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Help us love God and love people during American Family Radio shareathon

>> Ed Vitagliano: In Matthew 22:37 through 40, Jesus said, Love, ah, the Lord your God, with all your heart and with all your soul and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments. It's Share a Thon on American Family Radio. Call now 877-616-2396. That's 8776. Or give [email protected] make your pledge and help us love God and love people during shareathon.

Tim Wildman: Day one of sheriff on American Family Radio

>> Tim Wildmon: Marathon on American Family Radio. Day one of sheriff on here on American Family Radio. Thank you for joining us. I'm Tim Wildmon. And joining me, in studio in Tupelo is Ed Battagliano. Good morning, brother Ed.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Good morning, Tim.

>> Tim Wildmon: And Wesley Wildmon. Good morning. Wesley.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Good morning.

>> Tim Wildmon: And Krish Woodward.

>> Chris Woodward: Good morning.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so how we're going to do this? This morning I'm in Washington, D.C. undercover, by the way. Pardon me?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Undercover. You got the shadow going over your ad, with the, with your hat on. It looks like you're undercover.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, dude, I need to readjust my hat.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, there you go.

>> Tim Wildmon: On the Internet. Yeah. So I don't look like a cyber criminal.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Now that's better. Now we can see if I put

>> Tim Wildmon: my hoodie on, then I really criminal.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I won't do that for the 10% watching. They. That's funny. That's good stuff. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: I had reason to be in, the nation's capital today. And so, back home in Tupelo, Miss, are my three amigos there. Ed, Krish and Wesley. And Red, you want to set things up for us here for this next hour?

American Family Radio is in the middle of a $25,000 challenge

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, absolutely. So it is our spring Share a Thon. And folks, have you been listening this morning and you just heard the song, the theme of our Share a Thon is love God, love people. And that comes From Matthew, chapter 22, verses 37 through 40. Jesus said, Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and prophets hang on these two commandments. If you're familiar at all with American Family Radio, you know that twice a year we have a three days in the spring, three days in the fall. That's it. That's when we look to our supporters, during our Share a Thons to help support this network for the next six months. The number to Call if you want to give to the share. A thon is 877-616-239-6877 6162396. Now we are in the middle of a two hour $25,000 challenge. So what that means is that money has been given before. Sheriff on and that money gets pooled throughout the day, throughout our three days and it is issued as a challenge. Those who have given to those who are listening, a challenge to match that amount of money, $25,000. Now I did get a, an email, a text rather from Jonathan Coker who runs our network and he said and this is what I listen. I love a challenge. This is a challenge within a challenge, folks. He said we're going to need about $12,000 in the 10 o' clock hour to make that challenge. Please tell today's issues we need help. That is what he means is tell the listeners during the 10 o' clock hour we need help to make that challenge. To meet that 25,000 we need 12,000. That's a lot.

>> Wesley Wildmon: And Jonathan, our radio host, our radio host, our Jonathan, our radio director, he's able to look at this hour bower and over the years we have goals and plans and he wouldn't tell you that if he wasn't looking at it known that's what we need.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right. So folks, that's kind of the challenge to our 10 o' clock listeners for the next 50 minutes. Five zero. We need to make, make up. I guess we must be falling behind a little bit.

>> Jenna Ellis: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: So the number to call is 877-616-2396. You can give online safely and securely at afr.net as Tim always says, if you don't like talking to people we do have an option.

>> Tim Wildmon: Go ahead.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Now I want to go on the record real quick. We've got a 10 o', clock listener who's a friend of mine. He's mailing his in. He sent me a picture.

>> Chris Woodward: Does that count?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Can we, can we count that later? I'm just kidding.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, no, I Listen, I'm talking about for our.

>> Wesley Wildmon: For ti.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well it counts. That's right. Ministry it probably won't count unless he can get it here in an hour.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: So so Sheraton Sheriff on it is on American Family Radio the Love God judge People share a thine on American Family Radio. And that's. Did I miss.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, you missed the theme. It's Love God, Love people.

>> Chris Woodward: That was the twv.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that Makes world of difference right there.

>> Wesley Wildmon: World of difference.

American Family Radio needs your help to run its radio network

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, Sheriff on it is on American Family Radio, folks, we need your help because it takes a lot of money to run this radio network. We have approximately one, hundred seventy stations. I've forgotten exactly how many. It changes from time to time, so. But that's how many radio stations we have to support, across the country. Between 100. You know how many it is, Wesley? 165.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. We're at 165, but it can vary up to 170.

>> Tim Wildmon: We also may buy five stations in the next hour.

>> Wesley Wildmon: And by the way, I can explain myself. dad, if you give me a chance.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You're not gonna get much chance.

>> Wesley Wildmon: We have a bunch of, radio stations that syndicate and use a port portions of our radio program. And so depending on how you look at it, it could be a lot more.

>> Chris Woodward: Same thing with the news Service. There's about 100 non AFR stations that air our news and many of our newscasts feature AFR content.

