Welcome to the three Stories version the Todd Herman Show. Story number one Axios says Trump has killed race relations in the United States. Story number two Elon versus President Trump, a Christian response, And story number three The Good, the Bad and the Ugly a pastoring. We'll talk about this courtesy of God Almighty.
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Today is the day the Lord has made, and these are the times to which God has decided we shall live. I know that there is the Elon and Trump thing, and we'll get to that today. And I got to tell you, I don't have a ton to say about it. So I turned to God's word, because God has lots to say about stuff like this, quarreling and arguing. I do have a lot to say about race relations. And there is a piece in Axios that's a headlined like
a pendulum. Pendulum, how America's racial reckoning unraveled. And guess how it happened. It wasn't when Barack Hussein Obama, who was trained under Sololynsky's writings, who considered Sololinsky his community community organizing guru, went out to stoke racism. You know he's a you gotta a weird sound of name. And did you hear he's black?
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And Trayvon Martin looks like my son, and the police act stupidly and hispanics. You need to punish your enemies. Remember that. That wasn't it. It wasn't when he brought Black Lives Matter Incorporated into the White House prior to the launch of that attack around the death of Michael Brown, after Michael Brown tried to unalive a police officer. That
wasn't it. It was not when the people who ran Joe Biden took good words like diversity and equity and inclusion and made them into bad policy, full on racist policy, such as denying aid to white people and creating unemployment programs and government aid programs specifically for black people, or the blatant racism of Harvard University doing everything they could to block Asian men from getting into the schools so that they could get more black men in. That wasn't it.
It wasn't what Carol Swain had predicted when she wrote her book about the new white supremacy. She's an academic. Prior to that, she was a pretty a political academic. She simply looked at the ctity, what's causing this? Why is there a resurgence? What she determined was because of the racism of DEI type programs. But no, it's obviously not that it's Trump axios. This is part of the peace.
The America that marched for George Floyd five years ago is gone very beneath a blackclash that has hardened for now into a new political and cultural order. Why it matters. Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police officer shocked the national conscience, But what looked like historic momentum for racial justice has collapsed, the eclipsed by a reactionary movement backed by the full force of the US government. Still, activists aren't giving up.
They're recharging and refocusing their efforts, shifting from mass protests to defending what remains, implanting the seeds of what's next. The fight has moved from the streets to the margins, in courtrooms and classrooms, in city council's. A quieter form of resistance is taking shape out of the spotlight, but no less determined, just pausing. There was at no time a nation that marched for George Floyd. That never happened.
There were people who march for what they thought was George Floyd, a nation that did not understand and still to this day, does not understand that George Floyd, at best participated in his death, at worst caused it. As we now know, there was no collapse of the airway. Derek Chauvin did not collapse the airway of George Floyd. Now, I hated that video. That was one of the most
awful things I've ever watched in my life. I felt just like many of the bystanders saying, do something, get him off that hot payment pavement, pick him up, cool him down, do something. And the jury has delivered a response and Derek Chauvin is still in prison. But there was never a time when the nation march for George Floyd, and those people who did did not understand that George Floyd was a very, very violent man. Now there are statues of George Floyd, a man who famously held a
weapon to the belly of a pregnant woman. So that wasn't it. It wasn't a nation, and it wasn't about George Floyd. It was about the vision, which is what DEI has been used for. It's been used as a cudgel. It's been used to tell white people you are oppressors. No matter what you do, you cannot be on racist. You have to be anti racist, which means you have to fashion in yourself some form of anti white sentiment.
I've been in media companies where we've had race based struggle sessions and I was the one person who asked during a meeting, Hey, what's black privilege? And the trainer didn't like that at all. She said, well, there's no such thing as black privilege. I said, no, I'm sorry. If there's white privilege, there's black privilege. She didn't like that. She also didn't like when I raised my hand and said, hey, when's it my turn to present? What are you talking about?
This is my presentation? Well, equity, Well I'm a trained presenter on this topic. Well, you know what, we don't all start at the same place, so I should have a chance to present. It all breaks down back to the Axios piece that contends President Trump is the reason that race relations, in their eyes, have gotten worse five years later, the pendulum has swung hard in the opposite
direction DEI. On his first day in office, President Trump ordered a government wide purge of DEI programs and offices, the opening sovognist systemic efforts dismantle the racial justice agenda that emerged in twenty twenty. This was not justice. Giving people jobs based upon race is not racial justice. It is the opposite of racial justice. It is racial injustice.
