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The WallBuilders Show

When Executive Orders Meet Biblical Principles

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Power without principle corrodes, but principle without power accomplishes little. We set out to bridge that gap by examining how executive orders work, where their legal boundaries lie, and how a biblical framework can help citizens evaluate them with clarity rather than heat. Pastor and author Jim Garlow joins us to unpack his new project auditing more than 200 of President Trump’s recent executive orders against Scripture-based criteria, grouping them into practical themes like border poli...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.

0:08.9

Thanks for joining us on the wallbuilder show, taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical and constitutional perspective.

0:15.8

Rick Green here with David Barden and Tim Barton.

0:17.9

And a little later, our friend Jim Garlo is going to join us.

0:21.1

Well versed is the name of the ministry now started as a book, now the name of the ministry.

0:25.1

And wow, guys, I think we've done stuff with Garlo for 20, no, maybe 25 years.

0:32.1

David, maybe longer than that for you.

0:33.9

I don't know why you asked me about long eight times. As somebody, I asked Tim, ask you,

0:39.6

why do you go to me with long dates? Well, I don't remember what was happening in Wall Builders 20

0:46.7

plus whatever years ago when I was in college. So it's going to have to be. Now, I do know,

0:52.0

Dad, you and Garlo wrote a book back. I think it was leading into,

0:58.4

was this leading into President Trump's first term as president in his election? When did

1:03.8

you all write that book together? I think it was 2016 thereabouts. Immigration is a big issue.

1:09.5

Israel was a big issue. We had six big issues,

1:12.1

and here we are now eight years later, and those six issues are still relevant. So that book

1:18.2

was written at a point in time where that you had real decisions to make between where we wanted

1:23.2

to head with those six issues, and those decisions are still out there to be made today well i was

1:28.8

going to say it's it's not like those it's not still a relevant book because we're having so much

1:33.8

of the same conversation and had the advice from that book been followed back then we wouldn't be

1:39.7

having some of the problems we're having today although guys guys, this is a side note, although Jim would

1:44.6

speak to this very well in addition, but, you know, navigating where we are today, again,

1:51.2

dad, had we listened to, had more Americans read the book that you and Jim did, and follow

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