>> Wesley Wildmon: But dad, also, one of the big points you've mentioned as we've traveled across the country, met our supporters, is our AFR app and Internet radio. You want to talk a little bit about that?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, absolutely. Let me give the phone number, then. You can do that. Here's the phone number, folks. So we really need your help during shareathon. We need to make a financial donation. Be as gener as you possibly can. your money will go to support this radio network. If you appreciate what we do here on AFR each and every day, then, this is the time to show it by making a donation and being as generous as you can. Because we only do this twice a year. As Ed said earlier, we do it in the spring and in the fall, three days each time. So that doesn't exactly in my book, qualifies, quote, you know, always begging for money, as some Christian ministries are accused of. we don't do that. We just, we take time in the spring, take time in the fall and ask you to call and make your pledge. Here's the phone number to reach us. 877-616-2396. Just call that number and a friendly voice will be on the other end of the phone and they'll take your pledge. You can use a credit card, you can use a. You, can use a bank account, withdrawal, however you. Direct deposit, I guess you could say, however you want to set it up. We appreciate those of you who commit to, you know, to making a monthly donation, via, you know, as I say, a credit card or debit card, however you want to do it, bank draft, however you want to do it. But that helps us be able to budget. So if we know for sure, let's say $30 a month is coming in from you, or $50 or $100, however you want to do it, then that's really helpful to us. if you can do it that way, we'd very much appreciate it. Here's the phone number. 877-616-2396. That's the number to call us or go to afr.net afr.net let's hear from one of our listeners, and then we'll come back and Wesley will, go into what he was talking about. Go ahead. Hey, this is Bobby. I'm from Virginia. I live in California. I've been totally blind all my life.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I've been through a lot.

>> Tim Wildmon: My mother died. My stepfather wasn't so nice to us. I love faith, family, and freedom. I'm a brand new listener and I love y'. All. And give my regards to the rest of the staff and tell them to keep preaching God's word. I'm proud of y'.

>> Wesley Wildmon: All.

>> Tim Wildmon: Let's keep preaching the word of God for lost souls. I like to see everybody in heaven someday. God bless. That's a brother from California. We don't have any radio stations in California, so he's obviously listening on the AFR app, as many of you do each and every day. And that's really a blessing to hear from that brother in California. Go ahead and Wesley, tell him about the app and, and whatever else.

>> Wesley Wildmon: We also, dad, have a few syndicated radio, programs in California. Did you know about that?

>> Tim Wildmon: Huh? Huh? Yeah, I did.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: But I wanted to leave that to you. I'm sensing a little.

>> Jenna Ellis: I don't.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Just feeling it, filling it through the screen.

>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know if I, if I didn't, I don't know if I didn't, you know, put you in time out enough as a child or what, what the situation is.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I'm kidding. To your point, they're most likely listening to our AFR app because over the last 10 years, we have really done a good job of making our app friendly. Is updated, continuously, and it can be found on any smart device. And people are using it now in their CarPlay. And so the AFR app, it's that simple. American family radio. Just look it up on any search engine in any app. Store American Family Radio. Our app is there and it has, it's very organized. It's got all our radio programs and then within the radio program it's got everything archived. You can go back and listen. And people are Listening Live gives you an alternative option too. It's got contemporary Christian music station on there as well. And so we are very thankful that we that our IT team and our team at AFR or AFA has put that together. It's being used all over the world for that matter. I've used it traveling to different, different countries such as years ago I've used it in China, I've used it in Honduras and other places I've traveled. So if you have, if you don't have the app, go download it and there, there's a tab there you can give there as well.

Spring Share a Thon premiums offer small pocket Constitution for $150

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, and it is Share a Thon. And let me just jump in here folks and let you know about our spring Share a Thon premiums. So for a one time gift of $150 or more folks, you can give as much as you want. you will receive the five pack of the 250th anniversary pocket constitution. This is a nice, small, concise, slick, blue and gold cover pocket Constitution. And just like it says, it's small enough to slip into your pocket. The reason we have a five pack is that we encourage you to give these out to people that you know, friends, family, co workers, neighbors, so that they can if you're sitting at a doctor's office or riding down the road, you can read. No, don't read it there while you're riding down the road. But if you're sitting at a little doctor's office or dentist or whatever you're waiting, pop open the Constitution and just familiarize yourself. If you're not already familiar with the Constitution, its words and its principles. Now that's for a one time gift of $150 or more. If you become a great commission partner. That's what Tim mentioned just a few moments ago. That is with a repeating monthly gift of $30 or more, you will receive not only the five pack of the pocket constitution but also a five pack of the special 250th, anniversary in God we Trust wristbands. A lot of our folks love wristbands. We have them Christmas, wristbands, Easter, so on and so forth. But this is a 250th anniversary of our celebrating our 250 years as a constitutional republic.

>> Tim Wildmon: Hold it up.

>> Ed Vitagliano: It says in God we Trust. so that. Yeah, that's for Tim can see it. If you are watching this program,

>> Tim Wildmon: like you got a halo over your head. Hold that up.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Do I look like I have a halo?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I'm watching on the Internet and you, you're holding up that. You look like you have a halo over your head like an angel.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That's a pretty small. That's a pretty small halo.

