to the Wallbourder Show. Thanks for staying with us on this Good News Friday. David had it right before the break, so Tim's up.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

Well, guys, this is from California, but it's specifically dealing with someone who was in one of the craziest, dumbest lawsuits there's been, and he had to navigate this for 10 years. This is that the article says final charge dismissed against David Aladin for exposing Planned Parenthood aborted baby part cells. Now, for those that don't remember, back in 2015, there was a more or less a journalist who went undercover. Uh, and he wasn't exactly a journalist, but he was doing journalism in this regard. And a little bit like what James O'Keefe has kind of done for those that might know some of his undercover uh journalism and investigating, where they will go talk to people that are doing very explicitly wrong or illegal things, they get them to admit it on camera, and then they will submit that video evidence at times to authorities, and at times they released it so that people can see what's really going on behind the scenes in some of these agencies, institutions, businesses, etc. Well, that's kind of what David did. He exposed Planned Parenthood for selling aborted baby parts. And like, as horrific as that sounds, that's exactly what they were doing. They were harvesting uh organs, among other things, from these aborted babies, and they were selling them to uh uh whatever research facilities, whatever it was, all that's incredibly illegal, not to mention evil and demonic. Well, when he did this, instead of uh Planned Parenthood being targeted for doing something that vile, that evil, that demonic of literally selling aborted baby parts. No, no, no, the California at this time attorney general targeted this young man, David. I say young man, uh relative, he's not that young anymore, but targeted this individual, this man, David Aladdin. Uh guys, do you remember who the attorney general of California was in 2015?

SPEAKER_01 16:33

Not me. I don't remember. Well, let's see, I think they might have decided to run for president.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

And maybe vice president as well. Like, oh, Kamala Harris. Oh, yeah. That's the one.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:45

Kamala Harris is the one that decides instead of going after Planned Parenthood, let's go after the guy who recorded them admitting to selling uh baby parts from these aborted babies, and come up with some of these crazy charges that because he didn't identify, he was filming them because he didn't have their consent, that's illegal. So we're gonna target him. And they brought 14 different charges against him. Uh and and this this has gone on now. Literally, right 2015 is when they finally uh agreed to drop some of the last charges, but it's been a process that that they didn't complete it until just recently literally in the last couple of weeks, he is finally free and clear of all of these charges. The guy who was uh his defense attorney, Steve Cooley, he was a former Los Angeles County District Attorney. And and he came out and explained how crazy this is. He said, In my five decades as an attorney, 40 years of which were as a prosecutor. Now remember, he was the Los Angeles County District Attorney. So he has some clout. He's he's a known guy. He said, I've never seen such a blatant exercise of selective investigation and vindictive prosecution. The California Attorneys General who initiated this case, by the way, that's Kamala Harris and pursued it for nearly 10 years, and that's after she's gone, but she initiated it. They continued it for 10 years. They should be ashamed for weaponizing their office to pursue people who were merely exposing illegality associated with the harvesting and sale of fetal baby uh parts. Now, the the really, really good news is praise God, that uh this guy is finally in the clear. Right, and God bless him, right, for having to go through this for a decade, actually now more than a decade, for just trying to expose the evil of what Planned Parenthood was doing. So the really, really good news is that he did get a victory, and as corrupt as California has been, they made this miserable on him, and arguably quite intentionally. It was very vindictive, as the his defense attorney identified. But the great news is he has now been vindicated. Uh, but maybe this is yet again another indication that shows it does matter. Elections have consequences, it does matter who we vote for, it does matter who our leaders are, and also it matters that Christians and churches get activated, wake up and get engaged. And Rick, I know this week you've been in California pretty much the whole week working with pastors, encouraging them on some of these very thoughts that we have to get engaged, we we can't sit on the sidelines. And I I guess probably for some of these people, like maybe even some of those pastors in California, it's when you're in the middle of the fire, it's probably a little harder for some of them to sit on the sidelines, but not to digress too much, overall, really good news for David that he is finally vindicated after a decade dealing with this felonious prosecution and charges coming against him.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

I can't think of a more real example of calling good evil and evil good. I mean, that's literally what they did. They went after the people that were doing good, exposing evil. So, yeah, good news that they finally got this uh, you know, at least for him, even though that was ten years of of trials and and tough times. And let's pray that God uses it for him, raises his platform, he's able to go out and and continue to fight for life. Uh could turn out it to be even better news in the in the long run. All right, David, what's next for you, man?