It is, in fact, racism. Civil rights. The Trump administration has moved aggressively to unravel President Lynnon Johnson's civil rights legacy, including by rearenting DOJ parties to focus on anti white racism, which they put in quotes because of course it can't happen. It was Johnson who said, in a disgusting way, put together enough government programs, give black people enough government money's break up black families, and you'll have black America eating
out of his hands. Only he didn't say the word black. He used a word I don't use, and you probably don't either. History. Trump ordered a federal view of Confederate monuments toppled during the twenty twenty protests, targeting what he called a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our nation's history. What he called the Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars in history, and part of the reason it was fought, perhaps the main reason, was over the topic
of slavery. The Confederate monuments are history. Those were historical figures, and when I see them, I hate them. I can't stand driving by him. When I see him, it reminds me of an uncomfortable past. I like that. I like seeing a statue that brings that back, because a nation that erases its history is erasing its future. If we can't regard the things of the past and the mistakes, then we are going to be more prone to remake
those mistakes. Police reform. Days before the anniversary of Floyd's murder, the Justice Department scrapped proposed consent decrees for the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments and drop nearly a dozen other investigations into alleged police abuse. These consent decrees were used
to d police cities. If you want to see the fruits of these consent decrees, look at Seattle, where it is legal to vandalize a building, to break into a building, to use drugs, to traffic people, and it is a legitimate defense in court to come in and say I'm sad, I have a depression issue, I have a drug issue. Where illegal immigrants will not be charged with dois because they can then be targeted for removal by the FEDS. These consent decrees were depolicing decrees and they should have
been canceled. Refugee policy. This is axious again pretending that race relationship have suffered because of Donald John Trump in the office refugee policy. The administration has effectively ended most refugee programs except for one tailored to white South African farmers, justified by Trump's false claim of white genocide. You know that false claim that he then went on to prove when he had the President of South Africa in the Oval office and all the media was there, that false claim.
He's canceled refugee programs because like DEI, refugee programs were being abused. They were being abused to bring in people who weren't refugees. You are not a refugee. If you come to America from Somolia and say you're scared for your life, so you come here, you get all the lars yes of being a refugee. You get to twenty two hundred bucks a month, You get to ten thousand dollars walking around money that some states give five thousand some tates, and then you go to vacation in Somolia.
You never were a refugee. Mark Rubio makes this case with Cuban so called refugees. They come here fear for the life, and then they go vacation in Cuba. You are not a refugee. Furthermore, USAID had used that program to import people into our country who hate our values. That is not a good idea because you import people, you import their ideas and what they're going to do
with those ideas. And look what we've seen. We've seen people with those ideas go and enact bizarre, horrible forms of violence against our citizens and against visitors to our country. Speaking of the Jewish diplomats, Jake Tapper is not a guy who you can turn to to have honest analysis of news. But Jake Tapper lets slip something about and it's obvious that he's a liberal. He says he doesn't vote for either party, he can't stand either party. I
personally don't buy it. But he lets slip something in relation to race relations in America. That had to do with his son.
A left leaning podcast that He'll Remain nameless. And we were talking about my kids, because I think they were both people without kids. And they asked me about my son, and I said he was you know, he's a football player and he wants to be a policeman. And their joke was about my fifteen year old son, Oh, how does he feel about minorities? Like the idea that he wants to be a policeman, therefore he's racist my son,
And like you know, that was the big laugh. And then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff, and I thought to myself, this is why you are losing elections. Like my football playing son, who has no political views. He's fifteen. He thinks about World War two and gaming and playing linebacker. That's his world.
He just gave it away. Now it's joke material on the left. It's anybody who wants to be a cop is someone who wants to go around unliving black people. That wasn't President Trump. And by the way, this piece and Axios we've been talking about where they contend that President Trump has broken race relations. You've been hearing most
of the piece. Three people wrote it. They put three people on this piece, and these are the facts that can deliver facts absence of you know, fact, race relations have been poisoned to the degree that people can pretend to be a race Rachel Doleozol and get away with it. But people who are of mixed race don't get what is in fact a form of black privilege, as you'll hear in this clip this.
So I got into a heated argument with the woman the other day that told me that I'm not allowed to say the word ninja. If you know what I mean.
Yes, she means the N word, and incidentally, she's a mixed race woman.
I don't usually come on here and give story times. It's really not my thing, but I just felt like this would be a real teachable moment. So I'm out a function my best friend had a barbecue, chilling, cooling, vibing, conversing with people how I know to converse, and out of nowhere, this girl says to me, excuse me, what are you like? Where are you from? So I explained to her that I'm white and black. Now the room is silent, and she's like, and you think you're allowed to say ninja.
