Glenn: The only chance of survival is to change your heart

June 13, 2013

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Glenn became emotional on radio today as he talked about what is coming in the days ahead with the immigration battle and other political fights. Progressives have already nudged and nudged - with the IRS and other scandals - the only thing left is a shove. We must be ready to stand our ground - and the only way to successfully do that is by changing our hearts. Glenn explains on radio today.

There is a story on the front page of TheBlaze now, the leading story, and it just was posted and it is trending big quickly and I need you to get this out as soon as you can and really educate yourself on this and make a decision on where you ‑‑ where you stand on this. It is a story, revolt among Republicans on immigration bill. 70 House members risk career in planned showdown with John Boehner, and everyone else involved in this. This is a ‑‑ this is a very ‑‑ this is the beginning or the end of the TEA Party, quite honestly, those with real value. Because they are going to be destroyed by this or they will be victorious. This is probably akin to the Rand Paul moment where he turned drones around. If the American people choose not to stand with them in a very visible way ‑‑ and I warn you, listen to me carefully: There will be those who join your ranks that are trying to pretend that they are you and they will be racist, they will carry racist signs. They are not on your side because they're not real. There may be some racists that join your ranks as real racists, but they are not a friend of the Constitution; they are not a friend of yours. And most likely, only because I read Cass Sunstein and I take the man seriously, as everyone should now that the IRS has done their job, I warn you, you will be infiltrated. And... now... is... the time.

I have begged you for years do the 40‑day, 40‑night challenge. Get the bad stuff out of your life. Don't hate. Serve. Love. Be charitable. Be good. Charity for all. It is time to double our efforts on serving others, and the reason we serve others is so that we do not change. Our hearts are going to be hardened. They are going to do everything they can. They already have. They have done everything they can to piss you off. It is only going to get worse. We are approaching the days of sicking dogs on people. They've already done all of their nudges. They did it with the IRS, they did it with the snooping. They are doing all of the nudges. The shoves are about to become part of your life. And it is ‑‑ it is essential.

Let me say some things that are probably going to lose respect for me, but... I have a hard time reading the scriptures. I have a hard time reading the Bible, all the thees and the thous and everything else. And I have told you, I have told you I think pieces of this in the past that I know where I am headed on two fronts, and I'm not going to get much more specific here. Next hour I'm going to tell you about the second front. But the first front ‑‑ the second front I like; the first front I don't, and it's a front that I have avoided like the plague. I've avoided it for a couple of reasons: Because in my head I think I know what it means, but I don't. In my head you don't want to be anywhere around someone like Martin Luther King because it leads to misery. I... there are just a very few things that I know in me for sure, and I know that we are not battling enemies of ours; we are battling enemies of His. And so they are His to take care of, and He will. We have to have the full armor of God on us, and I don't know how all of this works, but I know that the Black‑Robe Regiment plays a role. The Black‑Robe Regiment are Jews and Christians coming together, preachers and pastors and rabbis, priests coming together and standing together and putting all differences aside for the civil rights of man. Not playing politics, that's where you will get lost. If you start to worry about your ‑‑ if you will start worrying about your congregation and what they'll say, if you start worrying about how much money you will lose, you will lose. Don't pay any mind to where you are going to get your food or your clothing. Don't pay any mind to that. Know that somehow or another if you're doing the right thing, those things will be taken care of if you're a preacher or a pastor or rabbi. If you are standing for individual communication, individual responsibility to God, not some sort of a collective salvation. It happened before, and I know this to be true. And when we started in Washington, I was prompted that there needs to be a Black‑Robe Regiment again. I didn't even know what it was. And David said, "You're repeating history," and he explained it to me. And it's what the founders had, it's what the abolitionists had, it's what Martin Luther King had. It's what they tried to put together with people like Jim Wallis, but we know who he is and we dismiss him.

