The Todd Herman Show
America (And The World) Need Boomers and Gen X'ers Ep-1700
For those of us from older generations—Boomers and Gen X'ers—it's our responsibility to help restore what has been taken from younger generations. We need to address confusing messages like those from a pastor who claims you can redefine your gender identity while still pleasing God. While God loves everyone, it's contradictory to reject the identity He created for you. Our mission is to inform young people about these injustices and empower them to reclaim their futures. Together, we can make a positive impact and bring about meaningful change by sharing the truth and winning hearts.
What does God’s Word say?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+6%3A5&version=NIVLove the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+6%3A1-3&version=NIV6 These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. 3 Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+6%3A4-9&version=NIV4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+6%3A10-12&version=NIV10 When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, 12 be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+6%3A13-19&version=NIV13 Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. 14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; 15 for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. 16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah. 17 Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. 18 Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors, 19 thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the Lord said.<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+6%3A20-25&version=NIV20"...
- Duration:
- 38m
- Broadcast on:
- 04 Jul 2024
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We'll get started with the help of renew.healthcare, R-E-N-U-E.healthcare, where you go to elevate your health care, and far more importantly, with that God who's calling us to let him work through us to save souls. We'll start in three, two, one. The Todd Herman Show is 100% disapproved by big pharma technocrats and tyrants everywhere. And now, from the high mountains of free America, here's the Emerald City Exile, Todd Herman. Today is a day the Lord has made in these are the times to which God has decided we shall live. Let's first of all make the case that the world needs saving. Do we need to do much of that? - Yeah, we can point to the easiest case there is at all is the attack on children. There's a new article in the City Journal written by Leor Seper. What happened at multi-care? A whistleblower reveals troubling new details about a Washington hospital's push for so-called gender affirming care. This is about Mary Bridge, Mary's Bridge in Tacoma, one of the biggest chop shops in the world for destroying children, mutilating their bodies. They and children's hospital in Bellevue, Washington, called Children's Seattle, have been hiding this for parents from eight to nine years. Oh, it's not just a show about the live transgenderism, by the way, it's across the board that we need to step in to save the kids, particularly if our kids are grown or near grown. We need to be engaged with the youth from this article. Last week, a therapist named Tamara Pizzi went public in the free press with disturbing allegations against her former employee, the multi-health care system is pediatric hospital, Mary Bridge in Washington state. Pizzi described an environment which kids with severe mental health problems and histories of sexual trauma and abuse were being put on a fast track to so-called gender affirming hormonal interventions. Clinicians with doubt that body modifying hormones were the best way to help these children with silence and asked to examine their biases. In her article, Pizzi describes one case in particular involving a young girl whom I'll call Ava, what are the most extreme and heartbreaking she'd ever seen. The case illustrates three troubling features of so-called gender affirming model. Its use of minority stress theory to cast out severe trauma, mental health problems, neurocognitive challenges are irrelevant to decisions about hormonal treatment. The pipeline from first contract with mental health provider to the endocrinologist's syringe and the willingness of affirming providers to shirk the very medical guidelines they claim to follow, at least when following them would mean not approving a teenager for hormones. The details of Ava, as she's called in this article. She'd been experiencing stress about her sex for about a year, she was 13. She was diagnosed with listen to this, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, intermittent explosive disorder, and autism. She was barely able to communicate verbally, likely because of her autism and seemed not to have any comprehension of the meaning of her employment at the marriage bridge gender clinic. In fact, according to Pizzi's communication for their colleagues, Ava, quote, "Did not express any gender distress or desire to so-called transition in our sessions together." She did, however, talk about Zeno genders. She identifies with, by the way, that something autistic people have made up. If you like food, for instance, there's a gender for that. Ava's past was saturated with abuse, neglect, and sexual violence. As a child, she'd been sexually abused by a cousin, her mother's former boyfriend, and a classmate. She told Pizzi that the horror and porn movies were the only