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Over the weekend you saw the headlines as Israel struck Iran in a surprise attack after negotiations over Iran’s supposed nuclear program broke down. For Israel, Iran poses an existential threat if they develop nuclear capabilities, while Iran views Israel as an illegitimate state and stands in solidarity with the Mohammedans occupying Palestine. This conflict has been raging since 1979, and Friday’s escalation is merely the next chapter in an ancient blood feud.But more than Israel fears Iran’s nuclear capabilities, Israel fears losing the support of the West. Support for Israel has been decline since October 7th, 2023. Younger evangelicals are more indifferent and nationalists sentiments against foreign aid have already stranded Ukraine just 5 months into Trump’s presidency. With the exception of their intelligence operations, Israel’s military is relatively small and underpowered. In short, they desperately need the US and the EU to see their war against Iran as justified and for them to join the fray.And so, President Donald Trump is facing the most important test of his presidency. The Middle East is the graveyard of kingdoms. 20 years and $3 trillion dollars failed achieve a stable government in Iraq. If we are dragged into another war the benefits will be practically negligible for us, and the downsides almost infinite. Will Trump rip the bandaid off and make the US be done playing international peacemaker?This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at patreon.com/rightresponseministries or you can donate at rightresponseministries.com/donate.Tune in now as we discuss the most important developments in the Middle East since October 7th.MINISTRY SPONSORSReece Fund. Christian Capital. Boldly Deployedhttps://www.reecefund.com/Kingsmen CapsCarry the Crown with Kingsmen Caps — premium headwear made for those who honor Christ as King. Create your custom crown or shop our latest releases at https://kingsmencaps.com.Mid State AccountingDoes your small business need help with bookkeeping, tax returns, and fractional CFO services? Call Kailee Smith at Mid State Accounting at 573‑889‑7278 for a free, no‑obligation consultation. Mention the Right Response podcast and get 10% off your first three months.https://www.midstateaccounting.netPrivate Family BankingHow to Connect with Private Family Banking:Receive a FREE e-book entitled "How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking Meltdown", by going to https://protectyourmoneynow.net/Schedule a Free 30-Minute Discovery Appointment call today at https://www.liberationeconomy.comWestern Front Books. Publishing for men on the right. Not churchy. Christian.https://www.WesternFrontBooks.com/Heaven's HarvestGet 10% off your Heaven's Harvest order by using discount code "RRM" at checkout on their website.https://heavensharvest.com/rrm

The conversation dives into the transformative impact of AI on various industries, from dishwashers to Tesla robots. A looming question emerges: how will automation threaten entry-level jobs and exacerbate wealth inequality? Discussions explore ethical implications of job displacement and the responsibilities of government to ensure economic stability. The podcast also reflects on historical parallels and the moral dimensions of property ownership, contrasting ancient practices with modern wealth consolidation. Lastly, unsettling AI capabilities spark urgent considerations for the future.