>> Tim Wildmon: But it is the Bible talks about we get different size of halo.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: One of the.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Rewards.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, that's. I, I apparently was not as faithful as I'd. So this is my small. I don't deserve a halo at all halo. But it's a cool little, wristband and God we Trust, it says. And so, that would. So that is the five, pack of the pocket constitution and the five pack for the wristbands. If you become a great commission partner with a monthly gift of $30 or more.

We need $12,000 from today's issues listeners to meet challenge

Folks, we're in the middle the last four, 40 minutes or so of a $25,000 challenge. And the word from our radio, Jonathan Coker, our radio network, director, he said we are going to need $12,000 from the 10 o' clock hour today's issues listeners. So folks, we need you to come through big so we can meet this challenge. 877-616-2396 is the number to call. 877-616-2390 6. Now, as Tim always says, if you don't like talking to people, we have an option for you. You can go online and [email protected] you will give safely and [email protected] we will

>> Tim Wildmon: take donations from social butterflies.

>> Ed Vitagliano: There you go.

>> Tim Wildmon: Or. Or we'll take donations from people who are antisocial or wall. It doesn't. Wallflowers. It doesn't matter to us.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: As long as you make a donation.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: And here's the phone number to do it. 877-616-239-687-76162396. Wesley, go ahead.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Still waiting for a donation to come through. Ah, over a drone. We haven't had one of those before. Dropping.

>> Ed Vitagliano: you know, nowadays I'd be a little nervous if I saw this.

>> Chris Woodward: May not be a week for that.

>> Tim Wildmon: Heading.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Heading towards the building.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, I forget there's so many different versions of that. I'm thinking about the ones my kids have at home where they're Crashing the back. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Ones that crash in the backyard.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. After about 100, they get about 100ft out and they just fall over.

American Family Radio will be sharing a time during its shareathon today

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to today's issues. It is Share a Time. We'll be here, you know, for two hours today. So will be here till noon Central, 1 o' clock Eastern time on American Family Radio with this particular segment during our AFR shareathon. Again, thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who's who have already given, you gave in the mail prior to share a thought or you've already called in this morning with your donation. We appreciate it very, very much. We can't make it without you. American Family Radio has been on the air since 1991 and we are on, I think 35 states or something like that, maybe, maybe more, broadcasting with our signal across the country and various and sundry radio stations. And then as we've already mentioned here, tens of thousands of people listen each day on the American Family Radio app. So you don't have to have a radio station in your area to listen afr. If you download the AFR app, you can, listen anytime, anywhere, as long as you have Internet service.

President Trump warns Iran to open up Strait of Hormuz or else

All right, this is a current event show. And, so we're going to move on now to the news of the day. Krish, what's leading the news?

>> Chris Woodward: Well, we are watching something that may be starting tonight at 7:00pm Central. this is what President Trump has referred to as power plant day and bridge day, where he has warned Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz or else we're going to bomb everything. the President says he's tried to get Iran to agree to the demands, from us, from the US And Israel. it doesn't have to come to this, but it could again tonight starting at 7pm and let me say that Lord willing, and the Lord Terry's, AFN will be having coverage of whatever happened happens tonight, on our airwaves and on our website, afn.net in the meantime, here is President Trump talking about this. Clip one.

>> Tim Wildmon: We have a plan because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o' clock tomorrow night. Where every power plant in Iran will

>> Ed Vitagliano: be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again.

>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, complete demolition by 12 o'.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Clock.

>> Tim Wildmon: And it'll happen over a period of four hours. If we wanted to, we don't want

>> Ed Vitagliano: that to happen that again.

>> Chris Woodward: The debt. Now, he said 12 o' clock the deadline for them to open the straight is 7pm Central, and then after that, we'll see what happens.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, I have a story here that I downloaded a few minutes ago from the NewSong, York Post. And the lead headline says, this. Not the headline, but the lead paragraph says, this, the U.S. unleashed. Katy, you got to remember the time difference, right? I mean, it's dark, it's nighttime. On the other side of the world, where Iran is. It says the US Unleashed targeted strikes on Iran's critical Kharg island on Tuesday. Okay. That's today. As President Trump chillingly declared that a quote, a whole civilization will die tonight, end of quote. That was a quote from President, Trump. so it may have been. Krish, what you're talking about may have already started.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes, it does appear to be, as you mentioned, that roughly 50 strikes were carried out. and this is Carg Island. he's talking about doing stuff on actual land there, in the. Inside the nation of Israel or Iran, I should say. so, yeah, I'll post this for you as well on the, Facebook page, sir.

>> Ed Vitagliano: So Carg island is that island where they, actually, I think, pump oil into tankers. yes. because Iran does supply a lot of oil for countries, and so that is kind of like the filling station. Think of it that way. It's not gasoline, but it is, oil, in different. I don't know if it's crude oil or I don't think it's refined, but anyway, that is where that happens.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And so if we've already started bombing, that is the island where some had suspected that. That we might, drop, land Marines.

