RADIOMarch 02, 2023

SHOCK: How a pastor deterred ARMED robbers with PRAYER

We all need more good stories in our daily consumption of news, so Glenn is here to help! In this clip, Glenn details the SHOCKING story of how a pastor deterred four armed robbers who entered a Missouri church earlier this month. But the pastor — and his congregation — used quick thinking and PRAYER to stop the potential travesty. THIS is the heartwarming (and also slightly funny) story you need this week…

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: I got to talk to this man, before the end of the week, I have to do it. I think this is a great story.

Four armed men, wearing masks -- masks, entered a Missouri church earlier this month. With alleged intent to rob it or worse.

STU: Alleged. Is that really necessary?

GLENN: Well, just listen. Listen to the story.

So Mark Quello, I guess, Futrel, he is the pastor at All Creation North View Holiness Family Church. Too many words in that, just cut it down. Just cut it down.

STU: Economy of words.

GLENN: Okay?

It's in Ferguson. He said, he watched these four guys, wearing masks with guns on their waists and empty bags in their hands walking in.

Now, he's a former police officer, and now a pastor. He said, the hairs on my -- back of my neck stood up. And I said, okay. Something is about to happen. It's not going to be good.

He said, me being a former police officer, I noticed the waistbands. And I'm like, okay. Something in their waistbands as well.

So he's up there. And he's preaching. And he's seeing this. Nobody else has seen it yet. And he's like, what do I do? What do I do?

So he does, what I don't think anybody else would do. He's like, hey, you. Yeah, you.

You in the purple jacket. What is your name?

And he starts walking down the aisle towards them, and he engages them directly. What is your name?

I can't hear you. Say your name out loud.

And then he said, you four gentlemen, can you account for yourself? Who sent you here? You just decided, you saw this church. And you just decided, I'm just going to come on in. Talk to me. Why are you here?

Who sent you here?

He said, they found out that they were -- later, they were connected to two robberies from convenience stores. And the preacher just engaged them, and said, turning to the congregation, you know what, let's praise God for them coming in today.

Let's just praise God. I praised God, that God sent them in here because I think the devil meant this for evil.

Then he said, but you are messing with the wrong guy. Don't play with me. I still have a cop anointing. And I still know what's going on, and I know what's about to happen. God is about to change the plan of the enemy. So let's pray on these four.

And he turns to the young men. And he looks at them, and says, lift your voice up to God.

Pray with us, will you? And the young men are like, uh. And then the entire congregation surrounds these would-be robbers. And he's like, bow your heads, bow your heads. We're going to pray on you.

And so the whole congregation comes around, and they put their hands. Nobody is reaching for the gun. They put their hands on the back of these guys. And they are praying that the Holy Ghost will come and just change these men.

They pray for a while, and then the congregation sits back down. Like, see, brothers, that wasn't so bad. Thank you for letting us pray for you.

We're thankful that for whatever reason, the Lord let you come on in here. And when you walked on this ground, you walked on to the ground of the holy ghost.

You step foot, on the all-creation parking lot. And you encountered the move of the holy ghost. And I don't think any of you are going to be the same.

And they all just kind of looked at him. Looked at the congregation. Wearing the mask.

Looked at each other.

And went, yes, sir.

And turned around and walked out.

Police are still looking for them.

STU: Wow.

GLENN: The pastor said, I've got to find this. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard. And the flood will never be greater than the standard.

I mean, you want to talk about faith in God. That pastor coming out from behind that -- that podium, and seeing him. And knowing, oh, boy. There's trouble.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: I think that's a great story.

STU: What kind of masks were there, do we know?

GLENN: On the evening of February 21st, the number 12 ranked mid-Vermont Christian school Eagles of White River Junction. Again, too many names. Too many names. They were scheduled to take on the number five Long Trail Mountain Lions of Dorset. First round of the Vermont division four girls varsity tournament, the Eagles dropped out. They forfeited the game. Because when they got there, they realize that had one member of the Mountain Lions was actually a male. And so they withdrew from the tournament, because they said, we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male, jeopardizes the fairness of the game, the safety of our players, and allowing biological males to participate in women and children's sports, sets a bad precedent for the future of women's sports in general.

Good for them.

STU: I mean, some school eventually is going to be smart enough to just go out there, and recruit a whole team of dudes.

