You've found your way to the intersection of faith and culture. That is The Wall Builder Show.

It's where we take on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.

Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton, and we're going to take you out to the pro-family

legislators conference where David and Tim hosted hundreds of legislators from across the nation

and their spouses and a lot of think tanks and other groups coming in to discuss the hot topics

of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. And that happened just a few

weeks ago. If you're a longtime listener of Wobillers, you know that every year we host this conference and these legislators come in and they

exchange ideas, they hear from all kinds of speakers teaching them on all kinds of subjects

in order to get them equipped and prepared for their next legislative session, but also just to

give them a respite, give them a break, give them a chance to have some good iron sharpening, iron, social interaction with like-minded folks.

Honestly, some good spiritual renewal.

We have incredible dinner speakers like Tim Brooks and others that really are just masters at, you know, the Holy Spirit using them to encourage these legislators. listen, if you're not a legislator, you've never been a legislator, you've never been in an elected office. I'm just telling you, and I only served two terms in the Texas House. Ranford Supreme Court a couple times, barely lost those races. So I've been on a campaign trail a lot, but also served in in the legislature. And

some people think, oh, it's just all shrimp and caviar, everything's all nice, and everybody

tells you how wonderful you are. And it's actually a beating. I mean, it is, it is a rough and

tumble sport. It is, it is a, it is an environment where you're in the, you know, in the limelight all the time.

You're constantly having people wanting something from you.

You're constantly having to run for office, constantly having to raise money,

constantly be an attack.

It wears you down.

Okay.

I'm just telling you the blunt side of what it's like to be in office like that.

And so when you can come together with other people that have been there, done that,

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