>> Chris Woodward: Correct.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And maybe the 82nd Airborne. but, you know, we're.

>> Tim Wildmon: What do you think, Ed?

>> Chris Woodward: Ah.

>> Tim Wildmon: What do you think, Wesley? What. What do you guys think when. Ed, I'll start with you. What do you think President Trump means when he says a whole civilization will die tonight? Well, he talking about.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I think he's talking about the fact that the infrastructure of that country is going to be bombed to the point where it is unusable. So, Iran doesn't like some of the other countries in the Middle East. Iran uses very little, has very little dependency on desalinization plants. other countries rely on those. That takes seawater, and turns it into drinkable water, usable water, potable, so it can use it for crops and such. But they can hit, electric power plants. They can hit, oil refineries. They can hit, all the things that prop up a modern, country that depends on electricity depends on, you could, you could bomb, dams if they depend on, dam.

>> Tim Wildmon: You know, this is, this is high risk. Well, this is very, this is very risky, in my opinion. Listen, I'm not privy to the information that President Trump has, obviously, or Pete Hags, that's the, Secretary of War, but here's what I mean by that. if you're going to put, the population of Iran, which is what,

>> Ed Vitagliano: 90 million, 80 million, 93 million, I

>> Tim Wildmon: think, you're going to potentially make all their lives miserable. maybe they're out of electricity, they, have food shortened shortages. I'm just saying the things that could happen as a result of this, you, could have, that could have,

>> Wesley Wildmon: that could be the.

>> Tim Wildmon: You could have a, you could have a massive humanitarian crisis on your hands. I'm just saying, potentially. I'm sure, I'm sure President Trump has considered this.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: And he said he didn't want to do this, but this is kind of a last resort. But, you know, this does come with a lot of risk, it seems to me. Go ahead, Wesley.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, what, what makes you think or anybody can give their opinion here what, think or what's the reason that Iran would not make a deal or open up the strait? Well, I mean, what do you think they're holding out on?

>> Tim Wildmon: Go ahead, Ed.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, I, I, Listen, I think the, the, the problem here is that you, Wesley's question is if you're dealing with a country with what we would consider sane leaders, in other words, people who are concerned about their own citizens, concerned about their own future, if you're dealing with that kind of country, then the leaders would say, yeah, all right, we want to make a deal. You have the ability to bomb us into the stone back to the Stone Age. We don't want that. Let's try to make a deal here. The problem is that you're dealing with the, mullahs and the religious leaders of this country, along with, the Islamic, Revolutionary Guard Core, which is my understanding is as many as 250,000 to 500,000 are in the IRGC. You're dealing with people who are totally locked in to a religious mindset, and they want chaos and they don't care if their people die, and therefore they're not going to make a deal. And now the president is kind of between a rock and a hard place. If he wants that straight opened, he's got to find a way to get rid of those people who are in charge. And that's like trying to get rid of kudzu. And I'm afraid. I'm afraid the President is going to have no choice but to do what he said he's going to do. And even then, I don't think he can get the IRGC or these leaders out without a ground invasion.

>> Ed Vitagliano: And nobody wants that.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, we'll find out more between now and tomorrow. What has happened, what President Trump has authorized to do.

Don Wileman: I'm a rich man because of my heritage

>> Don Wildmon: It's my turn.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Here is your host for my turn, Don Wileman.

>> Don Wildmon: Paul has some words from us in 2 Corinthians, for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake, he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich. You know, I'm a rich man. Some people I know will deny that. They look at my salary, my bank account, what possessions I have. They by no means consider me a rich man. They wouldn't even go so far as say that I was in the middle bracket, much less in the upper bracket. But like I said, I'm a rich man. I'm a rich man. I'm rich because of my heritage. I came from a home where parents loved me, provided for my needs to the best of their ability, sacrificed things they very much needed so that I could have advantages they never had. I'm a rich man. I have a wife who loves me. She puts up with all my thoughts, stands beside me, pulls for me when the going is rough. no, she's no Hollywood star, but most of the stars in Hollywood cannot hold a light to her when it comes to real beauty. Yes, I'm a rich man. I have four wonderful children. I have, five grandchildren. Children and grandchildren who give hope and promise of a better tomorrow. I love them, want the best for them, and try to bring them up in a Christian environment like my parents did before me. I'm a rich man. I have a job, a very meaningful job. Not much money in it, nor prestige, but it gives me a chance to help my fellow man, to lift the sights of others to a higher level, give my life to a cause that will leave the world a better place in which to live. I'll probably never reach the top of my profession, but I can face life knowing I did my best in the job which I felt my creator wanted me to do. I have a job which I consider important because he considers it important. And again, I'm a rich man. I want to say it one more time. I'm a rich man. I live in a free country. Millions and millions of people cannot know the richness of that. They live under the shadow of a dictator. Millions more here in the country where I live, have never realized that freedom is an obligation, not a license. Thus, they are poor. Poor because they have not learned that freedom is not a license to drag men down into the depths of filth, but that freedom is an obligation to lift myself and my fellow man to greater and greater heights, pressing on toward that high mark to which our maker calls us. Again, I'll say it. I'm a rich man. I have friends who are friends. They stay with me through the good times and the bad. They encourage me. They cause me to try harder. They keep me from giving up. When the clouds of darkness are around me, these friends of mine are beside me. They are true friends. The doors to their homes are open to me as mine is to them. I am a rich man. I found what many still are searching for. I found forgiveness and understanding and help. I found them in a crucified Galilean. He takes my weaknesses and makes me strong. He takes my fears and makes me brave. He takes my doubts and makes me believe. He assures me of what every person wants to know. That there will be life after death for me. Like I said, I'm a rich man. Oh, by the way, can I borrow a dime?