I will tell you that it has grown stronger in me and you have heard me talk about it on the air. I have been calling out the preachers and the pastors and the rabbis. And I don't know what you're doing with your priesthood, but if you have not done something that somebody without their priesthood cannot do, if you're not living your life at a much higher level, you will lose that power. If you are not on the edge, if you are not raising a standard for all man to see, you will lose that ability and that station.

I said to somebody the other day, they wrote to me and they said, you know, "I think, Glenn, that you are, you know, you're a leader of this and that." And I said, I don't know if that is true, but I have to stop, I have to stop rejecting things because I look at the giants of the past. I look at the George Washingtons and the Adams and all of those people, and I can see the potential in other people to be that, but I can never see the potential of me to be somebody greater than me. And that's a lie of the darkness. And I will bet you that George Washington and Sam Adams and Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King and Gandhi and all of them did not see themselves as those people. Those people were made into giants a lot later by other people. They just did the right thing and the right thing, the really right thing is total self‑sacrifice. If you lose your life for his sake, you will gain it. It doesn't make sense to a lot of people and those who wish to take things out of context will say I'm talking about suicide bombing. No. Behind me is a picture of Martin Luther King. It is the only one that is in the public domain that I can put on this set because the King family holds such a tight rein on everything. And the reason why it's in the public domain is because it is his arrest picture. He lost his life, his freedom, not for his own glorification but because it was right. And I can tell you he didn't want to do it. He knew what he was facing, as do all giants. Will you be a giant? You have been asking for giants. Find the giant inside of you. Look for those who are now taking a risk.

You have the guy from the NSA. I don't think this guy necessarily is a hero. I don't know who he is. I don't know enough about him. But the act itself is heroic. He tried to do it the right way. Who do you trust? He tried to do is the right way. He tried to get the word out. And now the media and everybody else is demonizing him. He's warning the people, "Your freedom is at stake." And how many are listening?

You have 70 people now, according to this story now with TheBlaze. I had a meeting with many of them. I looked them in the eye. Some of them I don't know; others I know. And they know this is it. The time is now. The time for political stuff to happen like the revolt is now. The time as a TEA Party member to stand is now. The time for the Black‑Robe Regiment is now.

Something happened on Capitol Hill that I won't discuss now, and I went. Something happened and I said this, I know, I said to this individual, I know, I'm on that. I know; I can't believe you're saying that. David Barton happened to be there about an hour later and I said, David, I have to tell you I have this piece, and I'm telling you the Black‑Robe Regiment must start right now. And he said, Glenn ‑‑ he shook his head and he said, "Glenn, itches just on the plane and I wrote a memo today, but the Black‑Robe Regiment, it has to start now. I just got an e‑mail from Jeff Allen. Jeff Allen's a comedian but he's spiritually in touch but he said, Glenn, I don't even know what this means. He said, I know you've been talking about things for a while, he said, but I can't sleep at night. I've been kept awake for the last few days. I have to ask you: What are you doing with the Black‑Robe Regiment? Because the time is right now. I know. I know. I know. If you haven't prepared to change your life, please. Please change it today. And change it for the better. Change it for all of the right reasons. Get all of the darkness out of you. There are ‑‑ a miracle is a change of perspective.

I'm working currently on, believe it or not, July 4th, 2014 now. And I told somebody the story this morning and I told them just the opening of it and they said, oh, my gosh, I never thought of that about the pilgrims. I said, what do you mean? And he said, the way you described the prayer, they all got together and they were not praying for the outside world to change. They were praying for their change, that they could be better. Even though all those around them were mocking, they weren't praying. They were praying for their heart to be softened. That they could be better. They're not going to change those other people. Treasure has been gathered up from all the world and bought all of the armies and the navies. It was purchased with blood money. You're not going to change those people. You're only going to get frustrated. You must change yourself. And the only way you will attract people is not through political rhetoric, not through anything. And I say this as such a flawed vessel. Do you know how many people the Lord had to go through to get to a recovering alcoholic Mormon? He had to go through a ton of people who just in the end were too weak to stand. I am a flawed person coming to you. I have no credibility on this at all. I'm a guy who has a hard time reading the scriptures and everything else, but I'm telling you... the only chance of survival is if you change your heart. It's hard because you got a lifetime built up. And even I have a lifetime. I said something last week, I said, I don't want to say divisive things anymore. And that day I called the First Lady a monster.

