Speaker 1: Welcome to the three stories version of this Todd Herman Show.
Story number one, did someone say Kings? Story number two
the in selling of fiction, and story number three, God
made brains changeable. Praise God. We'll talk about this with
the help of Bisible. Let go bisible dot com and
of course through God Almighty.
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in These
are the times to which God has decided we shall live.
Does someone say Kings? I think the same people who
said no Kings are the same people who liked this
image of figurehead Biden, who was sent onto a stage
in the most Orwellian of colors that you could produce,
in the darkest way you could produce, given a dark
speech to read threats to make against mega Americans and
people who didn't take this or that medical treatment. And
he screamed his way through the speech, reading it from
teleprompters with a black and red background, meant to be foreboding.
And they tried that dark Biden thing, remember that, and
it took off in the wrong way, but man, it
was kingly. The people who are saying no kings are
people who back, of course Bernie Sanders, because there's nothing
king like about Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 3: Three residences.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they ask him, do you have three houses? And
here's what Bernie Sanders said. The question was do I
have three houses?
Speaker 3: Do I live here in Browlington, Vermont. We live in
a middle class theghbood nice house. Guess what. I'm the
United States Senator and I own a home in Washington,
d C. As do most centers. You know, you live
there a year after year. When I first went to
actually when I was in Congress for sixteen years, I
rented all the time. But I got elected. Okay, you
got a six year term. You know what, Let's buy
a house. So we wought a house. And guess what,
Like many thousands of people in the state of Vermont,
I have a summer camp. It's a nice one on
Lake Champlain.
Speaker 1: This is this is that's it. That's it. Because most
Americans have three houses. Americans who have three houses generally
provide some value for the three houses in exchange for
getting the money to be able to afford the three houses.
Bertie Sanders' wife, with his help, bankrupted a college, literally
bankrupted a college. And the reward of three houses. He
has never produced a thing. He's never sold a thing.
I guess he sold a book kind of but providing value.
Bertie Sanders cannot have a paycheck without the force of taxation.
And the last time they looked at his net worth
he was ranked loan the Senate sixty seventh. At least
this is from Open Secrets twenty eighteen. They claims he's
a net worth of five hundred and thirteen thousand, five
hundred and thirteen dollars in twenty eighteen. But he owns
three houses. He must have no equity in the houses
at all. He must have made no payments on those houses,
because one house in Washington, DC is worth a lot
more than five hundred and thirteen thousand dollars, and a
cabin in Vermont, not to mention his full time residence.
I don't think those numbers are right. The hallmark of
kings are taking from others by force, having more than
the people over whom they rule when it's taken by force.
And there's other examples of this. I mean, there's some
really easy ones we can use. I'll give you really
easy one in a second. Then there are the ones
that are less obvious unless you're kind of obsessive about
what God told us what kings would do. Kings, he
said through the prophet Samuel, will take your sons and daughters,
your daughters for concubines, your sons for the armies. They'll
take wine from your vineyards and the grapes and make
them their own. They'll take your livestock and make them
their own. Whereas God Almighty simply asks that you give
ten percent back through tithing, he gave it to you.
He's asking for some of it back. But guess what,
Usually he won't take it from you. Kings will. So
there's major kings we'll talk about, and then minor kings.
But all of them are saying no kings. Everyone who's
a minor king or even a major king is saying
no kings. Meaning, of course they don't mean that a bit. Now,
it's our job to make sure that we keep track
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One of the major Kings people should remember is the
dictator of the separate country of Washington, j Insley. Do
you remember how long Washington State was shut down because
of one man? Nine hundred and seventy five days. Do
you remember who was not shut down? Buses, government agencies.
Jay Insley's apparent skate ski vacation was not shut down
because kings don't shut down. Now, small business owners lost
their source of income. I remember that he went after
a barber who was a retired marine. I mean he's
still a marine, but not active duty. He was eighty
years old. I Remember they shut his business down, took
away the way he earned a living, but no one
and government lost their livings. That's king like, But he
was a major king, Jay Insley. He's now comfortably retired,
continuing to take money from people by force. Randy Weingarten
takes money by people from people by force. She's one
of the boss ladies of one of the big so
called school unions or teachers unions. Really what they are
is just another form of big labor. She likes to
talk about no kings or the from Uri.