ones available in her house, that her mother practices bestiality. The mother had tried to kill Ava's sister, who was also questioning her gender in front of Ava, and now had a restraining order against her. The father was out of the picture, but did request to put Ava on testosterone, and that came from him. The sisters mean time of being raised by the mother's ex-boyfriend. During the therapy sessions, including on the first visit, Ava would rock back and forth and communicate with Pizzi by showing her extremely sadistic and graphic pornographic videos on her phone. The 13-year-old's trauma was so severe that she would occasionally age regress at home by watching Teletubbies and sucking on a pacifier. If there was ever a teenager whom the most ardent of gender affirming clinicians would agree as not a good candidate for medical transition, surely it was Ava. Yet, Mary Bridge approved the testosterone after her first visit, because they're monsters, and they're evil. And they're absolutely spiritually captured, and unless they repent, they will rot in hell where they belong. I do pray that they repent. Parents whose kids are grown, you are being called back into service. God is asking you to get back with the youth and provide the parents that so many of them don't have. We are given the word from the Bible, that it is up to us to raise the kids. And I'm not saying that it takes a village that's Hillary Clinton's statement. I'm saying it takes the body of Christ to help mend the body of Christ. After all, in Deuteronomy chapter six verse five, I read, love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your strength. Well, what does God love? In the addition of other things, he loves us, and he loves these children. And it's a generation of kids that need stewardship. We love us with grown kids. My daughter is now legally an adult. And I still have parenting to do. You never stop parenting. But you and I need to be parents and grandparents to a series of lost sheep. You think of Ava and the way her parents have advocated their duties and sound to me to be deeply, deeply spiritually captured by the devil with what was going on her home or at least what she says was going on in her home. And think now of how many Avas exist in your sphere within a three mile radius of you. How many kids are there suffering in the same way? In your church, in your communities, in your community centers, in your daily life. We are called to be with these kids. If you're a facilities manager at a warehouse and your HVAC system goes down, it can turn up the heat, literally. But don't sweat it, Granger has you covered. Granger offers over a million industrial grade products for all your operations, including warehouse HVAC maintenance. And even better, they offer access to experts and fast delivery so you and your warehouse can both keep your cool. Call 1-800-GRANGER, click Granger.com, or just stop by. Granger, for the ones who get it done. - In Deuteronomy, chapter six, verse one through three. We read, "These are the commands and decrees "and laws the Lord, your God directed me to teach you "to observe in the land that you are crossing "the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children, "and their children after them, may fear the Lord's "or God as long as you live, by keeping all his decrees "and his command that I'd give you "and so that you may enjoy long life. "Here, Israel, and be careful to obey "so that it may go well with you, "and you may increase greatly in a land "flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, your God, "and the God of your ancestors promised you." So this is Moses speaking to the Israeli people. And he's saying, "This is what I've told you to do." And we are very much grafted under the vine of the Israeli people. He wasn't speaking here about just in your home. He, yes, addressed his parents. Specifically, he addressed his fathers. And if your style of fathering is, the church is gonna handle the religion and you're gonna handle the sports, you're failing. You're contributing to this. I love you and you're contributing to this. And I'm guilty. We stopped going to church 'cause my daughter had a promising career as a speed skater. We stopped going to church. Do you know how often I've repented for that? I repent again of it right now. In Deuteronomy six verses four through nine. Here over Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and all your strength. These commandments I give to you today are to be on your hearts and press them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, when you get up, tie them as symbols on your hands, bind them on your foreheads, write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates. Why do we stop doing this? Now there's debates about whether that means figuratively write it on your foreheads, et cetera. And there are people who practice that. And there are those of us who view it as a command that the word always be with us. If you think again, how many times in the past four years have you shared the word of God with a team? How many times? If it's zero, I ask you, if you were to sit with Jesus and he said, hey, how many times have you shared my word with teens? And you said zero. Who would weep first? Him or you? Because I think in his presence, you'd weep. But you are in his presence. Right? Due to rotomy six versus 13 through 19, fear the Lord your God and serve Him only and take your oaths in His name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the people around you. For the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and His anger will burn against you and He will destroy you from the face of the land. Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massa. Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees He's given you. Do what is right and good in the Lord's sight so that it may go well with you. And you may go in and take over the good land the Lord has promised on oath to your ancestors, thrusting all of your enemies out before you. As the Lord said, think of America. We lived in houses we didn't build. A country we weren't the first to have. And we've been blessed with the resources here and of course it's incumbent upon us to steward those resources. Those resources include the children. And here's what we see going on at Mary Bridge is a figurative decision to sacrifice kids to the gods of money and control. Well, plus Mary's Bridge is evil. It's a chop shop, it's satanic. They don't know that perhaps, but that's what they are. We'll get back to the word of God because it all needs to center on the word of God. All of it because there's nothing, there's no such thing as secular because everything belongs to God. But let's make some other cases here. We talked about being grandmothers in fathers, grandfathers to these lost sheep. Let's discuss how we can do that using current events as a tool because current events are something that kids can at least relate to because it relates to their world. It relates to what they're going to inherit. What they're going to inherit is either a world that they are able to make better or at least survive in and thrive or something that's completely poisoned. There's a rewiring of the female brain going on. There are study after study after study despite what Mark Zuckerberg says of women who interact with social media having worse, far worse self-images and impossible self-images. I remember when my daughter informed me that she would not be happy until she was an Asian girl. Now, at the time, she was seven or eight. Asian girls are skinny and their eyes are beautiful and their hair is dramatic and their skin color. And dad, what can you do to make me an Asian girl? There's nothing. I guess I could send you back to the womb factory and no, but there's nothing. I was not armed. I was absolutely unarmed to say to her, honey, God created you in the womb. He counted every hair in your head. He thinks you are beautiful as I do. And honey, there are questions that Satan wants us to ask. The demons want us to ask, we're never good enough. If you are a grandmother and you made it through a time where you question, hey, it ain't that fun going through puberty, get with the kids in your neighborhood, get your church in your youth group and volunteer, at least go to a summer camp, at least visit with them. And if it's not the older kids, if you're uncomfortable with the teens and I get it, 'cause they can make you pretty uncomfortable, although I'm blessed to work around great young men. Get into the day cares. Work with the four and five year olds, allow God to show his face through you. 'Cause look, they see what's going on in their world. I can attest to this that young men know what's going on in the world. They talk about government affairs. I work with 17 or 18 year olds. It's a 17 or 18 year old that reminded me of this, that the Instagram effect and what it's having on kids, they reminded me this 'cause of the government hearings. This is Christina Crittle, who's the director and Lauren Black, one of the subjects of this movie called the Instagram Effect. - Yeah, we spoke to insiders at Instagram and I think what we were trying to do with the film was to explain how Instagram can potentially lead you down harmful paths. So it looks at the algorithm and how, if you give it a signal that you're interested in something, it will keep showing you that and it will keep showing you more and more versions of that. And that can potentially be harmful things. And so what we were trying to do with the documentary was speak to the people who created these products who were involved in making Instagram and their view on how it could potentially be unhealthy for users. - And Lauren, for you, just tell us your story because you're very open in this documentary, aren't you? - Yeah. - Yeah. - So I basically went into and I actually recovered a year and a half ago and I kind of subconsciously didn't really realize the effect that Instagram was having on my mental health. Obviously it was my job, so I was kind of looking at myself a lot more often than the average job. What did you mean? - Yeah. - What do you mean by that? - So I'm a content creator full-time, have been for five years, I sort of did content on fashion and beauty and then when I went in for a country, I started to document that process and my journey on there to... - Specifically, how did it impact your mental health? What does it actually mean in day-to-day terms? - So in terms of the content that I was looking at, the images are all edited, I was comparing my body shapes of the people's body shapes and their lives to my life. - Impossible perfection. - Yeah, yeah. - Every time you looked physically and in terms of lifestyle. - Yeah. - Okay, so take it on from there. - So with this just pressing down upon young girls, how useful could you be as a 50, 60, 70-year-old woman, chatting with them and saying to them, "I remember when." We had People magazine, we had Life magazine, we had movies, we had Marilyn Monroe, we had people to whom we compared ourselves and the only comparison that matters, the only thing that matters is how you're seen by God Almighty and God Almighty loves you completely and fully. There are kids who've never heard that. I met a boy last week who'd never heard a Christian song. Once. First time he heard one was at our youth group that he showed up to. First time he came there. 