Once upon a time, gambling was something done in back rooms and smoke-filled basements. Now? One in five Americans has a sports betting app — right next to their Bible app. In 2024 alone, Americans legally wagered nearly $150 billion on sports. Nearly all of it — 95% — was done online. No dice, no bookie. Just tap, swipe, lose.For over a century, both American law and Christian conscience agreed: gambling was a vice. Not merely a private sin, but a public threat. It corrupted sports — from the 1919 Black Sox scandal to Pete Rose. It bankrupted homes. It bred addiction. So in 1992, Congress passed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, barring states from legalizing sports betting. The goal was to shield young people, uphold the integrity of sports, and slow the spread of a morally corrosive practice. That restraint lasted 26 years — until the Supreme Court struck down PASPA in 2018. Since then, we’ve witnessed a cultural transformation: not a thoughtful reappraisal of risk and reward, but a full surrender to the gods of revenue, entertainment, and ease.And that surrender has been lucrative. Lobbyists promised lawmakers untold tax revenue. Tech companies engineered betting apps that are frictionless, addictive, and nearly impossible to close. Now, children can stream an NBA game and place a live bet on who misses the next free throw. The app encourages it. So does the league.But is it just harmless fun? A little added thrill to the game? Or is it something deeper — a system designed not to entertain, but to exploit? When gambling apps track your every wager, target your weaknesses, and make it easier to bet than to withdraw, is that still freedom — or is it a new form of bondage?And what happens when Christians get pulled into that system? For centuries, the church understood games of chance as morally precarious, if not downright dangerous. Not because randomness is sinful — after all, “the lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord” — but because gambling treats chance as profit, and profit as providence. It tempts us to see fortune as fate, and risk as recreation.So what are we really looking at here — a neutral technology that needs guarding? Or a predatory industry that preys on disordered loves, promising fast money and delivering slow ruin?This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at patreon.com/rightresponseministries or donate at rightresponseministries.com/donate.Today we trace the long Christian view of gambling — from biblical cleromancy to digital entrapment — and ask whether the modern church has fallen silent just as Mammon found a new app store. Let’s get into it.MINISTRY SPONSORS: Squirrelly Joe’s Coffee – Caffeinating The Modern Reformation Get a free bag of coffee (just pay shipping): https://squirrellyjoes.com/rightresponse Kingsmen Caps Carry the Crown with Kingsmen Caps — premium headwear made for those who honor Christ as King. https://kingsmencaps.com Western Front Books Publishing for men on the right. Not churchy. Christian. https://www.WesternFrontBooks.com Reece Fund Christian Capital. Boldly Deployed. https://www.reecefund.com Private Family Banking Receive a FREE e-book: How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street Schedule a free 30-minute appointment: https://www.liberationeconomy.com Heaven's Harvest Get 10% off your order using code RRM at checkout: https://heavensharvest.com/rrm

This past weekend, federal agents raided businesses across Los Angeles—two Home Depots, a clothing wholesaler, and more—arresting over a hundred illegal immigrants. Hours later, masked protesters blocked freeways, torched federal vehicles, and hurled fireworks at LAPD officers. The streets of L.A. didn’t just erupt—they revealed something. We’re not just arguing over immigration enforcement. We’re staring down a deeper crisis: whether America still has the will to define who it is—and the honesty to acknowledge who it has been.For decades, California has quietly built a legal scaffolding designed to shield itself from federal immigration enforcement. From SB 54 to sanctuary city ordinances, local jurisdictions don’t defy federal law outright—they maneuver around it. Now, cities like Glendale are cutting ties with ICE, while taxpayer-funded activist groups rally thousands to disrupt deportations. All of it legal. All of it coordinated. And all of it pointing to a growing divide: between those who believe our national identity should be preserved, and those who insist it must be deconstructed.Supporters of these sanctuary policies argue that they reflect compassion and community trust. But what’s being obscured beneath that language is something far more consequential: a moral unwillingness to distinguish citizen from foreigner, and a political unwillingness to enforce the boundaries that make a nation a nation.We are watching a nation lose the will to be itself. This is more than a clash over immigration—it’s a struggle over whether the American nation has the right to protect its own integrity, or whether it must yield to a new order that treats enforcement as cruelty and national loyalty as shame. These protests, these raids, this chaos—none of it is happening in a vacuum. It’s the fruit of a generation taught to despise the very idea of national inheritance.This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at patreon.com/rightresponseministries or donate at rightresponseministries.com/donate.Today, we’re going to examine what’s really driving the riots in L.A., the legal infrastructure that allows states to resist federal enforcement, and most importantly—the theological and moral failure to love our own people rightly. Stay with us.MINISTRY SPONSORS:Private Family BankingReceive a FREE e-book: How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Outside of Wall Street and Avoid the Coming Banking MeltdownSchedule a Free 30-Minute Discovery Appointment call: liberationeconomy.comMid State Accounting Need help with bookkeeping, tax returns, or fractional CFO services? Call Kailee Smith at 573‑889‑7278 for a free, no‑obligation consultation. Mention the Right Response podcast for 10% off your first three months.https://www.midstateaccounting.netHeaven's Harvest Get 10% off your order using discount code "RRM" at checkout:https://heavensharvest.com/rrmArmored Republic We make Tools of Liberty for the defense of every free man’s God-given rights. Arm yourself today:https://www.ar500armor.com/Squirrelly Joe’s Coffee – Caffeinating The Modern Reformation Get a free bag of coffee (just pay shipping):https://squirrellyjoes.com/rightresponseWestern Front Books Publishing for men on the right. Not churchy. Christian.https://www.WesternFrontBooks.com/

Pastor Michael Belch teaches from Matthew 9:35-38.