Speaker 4: To this president's chaos, and together we build a future
of opportunity and justice for all. Home over fear, aspiration
over anger, the promise of America, for each and every American.
That is what we are fighting for today.
Speaker 1: That woman jumping up in down, and by the way,
barely getting any arro, I would say. And the jumping
up and down is reading. She feels that so deeply
in her soul that she has to read a statement
like that at a no King's rally. Randy Winingarten gets
her salary by force from teachers. In most states, teachers
still have trouble leaving the unions. Even though the Supreme
Court said they cannot force you to be part of
the union. There are still teachers who believe they have
to be part of the union. Her net worth is
different than teachers net worth. She has an estimated net
worth of around four million dollars. That's from twenty twenty four.
Her salary is about five hundred thousand a year and
that adds up now to a four million dollar net worth.
And incidentally, why was Randy Winingarten going to Ukraine Teachers Union?
She says she visited Ukraine to meet with students and teachers.
This visit underscored her belief in the power of education,
in the importance of supporting educators in the students worldwide,
even in the face of adversity. That doesn't explain anything.
Her union doesn't represent anybody in Ukraine. So did someone
say Kings. One of the hallmarks of Kings is they're capricious.
The Great Mark Stein said, tyranny is always capricious in
a nation that pushes fast food, an upside down food pyramid,
disgusting additives to foods, things that aren't foods, that is
pushing fake meats to the point of making it illegal
to purchase real meats, effectively ratchet ratchet up the costs,
making it hard to get to driving up the costs
of eggs, et cetera. By eliminating egg birds. That same
government is going after Amish farmers who have zero complaints
about their farms. Did someone say Kings.
Speaker 5: Is anonomous farmer, Amos Miller who was under attack by
the state and federal government on a regular basis, a
fifth generation dairy farmer from Lancaster County, the heart of
Amish country, the heart of dairy country. I mean you
can see it portrayed movies like Witness. I mean, there
are some of the sweetest, nicest people in the world,
and yet all of a sudden, every government agency is
trying to shut him down. Every government agency is trying
to take away his farm. Every government agency is trying
to foreclose on him. Every government agency is sending emails
back and forth with images of him and handcuffs and
in prison. And it's like, even though no customer of
his has ever complained in twenty five years about a
single food product he has ever made or distributed, and
it's like why. And I was explaining to this big
group of Amish, It's like, here, you're going to get
more of this, because if your Bill Gates and in
the Bill Gates is of the world, and you believe
in that dystopian control grid, the four sort of vectors
for it is food control, financial control, medical control, political control,
speech control. It's not a coincidence that Bill Gates has
massive investments in all four vectors, both in the public
sector and the private sector. Extraordinary that way, I was like,
if you want everybody to be pushed into that control grid,
how do you avoid the exit ramps? And who is
the exit ramp? And who is the exit ramp too? Well,
you have a control group that says, what would life
be like if you were not in the Bill Gates
dystopian control grid, if you were outside of big food,
big freedom, a big food, big pharma, big tech, big media,
all of it. Well, it's the amasher the living examples
of that. They don't use technology, mostly don't use any pharmaceuticals.
They grow their own food, eat their own food, their
kids go to their own homeschooled systems, they stay within
their own church. They're not part of popular local culture. Consequently, well,
what's happening with them in the last twenty five years. Well,
while we've had an explosion of chronic disease in the
United States in the West during this big form of
big food big tech era, not only food, not only
metaphysical but emotional.
Speaker 6: Did someone say, kings no complaints about his food, which
includes by the way, Rod Jerry, not a single customer complaint,
and yet he must be shut down, he must be destroyed.
Speaker 1: Go back to the COVID air. In the lockdowner, we
talked about Jay Insley, the King of Washington State at
the time, the dictator nine hundred and seventy five days
of lockdown. Gavin Newsom was just a little bit behind
Jay Insley in that. Then there was that famous incident
where the King of California, the dictator during the lockdown period,
decided to host a massive and expensive dinner at a
restaurant he the king owns called the French Laundry, and
people obtained footage of him at that event with no masks.
