In times like these, we all need a word of encouragement. From pastor and best-selling author Max

Lukato comes the Max Lucato encouraging Word podcast with over 40 years of ministry and more than

145 million books sold in 50 languages. Max shares the greatest story ever told, the living

savior who brings hope for a lifetime through rich, biblical insight, heartfelt storytelling.

You'll be reminded that God

is always near, always for you, and always in you. Listen to the Max Lucato encouraging word podcast,

where hope meets your day. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to today's podcast,

sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at Hillsdale.edu. I encourage you to take

advantage of the many free online courses there, and of course to listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale. Or just Google, Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning, Gloria and even Grace. Welcome to the Big Weekend Pod, America. Sorry I missed last week. I was traveling from West Coast to East Coast, and

hardly anything was going on. Not kidding. We're in the middle of a war. We're in the middle of a war

that, as you will hear in the conversations today, could change the next 30 to 50, maybe even

100 years of life on this globe. Certainly the lives of your children and of your grandchildren,

it's that important. The stakes are that high. That's why I'm talking with John Ellison, Matt Continentie,

and Ben Dominich, and Eli Lake, all about what those stakes are and how best to understand this war.

But if anyone tells you that we're not winning, they're wrong. We are winning. We haven't won, but we are winning.

If anyone tells you that the Straits of Hormuz is an insolvable military conundrum, that's

simply not true. There have been far worse conundrums in the history of military conflict. We'll

solve it. We will get it done. What you shouldn't believe as well is that there's an

easy path to victory because the Islamic Revolution is organized to break into small pieces

and do the insurgency thing with missiles. So even on its worst day, it's going to be around for a long time.

Good news is all we have to do is secure the strait of Hormuz.

The rest is up to the Iranian people.

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