Did the founders have it right?

Stu Epperson  welcomes Greg Brannan of Founder’s Truth to today’s broadcast. He says we should return to the founder’s principles.

What do you say? Stu wants to hear from you at (866) 34-TRUTH or feel free to leave your comments online.

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No matter how many times we hear Ephesians 2:8-9

“For by grace you have been saved by faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.”

Many of us still try, try , try to earn the love of God.

Alan Wright with wife Anne, son Bennett and daughter Abigail

Today on Truthtalk Live, Stu Epperson, Jr. welcomes pastor and author Alan Wright to the broadcast.  Alan is Pastor of Reynolda Church in Winston-Salem N.C.  He is the author of four books available from Multnomah Publishers, and he’s the host of  “Sharing the Light”, a daily program heard across the country and around the world.

As a special gift to anyone who calls in during today’s broadcast at (866) 34-truth or leaves an e-mail address at contests@wtru.com ,  Alan will send a CD with two full length messages “Mercy, Not Sacrifice” and “The Love of The Law and The Law of Love” absolutely free.

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Are your children REALLY ready for school? It’s that time of year again… Are you ready? Perhaps you’ve already gotten some new clothes, maybe a backpack, some gym shoes,  crayons or calculators…And just before you send them out the door….is there anything you’ve forgotten?  Have you prayed for your child?

Today, Stu welcomes Phil Waldrep, host of the radio program Living with Joy and they’ll talk about the most important thing you can do for your child as he or she begins a new school year. And they want to hear from you. Do you pray specifically as your children go back to school and  for their teachers and staff?

Phil Waldrep

If you listen to the broadcast today, Phil is offering Truthtalk Live listeners a FREE gift that will  help you pray for children and schools. It’s a booklet from from Moms in Touch International and yours free by calling tollfree:

(800) 374-1550

Living with Joy is a production of the Phil Waldrep Evangelistic Association and airs on 973 stations and translators throughout the United States.

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Today on Truth Talk Live , the story behind “What If” the great new Christian Movie coming to theatres tomorrow in Winston Salem at The Market Place Cinema and The Carousel in Greensboro.

Disney Star Debby Ryan Plays Bailey Pickett on “The Suite Life on Deck” stars in “What IF ” and will on Truth Talk Live with Robby Dilmore AKA The Christian Car Guy in the first segment and Director Dallas Jenkins in the second segement.

What if…, a Pure Flix and Jenkins Entertainment film. Starring, Kevin Sorbo, Kristy Swanson, Debby Ryan, and John Ratzenberger.What if…, tells the story of Ben Walker (Kevin Sorbo), who fifteen years ago left his college sweetheart Wendy (Kristy Swanson), and his calling to be a preacher, in order to pursue a business opportunity. Now with a high-paying executive gig, a trophy fiancé, and a new Mercedes, he hasn’t considered a family nor felt the need to set foot in a church in fifteen years.
But God has other plans. While on a thrill ride outside the city, his new car mysteriously breaks down, and he’s visited by a tow truck driver named Mike (John Ratzenberger) who claims to be an angel sent to show Ben what his life would look like had he followed his true calling.

Starts tomorrow at the Market Place Cinema in Winston Salem and The Carousel 15 Theatre in Greensboro

Priceless…

“We came to know about the radio program in our language. It became clear to us that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. His blood washes away our sin…now all my family members are believers.”

Faith comes by hearing and this listener and his family heard the good news because of your gifts to Transworld Radio.  Since 1977, TWR has been spreading the gospel by radio across the vast continent of Asia. From the island of Guam, TWR has sent messages of hope in Jesus Christ to those suffering from earthquakes, tsunamis, poverty, addiction and human trafficking.  The ministry has seen much fruit from the broadcasts aired from from four 100-kilowatt transmitters. Now 33 years later, these transmitters have long exceeded their useful lives and are in need of replacement.

Lauren Libby, TWR President

Today on Truthtalk Live, Stu welcomes TWR President, Lauren Libby. They’ll talk about the current need and tell you how you can be a part of what God is doing in Asia.

Today, please call TWR with your donation at:

(800) 456-7897

or you can donate online HERE

The announcement by a Florida pastor that his church would host a “burn the Qur’an” day on September 11th has inflamed emotions around the world.

Terry Jones, pastor of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida has been making the rounds on TV talk shows defending his plan to host the event on the anniversary of the 9/11  terrorist attack on the US.

He has come under fire from some Muslims and Christians alike.