That same guy who gave that interview about people masking
and getting injected went and had a something like fifteen
hundred dollars per plate experience at the French Laundry, no doubt,
including some of the wines that Gavin Newsom's Kingly Company
creates or Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco, a relative by
the way of Gavin Newsom. You remember the incident of
Pelosi talking about her thirteen dollars per pint ice cream
and a twenty four thousand dollar refrigerator and her net
worth of one hundred and forty million dollars kinglike you
remember that she got in her hair blowdry during the
time of the lockdown. She got a blowout. It's called
no masks, And the owner of that salon was brave
enough to show the footage to the rest of the
country because Queen Pelosi was acting like Queen Pelosi. So
did someone say no kings? Yes, God did. God warned us.
He warned the Jewish people through Samuel, Please please please
remind them that they can have me as a king.
But nope, we wanted to be popular, We wanted to
be like oh, all the other nations, so we chose
this stuff for ourselves. May God forgive us, and may
remember that there was only one actual king, Jesus Christ,
King of All Story number two. Do you know what
in cell means? Some people don't know what it means.
It means involuntarily without sex. Celibate, involuntarily celibate, and that
was the original meeting. It was guys who couldn't hook up,
couldn't find a girlfriend, couldn't find a wife, although I
think wife was way down the list. It has taken
on a larger meeting. It's young men usually who are
off by themselves socially awkward, to the point that they
don't even try any longer, prefer digital interactions above all interactions.
If they never have to see people in real life,
they don't want to see people in real life. And
it has created a whole wave of young men who
have changed in the way that not just interactions interpersonally,
but in terms of how they choose to engage in
storytelling and the sort of stories to which they'll listen.
And in response to this, Hollywood's even over in the
UK's version of Hollywood, they want to show in cells
entertainment from an in cell perspective. There's a show in
the UK that's actually required viewing in schools and it
was loosely based off of a terrible, terrible crime that
occurred in the UK by an immigrant of a certain well,
let's say, from a certain location in the world. Changed
to a native citizen of the UK from that location
in the world and sort of colored differently, if you
know what I mean. So in selling of fiction, what
would that mean. It means that young men can no
longer consume fiction in the way that you or I might.
And it's very very important to track this because this
can mean a huge destabilization of the world. It's another
thing though, that it's a reason that young men have
trouble enjoying the Bible because the way the Bible is written.
And I'll show this to you in a second. Now,
if you're not adolescent of adolescent age and you have
a retirement age, let's say you're five or ten or
fifteen years from retirement. These stories about in cells and
about in cell fiction and about pushing this storyline back
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one seven. There's a dad who just about well, he's
lost his kids, not not fully lost, but he lost
them through the madness of gender confusion. And he's taken
to Twitter and he's become pretty proficient there. He read
an extract of something that literary agents are writing about
kids and young men and how young readers, young boys, teens,
how they consume fiction. They can't read third person omniscient
views novels. They want first person, and this is some
of the reasons why young readers struggle with third person
omnissions and publishers see it clearly a voice that knows
too much, moves too freely, speaks with judgment, feels alien.
Readers call it confusing or even arrogant, but the root
cause is deeper. They weren't trained to read that mind,
that kind of mind in school. The research paper is vanished.
The essay took its place, not the old essay of Montaigne,
but the modern essay that is personal, expressive, and narrow.
The essay says, write what you feel, stay in your lane,
don't presume to speak for others. But omniscient narration does
speak for others. It sees broadly, It interprets it, it compares,
it dares to suggest what people think, even when they
don't say it. The research paper taught students to gather
knowledge outside themselves, way perspectives, judge sources, and reach beyond
their own head. That form is nearly gone. Teachers don't
assign research papers, and they don't teach the research method,
never having contemplated a world outside themselves, young people can't
follow a narrative voice that thinks more widely than I feel.
We raise readers who expect a singular viewpoint, one consciousness
and no moral authority. So in the voice of a novel,
there is to sound like a mind greater than the
character's own. They flinch, they call it false, they stop reading.
This is not a failure of fiction, it's a failure
of education. We stop teaching students to think beyond the self.
Now they can't follow stories that do that. The in
selling of the mind, remember, involuntarily celibate. This is a
form of intellectual celibacy, not interacting with others, not knowing
how to gather data before you make an opinion. And
this goes along with common Core that intermingled opinion with feelings.
You can't have an opinion about something without having gathered
facts about that something. You can have a feeling about it.