SPEAKER_00 20:30

Um this one comes out of Texas, but it is it has national implications. Uh, this is the first time ever that Antifa members have been convicted of terrorism charges. Uh what happened in Texas last July was outside one of the immigration facilities, uh they opened fire on an officer, wounded an officer, shot him in the neck. Um they they were there, they were carrying explosives, carrying uh weapons, guns, etc. And they attacked this this immigration facility and went after the police officers there. So Texas Attorney General Um Paxton went after them and has taken, took them into court, and eight of them were convicted. So this is the first time we have any any Antifa members being convicted of terrorism, and it's this this is part of what happened when Trump said, hey, Antifa's a terrorist group, now being called a terrorist group, so a way to go after them. So I I mean there's no really no question about what happened there. Here's what I thought was really interesting. The defense attorneys uh did not call a single witness in defense of the Antifa members. So you you're here to put on the best defense you possibly can, and you did not call a single witness. So what happened was the Antifa members showed up with AR rifles, uh, showed up with pistols, handguns, explosives, etc. And the defense attorneys now now again, they didn't call the single witness, but the defense attorneys argued that their clients were simply conducting a noise. Demonstration at the immigration facility, and they were having a noise demonstration to show their solidarity with the illegal immigrants inside. And they argued that the defenders were there peacefully to protest, they weren't there to shoot officers, and that they brought the AR rifles with them to protect themselves from counter-protesters who might be there. And they also said, by the way, um, Antifa is an ideology, it's not a group, you can't you can't characterize an ideology as terrorism. I mean, if that's the best arguments the defense team has, this was a losing case from top to bottom. So what happened was the the eight members were convicted, the the guy who shot the officer faces a minimum of 20 years in prison, a maximum of life. Uh the others face from 10 to 60 years for their part in it. I mean, these are not short sentences, these are not easy sentences, and I am really glad to finally see somebody go after lawbreakers and take these guys down as we've watched them burn cities and and terrorize people all across the nation for several years. It's nice to have this happening after Trump has declared them a terrorist organization. And in Texas, uh that's just, you know, don't bring your stuff here because this is not a place that puts up with this kind of nonsense.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

I may not have the timeline right, but it seems like even the beginning of prosecuting them began to quiet down a lot of those protests, other than Minneapolis and some of the ICE stuff. Um it it just seemed to have a a really good effect. And now this this this should you know definitely have a good effect. And it's just law and order, right? It's just it's just actually prosecuting these people that, like you said, have been burning cities across the country for the last five years and doing things that many of them got away with w without even having to face the consequences of their actions at all. Well, Tim, take us into the weekend, man. What's our last piece of good news today?

SPEAKER_02 23:53

Well, this one's coming out of South Carolina, and and something that I think we might see some more of this action as we get a little closer to uh this summer, the 250th. But the headline says South Carolina General Assembly asks the state to rededicate themselves to the Lord. Uh, what happened is they came out on March 11th with a concurrent resolution. It's uh House Resolution 5302. It was bipartisan. Uh, they say broad bipartisan support. And their encouragement, their goal is on May 1st through 3rd to have a Charleston Crusade 2026, and they're inviting everybody to come to a voluntary rededication of South Carolina to God through prayer, repentance, and moral renewal. That they acknowledge this is something uh connected hopefully to the 250th. That one of the things that they're encouraging people to do for the 250th is to have a rededication to God. And guys, as we talk about all of the ways to celebrate the 250th, that this reminded me a little bit of what John Adams wrote Abigail when they uh America had voted and agreed to declare independence. And he writes Abigail how incredible this is gonna be. And and what does he encourage Abigail is the way they should celebrate, not just with pomp and parade and fireworks. He said actually something even more specific. What did he tell Abigail?

SPEAKER_00 25:25

Okay, Tim. I don't remember the exact words, but it was uh a time of devotion to God, as I recall. Uh you remember the exact words in the letter? Well, I was deferring to you.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

I can pull it up really quick. So he says it should be by acts of devotion to God Almighty, is the phrase you're looking for. Um it's obviously a longer clause, but he said this day ought to be commemorated by acts of sovereign devotion to Almighty God. I think that's the actual phrase, is what he used. But the reason, like dad, we've talked about one of the things that we are encouraging people to do. We're gonna be part uh actually just in a week or two of America Reads the Bible up in Washington, D.C., encourage anybody that can come be a part of this. There's a lot of prayer services, of uh repentance services, revival things, Bible things. There's not a better thing really we could be doing to rededicate ourselves and this nation to God in celebration of the 250th. And it's really similar to things that John Adams told Abigail was the way he thought we really ought to be commemorating Independence Day.

SPEAKER_01 26:31

Well, guys, we're out of time for good news today. Uh, by the way, folks, there's more good news at our website, as I mentioned at the top of the program, wallboulders.show. Just look for those Friday programs. Appreciate you listening. Have a fantastic weekend. You've been listening to the Wall Boulder Show.