And just go out there and just kick everybody's butt. And half of the teams will just probably forfeit. I mean, this is a very ultra competitive world there. I want to start this school.

GLENN: I know. I would like to do that. You know, if there was like a -- I don't know. A podcasting, you know, kind of division. We get all the guys here, just put them in skirts.

STU: I don't know how that would -- I mean, that might be something you like, but it's not something that I think would affect the quality of the podcasts.

GLENN: No, no, no. The podcast division. If there was a sports division, with the podcasts. And then there was male/female. We just -- because I don't think our team would be necessarily that good. Playing against men.

But even I could -- come on. Seriously.

Women. Right? That's not too sexist, right? Women.

STU: No. Definitely not.

Certainly not what you're going for. Specifically. I will say though, in sports, you have a little bit of real world evidence, that boys are able to compete in most sports, at a higher level, than girls. Yes, I know.

I mean, you can look at things like track and field, where you're just literally measuring. And you find a lot of these results play out that way.

GLENN: Hmm. So wait a minute.

STU: There's a --

GLENN: You're saying that only a Russian, probably hermaphrodite from the Soviet Union days. That is doing shot put. Is not as good as a male doing that.

STU: I don't know. That's a good point. But usually, that's the way it plays out.

GLENN: Right. Right.

STU: And my understanding, a Herman after tight, no longer the accepted term. I learned this directly from Weird Al Yankovic.

STU: So I know it's true.

GLENN: Okay. Why were -- what? Why were -- how did that happen?

STU: You have a lot of questions on that?

GLENN: Yeah. I do.

STU: No. That's fair. Weird Al has been doing a concert tour over the past few years. Which I have happened to see. And he has a song from many years ago.

GLENN: You went alone, didn't you?

STU: Of course I did.

Who would do that?

GLENN: This is sad. This is sad. A man in his '40s.

STU: Oh, it was the best time of my life. It was fantastic. I would do it again.

GLENN: Play the accordion, Al! Play the accordion! Bring it home!

STU: It was fantastic.

GLENN: I bet it was.

STU: But so he had a song, I can't remember which one it was. But he uses the word hermaphrodite in it. And he goes through the whole segment.

And he actually stops the song in the middle of it. And says, in totally like a -- you know, Weird Al. I don't know what his politics are. He's never been a political guy.

I don't -- that's not what he does.

GLENN: He's Weird Al Yankovic.

STU: I know. But he's a legend, okay? Weird Al is a legend. So he kind of stops it and says, by the way, this is not the term we're supposed to use anymore.

And he goes through this whole thing about how, you know things change over time. And trying not to be canceled. But also acknowledging it. It was a very, very funny way. But I honestly, there's so many terms that have been canceled. I didn't realize that hermaphrodite, apparently, not a term you're supposed to use anymore. Now, I don't care about that at all.

I do think that was interesting. That was one of the things they would use as the defense back in the day. Remember, when they talked about transgender people. What about hermaphrodites. You keep saying there's only two genders. What about hermaphrodites. That's what they used to say. That was the argument. Now they won't even make the argument, because they won't let themselves use the word.

We are screwed up.

GLENN: Let me ask you something. Because you've loved Weird Al for a very long time. Ever since I've known you.

STU: I have loved Weird Al. Loved him since back in the day.

GLENN: I believe he's been on the show.

STU: You know, we met him once when he was in New York. He was in the studios for something else. I don't remember if we brought him on the air or not. I can't remember.

GLENN: Okay. All right. Yeah, I can't remember if we brought him on the air. I also can't remember also even meeting him.

STU: You've had him on the air though.

GLENN: I've had him on the air several times.

But you -- that's a big deal, Weird Al.

STU: Yeah, for sure. I love Weird Al.

GLENN: Did you go backstage to meet him?

STU: No. I did not. I sat in the audience, and enjoyed the show.

GLENN: You can't. You have such little juice, you can't even get a backstage pass to see --

STU: Those are highly --

GLENN: Oh.

STU: Highly priced items.

GLENN: I bet. They don't just come on the internet.

STU: Now, look, was there a meet and greet level here? And did I look into it?

I mean, sure. Did I say if there was any availability?

The answer to that was no. There was none available at the time, when I looked.

But I would have proudly gone to meet and greet Weird Al and told you all about it. I love the guy. I love the guy.

GLENN: I know. I know.

How much would you have paid to shake his hand, and get your photo with Weird Al?

