Healthy People Need No Doctor

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Luke five, verses thirty-one and thirty-two. Jesus answered them, Healthy people don't need a doctor. Sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they're sinners and need to repent. Sheridan Gorman, March 19th, 2026, Chicago, Illinois. 18-year-old Loyoli University student who was shot in the head and killed while walking with friends near the lakefront to see the Northern Lights by Jose Medina. Medina, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. That was somebody's kid, folks. Somebody's child that they had sent off to college. Back with another episode of the American Soul Podcast. Hope y'all are doing well wherever y'all are, whatever part of the day you're in. Sure do appreciate you giving me some of your time and attention. I will try and use it wisely for those of y'all who continue to share the podcast, tell others about it, and to pray for me and for the podcast. Thank you very much. Very, very grateful for your prayers and support. Father, thank you for today. Thank you for you, Father, and your Son Jesus Christ and your Holy Spirit.

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Thank you for your love and your mercy, your grace and your forgiveness, your patience, understanding. Guide us through the good times and the bad.

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Give us perseverance and patience. Help us. Help those who have less than we do. Help us to help our country turn back to you. Bless the marriages, Father of those who are married. Strengthen their marriages. Bless them. Fill them with love and joy, hope, and passion.

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Comfort. Be with the parents who have children. Give them wisdom and courage and patience. Give us guidance in raising our children. Show us what to do, how to do it. Give us the wisdom and the courage to execute it.

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Be with our military overseas, defending our nation. Be with our law enforcement firefighters, EMS at home, defending us from those who seek to do evil.

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Bring us close to you.

Genesis And The Fertility Decline

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Bless those who are listening, Father. In your son's name we pray. Amen. So we're gonna read Genesis again. Marriage verse. I have a reason. Bear with me. Verses 9, 1, and 7. God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, Be fertile, multiply, and fill the earth. Verse 7. As for you, be fertile and multiply, populate the earth and multiply in it. Happened to have this conversation a couple times. One of them was one of one of my children recently, and we got to talking about the fertility rate. It's interesting if you haven't looked into it. Elon Musk and others talk quite a bit about it. But in order for a society to remain stable, you need the average total fertility rate, how many kids a woman's gonna have basically to be 2.1. In the United States, currently it's 1.6. That's about middle of the road. It ranges from 1.59 to 1.63, so somewhere in there, which is below replacement rate, right? And so therefore not stable, but on the decline. And if you look at most of Europe, most of Asia, most of the world, it's declining. As Christians, you look at God's commands, one of them that we just read, and that's in other places in the Bible to be fruitful and multiply. But uh right there, you know, in Psalms, he talks about how children are a blessing. A man has a full quiver of them.

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Uh what a blessing that is for he and his wife.

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I guess, folks, I'm going to do a bad job of saying this, but the the point is so many, so many times we look for solutions to problems outside of God when He's already given us the solution. And as Christians, if we really want a Christian nation, if we want to reverse the trends that we see in America across Western Western civilization, Europe, Britain, right? There's not much better way to do that. Spreading the gospel just in general, right? But but where can you spread the gospel most efficiently often? In your own home with your children. You talk about a circle of influence, that's your circle of influence. So you really want to spread the gospel.

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Don't have one kid, have two, have three, have four, have five, have six, seven.