Don Wildmon: American Family Radio depends on financial support from its listeners

>> Tim Wildmon: This has been my turn with Don Wildmon, a production of the American family Association.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Shareathon continues on American family radio. Call and pledge your support at 877-616-2396. That's 877-616 or give [email protected] and help us love God and love people on American family radio.

>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody. Sheriff Don on American family radio. Thanks for listening on this Tuesday, I forgot to tell everybody what day it is Tuesday, April 7, 2026. And, we thank you, as always for supporting, praying for and listening to American family radio. We've been on the air since 1991, if you can believe it. It's hard to believe we go back that far, but, a lot of you have been with us a long, long time listening to American family radio. I'm Tim Wildmon with the advertagliano, Wesley Wildmon and Krish Woodward. It's, this is the today's issues hour or hour. We're normally on the air 90 minutes, but we're going to be on the air until noon central time here today on American family radio because we are breaking from our much of our regularly scheduled programming to talk to you about our share a thon our financial needs here at American Family Radio cost a lot of money to run a radio network of this size. And so we depend on our listeners. We don't get any. There's no big checks coming in, folks from billionaires. There's no big. There's no big. There's no, you know, a lot of companies that support us. There's not, you know, there's certainly. We don't get any government money like National Public Radio does. Our, financial support, the backbone of our ministry, is your donation, your monthly gift to American Family Radio. That's how we're supported. So we humbly ask you to help us out. If you have made a donation already, earlier this morning or in the mail prior to share a time, we say thank you, thank you, thank you for your, support of afr. Let me give you the phone number and you can call and make a pledge and be as generous as you possibly can. We, we would very, very much appreciate you making a monthly pledge, so that, you know, and you can do that credit card, debit card, a bank, bank draft, however you want to do it, whatever's easiest for you, where you don't have to remember to, you know, to mail it, to write a check and use a stamp and take it to the post office or whatever the case. You just simply make it a monthly donation and we can count on it then, and we can make our budget, in relation to the donations that come in each month here at American Family Radio. Here is the phone number. And when you call this phone number, a friendly voice will answer the phone and, they will take your pledge. They, we have many people volunteering to answer the phone, who are listeners just like you. So here's the phone number. 8776-1623-9687-7616-2396. And as I mentioned earlier, it's the love, love, God judge people, Charathon here on American Family. I'm going to milk that love.

>> Ed Vitagliano: That's funny.

>> Wesley Wildmon: You said that enough. And you catch the wrong person as you're tuning off and tuning out.

>> Tim Wildmon: Trigger them.

>> Wesley Wildmon: You're going to trigger them.

>> Tim Wildmon: I'm going to trigger them.

>> Wesley Wildmon: No, you just confuse them. They, they may not know, you know, that. You're right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, okay. Well, figure it out.

>> Wesley Wildmon: You are. All right. that's right.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I love that. I love this back and forth.

>> Chris Woodward: You need to get you a social media platform and you can Put in all caps. Figure it out.

>> Wesley Wildmon: You know, I increased the intensity of it because he's away. He can't slap me over the head or he can't pull the chair out from under me.

>> Tim Wildmon: This is the, this is the Figure it out. Share time here on American Family Radio. Yeah. All right, so I'm Tim with Ed Wesley and Krish and ah, we're going to hear from one of our, faithful listeners who've called in a testimony about American Family Radio in their life. And then when we get back, we'll be joined by Jenna Ellis.

Tony Smith: Please give to American Family Radio during its spring share fundraiser

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yes, my name is Tony Smith and I'm a pastor in Calhoun, Louisiana, west of Monroe, Louisiana. AFR is such a blessing to me and to my family and I just want to thank God for all of you.

>> Tim Wildmon: every program is great.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I especially love brother Burke, Brother Alex,

>> Ed Vitagliano: and also love Today's Issues and just so many other programs.

