10/23/24 5 O’Clock Report
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Inside Out – Being a Good Neighbor – 10/23/24
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Being a Good Neighbor
The “Inside Out” Podcast from Family Life News
Americans feel detached and isolated. Pastor Doug Hankins believes we have a neighborliness problem. On this edition of Inside Out, Hankins talks about Jesus’ call to be good neighbors, the topic of his The Gospel Coalition article “Benefits of Being a Good Neighbor.”
Americans feel detached and isolated. Pastor Doug Hankins believes we’re suffering from a lack of neighborliness, and Christians are just the people to solve it. But it won’t be easy.
“Neighborliness is costly,” Hankins says. “There’s no shortcut around it. Part of the reason neighborliness is like the fifth level blackbelt of being a Christian is because of the difficulty of it.”
Hankins is senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Winter Park, Florida. He authored the Gospel Coalition article “Benefits of Being a Good Neighbor.”
“I think the way Jesus understood being a neighbor was loving the people who are near you. If there are people around you, there is–if you’re a believer in Christ–a responsibility to consider these people as your neighbors and to ask the Lord ‘what must I do to care for them well?’”.
If you are ready follow Jesus into loving your neighbors–connecting intentionally, compassionately, and regularly with the people around you–Hankins suggests starting with a list. “Think about everybody you interact with: friends, neighbors, co-workers. Write their names on a list. Put it somewhere where you see it regularly and just pray for them.”
But don’t stop there. Ask friends for help.
“I think accountability is going to help. If you’ve got some Christian friends around you, just going to them saying, ‘I think the Lord might be calling me to step up my game in terms of loving my neighbors, could you just pray with me and bring it up once a month and just hold me accountable to this?’”
Hankins believes that not only will God show you who to love, He may overwhelm you with opportunities. “He’s going to bring us probably more than we can handle, but He can handle it. And so, we’ll get to love those people well.”
You can read Doug Hankins’s article “Benefits of Being a Good Neighbor” from The Gospel Coalition website here.
(TGC also published his first-person account of being at the “Asbury Awakening“, the college-centered revival which happened in 2023.)
10/22/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
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Hometown Heroes – The Cost of Freedom – 10/22/24
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Today’s edition of “Hometown Heroes” introduces you to Dave Miller-Martini.
He is with “The Cost of Freedom” Foundation, which commits itself to creating a veterans’ wellness and recovery retreat. Phase 2 of creating that retreat center is now underway.
Host Mark Webster went to their recent event in Tionesta, Pennsylvania, to bring you their story. (This is the first half of a two-part series.)
For more information:
- TheCostOfFreedom website
- How faith plays into their plans to support veterans
- Their Mission Statement: The foundation “supports development and delivery of innovative holistic healthcare models that integrate faith, nature, mind, body, and spirit to produce individualized treatment care plans.”
Part 2 of this feature is available here: Hometown Heroes 10/29/2024
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10/21/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
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Abortion on the Ballot, in Ten States – 10/21/24
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Abortion is on the Ballot this Election Year
A Family Life Newsmaker Interview
“The abortion industry has been very successful at using fear-mongering as a way to drive voters.” — Nicole Hunt
Two weeks from Tuesday, Americans will go to the polls to decide the 47th President of the United States. Also that day, they will decide constitutional amendments that dramatically expand abortion access in 10 states.
In today’s feature report, Family Life News interviews Nicole Hunt, a policy analyst at “Focus on the Family” on why the abortion industry has been winning at the ballot box — and what pro-lifers can do to reverse the trend.
Attorney Nicole Hunt is a policy analyst for Focus on the Family. She joined Family Life’s Bob Price for an extended interview on the October 21 Noon Report.
Resources for more information:
- Focus on the Family
- Pennsylvania Pro-Life
- New York issues surrounding abortion
- NY’s 2024 Proposition One, and its effect on pro-life versus pro-abortion debates in the state
Other Family Life News podcasts which discuss how issues will or won’t be decided by “values-focused” voters in this fall’s elections are on www.FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts:
Protecting your money and your data – It’s “Cybersecurity Awareness Month”
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Financial cyber-fraud is a twelve-billion dollar business each year — all of it illegal.
Consumer advocacy banking specialist Blythe Figurelle is among the experts promoting Cyber Security Awareness month during October. Whether its by phone or an electronic message, the fraudsters try to catch you with what she calls “emotional manipulation”.
Figurelle says it is common for scammers to initiate contact out of the blue, pretend to be a business or person you trust, or add unreasonable urgency.
Her advice:
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- If it’s a phone call, don’t say anything and hang up.
- If it’s on social media, a text or an email — delete that message, without clicking any links.
- You may wish to also block that sender or that phone number
On this Family Life News podcast, Figurelle describes the acronym STOP as the four steps you should do, if you suspect a call or a message is not legitimate, or someone pushes you for your account number or other private information:
Stay cautious
Take your time … don’t be rushed into anything
Only trust verified sources
Protect your codes and numbers and passwords … every time
Bonus content:
A coalition of law enforcement and governments in Dubai and Emirates put together a clever public service announcement, urging consumers to always protect all of their personal financial data. This music video portrays a banker whose customer gave away his codes to scammers. Find it here.
Kids Corner – What do Pastors do?
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Pastors are really busy people, and today we learn what they’re up to when they’re behind the scenes instead of behind the pulpit.
Bible Verses: Ecclesiastes 3:13, 1st Peter 5, James 3, Hebrews 13:7, Acts 20:25, 1st Timothy
10/18/24 5 O ‘Clock Report
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Capital Connection – 10/18/24 – Religious Freedom, Election Involvement, Divorce, “Gender Care”
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How NY’s Prop 1 impacts Religious Groups and Churches
Reforming Divorce Laws in PA
“Do No Harm” Report Highlights the Dangers of so-called “Gender-affirming” Care
Why Millions of Christians plan to Sit Out the 2024 Election
Christian watchdogs Jason McGuire with New York Families and Michael Geer with the Pennsylvania Family Institute discuss the weighty issues in the news — from Albany to Harrisburg to the ballot box to your hometown.
Both organizations offer issues-based voter guides and “how to register to vote” information on their websites.
“Capital Connection” with Bob Price airs on the radio and our live streams during the Noon Report and 5 O’Clock Report each Friday. Listen, download or share these conversations anytime, from the “Family Life News” podcast feed.