We're all trying. But set your feet on the path now. I know with everything in me, everything in me. Now is the time. And we are the people. It is you. Put aside all of your silly little belief that you don't play a role. Put it aside. Those are childish things. You are the person. We all are. And everyone's service is required at this time.

Colorado counselor fights back after faith declared “illegal”

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The state is effectively silencing professionals who dare speak truths about gender and sexuality, redefining faith-guided speech as illegal.

This week, free speech is once again on the line before the U.S. Supreme Court. At stake is whether Americans still have the right to talk about faith, morality, and truth in their private practice without the government’s permission.

The case comes out of Colorado, where lawmakers in 2019 passed a ban on what they call “conversion therapy.” The law prohibits licensed counselors from trying to change a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation, including their behaviors or gender expression. The law specifically targets Christian counselors who serve clients attempting to overcome gender dysphoria and not fall prey to the transgender ideology.

The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The law does include one convenient exception. Counselors are free to “assist” a person who wants to transition genders but not someone who wants to affirm their biological sex. In other words, you can help a child move in one direction — one that is in line with the state’s progressive ideology — but not the other.

Think about that for a moment. The state is saying that a counselor can’t even discuss changing behavior with a client. Isn’t that the whole point of counseling?

One‑sided freedom

Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor in Colorado Springs, has been one of the victims of this blatant attack on the First Amendment. Chiles has dedicated her practice to helping clients dealing with addiction, trauma, sexuality struggles, and gender dysphoria. She’s also a Christian who serves patients seeking guidance rooted in biblical teaching.

Before 2019, she could counsel minors according to her faith. She could talk about biblical morality, identity, and the path to wholeness. When the state outlawed that speech, she stopped. She followed the law — and then she sued.

Her case, Chiles v. Salazar, is now before the Supreme Court. Justices heard oral arguments on Tuesday. The question: Is counseling a form of speech or merely a government‑regulated service?

If the court rules the wrong way, it won’t just silence therapists. It could muzzle pastors, teachers, parents — anyone who believes in truth grounded in something higher than the state.

Censored belief

I believe marriage between a man and a woman is ordained by God. I believe that family — mother, father, child — is central to His design for humanity.

I believe that men and women are created in God’s image, with divine purpose and eternal worth. Gender isn’t an accessory; it’s part of who we are.

I believe the command to “be fruitful and multiply” still stands, that the power to create life is sacred, and that it belongs within marriage between a man and a woman.

And I believe that when we abandon these principles — when we treat sex as recreation, when we dissolve families, when we forget our vows — society fractures.

Are those statements controversial now? Maybe. But if this case goes against Chiles, those statements and others could soon be illegal to say aloud in public.

Faith on trial

In Colorado today, a counselor cannot sit down with a 15‑year‑old who’s struggling with gender identity and say, “You were made in God’s image, and He does not make mistakes.” That is now considered hate speech.

That’s the “freedom” the modern left is offering — freedom to affirm, but never to question. Freedom to comply, but never to dissent. The same movement that claims to champion tolerance now demands silence from anyone who disagrees. The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The real test

No matter what happens at the Supreme Court, we cannot stop speaking the truth. These beliefs aren’t political slogans. For me, they are the product of years of wrestling, searching, and learning through pain and grace what actually leads to peace. For us, they are the fundamental principles that lead to a flourishing life. We cannot balk at standing for truth.

Maybe that’s why God allows these moments — moments when believers are pushed to the wall. They force us to ask hard questions: What is true? What is worth standing for? What is worth dying for — and living for?

If we answer those questions honestly, we’ll find not just truth, but freedom.

The state doesn’t grant real freedom — and it certainly isn’t defined by Colorado legislators. Real freedom comes from God. And the day we forget that, the First Amendment will mean nothing at all.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

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What our response to Israel reveals about us

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I have been honored to receive the Defender of Israel Award from Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The Jerusalem Post recently named me one of the strongest Christian voices in support of Israel.