Today, Stu welcome Wes Moore of Evidence America, a Christian apologetics organization, to discuss the issue and Stu wants to know what YOU think.  You can call us live from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. eastern time at 866-34-TRUTH or  feel free to leave us your comments online.

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More than two million children are exploited in the global commercial sex trade each year.

Most of the girls are 8 to 12 years old.

The average victim is forced to have sex up to 40 times a day.

The problem almost seems to be big to overcome. there are congressional hearings on the topic, international study commissions, but the problem only seems to escalate.

What can be done?  And who should be doing it?

Enter Save our Sisters.

(left to right) Morgan Barney, Claire Herndon, Kristie Watkins, Brianna Weir

“We are four high school freshman that the Lord has given a passion and burden for girls entangled in the horrific web of human trafficking. Girls our age and younger are sexually enslaved and exploited everyday. Rather than merely talking about the nightmare of the sex slave trade and how we feel so bad for them we decided to do something about it”

Today on Truthtalk Live, Stu Epperson introduces you to the four teenage girls who began “Save Our Sisters”.

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Wrapping up the week with some of the best moments on Truthtalk Live you never heard.

These programs kept the phone lines loaded up and we kept the recorder going.

Today you’ll hear continued conversations on hot topics from “The world taking credit for what God has done”…”Idolizing people”…”Verses not in the Bible” and “What’s wrong with the word religion”. In the middle of all that meet John Rankin in a brand new segment.

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It’s known as the pearl of Africa, but it’s one of the poorest nations on earth.

320 children die in Uganda every day of malaria even though the cost of treatment is only $8.00.  The average Ugandan lives to be 51.

Poverty…disease…death. Still want to go?

Alex Mutagubya is a Ugandan pastor and he joins Stu Epperson, Jr. today to talk about a brighter future for Ugandan children.  Abandoned as a child,  Alex will share his compelling story of God’s grace and redemption and will share how you can make a difference in the life of a Ugandan child.

Also joining Stu today are representatives of Ekissa, a Christ-centered, nonprofit ministry engaged in partnering with individuals, churches and organizations to provide care and support to the most needy in the world through short-term mission trips of service.

If you’re in North Carolina, you’re invited to enjoy an authentic Ugandan meal and here more of Alex’s amazing testimony. The event is Friday evening, August 20th and there is more information HERE.

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If you could pick one option as a believer which would it be?

Today,  Stu welcomes Chuck Peters who retired and now serves as a Sunday school teacher and a missionary to Kenya.

So, what do you think? Is retirement an option for a Christian? Is it even biblical?

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If you could be doing ONE thing with your life…What would it be?

And perhaps the bigger question – Why aren’t you doing it?

Today on Truthtalk Live,  guest host Steve Noble, host of the nationally-syndicated radio program Called to Action This Week welcomes Dave Jones of The Reset Agency and takes your calls tollfree at 877-44-TRUTH.

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It’s a topic that’s getting hotter by the minute as President Barak Obama has weighed in with his views and as democrats and republicans seem to divide over the issue. See Article HERE.

What do you think?

Today’s guest Usama Dakdok founder of The Straight way home ministry has some strong opinions and you’ll hear them on today’s edition of Truthtalk Live.

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On this edition of Truth Talk Live, Alex McFarland talks with Melissa Fryrear, leader of the “Daughters of Grace” ministry.

Melissa was with Focus On The Family for 7 years, and holds a Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary.

Melissa speaks to groups throughout the nation, equipping churches for more effective ministry to women.

Alex and Melissa will discuss the roles of prayer and the Holy Spirit, in restoring the lives of broken people.

Alex McFarland frequent Truth Talk Live guest host is the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary, America’s premiere institution for the study of apologetics.

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Today Stu welcomes old friend and missionary partner Brad Phillips of the Persecution Project Foundation.

And he’ll talk with a missionary to the most most dangerous city in the world.

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Someone once said that “calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.”

On today’s broadcast, Stu welcomes Christian talk show host Bob Enyart .

Also on today’s program, Carlos Morales, one of the founders of “Atheist Agenda”. That’s the group  that instituted the “trade your bibles for porn” event on the campus of The University of Texas at San Antonio a few weeks ago.

Today’s program consists of  BONUS COVERAGE from a  PREVIOUSLY RECORDED broadcast . NO CALLS PLEASE, but feel free to leave us your comments online.

