Hi, this is Hank Hanograph, President of the Christian Research Institute, host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast with another Hank Unplugged Short.

I was thinking this morning about Budapest, about Hungary.

Why? Because I have been reading a great deal about the history of Hungary.

It's on my radar. I'm really interested in a group of Eastern European countries

that have embraced the very ideologies that made Western civilization the greatest civilization

in the history of the world, a great mission-sending force.

I've often said that contrast is the conduit to clarity, and the contrast between where Hungary is where Hungary is today, and it's not just Hungary, many other countries,

including Poland and these Eastern European countries, they have retained their identity.

And when you contrast that with where America has come to,

the contrast we might call frightening.

It certainly is stunning.

We have, in America, embraced ideologies

that are unthinkable and that will ultimately lead to our ruin.

In contrast, you have countries who have seen the horrors of communism, who have lived under the iron Stalinist boot, reject woke culture, reject

the empty promises. And as a result, they are living lives that really make a difference.

And I can use Hungary as a great example.

They have raised some $50 million to go to places like Iraq and rebuild churches and

and re-institute people in their homes and in their cultures so that

Christianity will not be vacant from the LeMont, from the Levant, so that Christianity can continue

making a difference in the very place it is now so much needed.

I hope as you survey our culture and contrast it with what a Christian nation can look like and can do in being the hands

and feet of our Lord. I hope you will, in doing so, remember the admonition, not just to the culture, but to you as a person committed to Christ.

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