Tune in as Dr. Wolfe and Pastor Reece discuss the use of Natural Law & Theonomy.

<p>In May of 2022, Elon Musk announced he would no longer support the Democrat party, citing them as having become the party of “division and hate.” The richest man in the world would go on to purchase Twitter and invest over $290 million into the 2024 election to get Donald Trump and Republican candidates elected. These two acts alone likely changed the course of the Right Wing movement in America forever. After the elections, he then left his businesses to work on cutting wasteful spending in the government via the Department of Government Efficiency, which went on to cost his companies millions in boycotts, arson, and negative press.</p><br><p>But that honeymoon period is now over. Fed up with the proposed deficit increases and perceived snubs of Tesla and Starlink in the massive spending bill working its way through Congress, Elon Musk began to lash out at the bill and Republicans who supported it. Never one to let an insult slide, Donald Trump quickly became critical of Elon and his subsidies, and it devolved rapidly from there.</p><br><p>Now the two most important individuals in the world are at bitter odds with one another. Elon accused Trump of appearing in the Epstein files; Trump shot back that he is a ketamine addict who should go back to Africa. No one can chart a path through the ticking time bombs of out-of-control spending, mass immigration, and trying to fund a government that spends over $200,000 per second.</p><br><p>This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at <a href="https://patreon.com/rightresponseministries" target="_blank">patreon.com/rightresponseministries</a> or donate at <a href="https://rightresponseministries.com/donate" target="_blank">rightresponseministries.com/donate</a>.</p><br><p>We very well may be in the final stages of our Republic. <strong>Tune in now</strong> as we discuss.</p><br><h3>MINISTRY SPONSORS</h3><br><ul> <li><strong>Reece Fund</strong><br> Christian Capital. Boldly Deployed<br> <a href="https://www.reecefund.com/" target="_blank">https://www.reecefund.com/</a> </li><br> <li><strong>Squirrelly Joe’s Coffee – Caffeinating The Modern Reformation</strong><br> Get a free bag of coffee (just pay shipping) by visiting:<br> <a href="https://squirrellyjoes.com/rightresponse" target="_blank">https://squirrellyjoes.com/rightresponse</a> </li><br> <li><strong>Western Front Books</strong><br> Publishing for men on the right. Not churchy. Christian.<br> <a href="https://www.WesternFrontBooks.com/" target="_blank">https://www.WesternFrontBooks.com/</a> </li><br> <li><strong>Kingsmen Caps</strong><br> Carry the Crown with Kingsmen Caps — premium headwear made for those who honor Christ as King.<br> <a href="https://kingsmencaps.com" target="_blank">https://kingsmencaps.com</a> </li><br> <li><strong>Mid State Accounting</strong><br> Need help with bookkeeping, tax returns, or fractional CFO services? Call Kailee Smith at 573‑889‑7278.<br> Mention the Right Response podcast for 10% off your first three months.<br> <a href="https://www.midstateaccounting.net" target="_blank">https://www.midstateaccounting.net</a> </li><br> <li><strong>Heaven's Harvest</strong><br> Get 10% off your order using discount code <strong>"RRM"</strong> at checkout:<br> <a href="https://heavensharvest.com/rrm" target="_blank">https://heavensharvest.com/rrm</a> </li></ul><br><p>#trump #elonmusk #politics</p>