And yet, my support is not blind loyalty. It’s not a rubber stamp for any government or policy. I support Israel because I believe it is my duty — first as a Christian, but even if I weren’t a believer, I would still support her as a man of reason, morality, and common sense.

Because faith isn’t required to understand this: Israel’s existence is not just about one nation’s survival — it is about the survival of Western civilization itself.

It is a lone beacon of shared values in the Middle East. It is a bulwark standing against radical Islam — the same evil that seeks to dismantle our own nation from within.

And my support is not rooted in politics. It is rooted in something simpler and older than politics: a people’s moral and historical right to their homeland, and their right to live in peace.

Israel has that right — and the right to defend herself against those who openly, repeatedly vow her destruction.

Let’s make it personal: if someone told me again and again that they wanted to kill me and my entire family — and then acted on that threat — would I not defend myself? Wouldn’t you? If Hamas were Canada, and we were Israel, and they did to us what Hamas has done to them, there wouldn’t be a single building left standing north of our border. That’s not a question of morality.

That’s just the truth. All people — every people — have a God-given right to protect themselves. And Israel is doing exactly that.

My support for Israel’s right to finish the fight against Hamas comes after eighty years of rejected peace offers and failed two-state solutions. Hamas has never hidden its mission — the eradication of Israel. That’s not a political disagreement.

That’s not a land dispute. That is an annihilationist ideology. And while I do not believe this is America’s war to fight, I do believe — with every fiber of my being — that it is Israel’s right, and moral duty, to defend her people.

Criticism of military tactics is fair. That’s not antisemitism. But denying Israel’s right to exist, or excusing — even celebrating — the barbarity of Hamas? That’s something far darker.

We saw it on October 7th — the face of evil itself. Women and children slaughtered. Babies burned alive. Innocent people raped and dragged through the streets. And now, to see our own fellow citizens march in defense of that evil… that is nothing short of a moral collapse.

If the chants in our streets were, “Hamas, return the hostages — Israel, stop the bombing,” we could have a conversation.

But that’s not what we hear.

What we hear is open sympathy for genocidal hatred. And that is a chasm — not just from decency, but from humanity itself. And here lies the danger: that same hatred is taking root here — in Dearborn, in London, in Paris — not as horror, but as heroism. If we are not vigilant, the enemy Israel faces today will be the enemy the free world faces tomorrow.

This isn’t about politics. It’s about truth. It’s about the courage to call evil by its name and to say “Never again” — and mean it.

And you don’t have to open a Bible to understand this. But if you do — if you are a believer — then this issue cuts even deeper. Because the question becomes: what did God promise, and does He keep His word?

He told Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you.” He promised to make Abraham the father of many nations and to give him “the whole land of Canaan.” And though Abraham had other sons, God reaffirmed that promise through Isaac. And then again through Isaac’s son, Jacob — Israel — saying: “The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I give to you and to your descendants after you.”

That’s an everlasting promise.

And from those descendants came a child — born in Bethlehem — who claimed to be the Savior of the world. Jesus never rejected His title as “son of David,” the great King of Israel.

He said plainly that He came “for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” And when He returns, Scripture says He will return as “the Lion of the tribe of Judah.” And where do you think He will go? Back to His homeland — Israel.

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And what will He find when He gets there? His brothers — or his brothers’ enemies? Will the roads where He once walked be preserved? Or will they lie in rubble, as Gaza does today? If what He finds looks like the aftermath of October 7th, then tell me — what will be my defense as a Christian?

Some Christians argue that God’s promises to Israel have been transferred exclusively to the Church. I don’t believe that. But even if you do, then ask yourself this: if we’ve inherited the promises, do we not also inherit the land? Can we claim the birthright and then, like Esau, treat it as worthless when the world tries to steal it?