It feels wrong, it feels scary, it feels like.
Speaker 2: It won't work.
Speaker 1: And those feelings are genuine and okay, but they're not opinions.
But this is what common Core called an opinion. This
is also a reason young people, young men have problems
with the Bible, because the Bible is written from the
third person omniscient point of view, the only truly omniscient
point of view, and it draws moral conclusions because God
himself is the law, he is truth, he is light.
Jesus Christ is the Way, the truth of the life,
and no one goes to the Father but through him.
So the Bible feels very aliens to kids. In fact,
I've talked to young kids about the Old Testament where
God will say, I am the Lord. Do this, I
am the Lord. And I've had young people say to me,
why does God have to keep saying that. It's so
stuck up, it's so arrogant, because he's reminding people. I'm
telling you to do this, and you should do this
because I am the authority. I am truth, I am sure,
I am consequences, I am action, I am reaction, I
am all things. It's not bragging. God doesn't need to brag.
It's reminding us. Why should I do it this way?
Because I'm God and I know you because I made you.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: The intellectual in selling of kids makes it very, very
difficult for them to draw information from others, to respect
other's opinions, to draw out facts before they reach conclusions,
and they'll turnaround, a turn away from things like the Bible,
or in this case specifically the Bible. And Hollywood knows this. Hollywood,
who helped create the in cell, is now marketing in cells.
Back to in cells. There's a show in the UK
called Adolescence, and it is actually required viewing in some
schools there. This is a sample of what it's like.
A young boy who has no control over his emotions.
Speaker 5: If you do not seek to tell me where to
say now?
Speaker 7: Why look at me now?
Speaker 1: So lack of a motion control, finds himself on handcuffs
in a police station, being interrogated, crying with his father,
resenting the entire system, smirking at thority and obvious and
pure patred.
Speaker 3: That's a great thought, hope we made them, might dad, lamely?
Speaker 7: What's there to make that.
Speaker 1: It's difficult to come away from that not feeling sad,
and even great parents can have kids who go off
the rails. The story of adolescence is the story of
anger turned inward to a point where it finally explodes.
It's in cell behavior from an emotional perspective, but most importantly,
in sell from this from knowing God involuntarily celibate becomes
involuntarily intellectually celibate becomes involuntarily celibate from God. If you knock,
he will answer. Jesus wants to know you don't be
involuntarily spiritually celibate, and worse, don't be voluntarily celibate in
terms of a relationship with God, not, of course, a
sexual one. The only one that really matters and abiding
one story number three. We're never supposed to think this
way in regard to one thing. But God made brains changeable. Now,
neuroplasticities become a thing people love talking about. It's a fascinating,
fascinating fact. One of my favorite doctors I read is
a doctor named doctor Carolyn Leaf, and she combined the
Bible with brain science in her study of neuroplasticity. Now
she's monetized all this, and there's nothing wrong with that.
She did a great deal of research in neuroplasticity, and
this is what neuroplasticity effectively means. Our brains have the
ability to remap themselves to the point of literally building
new connections. For instance, Carolyn Leaf has proven that people
who've had traumatic brain injuries and have lost the ability
to read or speak can actually, through a process involving
biofeedback and a method she's helped test, can actually get
language centers grown in other parts of the brain that
the signals needed for language can bypass the area of
damage and go back to working. It's very much like
living in a city where one of the main bridges
has been torn down, but you find out there's all
these other ways to get where you're going. It might
take longer, it might not be as comfortable or as efficient,
but it can be done. Our brains can actually not
just do that that use existing routes. It can literally
grow new bridges bridges over a damage area of the brain.
That's neuroplasticity. Now that's a very radical form of neuroplasticity.
There's another though. There are people who will say, no,
I was just born a skeptic. I was just born
negative maybe, And if that's the case, you can actually
remap your brain so you're no longer that And that's
very very important. And there's a study that actually came
out in Fox News that discusses the reality of people
who have negative thoughts and what that does to their health.
But there's one area of neuroplasticity we're never supposed to discuss,
so we'll discuss it in a careful and a help
loving way. We'll do that in just a second. Our
brains taken information, and they take it in through story.
Very often. Jesus Christ loves story. Jesus is one of
the best story turnals ever. The parables he told are fascinating.