In the cultural war zones of corporate America, something strange is happening. June has arrived—but the battlefield looks... quiet. Rainbow logos are missing from brands that once flew them proudly. Anheuser-Busch, after three decades, has pulled its sponsorship from St. Louis Pride. Target, rejected by organizers in its own backyard, is sitting on the sidelines in Minneapolis. And Nike? For the first time since 1999, no global Pride collection.Pride Month—once the high holy season of the modern West—looks less like a parade and more like a retreat.But is it?Is this merely a tactical withdrawal, a marketing pause in response to conservative backlash? Or is it something deeper? Is it, perhaps, the beginning of a broader collapse—something more than a pendulum swing?We’ve seen pendulum swings before. The 1920s flaunted its rebellion, only to sober up in the dustbowl austerity of the Great Depression. The sexual revolution of the 60s gave way to the Moral Majority of the 80s. But neither lasted. Both faded. Both were reactions, not reformations or returns to what is true.In this episode, we’ll examine that pattern—what distinguishes a short-lived recoil from a lasting revival. We’ll report on what’s really happening with Pride Month in 2025: which corporations are retreating, which still advance under a quieter banner, and how the local landscape tells a more complicated story than national headlines admit.And then we’ll ask the only question that matters: If this were the beginning of a true Christian reformation—what would it look like?Because repentance doesn’t look like silence. It looks like confession. It looks like repudiation. It looks like CEOs not just dropping rainbow logos but publicly affirming God’s truth.This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at patreon.com/rightresponseministries or donate at rightresponseministries.com/donate.The smoke may be clearing—but the war isn’t over. Not even close.Let’s get into it.MINISTRY SPONSORS: Kingsmen Caps Carry the Crown with Kingsmen Caps — premium headwear made for those who honor Christ as King. https://kingsmencaps.com Mid State Accounting Need help with bookkeeping, tax returns, or fractional CFO services? Call Kailee Smith at 573‑889‑7278 or visit: https://www.midstateaccounting.net Mention the Right Response podcast and get 10% off your first three months. Heaven's Harvest Get 10% off your order with discount code "RRM" at checkout: https://heavensharvest.com/rrm Armored Republic Tools of Liberty for the defense of every free man’s God-given rights: body armor, plate carriers, and more. https://www.ar500armor.com/ Private Family Banking FREE e-book: How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Schedule a Free 30-Minute Discovery Appointment Western Front Books Publishing for men on the right. Not churchy. Christian. https://www.WesternFrontBooks.com/

Christian men are getting involved in politics more than ever before. Whether it was reading Stephen Wolfe’s book or watching their mayor approve a pride parade that radicalized them, these men are realizing that pursuit of political office is a high calling. The founding fathers of America spoke highly of political office, considering it not merely a job or hobby, but a weighty responsibility. James Madison said the first aim of every political body should be to find men with the “most wisdom to discern and the most virtue to pursue the common good of the society.”But actually doing politics is not easy. If you’ve watched House of Cards or All The President's Men you actually have a pretty good idea of how cutthroat and ruthless politics can be. And here joining us today is Luis Canosa — a city council member right here in Irving, Texas. Since being elected a year ago he has been fighting tooth and nail against dark money, paid protestors, and even private investigators that all want to turn his hometown of Irving into the next tax farm for gambling and sports resorts.This episode is brought to you by our premier sponsors, Armored Republic and Reece Fund, as well as our Patreon members and donors. You can join our Patreon at patreon.com/rightresponseministries or donate at rightresponseministries.com/donate.So if you are considering running for office and want to know what it takes to win a campaign and legislate effectively, tune in now to hear firsthand how politics really works.MINISTRY SPONSORS: Reece Fund. Christian Capital. Boldly Deployed https://www.reecefund.com/ Private Family Banking How to Connect with Private Family Banking: FREE 20-MINUTE COURSE Email: chuck@privatefamilybanking.com FREE e-book: How to Build Multi-Generational Wealth Schedule a FREE Discovery Call $4.99 Wealth Planning Guide Book Squirrelly Joes Coffee – Caffeinating The Modern Reformation Get a free bag of coffee (just pay shipping): https://squirrellyjoes.com/rightresponse Mid State Accounting Need help with bookkeeping, tax returns, or fractional CFO services? Call Kailee Smith at 573‑889‑7278 or visit: https://www.midstateaccounting.net Mention the Right Response podcast and get 10% off your first three months. Kingsmen Caps Carry the Crown with Kingsmen Caps — premium headwear made for those who honor Christ as King. https://kingsmencaps.com Heaven's Harvest Get 10% off your order with discount code "RRM" at checkout: https://heavensharvest.com/rrm

Matthew 9:27-34 intentionally contains a theological irony: the physically blind recognize Jesus as Messiah, while the religious leaders in Israel remain spiritually blind. In other words, these blind men see more than the sighted. Specifically, they see Jesus as the promised King from David’s lineage (2 Samuel 7; Isaiah 11). “Son of David” was an explicit messianic title. Lastly, their cry is clearly rooted in faith, not entitlement. They plead for mercy, not merit.