400-408 – Ted Baehr, CEO of The Movie Guide (movieguide.org), talks about their 19^th Annual Faith and Values Awards Gala, which includes his annual report to the entertainment industry, that will air on the Hallmark Channel this coming Monday, May 16^th, at 7pm.

• Christian Newswire (5/13/2011) Hollywood Reaches $200K Epiphany — Movieguide® and Hallmark Movie Channel Celebrate Most Inspiring Movie & TV Program Monday Night.

413-423 – Calls – What’s your favorite movie of all time and why?  (I just a great old movie, “All About Eve,” which won 6 Oscars in 1950, starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, with a brief appearance by Marilyn Monroe.)  It doesn’t have to be the quality of the movie to count, it could have special personal significance for you.  Maybe it was a first kiss, a proposal, a “we’re expecting,” a wonderful bonding time with mom or dad, or a relative, or maybe it was a spiritual or emotional epiphany that was triggered.  What’s your “guess what special thing happened at the movies” story?

• AFI, Top 100 Movie Quotes (pdf).

• AFI, Top Ten Categories (pdf).

• AFI, Top 100 Movies (pdf).

• Our Movie Trivia Contest!  Winners get an invitation to visit the Frank Pastore Show and some gifts!

• Only for our Frank Pastore Show Facebook followers, we’re going to randomly select one of your posts after the show tonight and award the winner the entire Thru the Bible Series with J. Vernon McGee, a 5-CD package.  So make your posts now!

428-437 – Calls – What’s your favorite movie of all time and why?

443-452 – Calls – What’s your favorite movie of all time and why?

458-508 – Calls – What’s your favorite movie of all time and why?

512-523 – Calls – What’s your favorite movie of all time and why?

528-539 – Calls – What’s your favorite movie of all time and why?

544-554 – Calls – What’s your favorite movie of all time and why?

558-608 – Calls – What’s your favorite movie of all time and why?

612-623 – Calls – What’s your favorite movie of all time and why?

628-639 – Calls – What’s your favorite movie of all time and why?

644-656 – Calls – What’s your favorite movie of all time and why?

• David Martin (CBS, 5/12/2011) SEAL helmet cams recorded entire bin Laden raid.  More accurate version of what happened includes details that bin Laden first emerged on third floor, retreated to bedroom after shot fired.

• Charles Krauthammer (NRO, 5/13/2011) Demagoguery 101: Obama’s immigration speech was meant to gin up votes, not advance sound policy.  “I’m going to do my part to lead a constructive and civil debate on these issues.” – Barack Obama, speech on immigration, El Paso, Texas, May 10.

400-408 – • Jill Scott (Essence, April 2011) Commentary: Jill Scott Talks Interracial Dating.  Jill Scott is a three-time Grammy Award-winning artist, writer, actress, philanthropist and mother.

My new friend is handsome, African-American, intelligent and seemingly wealthy. He is an athlete, loves his momma, and is happily married to a White woman. I admit when I saw his wedding ring, I privately hoped. But something in me just knew he didn’t marry a sister. Although my guess hit the mark, when my friend told me his wife was indeed Caucasian, I felt my spirit…wince. I didn’t immediately understand it. My face read happy for you. My body showed no reaction to my inner pinch, but the sting was there, quiet like a mosquito under a summer dress. //

413-423 – Calls – Let’s talk about interracial marriage in the church.  If Jill involuntarily “winces” when she discovers a black man is married to a white woman, does this happen with any other combinations?  So, put together male and female in each of the big ethnic categories:  white, black, Hispanic, Asian, etc.  Do any of them have the same “wince-factor” as a black man and white woman?  Do Asian families still wince if their daughters date a non-Asian?  Have any of you experienced even subtle racism in your churches?  When you were young, what happened when you wanted to date cross-racially?  Did you have a “guess who’s coming to dinner” moment with your family?  Are young people today “past” all this racism stuff?

428-437 – Calls –

443-452 – Calls – Christine, a black woman, says she knows why black women wince at black men who marry white women.  She says she has three black uncles who all married white women, and that nearly all her black male friends growing up had all said they would never marry a black woman.  And with illegitimacy at 72% in the black community, they are already in great need of black husbands.

458-508 – Calls – Roger, a black man, says that many black men don’t want to date black women because they’re too bossy and their standards are too high – they all want “Denzel, Barack, or Kobe.”

512-523 – Calls –

523 – Don Rohde @ Galpin Ford (818) 262-2092 (galpin.com)  For the past 39 years, Don’s been sales manager at Galpin, the #1 volume Ford dealer in the world for the past 21 years.

528-539 – Calls –

544-554 – Craig Huey (craighuey.com) is running for the 36th Congressional District seat in a special election to be held on Tuesday May 17. If you live in Del Aire, El Segundo, Hermosa Beach, Lennox, Lomita, Los Angeles, Manhattan Beach, Marina del Rey, Redondo Beach, San Pedro, Torrance, Venice, West Carson or Wilmington, you may be able to vote in this election.