>> Tim Wildmon: But thank you all for doing what you do and please give to this great ministry. Ed.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, listen, we appreciate, we love these listener testimonies. They are a blessing to us here on this side of the microphones. Folks hope that they're a blessing to you as well to hear how God is using this, ministry. And for those of you who give on a regular basis or give periodically, that should be an encouragement to you. You are giving and supporting, giving to and supporting a ministry that God is using to change lives. So this is our Spring Share a thon. And the theme is love God, love people. And here is the number to call if you want to give to our spring share thon. 877-616-2396. That's 877-616-2396. You can give safely and securely online if you prefer to do [email protected] afr.net and you can go to afr.net by the way and kind of follow along with the sheriff. On that is our kind of the landing page for American Family Radio. 877-616-2396 is the number to call and as Tim mentioned, you will hear a sweet and cheerful voice on the other end of the phone. That phone call will come directly to Sheraton Central, which is, I don't know, 25 yards down the hall. You're not going to wind up in Bangladesh or somewhere else where you can't understand the accent of the people talking. I shouldn't say that. A couple of our, the folks, answering may have a Southern accent that some of you can't understand. but, anyway, just having a little Fun with accents. 8, 7, 7, 6, 1 6, 23, 96. And you can roll the dice, and find out what kind of accent you get.

>> Tim Wildmon: So we got gambling metaphors here on Sheraton.

>> Ed Vitagliano: No, this was a Yahtzee. It was a Yahtzee metaphor. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Well, you recovered good there.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Really well.

Jenna Ellis is with us from the great state of Florida

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Jenna Ellis is with us, from the great state of Florida. Jenna, good morning.

>> Jenna Ellis: Good morning. And, you know, I was one who joined in, just as I heard you say the theme was love God and judge people. And I thought, man, Ed and I did not have enough fun this morning because we were so Christian. We were so, you know, focused on. On, love wins, truth. And. Yeah. You know, and all this. And you guys. You guys are just having way more fun.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, that's when Tim's in the house, metaphorically speaking. it does tend to get a little bit edgy. So love wins, he said.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yep.

Jenna: It's supposed to rain throughout this week, but we need it

All right. So, Jenna, how are you doing, by the way? Doing good.

>> Jenna Ellis: I'm doing great. Yes. I appreciate it. And, it's a rainy day here in Florida. It's supposed to rain throughout this week, but we need it. And, so it's been. It's been great.

>> Ed Vitagliano: At least you don't have lizards falling out of the trees, iguanas. You know, when the weather turns cold in Florida and they drop. Drop on your head.

>> Jenna Ellis: Yes. Weather, forecast is always fun.

Your dad is an aerospace engineer, and he listens to Trivia Friday

>> Tim Wildmon: Jenna, what was the top story this morning on your show you and Ed covered?

>> Jenna Ellis: you know, we. We were talking about the Artemis, too, and how, the. The furthest distance that humans have ever traveled, and it's just incredible. And I don't know if you guys know that my dad is actually an aerospace engineer.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Oh, I didn't know that.

>> Jenna Ellis: Yeah. And so, yeah, I'm. I'm by far the least accomplished person in my family.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Hey, let me interrupt you for just a second, because. So, you said this morning that your dad loves to listen to Trivia Friday.

>> Jenna Ellis: Yes.

>> Ed Vitagliano: But now he's also. You're telling us a rocket scientist.

>> Jenna Ellis: I mean, he has some boomer in him, and so I know that that's probably why, like, you know, he likes, listening to Tim and all of that stuff because he has a lot of fun as well. So I just.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I just want to brag to people and say, listen, we've got rocket scientists who listen to our show. That's the kind of intelligence level we're peeking at.

>> Jenna Ellis: Hard Hitting news, absolutely. So, yes, and he, he does love to listen. But, yeah, and so, you know, it's. It's really incredible talking, to him about, this mission and space exploration as a whole. And so, you know, he does a lot of work on different satellites and, you know, other things that, that look for weather patterns and all of this. But space exploration is, is a really big deal. And to discover more and more about our universe, Ed and I were talking this morning about how it really, makes all of us, feel very small, if that makes sense. And to kind of, you know, we tend to be so egocentric about, you know, our individual rights in this country. What's, you know, what's going on for ourselves and families and all of that is great. But when you have that perspective. And C.S. lewis always describes it so well as saying, you know, in order to have a relationship, you have to have two points. You have to have two contrasting things that, that show the difference between the two. And our relationship with our creator just shows the magnitude of difference between who we are compared to who our creator is. And, it's just an incredible thing to see how, we've been able to explore this universe even a little bit, but how much it points toward our creator.

>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, a wonderful comments there, Krish.

Artemis 2 breaks Apollo 13's distance record with Daring Moon Flyby

Do you have any, What's the latest you have there on the Artemis? Is it called Artemis 2?

>> Chris Woodward: Yes, sir, it is.

>> Tim Wildmon: It is the Voyage, Krish.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, they are currently, three days, and about eight hours it looks like, from returning to the US there's actually a website and I shared this on our Today's Issues Facebook page. It's called artemislivetracker.com and you can literally see where they are right now in relation to the moon and the Earth.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, it was past the Dollar General. I saw that on the tracker.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, take that, Bucky's. And, anyway, so, the big story last night, and we actually have this on our website as well. Artemis 2 breaks Apollo 13's distance record with Daring Moon Flyby. It was kind of a tense moment last night, where they went around the far side of the moon and lost radio contact because they were on the far side of the moon. and so it was very quiet and, I'm sure, I'd be freaking out if I was on board. basically this tin can floating in the space. but, the good news is they have, they've set the record, they've taken pictures, they're still doing research. They are dealing with a broken toilet from time to time. But Lord willing, they'll be back on Earth here in about three days and eight or so hours.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, listen, that happens at my house sometimes.