Even when he's not speaking in parables, he speaks in
these incredible, beautiful ways that we love to listen to.
The entire story of his life on earth is a
grand narrative and then with micro narratives in it, in
a great narrative of the entire Bible. Now, sometimes this
can be difficult for young minds because the story is
both very simple speak the simple Gospel simply, but then
also very complex, particularly when kids are raised with traditional
hero stories. Angels Studios just put out a movie called
King of Kings, and it takes the narrative of Jesus Christ,
the Grand narrative and then the simple Gospel simply, and
it takes a young little boy who happens to be
the son of Charles Dickens, and it puts him into
the life of Jesus Christ. And this happens as the
Dickens character is quoting from a work Dickens did right,
the Life of Our Lord, and it is based upon
Dickens telling his son the story of Jesus Christ, and
his son is obsessed with King Arthur and the roundtable
here around his sword and off with everybody's heads. That
sword changes meaning thought the program as the little boy
begins to understand that Jesus Christ was a different form
of king. Now, King of Kings did great in the theaters,
but it's no longer in the theaters. But I'm going
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us change Hollywood and enjoy films that are faith filled
and family ori angel dot com slash Todd. Fox News
is out with the story that should shock everybody. Shock people,
negative thoughts might be changing your brain in surprising ways
to suggest. Research shows negativity bias correlates with depression, anxiety,
and memory problems. And this is a pretty big test.
It was nearly twenty thousand patients who've been diagnosed with
anxiety orders. Brain disorder specialists and psychiatrist doctor Daniel Amen
was a co author of the study. He's the founder
of Amen Clinics. People who had higher negativity bias were
found to have reduced blood flow in the frontal, temporal,
and partial lobes, regions crucial to decision making, memory, and
emotion regulation. According to a Men, the extent of physical
brain abnormalities, especially in these areas not previously linked to
emotional processing like the cerebellum, was striking. He added, did
I just mention neuroplasticity. So he goes on to make
the case that people with negative thoughts were found to
have higher levels of suicidal ideation. Pardon me for aud
to have higher life levels of intent to self harm
to the worst possible degree. Depression, anxiety, emotional instability, poor memory,
stress regulation. Not only weremood symptoms worse, but actual thinking skills,
especially memory and resilience, were compromised. Well, this makes a
lot of sense because it's biblical. Yay scientists for finally
figuring out something that the Bible warns us we can control. Philippians,
Chapter four, verse eight. Find the brothers and sisters. Whatever's true,
whatever's noble, whatever's right, whatever's pure, whatever's lovely, whatever's admirable,
if anything is excellent or praiseworthy. Think about such things.
That thinking about such things can take neuroplasticity and employ it.
Taking the word of God and memorizing it can create
a neuroplasticity style event from negative to positive. Being gracious,
being grateful is a fantastic defense against negativity. It's it's very,
very difficult to be grateful and negative. And when you
create the habit of being grateful, you can rewire your brain.
I've become a morning person. I can't even sleep past
four thirty in the morning because I valued having the
time in the morning, to care for my body and
to be in the word neuroplasticity. Now all this is
fair game. Here's where we're not supposed to talk about it.
When people want to change who they are in terms
of sex or identity, and yet the brain makes this possible.
And there are people who don't want to change, They
want to stay that way. There are people who want
to change. And if you take it from something say
that's less controversial, maybe there's just say someone has an
addiction to sexual images and they don't want that addiction.
It's affecting their marriage, it's expecting their their ability to
engage properly with the opposite sex, and they want that
to change. That's an addiction, it's a sexual behavior. This
stuff can change. This is from Ben Zyloff on Twitter.
He's sharing the testimony of a friend of her. His
name Kyle Hacker, and he describes a journey he took
as he changed his view and experience of sexuality from
same sex and from being gender confused to a freedom
that he says came in Jesus Christ and some of
the joys that is created in his life. This is
part of what he writes about in a really, really,
really interesting article. I started craving darkness in middle school,
staying up late, hiding in my closet, and harming myself
for all ways to exercise self hatred. I was moored.
I was in unmored adolescent growing up in Los Angeles.
One of the reasons removed there from Arkansas was so
I could be a child actor. I was taught to
be whomever I wanted to be, and to pretend to
be whomever the caster in director wanted me to be.