558-608 – Andrew Marin, president and founder The Marin Foundation (themarinfoundation.org), a nonprofit that seeks to build bridges between the LGBT community and the religious community, and blogs regularly loveisanorientation.com, his latest book is entitled Love Is An Orientation: Elevating The Conversation With The Gay Community.  If you’d like to contact Andrew directly about maybe a friend or loved one in the gay community, and you’ve got questions how to handle it, you can email him at andrew@themarinfoundation.org, or call him at (773) 572-5983.  The four principles of his ministry  are “Commit, Stay, Reconcile, and Grow.”  When the gay community is asked what they want from “us,” it comes down to two things, “Don’t lie to me,” and “Don’t leave me.”  Do you really mean it when you say, “You can tell me anything” and “I”ll always be here for you”?

612-623 – Andrew Marin,

628-639 – Andrew Marin,

400-408 – Shelley Lubben, (shelleylubben.com) is a former porn actress, and along with her husband Garrett are the founders of the Pink Cross Foundation (thepinkcross.org), a non-profit created to provide emotional, financial and transitional support to those who want out of the adult entertainment industry.  Her book is entitled Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth.  Her story is also the subject of the documentary Out of the Darkness, which opened John Paul II Film Festival 2011 back in February, and will also show in August on World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain.

• Christian Newswire, A New Documentary That Puts a Face on Pornography.

413-423 – Shelley Lubben

428-437 – Shelley Lubben

443-452 – Shelley Lubben

458-508 – Shelley Lubben

512-523 – Shelley Lubben.  Calls – What can we do better to minister to those in the adult entertainment industry?

528-539 – Shelley Lubben.  Calls – What can we do better to minister to those in the adult entertainment industry?  Answers:  risk more, go out and build relationships with these people, be less condemning and judgmental and more embracing, welcoming, and polite.

544-554 – Shelley Lubben.

558-608 – Shelley Lubben.

612-623 – (1:58) Prom full. (NBC News 4 in New York- Ben Sosenko reporting, 5/11/2011.)

• CT Post (Connecticut Post) (5/11/2011) Shelton High senior has a date, but can’t go to the prom. 

• Fox News (5/11/2011) School Bars Connecticut Teen From Prom for Creative Invite.

(2:20) • WFAA (5/10/2011) Dallas keeps $2,000 found by honest teen.

(3:18) • WFAA (5/11/2011) Anonymous donor comes forward to help honest teen.

628-639 – Calls – When have you done the right thing with a found item?  What was the result?

644-656 –

• Fox News (5/11/2011) Navy Halts Move to Allow Gay Marriages by Chaplains After Complaints From Lawmakers.

• Fox News (5/11/2011) Husband Celebrates Miracle as ‘Brain Dead’ Wife Wakes Up in Hospital.

• LAT (5/11/2011) Presbyterian Church votes to allow gay ordination.  The ratified measure will allow the ordination of gay and lesbian ministers and lay leaders, while giving regional church bodies the ability to decide for themselves.

400-408 – • USA Today (5/10/2011) After 25 years, Schwarzenegger and Shriver call it quits.

• MSNBC (4/30/2011) Christian Crisis?  Some prominent Christian leaders are raising concerns over the high rate of divorce among people who identify themselves as Evangelical Christians.  A new study at the University of Washington shows the divorce rate among Evangelicals is 43 percent. That is higher than the national average and it is no better than the rate for non believers.

•• Keith Ablow (Fox, 5/6/2011) Cameron Diaz Is Right — 4 Reasons Why Marriage IS a Dying Institution.  “America’s Psychiatrist” ends his column with this paragraph,

// It’s only a matter of time now. Marriage will fade away. We should be thinking about what might replace it. We should come up with something that improves the quality of our lives and those of our children. And we should keep government out of it, if we know what’s good for us.

• Albert Mohler (5/9/2011) Killing Off Marriage? Dr. Ablow Reports — You Decide.  Marriage is so essential to human happiness and to the organization of human society that it simply cannot be ignored or denied.

413-423 – Bob Lepine, Vice President of Family Life (familylife.com, 1-800-FL-TODAY), heard weekdays at 830am, invites couples to their upcoming Weekends To Remember:  May 13-15^th Irvine Hyatt Regency;  May 20-22^nd Ventura Beach Marriott;  June 3-5^th Visalia Marriott;  June 10-12^th Ontario Double Tree; and June 24-26^th Pasadena Hilton.

428-437 – Bob Lepine,

443-452 – Bob Lepine,

458-508 – Calls – Why are so many of us feeling drowsy today?  Is it some combination of temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, moon cycles, etc.?  Is it allergies?  Is there any truth to “sleepy” weather?  Mid-60’s with warm sunshine always seems to do this to me.  Nutritionists, is there such a thing as a “seasonal diet” where we should eat more or less of certain foods?  Do any of you have Seasonal Affective Disorder, do you do the light therapy to deal with it?  What’s your advice to others?  A “Black Eye” from Starbuck’s?   Is there any ethnic wisdom to eating seasonally (i.e., what was your grandma’s advice?)