Luke On Repentance And Pride

New Wine And Sabbath Confrontations

Psalm Praise And Proverbs Generosity

Book Plug Reviews And Donations

UK Grooming Gangs And Islam Critique

Medal Of Honor And Immigration Contrast

McKinley On Christian Character

Final Prayer And Blessing

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Be fruitful and multiply and support each other and encourage each other, right? Luke 5, 29 through 611. Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi's fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them. But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus' disciples. Why do you eat and drink with such scum? Jesus answered them. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent. That's the divide in America right now. Really easily summed up, folks. That's the real divide in America. Those who think they are righteous, and those who know they are sinners and need to repent. That need to repent is key, right? Because we have people that know that they're sinners, but they don't have any desire to repent. And those go in the same little basket, if you will, with those who think that they're righteous. One day some people said to Jesus, John the Baptist disciples fast and pray regularly, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees. Why are your disciples always eating and drinking? Jesus responded, Do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. Then Jesus gave them this illustration. No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch an old garment, for the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn't even match the old garment. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, for the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine must be stored in new wineskins. But no one who drinks the old wine seems to want the new wine. The old is just fine, they say. One Sabbath day, as Jesus was walking through some grain fields, his disciples broke off heads of grain, rubbed off the husks in their hands, and ate the grain. But some Pharisees said, Why are you breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath? Jesus replied, Haven't you read in the scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He went into the house of God and broke the law by eating the sacred loaves of bread that only the priests can eat. He also gave some to his companions. And Jesus added, The Son of Man is Lord even over the Sabbath. On another Sabbath day a man with a deformed right hand was in the synagogue while Jesus was teaching. The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely. If he healed the man's hand, they planned to accuse him of working on the Sabbath. But Jesus knew their thoughts. He said to the man with a deformed hand, Come and stand in front of everyone. So the man came forward. Then Jesus said to his critics, I have a question for you. Does the law permit good deeds on the Sabbath, or is it a day for doing evil? Is this a day to save life or to destroy it? He looked around at them one by one and then said to the man, Hold out your hand. So the man held his hand and it was restored. At this the enemy of Jesus were wild with rage and began to discuss what to do with him. Psalm 66, verses 1 through 20. Shout joyful praises to God all the earth. Sing about the glory of his name. Tell the world how glorious he is. Say to God, How awesome are your deeds, your enemies cringe before your mighty power. Everything on earth will worship you. They will sing your praises, shouting your name and glorious songs. Come and see what our God has done, what awesome miracles he performs for people. He made a dry path through the Red Sea, and his people went across on foot. There we rejoiced in him. For by his great power he rules forever. He watches every movement of the nations. Let no rebel rise in defiance. Let the whole world bless our God and loudly sing his praises. Our lives are in his hands, and he keeps our feet from stumbling. You have tested us, O God. You have purified us like silver, you have captured us in your net and laid the burden of slavery on our backs. Then you put a leader over us. We went through fire and blood, but you brought us to a place of great abundance. Now I come to your temple with burnt offerings to fulfill the vows I made to you. Yes, the sacred vows that I made. When I was in deep trouble, that is why I am sacrificing burnt offerings to you, the best of my rams as a pleasing aroma and a sacrifice of bulls and male goats. Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will tell you what he did for me. For I cried out to him for help, praising him as I spoke. If I had not confessed the sin of my heart, the Lord would not have listened. But God did listen. He paid attention to my prayer. Praise God who did not ignore my prayer or withdraw his unfailing love from me. Proverbs eleven twenty-four through twenty six. Give freely and become more wealthy. Be stingy and lose everything. The generous will prosper, those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed. People curse those who hoard their grain, but they bless the one who sells in time of need. Countryside. If you are looking for a family-friendly middle grade read, that hopefully I manage to put a little bit more of the principles of Christ in than your average middle grade entertainment. If you would check out Countryside, there's some reviews there. I would appreciate it. It's the first book, second book in the series. And if you enjoy it, if you would leave a review, they help immensely, especially the five-star ones. Same thing for the podcasts. Those reviews help a lot. And if you have five or ten dollars you can donate to the podcast, I would be very grateful for that as well. So thank you. Kylie grooming gang victims. I think we've read one from here before, but this is 1996 to 1999, I believe, a different period. West Yorkshire, UK, two teenager girls aged 13 to 16 were groomed and repeatedly raped by a gang of eight men, all Muslim, all Pakistani, including a number, they have the names here. The men were convicted in 2024-2025 of multiple rape charges, sentence to a combined total of decades in prison. Just again, folks, that's Islam. When people try and tell you what it is, actually read what Islam does consistently, repeatedly, still today. This isn't hundreds of thousands of years ago. Well, it wouldn't be thousands with Islam, sorry, but it isn't centuries ago. It's now, today. Medal of Honor winner. For today, Robert Brown, Captain of the Top U.S. Civil War, USS Richmond, U.S. Navy, August 5th, 1864. Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, Alabama. On board the USS Richmond in action at Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Cool and courageous at his station throughout the prolonged action. Brown rendered gallant service as his vessel trained her guns on Fort Morgan and on ships of the Confederacy despite extremely heavy return fire. He participated in the actions at Fort Jackson and St. Philippe with the Shalmet batteries at the surrender of New Orleans and in the attacks on batteries below Vicksburg. Accredited to New York, not awarded posthumously, born 1830, Norway, location of Metal Naval Historical Center, Washington, Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Again, folks, uh compare these immigrant stories with the immigrant stories that we talk about at the beginning of the podcast. I was going through recently with one of my children in a history class, and they were talking about immigration in the late 1800s, early 1900s, right? Totally different kind of immigrant than what we're getting today on average. Totally different kind. Not even in the same ballpark. One group wanted to become Americans, wanted to assimilate to language, culture, most importantly, faith. The other group does not, not even remotely interested. All right. We are going to read a quote that we didn't get to on the previous podcast from I don't know what I did with it. You know, you think that I would have this all straightened out, but I didn't. We're going to read President McKinley, 25th President of the United States. There is no currency in this world that passes at such a premium anywhere as good Christian character. The time has gone by when the young man or the young woman in the United States has to apologize for being a follower of Christ. No cause but one could have brought together so many people, and that is the cause of our master. Nothing, Proverbs reiterates this in the Bible, right? A good name is to be desired over great riches, great wealth. And folks, you shouldn't don't apologize for being a follower of Christ. Make sure that you're really striving to follow Christ, but don't apologize. And don't apologize for America being founded as a Christian nation, as a Christian republic. Right? We don't have to apologize for that. We shouldn't apologize for that. The people that are coming in to try and destroy it should apologize for doing that. Um, and that's the only, this last sentence echoes President Adams' comment that the the founding principles of the revolution were the principles of Christ. They were the only principles that could have united such a diverse group of young gentlemen, President Adams says. We have to be a Christian nation, folks. We we cannot, we will not have freedom and liberty if we are not a Christian people. Our Father. Amen. God bless y'all. God bless your families. God bless your marriages if you're married. God bless your nation, wherever you are around the world listening. God bless America. We'll talk to y'all again real soon, folks. Looking forward to it.