See this has gotten to this point, this thought policing and this race policing, that there is now a new litanus test for whether or not you're black. And Joe Biden introduced that litmus test. If you didn't vote for me, then you ain't black. Now that woman could in fact go out and identify more firmly as black if she became more radicalized. And this is the Nancy Pelosi version of this. It gives us Jasmine Crockett, who's not an ebonic speaker, but suddenly became one when she walked into
the halls of Congress. And I'm firmly convinced it was Nancy Pelosi saying, look, we love you, the camera loves you. You're quick on your feet, You're not here to accomplish anything legislatively. You're smart, you went to one hundred thousand dollar per year private school. But if you could be, you know, more black, it was not President Trump who broke race relations. Story number two, the dust up and the probable divorce between Elon Musk and President Trump. And
I'm going to disclose something to you. Sometimes a job I do, well, it's a blessing, and it's a job most people don't get to do, and it's unique, and I get to speak God's word into things. Sometimes it's a struggle because I would be frank with you, I cannot build up some big, fake head of steam to talk about Trump versus Elon. I'm sad about it. I'm sad because we were this close to a win. I'm sad because I can see both guys points on this.
I'm sad because Elon Musk, a guy who goes around fathering children every other week and doesn't bother to actual be a father, is accusing President Trump of being in the Epstein files. And I would suggest if President Trump was in the Epstein files, the Democrat Party who tried to take him out, as it were, through legal systems and a coup attempt, and am I judgment, Oh gosh, let's put some lazy, poorly trained secret Service agents on
his protection detail. Do you think they wouldn't have taken that selectively out and used that instead of the Russia hoax? Do you you don't think they would have leaked the portion of the Epstein files with President Trump in it if it existed. And on the topic of Elon, in his view, the guy sacrificed nearly his entire company. He
was willing to see his facilities burned down. He was willing to see his stock destroyed, to go and use tech tools to uncover massive structural fraud in the federal government. Massive structural fraud meaning a system set up to encourage, to steward and to hide corruption. On the topic of Elon and his assertion that President Trump is in the Epstein files, David shown I had been a lawyer for
Jeffrey Epstein. He wrote, I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein's defense as as criminal lawyer nine days before he was unalived. He sought my advice for months before that I can say authoritatively and equivocally and definitely he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him, and he's of the opinion that Jeffrey died. But he didn't say the words that a lot of people think happened. Although now we hear Don Bengino saying, damn Magio saying
it didn't happen. So what is a Christian response to this, Well, one of them is to look at what was actually going on behind the rules. Are the walls of Congress Anna Paulina Luna back concession. The rules commit in House leadership has decided to not bring anything to the floor to codify Trump's EOS or doge no code off I votes. Guess what, no votes. Half the reason the GOP even took the majority is because of Trump and Elon. Then
now you guys are too scared to codify. They are too scared, And there's a pragmatism to this, and the pragmatism is that the establishment is waiting out Trump, that they don't really want things to change. So how do you respond to this as a Christian? Because that's my concern on this. President Trump is a Christian. He talks about Jesus, he prays to Jesus. I believe in the developmental process of his faith. We refer to that as being a baby Christian, and it is not an insult.
Everyone starts somewhere. Elon Musk has talked about Jesus, but he doesn't know the Lord and he's not a Christian, so we can't expect Christian behavior out of them. But we can use Christian teaching for instruction to see where this is going off track and maybe why. I'll explain that in the second, as we cleanse our minds for just seconds. We have all sorts of choices in this world. We can quarrel or not quarrel. We can fight with people like Elon. We can fight with brothers and sisters,
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end lives you covet and cannot obtain. So you fight in qrarel you do not have because you do not ask. And in that they mean you do not have because you do not ask the Lord to fill you with that which would fulfill. We can look at Elon and we can look at President Trump, and both their hearts wants something. I think both met are patriots. I think President Trump deeply, deeply wants to heal this country, particularly financially. And I think Elon Musk is truly, truly terrified that
the country's going bankrupt. And they're both right. They're both right, and they're both wrong. Choosing this quarrel in public is exactly what Satan would want. A moment of precipice where a nation uniquely blessed with resources had an opportunity to at least begin to etch away at thieving, because a nation that has encoded you shall steal and be rewarded cannot be fully rewarded by God. Story number three, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of pastoring. If we wouldn't
get in trouble licensing style. Back in the day, Alex who's produces this program, we used to do a feature called just a Few More Things, and then we do a sub feature that just a Few More Things, where we had clips that were the good, the bad, and the ugly. We use that great Clint Eastwood movie music. And everybody can make mistakes. Pastors can make mistakes, and mistakes are some of the greatest opportunities in the world
to build relationships. Mistakes and errors and being wrong and treating people wrongly are some of the greatest ways to make relationships. Now, there's a difference between mistakes. There's a difference between making mistake and apologizing having made a mistake and sort of apologizing and then building your personality as a pastor around something that is uniquely not pastoral. That's how we get the goods, the bad, and the ugly. This is a pastor named John L. Hamadu of church
eleven thirty two, and he's delivering an apology. This is an important moment. This is a great moment. Apologies are great times where you can build faithful friendships and relationships and let Christ face show through your own.