STU: No. As I just mentioned, I have met him before.

GLENN: I know. But to get your -- you would have paid for a meet and greet.

How much is that worth to you? A private meeting with Weird Al. I'm just asking. How much would that be worth?

STU: I would have paid the ticket premium.

GLENN: Which would have been what?

STU: I don't know. I bet it would have been a couple hundred bucks. A couple hundred bucks. I've been to meet and greets. You're familiar with this process.

GLENN: Is it worth, let's say $500 -- you're not going with a crowd. It would be one-on-one.

STU: I mean, I'm -- I'm conflicted by this. I think you're leading to something, to make fun of me. But I'm very conflicted.

GLENN: I'm just trying to go for your wallet.

STU: Okay. I don't actually want to meet the people that I like.

GLENN: That you like.

STU: I find it to -- I mean, I've met you. I liked you when I was on the air, when I was a kid.

You were the local host. And I was like, this guy sounds funny. And now I've met him, and it ruined the whole thing.

You've destroyed my vision of you.

GLENN: Right. It's like regular people for me. You were a regular person, when we met. You're still a regular person.

And I don't like you. I don't like you.

STU: Right. But you're not like that.

I mean, I know you've had instances where --

GLENN: Yeah. B.B. King. B.B. King. Elton John. Both of them.

STU: You loved them.

GLENN: I loved them.

Elton John, I can't use that word on the air. Not a nice man. And -- and B.B. King hit on my wife.

STU: Right. Right in front of you.

GLENN: I was the fan.

STU: You don't have the juice to stop an artist from hitting on your wife.

GLENN: No. Man can only do so much. But I walk in -- I walk in, and she slept during the concert. She hates B.B. King. I love B.B. King.

And, you know, I walk in, and he doesn't even look up for me. I'm like, Mr. King. He's like, uh-huh.

And I walk closer. I just wanted to shake your hand. And he looks up, and he does -- he looks at me for like half a second.

And then he goes right to Tania, like, come on over here, and sit on B.B.'s lap.

STU: That's an opening line right there.

GLENN: And I shoved her out of the way, and I sat on his lap, and it was very nice.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Is the EU Plotting to “SABOTAGE” Trump? Heritage Foundation President Sounds Warning

Are European Union elites working to “sabotage” President Trump’s plans for the West? Glenn speaks with Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts, who makes the case that Trump is trying to reset the West and stop the “managed decline” of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset. But many European leaders are so embedded into that old system that they won’t go down without a fight. Glenn and Kevin also discuss Trump’s negotiations with Mexico and Canada, whether former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss was right to call Britain a “failed state,” and why Kevin believes Trump’s cabinet, JD Vance, and one other thing are Trump’s biggest wins.

Former Sniper WARNS Major “Instability” May Hit This Summer

Former U.S. Army Special Forces Sniper Tim Kennedy joins Glenn to warn that “real instability” is coming across many parts of the world, including the Middle East, Haiti, Congo, and other parts of Africa. And one of the main signs of this is “the killing of Christians” at high levels in those regions. With a civil war brewing in Afghanistan, “genocide” level attacks in regions of Africa, and more trouble on the horizon, predictive models have found that things could very likely boil over soon. But Kennedy details how the Trump administration, especially Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and Pam Bondi, are working overtime to “get ahead of what we know is coming” and keep Americans safe.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: We're talking to Tim Kennedy. Talking to the president about the border, and what's going on with the border this week. And I said, you know, if I were, you know, a Mexican citizen. And knowing that my government was in bed with the cartels. I would be hoping that some special forces just showed up in the middle of the night. And started killing people. In these cartels. And I said, well, that would be news breaking if I said that was a good idea.

You know, I hope it doesn't come to that. It was clear, that that is on the table. I mean, that really has to happen. Does it not?

I mean, that is a collapsed narco state in Mexico. Isn't it?

MATT: Yeah, we -- the rules of war that we'll be experiencing for the next five to ten years are not the traditional maneuver warfare that people remember from Korea and from Vietnam, and from even -- you know, we know who our enemy is. These are going to be businesses.

These are syndicated criminal organizations, that do not fight fair, and the cartel owns both the businesses, the corporations, and the criminal networks that are involved in that.

So, yes. It's absolutely on the table. And a group of people that are sitting on like the go button, are absolute savages, Mr. Beck.