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According to Ethan Pope, the mismanagement of our nation’s abundance of  wealth is incomprehensible, intolerable, imprudent, reckless, corrupt, foolish, destructive, destabilizing, and unacceptable.

And, he says, unless our Congressional leaders make radical changes to bring federal spending under control, it will soon become mathematically impossible for our nation to avoid bankruptcy.

Pope is a nationally known financial author, speaker, radio commentator, and founder of the Financial Patriots movement and Stu’s guest today on Truthtalk Live.

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Here’s an idea who’s time may have come. Why not let Walmart run our government?

Before you laugh, you might want to look at this LINK.

Stu is back in the truth chair and wants to know what you think.

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On this edition of Truth Talk Live, renowned scholar Gary R. Habermas, Ph.D., speaks with Alex McFarland about a subject that many Christians don’t discuss: spiritual doubts.

What questions about our faith are appropriate, and how do we resolve unanswered issues that we may have wondered about for years? Are periodic times of doubt a sign of “weak faith”? Did any biblical persons experience seasons of doubt?

Alex McFarland

Don’t miss this edition of Truth Talk Live with content that is sure to touch many lives. Alex McFarland frequent Truth Talk Live guest host is the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary, America’s premiere institution for the study of apologetics. Gary Habermas is in town this week teaching at SES and agreed to come on the program before his lecture. For complete information about SES, visit www.ses.edu.

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From sectarian prayer to wearing a Christian t-shirt, the ACLU is on the prowl and clamping down on  forms of religious expression.

On today’s program Stu Epperson, Jr. welcomes Mike Johnson of the Alliance Defense Fund.

They’ll talk about some of the hot issues and take your calls.

TODAY’S PROGRAM IS PRE-RECORDED…NO CALLS PLEASE BUT YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS ONLINE

Read Stu’s Article:

Prayer…or Porn?  I’m Offended!

By Stuart Epperson, Jr.

If you’re offended by prayer at a county commissioners’ meeting, you’re in luck!  A multi-million dollar, pro-bono, tax-exempt, legal powerhouse known as the ACLU will fight for you!
If you’re offended by porn in a text book or at a public art gallery, tough luck!  The ACLU will defend the porn. Why do they want to censor prayer but not porn?

Why would the ACLU, which, by the way, stands for the American Civil Liberties Union, be advocating censorship and intolerance at all?

And now they have sued you and me, the citizens of Forsyth County. The ACLU wants to censor the speech of a Muslim cleric, a Hindu priest, a Jewish rabbi, or a Methodist minister.

Some of these prayers may even offend me! But does the constitution give me a right ‘not’ to be offended? Of course not!   Is not this pluralism of expression and tolerance what makes America great?
Even the United States Congress has opened with these offensive ‘sectarian’ prayers for over 140 years.  And how many converts or government sponsored churches have resulted? The answer: zero.

Unless our elected officials stand up to this bully, the ACLU will have its way. Yes to porn and NO to prayer!

Beaufort Bailey, Walter Marshall and Ted Kaplan — three of your elected officials — have been against appealing the case on “political” grounds.

Friends, this is not about politics. It’s not about Republican or Democrat, right or left.  It’s about “right or wrong”! It’s about free speech versus censorship.

Commissioners, please stand with us.  The voters and the taxpayers of Forsyth County in protecting the right to freedom of expression. Freedom is always worth the price it takes to defend it!

It cost our founders a lot more than a few taxpayer dollars; many lost their very lives. Let’s send the ACLU bullies home so they can go back to defending porn and stop destroying prayer!

Let us All Pray!

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It’s a firestorm in the making.

Plans for a mosque at ground zero appear to be progressing despite an outpouring of rage and disbelief from opponents.

Others, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg,  say the mosque should be built BECAUSE of our American core values. What do you think?

Today, guest host Alex McFarland, President of Southern Evangelical Seminary and host of “Sound Rezn“, a nationally-syndicated talk program, examines our question of the day and takes your calls at (866) 34-TRUTH…and if you can’t get through, you can leave us your comments online.

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Dr. Michael Brown, host of the Line of Fire broadcast and president of FIRE School of Ministry addresses the controversies surrounding Rom. 11:26.

What did Paul mean by “all Israel”?

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Been to mall lately? Or looked in your child’s room?

How do we keep our children from turning out like…well like some of us did?

The answer, says today’s guest host Keith Deltano is to DEFY CONFORMITY!

Keith is a dynamic Christian comedian. He uses Christian comedy to go where others fear to tread.

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