Two things that I said, I would say, you know, tell a story about how he was lifeless, had no heartbeat for over eight minutes. He was just like laying there and I'm praying, and I'm praying.
I'm praying, and this is what I said.
I said, I'm not praying weak pansy prayers like oh God, please be with us. I'm praying bold prayers like God raise him from the deaths. I said that, and then I would say and then I felt the presence of God come into the room. And when the presence of God comes, death has to leave, Darkness has to leave. Literally. June twenty eighth, I'm preaching that a way of it. June twenty ninth, I'm in a hospital room again and Kaylee is eight months pregnant with our third son, Cole,
and there's no morph beat, and readuce her. She gives birth and literally I'm holding my son, praying God, please be with me. And I'm feeling the overwhelming sense of the presence of God.
So I used to preach, when.
You know, when the presence of God comes, death leaves here, I am holding both. I used to say, I wasn't praying pansy prayers like God here, I am. God, Please be with me. And I feel like I need to apologize to a bunch of teenagers because I have made people feel like if you had enough faith, if you prayed a little harder, if you were just a little bit more intellectually convinced, things would have been different. And sometimes it rains.
Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is I'm not going to do that for you. And I question after a season like that that I've learned to ask, is what am I to learn from this? Because God is always acting for a good What am I to learn from this? At youth group a couple months ago, a new kid came in. He's a bigger kid, and it's kind of a rambunctious night, and I got a little bit frustrated, and I'd not met this kid before, and I got snarky with him and said something about, hey,
when you're done interrupting me, I'll start interrupting. I'll stop interrupting you, and then I can get back to doing my job. So stop. And I saw his and it communicates to me that he was not angry, he was hurt. And I meant to catch him that night and I didn't get to and God presented an opportunity for me the next week, and he was in the hallway before class and I said, hey, can I chat with you privately for a second. I said, God put you on my heart. I wasn't gentle with you. I didn't even
give you any warning. You're new to the group. I'm super glad you're here. You really contributed to the group. And I was wrong, and I'm asking you to accept my apology and please forgive me. And in this ninth grade boy's eyes, there were some tears, and I didn't make him say the words I forgive you. This is really tough for boys, but it was there. And this has happened foreign life with young people with whom I've worked.
That's an opportunity to man up and to do what Jesus would do, and to let God's face shine through, and to not be prideful, to not just ignore a thing. So I love that moment of pastoring because it shows the human frailty. The that's the good the bad, and I don't know that it's I mean, it's bad, but it's also not a complete apology, and it's not also completely bad. This guy's name is Francis Chan, and these will come from protestea dot com. Such a great source.
We need to get him back on. David Moran, who runs that. David moral who runs that. We need to get him back on. Francis Chan tells Lecree that he at a point would talk about having had a bigger church than Jesus.
I remember, I remember you, like you had a megachurch in southern California. You had sold crazy amounts of books. Everyone was doing, your Bible studies, your DVD people kids DVDs are these things you watch. It's amazing, right, But then one day you just said you walked away from it.
Right.
And I'm not saying that you do that because of what you're talking about, but I'm interested. I'm interested, like, was it clarity, was a conviction? Was it like restlessness? Like what were you processing in that time period?
There were a few things. I remember one night telling my wife because I had a church in see Me Valley And one night I just looked at her and I thought, came, mago, honey. I feel like if the Apostle Paul or Jesus had a church in see Me Valley, mine would be bigger. And that is bothering me. I would have a bigger church than Jesus because I know how to keep a crowd.
They didn't.
And so you start realizing, well, am I really being like Christ? And then as I'm looking in the scriptures and I'm looking at okay, what's commanded? Like if God could have anything of a church, what is the main thing in scripture? And there was such an emphasis in the New Testament on loving one another as much as Christ love us. That's how much like, like, do I
really care about you? Like genuinely? It's great, we can be a show, we can be friends, we give each other a hug, see in five years, But do I really genuinely love you like Jesus love the church to where I go look anything, I'll give you the shirt off my back, whatever you need, Like that's what he wanted. And so I'm like, that's not what I created. I got a bunch of people. Thousands of people were playing churches.
We got call.