GLENN: They are. I know some of them. I know some of them.

And they're just like -- and they're just -- they're just champing at the bit to go, I know. I know.

TIM: That's the truth.

We're in conversation with the cartels right now. And the cartels are saying, hey, we don't want to die. We don't want to be wiped off the face of the planet, which we know is not going to happen. So, you know, are there other options. Hey, what if we stopped human trafficking?

What if we stopped fentanyl production entirely?

What if -- what if all of that just goes away. What if we stop and seal the border on the south side. What are you -- will we maybe be allowed to transport some cocaine and some marijuana?

I'm totally fine with this. If we stop fentanyl. Human trafficking. Gun smuggling. And we stop the invasion of our border, I'll -- and we don't have to do a while bunch of killing.

You know, whatever.

But they know they're on the brink of --

GLENN: I hope they do.

TIM: Of existence.

GLENN: I hope they do.

You know, when you look at what's happening here.

And what they're bringing over here.

I mean, it has to stop, dead in its tracks.

It has to stop.

And it has to stop soon. The president is dealing with these courts. Which I just think is judicial insurrection as Mike Lee puts it. And it has to stop.

The president has to protect our borders, and has to protect our cities. This is -- you know, this is the opium wars, done to China by the English.

You know, 200 years ago. 150 years ago. And now they're doing it to us.

That's what -- that's what is happening.

TIM: Yeah.

GLENN: Tell me about the Christians and genocide, that you believe is on the horizon.

TIM: Just yesterday.

Back at the White House yesterday.

Listening to some brief about -- there's some brilliant companies that are able to do predictive modeling.

Using literally every public and classified source of information.

And there's these events that are pretty predictable.

You know, they predicted what would happen in Afghanistan. Predicted what would happen in Ukraine.

They see regionally that on the very near horizon, as soon as like late summer.

We are going to see real instability throughout CENTCOM and the Endo-Pacific region.
And some of those things -- some of the catalysts that are -- the data points are what are the killing of Christians.

And it's happening all over CENTCOM.

And --

GLENN: Explain CENTCOM. Explain CENTCOM for anybody who doesn't what CENTCOM means. Explain that.

TIM: Just imagine the Middle East starting kind of in north Africa.

And western Asia. And everything that has lots of deserts. And lots of Muslim countries -- just -- by coincidence, there's also Israel. That's in CENTCOM.

One of the few non-Muslim democracies, in that whole entire region.

Ask, you know, the Houthis and Hamas. And Hezbollah.

And then in former countries, like in Syria and Iraq, Afghanistan, those places, it's just a massacre of Christians, right now.

GLENN: So let me take a one-minute break.

Come back, because I want to talk to you more about that. Because you've been involved. We've been with you with Mercury One, and trying to help. And I know what we're gearing up for.

And I want to see if there's anything that you need and you would recommend, besides told prayers for Christians.

And I want to go deeper into what this predictive model is showing in just a second.

First, let me tell you about Preborn.

You know, if you were in the room with a woman who was thinking about giving up her baby.

What would you say?

If a scared young woman looked you in the eye and said, I don't think I could do this.

I'm alone. I don't know if it's really a baby yet.

What would you do?

Would you yell at her? Would you say, you can't do that! You'll go to hell.

Or would you tell her, you're strong enough. You are. Show her pictures of your kids maybe. Talk about miracles?

Talk about God? Talk about anything?

Anything. We're here for you. Would you just wait.

None of us would show her pictures of an aborted baby. None of us would yell at her.

Okay? The truth is, we'll never be in that room. Most of us. But Preborn will not be in that room. They don't argue or shame.

They do something really simple. It turns out, it's very persuasive. Just offer her a free ultrasound. And when she hears that tiny heartbeat. When she sees the image on the screen, everything changes. More than half the time the mom chooses life, the rest of the time, she's like, I -- I just -- I'm alone. I can't afford.

And that's where they come in, after that. They take care of mom. This saves two lives. This saves the life of torture for that woman, and the baby's life.

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GLENN: So, Tim, maybe we'll have you on -- we're doing a big benefit for the Nazarene Fund.

This fall.

I don't even have details on it. I just heard about it yesterday.

What that is, we go and rescue Christians. Or we pay and help people like you, go rescue Christians.

We just empower people like you, to help.

I would love to invite to that. When we get closer, I will.

Tell me about this predictive model. Why is it saying that it's going to get so bad? What's coming our way?