My identity was forged by the mold of people's approval
and my own selfish desires, not by the cross. Once
I got a phone and on social media, I was
enticed to see myself as gay and and came to
believe that conforming to the gay lifestyle would a solution
to my miseries. With a craving for sexual images ditches
in my brain, and having a community of other depressed
and lost teenagers, I was set in my ways. I
was feeling down about myself, not feeling in a place
in society, and thinking dark thoughts. The Internet said it
was probably because I wasn't living as my true self.
At one point, I was thinking about very old memories
and uncovered this one. When I was in kindergarten, I
was assigned two fifth grade buddies to read to me,
both of whom were girls. I remember telling them one
day I wanted to be a girl, and they told
me a boy could never become a girl. The idea
disgusted them, but on a natural not biblical standpoint, but
their disgust meant something to me. I re acted in rebellion.
I remember getting in trouble well noticing the girls of
my class had pretty names and never got in trouble.
They were desirable. My natural desire was twisted away from
wanting to be with a girl in my class to
wishing I could be her. When I remembered this in college,
it was a bittersweet way to give myself permission to
pursue what I had clearly always wanted to transition. I
did grow my hair out, wear ear rings, and identifies
non binary until I was saved the idea of the cross.
It's clear that Satan had been seeking footholds in my
life and in other's lives in my generation, having already
accomplished so much to normalize this degeneracy. He continues in
this my lust, depression, and addiction did not have to
define me. Christ could define me, and he wanted to.
But I had to change my whole life. My problem
was not liking who I was, but changing the design
of my life was something I was supremely unqualified for,
as evidenced by my pass of self destruction. God called
me and gave me faith on May twenty eighth, twenty
twenty three, causing me to yield, and I was saved
my life verse is Ephesians. The thief who no longer
steals is no longer a thief only if he actually
completes his conversion and starts laboring. Can this happen as
it did with me as it was coming to Christ.
Though I never thought I could love a woman or
live as a man, I knew that the redemption story
for every sinner was about changing our affections away from
the sin and towards God and holiness. I knew that
being saved meant having been changed affections and no longer
being a homosexual. But I built my life around that
and that aspect of myself. Christ smashed that idol and
gave me the faith to know that I would not
persist in sin forever. Last year he sent me the
most wonderful girl and we were married on April twenty sixth,
twenty twenty five. Now see, we're not supposed to talk
about this form of neuroplasticity because it's thought of as
cruel or conversion therapy. He did this on his own
through Jesus Christ. Now, God will not change everybody. Sometimes
this is across people carried. There are people who are
going to struggle with addiction to sexual images of their
whole life, and God delivers many and more importantly, he
teaches us how to not engage in the addictions, and
he gives us the Holy Spirit to make that more possible.
We're seeing a lot of people come out of this.
We're seeing a lot of people stand up after years
of being misled. This is doctor Miriam Grossman.
Speaker 7: We are seeing the detransitioners stand up after a few
years of gender so called gender affirming care. They're standing
up and they're saying, why did you let this happen
to us? How did you doctors do this to me?
You stopped my normal puberty, you removed my breasts, you
removed my genitals. It's absolute madness. And parents have to
be informed that the United States is an outlier when
it comes to this issue, and that other countries Sweden, Norway, Finland, Britain,
medical groups in New Zealand and Australia and France, all
these places are doing a one point eighty and they
are saying no, the evidence is not showing that these
kids benefit from these drastic medical interventions. What the kids
need is psychotherapy.
Speaker 4: It's what I meant by is this the new COVID?
It is kind of something that happened during the COVID
pandemic where you.
Speaker 3: Know, dissenting voices weren't allowed. So it seems like the
same thing is happening right now with.
Speaker 7: This dissenting voices are not allowed. That is correct.
Speaker 1: God designed our brains to change. He gave us neuroplasticity.
There are multiple verses in the Bible, some of which
I've shared with you right now, but talk about how
we can control our minds by placing in it the
word of God, by concentrating on things we just talked about.
Isn't it better to help people change their minds than
going through other radical forms such as the doctor just discussed.
This is Todd Hermannshaw. Please go, be well, be strong,
be kind, and please make every effort to walk in
the light of Christ.