You know, podcast is going crazy, But are we loving each other like that?
So the thought that you have created a bigger church than Jesus is blasphemy because there would be no Christian Church without Jesus Christ, who has existed forever it always will exist, who became man to come and pay for our sins. There would be no Christian Church without his suffering, without what happened to him on the cross, and with what he did later in a resurrection. So it's blasphemy and that deserves a lot of repentance because this human
pride thing. It also requires I think an apology to people who follow him, and he does sounds sad about it. Maybe he sounds a tiny bit repentant. But on that topic, Jesus didn't want a big church. I mean, he wants a lot of people to be saved. It's not that he's against big churches. Five thousand people where there are
actually five thousand men. Probably more like fifteen to maybe twenty thousand people were there when Peter spoke the first sermon from the rooftop, days after Jesus returned, resurrected and spoke those words in front of the people who unlived Jesus very bravely. But Jesus made it difficult to the rich young ruler, go and sell all you have and come and follow me. The rich young ruler couldn't. He said, truly, I tell you, if you do not eat of my flesh and drink my blood, you can have no part
of me. And people left. He wasn't seeking haantity. He was seeking quality, people who understood who he was and is and were unafraid to say it in the face of massive, massive fuck pushback and threats of yourself being unlived as all but John ultimately were. They just couldn't seem to unlive the apostle John. God just wouldn't allow it. So Jesus didn't seek a big church. That's not to say that he doesn't like to see lots of people in church, But I don't think he wants to see
lots of butts and seats. I think Jesus wants to see a lot of people saved. He doesn't want people who drop in the church to see a rock and roll show or a big truck rally. He wants to see people who are in church having repented of their sins and to be there to worship him with gladness and gratitude. Thank you, Lord God for everything you have done for me, which is everything. So that's the bad.
The ugly form of pastoring is the it's the snippy, it's the it's the irreverent, it's the borderline well obnoxious form of pastoring. I'll share with you next. While we're talking about pastoring, let's talk about Jesus Christ as pastors. Let's talk about his love for children. There are many passages in the Bible that refer to this, that the children wanted to come to Jesus, and the apostles were saying, no, no, no, the rabbi's tired, and no, no, no, let the children
come to me. And truly, I tell you, any who becomes something blocks between me and these little ones would wish a millstone was tied around her necks and they'd be tossed into the ocean. So Jesus loved children, he loved families. He happened to have invented families. And there's a new movie that I think puts this into a really interesting perspective in that in this film and it comes from Angel Studios. In this film called King of Kings, a little boy gets an opportunity to be in the
gospel story as it's unfolding. He gets an opportunity because his father is a very skilled storyteller. It's based upon Charles Dickens this animated feature. Because of his father's skill as a story teller, this kid who had been obsessed with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and his sword, he's transported into the world of Jesus Christ, first as an observer and eventually even as a participant.
There is a turn in this film that is so magical because the little boy is watching Jesus go to the cross and he is remembering the miracles, some of them, but in this case it's the little boy who receives the miracles, the last of which is being called out of the tomb, so he changes. Now, this did a great bit of business in theaters that blew out the ridiculous Snow White movie Praise God. But you can't see it anymore unless you join Angels Studio Guild become a
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actually doesn't come from protests. It comes from Defiant Baptist. And in this case, Whitebeard is making a claim about Pastor Ninja, and a claim that's pretty disturbing.
Don't don't try to sneak this stuff into our fellowship it it's not going to go well for you. Especially. I would not stand in front of Jeff and pull any of this Corey Mohler stuff because, like I said, he can be saying in front of you and the next thing you know, his foot is in your face and lights go out. Don't do that. That would be really a bad thing to do. So what they'll put up with it What.
Is suggesting is that that Pastor Ninja Jeff Derbertt, will kick you in the face and knock you out if you express views on race with which Jeff disagrees, and that sounds pretty questionable. Then there's this on Jeff Durbin's Soul social pages. Pastor at Apology at Church, Head of Apology, a studios, husband's a candy, father to seven, grandfather to six, martial arts master. I like to kick people. I hope that the kicking is actually two consenting adults kicking one
another in an actual martial arts session. But truly, if you go around saying that you're going to kick people if they express a view on race with which you disagree, that's bad. It's particularly bad from a pastoring perspective. We are to be ambassadors to Christ for Christ, all of us. If you're a Christian and you've been changed by Him and you're being changed by him, did you know that you're an ambassador and you're expected to be a good one.
I've failed on that multiple times, and every time I've done it, I felt incredible shame. This is the Todd Hermanshaw. Please go be well, be strong, be kind, and please make every effort to walk in the light of Christ and