TIM: Yeah.

The Nazarene Fund, and Mercury One, just for -- love you guys.

I don't -- you know, we publicly can't say a lot of the things that we do at save our allies.

But none of it is possible without you, quite frankly.

Like if you look at me, and our team in Afghanistan. Or in Ukraine. Providing humanitarian aid. And pulling people out of the war zones.

Although to the Far East, as far as I possibly can get in far Russia.

Every place that we have been, has been because of you, quite frankly. Mr. Beck.

GLENN: Please. Stop calling me Mr. Beck.

Give credit. This audience is so gracious. They are so gracious.

TIM: Yeah. They just have an understanding.

Samaritan purse. Mercury One. Nazarene Fund.

We see you guys every single place, in the worst, most dire condition. So, you know, Glenn, thank you so much.

To your question, you know, we are -- if you just look in the past month, you know, you can look to Syria. You can look to the -- next to our bill.

You can look to the Congo.

Where you see thousands of Christians being killed.

You see Muslim converts, that were being specifically targeted. Down in Congo just last week.
Another 29 Christians were killed. In 2025, in like the region in Syria. There was like this region of violence. Another thousand were killed.

And so if you take -- if we're going to look for similar areas in the region, and try to predict the instability of a particular administration or government.

There's a whole bunch of -- and we can take historical data from the past 50 years. And start looking at, okay.

Economically, what is happening for instability?

What is happening culturally?

What is happening on -- in the markets?

What's happening in like -- really clear data points. And we have this bell curve of what's normal. And then you have these outliers that are -- that then keep occurring, every time there's a coup. Or every time there's genocide.

Or every time -- and there's enough data now, where we -- especially with AI. And we can scrape all of history.

We can then very accurately start, you know -- all the special operations side. I'm trying to find somebody in space and time.

It's -- that's -- used to be a difficult thing, to predict where a human is going to be.

So I could maybe bring them to justice, and if we look at the first 95 days of the president in office, and our intelligence community specifically, that told them they're going to work. With, you know, Kash Patel, enabling them. Pam Bondi.
45 Americans that have been illegally detained abroad brought home.

You know, we're knocking on the door of 100 radical terrorists, want to do harm to Americans. Dead.

And we are trying to get ahead of what we know is coming. Which is, complete near Civil War in Afghanistan.

Trying to get stability in Congo -- obviously, we see what's happening in Haiti.

And every time one of these places starts becoming less secure and stable, that is the breeding ground for radical adversarial groups, that are funded by our adversaries, like and mine Iran.

To then conduct attacks on Americans.

But they're not doing it direct.

It's like via proxy.

But Haiti, if we don't pay attention to it, China will use it.

Congo will --

GLENN: Yeah, I know.

TIM: And it just keeps happening.

GLENN: Tim, I can't thank you enough for what you do. You're really a remarkable man. It was such an honor to see you at the White House.

And as usual, see you at the White House and you're serving. Serving veterans.

So thank you for everything, Tim.

God bless you.

TIM: Yeah, you're amazing. Always in your corner. Let me know what you need.

GLENN: You've got it. Thank you, Tim Kennedy. US Army Special Forces. He's a sniper. Former UFC fighter, and really a servant to our vets.

Next year, it's going to be a tough year. All the way around us the world.

It's going to be very tough. What he's saying, is coming.

I -- you know, people say, I think Donald Trump will say for a reason, to save the republic. I'm not sure, that we understand God's mind.

It may have just been to postpone and give us more time to prepare. I'm not sure.

I hope we save the republic. But it might be time to prepare. Because things are very, very dicey in the world, and we just need to be prayerful.

Thoughtful. Jesus-like people.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Will Violent Activists Go to Jail? DOJ’s Harmeet Dhillon UNLEASHED | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 255

Is there really a “bloodbath” in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice? Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the DOJ, joins Glenn to discuss firebombing at Christian churches, “violence” against free speech, and the fate of the innocent people persecuted under the Biden administration. Harmeet reveals how the FACE Act doesn’t just protect abortion centers but pro-life pregnancy centers as well, says it’s time for violent activists to be prosecuted, and explains why “you don’t have to sue everybody.” Then, she and Glenn break down anti-Semitism on college campuses, her focus on the Second Amendment, and her advice to Congress to prevent a repeat of COVID-19 government tyranny.