>> Chris Woodward: It does.

>> Ed Vitagliano: You know, the fact that it happened on the Artemis too, that's, that's, that'd be expected.

>> Chris Woodward: They will all know each other far better, once they return home than they did when they, set out on this journey.

>> Tim Wildmon: Did you just call the Artemis to a tin can?

>> Ed Vitagliano: He did, yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Krish.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes sir.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, there were a lot of smart people who worked on making that tin can.

>> Chris Woodward: You know what, you know what? Those, those SM people and the the things that they do to contribute to society. That's, that's why I got a BA in communication, because I, so you

>> Jenna Ellis: can call it a tin can.

>> Ed Vitagliano: By the way, Steve, Steve Jordal, maybe I shouldn't say this because he may want to cover it. I'm going to wait. On, on, on. He had, had a funny thing that happened on the Artemis too. I, I, I'll wait till he gets on. I, I don't want to kind of fill his thunder, Feel his thunder.

>> Tim Wildmon: You know, back to Jenna's point, on a serious note, I saw some of the pictures that were sent to, you know, that the public, was sent, and various and sundry news services and it's just stunning. And we, you know, for lack of a better word, to see, planet Earth from their vantage point from those people on that you know, from, from the moon, so to speak. Literally, not just so to speak, they didn't land on the moon, but coming around the dark side of the moon and then, and then coming back to Earth, but just to see pictures of our glowing planet Earth. and you know, Jenna, what the Bible talks about and then Wesley, you can comment on if you want to too. I know you're there. but Jenna, when the, you know, you mentioned that when you see that thing, it kind of puts life in perspective. But you know, the planet Earth is the only one we know of, that sustains life. you know that as I say, we look out, we, we have, not. There's no other planets in our galaxy, well, in our solar system. Right. I'm talking about the planets that we're, we've named and we're aware of. There's no other, planet that has the just right ingredients of oxygen and nitrogen and, and carbon dioxide and all those, Things that we see, remember from the periodic table. Right Ed?

>> Ed Vitagliano: yes, yeah, but I mean kind of they call it the Goldilocks zone. Like Mars. Mars does not have enough atmosphere to retain oxygen, or those kind of things.

>> Tim Wildmon: But I'm saying that the water, the temperature, the distance from the sun is perfect for us to, if we move closer or further away with either freeze or burn up, I mean talking about just by a little bit. So I'm just, what I'm saying is how you can look at this and look at what the Bible says about you know, God and creation and the and mankind. it just the, the when you see this and know the facts that I've been talking about here, the scientific facts, it just says hey, God is real. God is the creation creator of planet Earth where He has put us here. And, and you know, we're all given a date of birth and a date of death and we're all hit put here for God's purpose and God's plan. And it's just hard to Jenna, look at, look at what we're, what we're seeing here from Artemis too and, and say it could be any other, any other thing but like thing for lack of a better word then, then God's creation is and, and the description in the Bible is true and real.

>> Jenna Ellis: Absolutely. And that's why we have a rational faith because this isn't just a belief in God like we hope and and pray and think man that'd be really great if this were true or you know, have a belief like in the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunni or something or Santa Claus. You know this, what we describe as the Christian worldview is actually a rationale explanation for the reality to which we're presented. And we know the Bible, is the specific revelation of God, his word, that he has revealed who he is to us. But even if we didn't have that, the, the Bible also tells us in our own experience shows us. And CS Lewis talks about this in Mere Christianity so beautifully that you know, that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork. I mean creation, it self speaks to a designer, to intelligence, to morality, to you know, all of the things of our human experience to purpose, to meaning, to life and, and just the way that we interact in our habitat. The, the fact that we can even as human beings have the capacity in this perfectly fine tuned universe and to see not only nature, but then, and to see that for ourselves, but then also appreciate it and have the capacity to consider beauty. I mean, all of those things are so fine tuned. And there's a wonderful book, I would commend to all of our listeners, by J.W. richards that's called the Privileged Planet and it talks about our place in the universe. And like you were talking about, Tim, how specifically fine tuned our, our habitat Earth had to be as a planet and then within the context of our solar system, in the context of our universe and how the math just isn't there for this to have ever happened randomly or by chance, but, or without, meaning and purpose behind it. And there's such a great hope in that because with that intention and that design, it reveals God's love for us and it reveals that there is hope, there is meaning. We're not just here on this dirt clot out in space, purposeless and saying, okay, well life doesn't have any meaning and, let's eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die. No, we can know the reason that we're put here and we can know who is our creator. And that's just an amazing thing as we behold, the universe around us. So I loved this book the Privileged Planet. And, and there's also a documentary. It's a little bit old so, you know, give them. They're not as fancy of pictures as from Artemis too, but the information is so good. If you just want about an hour and a half documentary that's available on YouTube as well and it's also titled the Privileged Planet.