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Tell him, we were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with the mighty hand. Before our eyes, the Lord sent signs and wonders, great and terrible in Egypt and Pharaoh with his whole household. But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he promised on oath to our ancestors. The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. And if we're careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he's commanded us, that will be our righteousness. We can be the lions that many, many kids' fathers were never, ever taught to be. For instance, there's a Christian UPS driver who's decided to take on the company because of course the company has fallen over, not just to wokism, mokism is a tired word. What we're talking here is about Satanism, soft Satanism, they don't know it, but that's what it is. If you're pushing the live gender ideology, you're pushing Satan's design. You don't know it, but you are. Because God made man and woman, made us male and female. So when a Christian UPS driver decided to step up and challenged us, he's being a lion from thestream.org. James Earls has worked at UPS for 35 years and is a devout Christian. He's received some of UPS's highest awards for safety and loyalty. He's a driver of a large UPS feeder truck. He lives in Alabama and is represented by Teamsters Local 402. He recently brought the details of his effort to mass resistance. When most people think of anti-Christian pro-LGBT companies, they think of Target, Amazon, and Bank of America, NFL, et cetera, but UPS is right up there with them. So it came during pride month, week, decade, century at UPS. During the celebration of same-sex attraction month a few years ago, James entered the UPS facility in Madison, Alabama. UPS was showing its support and dedication to the LGB so-called T community by broadcasting all images on its large hanging TV monitors in various workstations, on its social media sites and on the employee training computers throughout the building. If employees wanted to check on their benefits, paychecks, retirement funds, and other HR related information, they had no choice but to navigate through the images promoting LGB so-called T pride. And there, in fact, are images of it. So this man decided to stand up to fight back at the risk of his career and the ability to support his family because he's not conned. He understands our primary job is to raise kids to be holy, certainly not raise them to be servants of the state. When we stand up like this visibly and allow young people to stand with us, we're giving them a demonstration of what it means to practice our faith. I met a young man about four months ago who said the reason that he cannot come to a youth group is because his dad disagrees with how Jesus Christ is reflected in the church. I understand what your dad think of Jesus. Well, he thinks Jesus was a really good teacher, but it's not possible for someone to overcome death. Therefore, he can't be truthful. I said, so your dad says that Jesus is a great teacher who lies. I kind of took him back. We, I guess so. Does that make sense? Well, no, I mean, great teachers don't lie, okay? Does your dad attend church? Well, no, obviously not. On what is he basing his knowledge of Jesus? I actually don't know. My daughter knows what I base my knowledge on. She knows it's the word of God. She knows I'm flawed, just ask her. She'll tell you in vivid detail how flawed I am, but we must be the lions. 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Some of the arguments against that community are based on religious and moral reasons. Tonight, we introduce you to someone who is in the center of all of that. Queen City news anchor Derek Delinger sat down with a minister, with a message. - I just came to be a service lawyer today. - It's a Sunday service with a message, a place for all to come and worship, and one of the main figures at that service is Paris Lebelle, a bishop. She has an honorary time printing humane letters and is a person who may make you think differently when it comes to being LGBT and a person of faith. - I wear mini hats, I've always been for not asking for a seat at the table, but creating a table. - She is also a trans woman. Lebelle has been in the industry for years, but only recently has had the spotlight shown on her. It stems from this, a TikTok that went viral, showcasing just part of her story. - It is. - I just wanted to post, you know, that you can love God and be who you are because God loves you. And that was it, very innocent post. I woke up at 38,000 views and I looked at my wife and I said, "Um, we might be in trouble." - So what he said is that you can be yourself because God loves you. Right, that's why the Bible says you be you. That's why there's no other direction. That's why the Bible's one page long, you be you. There's all sorts of desires that kids are being told, you be you. You like porn, you be you. When I'm sex with someone you've just met, you be you. You want to covet your neighbor's belongings? Well, you be you. That's not what the Bible says. You cannot be a pastor and say you be you. It starts with you believe God or you don't. God said he made us in his image, male and female he made us. You either believe him or you don't. If you're going back to God and saying, I refuse to be a man, I'm gonna be a woman. You're saying what Satan said, non-servium, I will not serve. 