So, when terrorists come to slaughter Israelis simply for living in the land promised to Abraham, will we stand by? Or will we step forward — into the line of fire — and say,

“Take me instead”?

Because this is not just about Israel’s right to exist.

It’s about whether we still know the difference between good and evil.

It’s about whether we still have the courage to stand where God stands.

And if we cannot — if we will not — then maybe the question isn’t whether Israel will survive. Maybe the question is whether we will.

When did Americans start cheering for chaos?

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Every time we look away from lawlessness, we tell the next mob it can go a little further.

Chicago, Portland, and other American cities are showing us what happens when the rule of law breaks down. These cities have become openly lawless — and that’s not hyperbole.

When a governor declares she doesn’t believe federal agents about a credible threat to their lives, when Chicago orders its police not to assist federal officers, and when cartels print wanted posters offering bounties for the deaths of U.S. immigration agents, you’re looking at a country flirting with anarchy.

Two dangers face us now: the intimidation of federal officers and the normalization of soldiers as street police. Accept either, and we lose the republic.

This isn’t a matter of partisan politics. The struggle we’re watching now is not between Democrats and Republicans. It’s between good and evil, right and wrong, self‑government and chaos.

Moral erosion

For generations, Americans have inherited a republic based on law, liberty, and moral responsibility. That legacy is now under assault by extremists who openly seek to collapse the system and replace it with something darker.

Antifa, well‑financed by the left, isn’t an isolated fringe any more than Occupy Wall Street was. As with Occupy, big money and global interests are quietly aligned with “anti‑establishment” radicals. The goal is disruption, not reform.

And they’ve learned how to condition us. Twenty‑five years ago, few Americans would have supported drag shows in elementary schools, biological males in women’s sports, forced vaccinations, or government partnerships with mega‑corporations to decide which businesses live or die. Few would have tolerated cartels threatening federal agents or tolerated mobs doxxing political opponents. Yet today, many shrug — or cheer.

How did we get here? What evidence convinced so many people to reverse themselves on fundamental questions of morality, liberty, and law? Those long laboring to disrupt our republic have sought to condition people to believe that the ends justify the means.

Promoting “tolerance” justifies women losing to biological men in sports. “Compassion” justifies harboring illegal immigrants, even violent criminals. Whatever deluded ideals Antifa espouses is supposed to somehow justify targeting federal agents and overturning the rule of law. Our culture has been conditioned for this moment.

The buck stops with us

That’s why the debate over using troops to restore order in American cities matters so much. I’ve never supported soldiers executing civilian law, and I still don’t. But we need to speak honestly about what the Constitution allows and why. The Posse Comitatus Act sharply limits the use of the military for domestic policing. The Insurrection Act, however, exists for rare emergencies — when federal law truly can’t be enforced by ordinary means and when mobs, cartels, or coordinated violence block the courts.

Even then, the Constitution demands limits: a public proclamation ordering offenders to disperse, transparency about the mission, a narrow scope, temporary duration, and judicial oversight.

Soldiers fight wars. Cops enforce laws. We blur that line at our peril.

But we also cannot allow intimidation of federal officers or tolerate local officials who openly obstruct federal enforcement. Both extremes — lawlessness on one side and militarization on the other — endanger the republic.

The only way out is the Constitution itself. Protect civil liberty. Enforce the rule of law. Demand transparency. Reject the temptation to justify any tactic because “our side” is winning. We’ve already seen how fear after 9/11 led to the Patriot Act and years of surveillance.

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Two dangers face us now: the intimidation of federal officers and the normalization of soldiers as street police. Accept either, and we lose the republic. The left cannot be allowed to shut down enforcement, and the right cannot be allowed to abandon constitutional restraint.

The real threat to the republic isn’t just the mobs or the cartels. It’s us — citizens who stop caring about truth and constitutional limits. Anything can be justified when fear takes over. Everything collapses when enough people decide “the ends justify the means.”

We must choose differently. Uphold the rule of law. Guard civil liberties. And remember that the only way to preserve a government of, by, and for the people is to act like the people still want it.