What you're seeing right now is the culture war is downstream of a spiritual war.

I feel like having a culture that has become more secular, and even a church that is less biblical, we have forgotten our starting place, which is what Paul says in Romans is, hey, we are all sinners in need of a savior. There's none, righteous, no, not want. All of sin and comes short the glory of God. And it's really lack of biblical perspective, but also it's because we've embraced a lot of Marxist ideology, not based on truth.

Well, hey, Lifree Nation, before we lack of biblical perspective, but also it's because we've embraced a lot of Marxist ideology,

not based on truth.

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and now enjoy the podcast. Tim Barton, welcome to live free. Thank you. Dude, this, we may top our previous one. This may be the most interesting episode we've ever done. We were talking before this. I don't know how we're about to cover all of the things that I want to cover that are going to absolutely blow your mind. But we're really honored you here, man. I am so honored to be here. And yes,

I've already pulled stuff off the table knowing we don't have enough time for it. There's so much to get into. This is going to be not. I've been wanting to do this, so I'm going to give you a heads up. This is, here's what we're getting ready to talk about for, for listeners. I'm going to lead into it and show you something from CNN in a second.

Obviously, we're doing this thing right now that was going on this last week called America Rees the Bible, political leaders in D.C. reading passages of the Bible. I read Nehemi 7 and 8. I was there. Really? You got to do it. Dang it, dude. I mentioned this beforehand. They asked me to fly over there and be a part of it. and I couldn't, I was in Greece this week leading a journey of Paul discipleship trip. But it was stunning. I didn't know you were a part of it. So anyway, that has led to a freak out by a lot of, man, I'm out of breath. I just did push-ups. That's my little thing. That's why your arms look big when you come in here. Okay. Stop, dude. Stop it. It gets my heart rate going. It's helpful.

It led to a freak out in the media about, man, no politician should ever be reading the book.

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