This is a time when we ask listeners to support the ministry financially

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. You're listening to Sharathan on American Family Radio. That's Jenna Ellis. I'm Tim with Ed and Krish and Wesley. go ahead, Ed. You were going to say.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah, I was just going to let folks know that, we are in the middle of Sharathan. And that means that today's issues for today, tomorrow and Thursday will go beyond our normal typical 90 minute, time. We will be on with you here until noon central time. But it is share a thon. This is a time when we ask those who are listeners to support the ministry to be as generous as you can in giving. Here's the number to call. If you'd like to talk to someone, they can get your information. If you have questions, you can ask, the person who you with whom you interact. Here at American Family Radio, the number to call is 877-616-2396. That's 877-616-16239. 6.

>> Tim Wildmon: I was trying to do it in stereo. Let's do that one more time.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: Eight three, two.

>> Ed Vitagliano: 1-877-761-616-2396. I think we have two different views of what stereo is. Hey listen, I do want to mention to Tim and others here, and those of you who are listening to this program, that we do have premiums. this is just our way of thanking those who give above and beyond, so to speak. So for a one time gift of $150 or more, you will receive a five pack of the 250th Anniversary Pocket Constitution. It's a nice blue and gold cover. It has AFA and some of the information on it. it's very nice. It's got the Constitution inside and includes the Declaration of Independence with a Forward by Steven McDowell. And so if you're sitting somewhere where you have to wait a little bit, maybe you're at an airport, you're waiting for TSA to get you through, you can read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. and to read for the first time a lot of people don't have never read the Constitution.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Very true.

>> Ed Vitagliano: and it's a five pack so that you can give it away to friends, family, co workers, neighbors, what have you. So that they too.

>> Jenna Ellis: Yeah run into her. I'm sure she hasn't read it.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's a good one.

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Tim Sheridan: Check out American family news to keep up with Artemis

Afr.net all right, back to Tim.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, I was going to add, I was going to add that I'm looking here on American family news website afn.net and they've been doing a really good job pretty much daily if not every other day keeping up with Artemis. And there's several stories there, easy reads, good information. So check out American family news or afn.net to keep up with Artemis too.

>> Chris Woodward: It's very, it's, it's, it's been a cool experience for me because I've been going home and watching this stuff on YouTube through like the NASA, channel and stuff like that. And it's been a neat experience for me as a dad because my 12 year old is like super excited by it.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Chris Woodward: So like I get to have like some father daughter time. The moon missions, I might look like I lived, I was alive to see the moon missions, but I'm not that old. All that stuff happened years before I came along. so I'm seeing things that I've never seen before, through this particular mission. And it's been cool for me because again my daughter's into it. And I'm just I'm checking that I'm, I still have the Artemis 2, tracker, here. And it's it's cool because it shows you literally where they are right now.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Well, and baby boomers like Tim and I, we actually did the same thing. We watched every night and sometimes during the day at school they tend, they would roll the little cart in with a TV or something like that and we would watch about the landing, the moon landing in 1969. Incredible, incredible time we're living in. Jen and I talked about this this morning. just phenomenal things that human beings are accomplishing.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. I was three when the Challenger tragedy happened. I mean, so I don't, I don't remember that. My, my brother is a Gen X, and he was talking about how, you know, he was kind of nervously watching the Artemis launch because he was in school, when the Challenger situation happened.

>> Ed Vitagliano: I remember 84. When was that?

>> Chris Woodward: 86.

>> Ed Vitagliano: 86, yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Well, the, Go ahead, Weston.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I'm reading here and help me understand if I'm reading this correctly. Krish says that the landing sites of Apollo 12 and 14 were visible.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes.

>> Wesley Wildmon: From the air, from Artemis 2 aircraft as they, or spaceship.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: As they were flying around the moon.

>> Ed Vitagliano: Tin can, technical language.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, I, I, I, in hindsight I should have used about the spacecraft.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes, there you go.

>> Chris Woodward: that they're on welcome. There's, there's all kinds of stuff.

>> Tim Wildmon: So. Wait a minute, hold on a second, Wesley. Are you saying that I didn't realize this? I hadn't read this. So the astronauts aboard, the Artemis 2 went to the went around, they went around the moon. I don't know if they covered the whole moon, in terms of circling the moon. I know they did a figure eight out there, much like ice skating, if you're familiar with that. but the. So they were able to look down and see the, the landing.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, the landing sites of a Apollo 12 and 14 were both visible. Again, I read that a couple times while y' all were talking and I just I had to say it out loud for confirmation from Krish, but apparently that's the case.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, I'll share it.

>> Jenna Ellis: That's amazing because now, you know, that goes against the whole rhetoric that that was faked. But as they're preparing for the moon base to Mars, we can now look at and say that's no moon, that that's a space station.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yep, that's what's coming. We are in the middle of share. We are at the beginning of Sheridan. You'll give out the phone number real quick.

>> Ed Vitagliano: 877-616-2396. We're going to take a five minute break for news. We'll be right back.