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We employ them because everybody deserves the dignity of work, starting with alan. 13, he's been through 18 operations. He is the chief soap officer. Two other young people work there now. Get 10% off all their products at alansoaps.com/todd. Again, that's atlanssoaps.com/todd where all lives actually matter. (upbeat rock music) This man, well, he has a very interesting view of Psalm 139. He's a so-called pastor who made his way to God. He says, because a church welcomed him to be who he is. He says that Psalm 139 indicates to him that, yeah, he's right. He gets to decide if he's a man or a woman. - Also in my spiritual journey, there's actually a Psalm that has really helped me. I reflect on it a lot. I use it for transgender day of visibility, events, and I share it with those who are exploring their identity, exploring their gender, their sexuality, and wondering, well, where do I fit? The scripture that I use comes from Psalm 139 versus 13 through 16 from the new revised standard version. For it was you who formed my inward parts. You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you for I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works that I know very well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret. Intricately woven in the depths of the earth, your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your books were written all the days that were formed for me when none of them has yet existed. And that's brought so much comfort to me and so many people in my life. And yeah, it's if we go back to Genesis, God created man and woman in his image. So in fact, you can read that all you like, but when you deny the fact that when God needed you, he knew what he was doing, you're denying him. Psalm 139, my version of the revised version is a little bit different than his. For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother's womb. Indeed, created me as what? A man, a boy, a man. I praise you because I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know that full well, except I need to be mutilated because you screwed up, you put me in the wrong body. See God, you didn't know what you were doing. My frame was not hidden from you when I was in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth, but you're a fool. After all, you put a female brain in a male body, a female soul in male skin. Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained of me were written in your book before one of them came to be, including the day where I denied your power and your grace. How precious to me are your thoughts? God, how vast is the sum of them? Except for the part where you said I'm a man. Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I'm still with you, even though you're wrong and a fool. You are in war. The young people around you are products of warfare. If you're in your 50s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and your kids are grown, they're going to inherit a world that they're gonna interact with the young people that stay here being conned in this way. We need to arm them in battle. They need to understand the armor of guard and how it works. That the fact is that all those things they sense about this world is right, it is fallen. So the team that you're on is the team that you choose to support. There is the team that is taking damaged, abused teenagers like Ava and offering to chemically mutilate them and cheers later surgically mutilate them. There's a team that is telling kids that Psalms are really just God's way of guessing. And of course, you can push back. I've got something wrong. Well, after all, sometimes God is an idiot. There are legions of girls who at this moment are staring at Instagram thinking this is the thing that defines them. When you as an older woman can say, "Honey, I had Marilyn Monroe." In you, if you watch this whole thing or listen to it, it made it to this point and you haven't turned it off. Why? There's nothing to do with me. I don't think this is one of my best shows. I think you're here because God parked you where you're at. And if you feel a burning in your chest, it's not me, I can't do that to you. That's the Holy Spirit speaking to you. So take action. A church or a youth group or just in your neighborhood. Gather with the youth, protect them, pull them under your wing, let them see God's face through you and let them see what it is to live as a Christian in a society that hates us. And you can even tell them, I counted as good news when they hate us. If they're hating us on behalf of the Lord Jesus, because we were told the world hated him first, certainly they're gonna hate us because we're in the world, but not of it. Dear Jesus, thank you for your sacrifice. Thank you for the Holy Spirit, Father God. Thank you for all creation. This is the Todd Herman Show. Please go be well, be strong, be kind, and if there's a burning in your heart, go take action, go help the kids. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) [BLANK_AUDIO]