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Allie Stuckey (0:01)
Paula White, Tucker Carlson, Franklin Graham, Donald Trump. They all had something to say about the Bible and Jesus and Easter and the world and history. I've got a response to all of it today, but we will also be looking at the faith of an astronaut and what space can actually teach us, not only about who we are, God's creation, but also about the Gospel. We've got all of this and more in today's episode of Relatable. It's brought to you by our friends Astronomy Good ranchers. Go to good ranchers.com use code ally at checkout. That's good ranchers.com code ally. Hey y'. All. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone has had a wonderful week so far. Obviously we're a few days removed from Easter, but this is the first new monologue episode that I've done since Easter. So I hope everyone had a wonderful resurrection Sunday. I hope it was peaceful. I hope it was filled with worship. I hope you got to celebrate with your family and make lasting memories. We certainly did. It was a wonderful weekend in the stucky home with church and Easter egg hunts and lots of good food and family and all of that good stuff. And I'm just so grateful for it. And I'm grateful to be back here with you. If you have not listened to Monday's episode, which is an interview with a woman named Brittany de La Mora who was in the adult industry and then Christ radically saved her, transformed her life and she became a Christian, shares the gospel and shares her testimony with others, or Wes Huff's interview that we did over the weekend. Gosh, you guys responded so well to that. You love Wes Huff for very good reason. He is so good at giving evidence for the historicity of Jesus and his life and scripture. One thing I want to note about the testimony that I shared on Monday with Brittany and then a past episode that we did with Ashley Sheets. There is some chatter online among one segment of people who profess to be Christians who really want to deride sharing testimonies of women who used to be promiscuous or used to be a prostitute, as if it is trying to give cover to that kind of lifestyle or it's women trying to protect women. It's very weird. It's a very like woman hating crowd who always finds a reason to lambast women who have become Christians who have a kind of like imperfect, sexually immoral past. And I just want to say, first of all, we've had all kinds of people on this show share a wide variety of testimonies We've had detransitioners. We've had men who have left homosexuality. We have people who were raised a Christian their entire life. We have people who have left cults. We have people who used to be intellectual atheists until their atheism ran up against the evidence for Christ and his crucifixion and resurrection. We have shared such a wide spectrum of testimonies on the show, and it's one of my favorite kinds of episodes that I do because I am edified by those stories. And you guys obviously love them so much, and I'm so thankful to get to do it. But when I share this particular kind of testimony, which we don't very often do, of a woman who was in a particular industry and was saved, we just get a lot of chatter and a lot of criticism about it. And I. I just think it's odd. These people who profess to follow Jesus, who had these very intentional interactions with women who were caught in adultery, like. Like the woman who was caught in adultery and was almost stoned, like the woman that he met at the well, who had been married five different times, obviously sexually immoral. The woman of the night, or the woman of the city who poured out her finest oil and perfume on his feet, whom Jesus complimented for her faith. These people claim to follow that Jesus, yet have such a utter disdain for the women that he clearly attended to in Scripture. Now, Jesus praised them for faith when they had repented, called them to repentance himself, which is something that we should do. But clearly the writers of the Gospels, whom were. Who were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write these inerrant, infallible words, saw it fit to include these interactions with Jesus and these formerly promiscuous women. And I think that tells us something about the importance of this kind of testimony, the importance of highlighting it, but also the mercy that our Lord and Savior shows these kinds of women that we should emulate in our own lives. And if you are walking away from a testimony like the ones that we've shared on this show with, wow, they're really trying to make it seem like that sin is not that big of a deal. They're really trying to make people feel better about the sin of sexual immorality or promiscuity, then you've completely missed it. You are the older brother in the prodigal son story. You're missing it like you're missing the gospel. You're missing Jesus. There is no one, certainly on this show, trying to make light of any kind of Sin, especially the kind of sin against one's own body, sexual sin that hurts your heart, your mind, your soul, your body, and has repercussions for the rest of your life, even after you repent. If anything, we hope that these messages reach women in those situations and urge them to stop before they sell their bodies, before they're treated like objects, before they go into promiscuity. And to tell you that's going to lead you to darkness, that is going to hurt you. You are looking for love in all of the wrong places. There's a better way you can find love and satisfaction, the fulfillment that you're looking for in Christ. And he has a good plan for you, and he has good parameters for your body because he made your body and he loves you. That is the message. And it's also a message to people who have gone down that path to say, you're not too far gone. It's impossible to be too far gone. God's grace can reach you, can cleanse you. He can make you white as snow. That is what his sacrifice does by grace, through faith. And if you don't believe that, like, if you believe that there is some kind of immorality, that that can't be fully cleansed spiritually by Christ, then again, you have missed it. It's not the fault of podcasters. It's not the fault of women. It's not the fault of these women giving their testimonies. If you have other criticisms about someone's particular testimony, okay, then that's fine. But just to say in general that sharing the testimonies of women who used to be strippers or prostitutes or promiscuous in some way is wrong or is trying to make excuses for sin. You have missed the gospel and you don't understand it. And it's okay to just say that and wrestle with that, but don't take your anger and confusion out on other people. It's not pretty. All right, we got a lot to talk about today. We are going to talk about Paula White and what she said at the White House. I giggle. It's really not funny. It's just so ridiculous that sometimes it just makes you laugh, but in a sad way. And then also Trump's Easter message, what Tucker Carlson has to say about that. But then also some really good things coming out of Artemis, too. For example, we've got Christians up circling the moon right now sharing really good messages. So we've got some good news. And then, of course, some things to critique from the White House and the Public square. But before we get into all of it, let me just go ahead and pause. I'll tell you about our first sponsor for the day. It's Alliance Defending Freedom. 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Whatever you can donate helps and your donation will be matched thanks to a special grant. Go to join ADF.com ally. Paula White is Trump's spiritual advisor. She is the head of the faith initiative in the White House. Am I glad that there's a faith initiative in the White House? Yes. I know some solid pastors who have gotten to visit with President Trump, have gotten to visit with Paula White, have been invited to the White House. We have talked about the problems with Paula White's theology on this show many times. I believe her to be heretical. And while I am sure she is accomplishing some really good things that I as a Christian can be thankful for, I know that she is really pressing the cause of religious liberty to President Trump. Again. She's invited some solid pastors around him who have hopefully shared messages of truth with him and with her. But I can say that and say I'm grateful for that. God uses all different kinds of people and say that the messages that she preaches are heretical, they're just not true. Doesn't mean she's never said something true. But she often says things that are not true, that are anti biblical. And I think we need to be able to hold those truths at the same time and call her out when she is wrong. So the White House hosted an Easter prayer lunch last Wednesday. Lots of faith leaders were in attendance. Franklin Graham, Bishop Barron, who spoke during the event, and Trump himself shared the story of Jesus's death and resurrection.