Dr. Harvey Donald Cohen, is an Internist and Geriatric Medicine Specialist in Rancho Cucamonga, and our Pastore family doctor (909-987-2528).  Harvey’s won the prestigious Patient’s Choice Award for the past two years, an honor bestowed upon medical professionals by patients themselves.  He’s a member of several medical associations, including the American Geriatric Society, the American Thyroid Association, and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.  He’s fluent in English, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Spanish, and Yiddish.

• World’s Healthiest Foods, Healthy Eating with the Seasons.

• WEBMD, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).

512-523 – Calls – Dr. Claude Matar, a nutritionist from Pasadena Weight Loss Clinic calls in.

528-539 – Calls

544-554 – Calls

558-608 – Dr. Michael Brown, host of the nationally-syndicated radio show Line of Fire, and author of A Queer Thing Happened to America (aqueerthing.com, askdrbrown.org), about the homosexual agenda in America.

612-623 – Dr. Michael Brown,

628-639 – Dr. Michael Brown,

644-655 – • Telegraph (5/10/2011) Italians evacuate Rome over ‘big one’ fears.  Italians will on Wednesday flee Rome over fears a giant earthquake is coming following a seismologist’s 1915 prediction that “the big one” will strike on May 11, 2011.  And we’ve got Harold Camping’s May 21, 2011 hysteria going on.

• CBS Detroit (5/10/2011) Crack Pipes Often Disguised As Novelty Items At Stores.

• CBS Detroit (5/4/2011) Report: Nearly Half Of Detroiters Can’t Read.

• Fox News (5/9/2011) Chinese Twins Born in Single Body With 2 Heads.

• Fox News (5/10/2011) 3 Accused in Florida Evil Spirit Cleansing Scam.

• LAT (5/10/2011) L.A. district plans shakeup at Huntington Park High.  By July, officials, spurred by board member Yolie Flores, are expected to replace at least half the teachers at the campus. About 5% of the school’s students tested as ‘proficient’ or better in math last year; about 24% tested as ‘proficient’ or better in English. Teachers call the measures counterproductive.

• Dr. Dobson will be our special guest-speaker at two upcoming events, both on Thursday, May 26th – first, our Pastor’s Luncheon at the Universal Hilton that’s free to all church staff and their wives, and second, our big listener event that evening at Lake Avenue at 7pm.  They’re both free, but you need to pre-register with us at kkla.com.

400-408 – Rabbi Joe Telushkin (josephtelushkin.com) was a childhood friend of Dennis Prager, they went to Columbia together, and Dennis said he’s knowledgeable, wonderful, and hilarious.  Rabbi Joe is the author of many books on Jewish theology, philosophy, and history, and has written several novels, popular articles, and television and film scripts.  But his Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History has been the most widely read book on Judaism of the past two decades, and his monumental two-volume A Code of Jewish Ethics has rapidly risen to the pinnacle of its field.  Rabbi Joe is the spiritual leader of the Synagogue for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, but he lives in New York City with his wife, writer Deborah Telushkin, and their four children.  Plus, there’s a bunch of YouTubes of Rabbi Joe teaching on a variety of subjects available online.

Today we talk about “loving your enemies,” and Jewish Humor – sourcing his Biblical Literacy: The Most Important People, Events, and Ideas of the Hebrew Bible, and his book on humor, Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews.

413-423 – Rabbi Joe Telushkin.

428-437 – Rabbi Joe Telushkin. 

443-452 – Rabbi Joe Telushkin. 

458-508 – Today’s show is a terrorism and Osama bin Laden free zone – only if something major happens do we bring those topics up.  OK?

• David Spady (Townhall, 5/8/2011) $200,000 Lifeguards to Receive Millions in Retirement.  Calls – A Newport Beach lifeguard can make over $200 grand, retire at 50 with full medical and over $108,000 a year for life!?!  What’s your dream job?  Are you doing anything to make it a reality?  Are any of you working in your dream job?  Are you working towards completing the qualifications and requirements that are necessary for you to “get in”?  (Which, of course, is why a liberal education is so important.)

Do you have a dream that you’re working toward?  Are you getting closer every day?  If you have nothing that you’re working toward, you’re certain to get there – at nothing.  How can you get paid to pursue your passion?

512-523 – Calls

528-539 – Calls

544-554 – Calls

558-608 – Calls

612-623 – Calls

628-639 – • Your Houston News (5/8/2011) Man airlifted after fight with cat.  You know your cat has snapped when you have to defend yourself with a knife!  Ever been attacked by a pet?  Ever have to use a weapon against your pet?

A Cleveland man was attacked by a housecat Friday afternoon and the man’s injuries are so severe that he had to be taken by air ambulance to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.  The altercation between the man and the animal occurred at a home on CR 3182 a few miles south of Cleveland in Liberty County.  At some point during the attack, the man and the cat reportedly were injured by a knife the man was holding. The man was taken to Cleveland Regional Medical Center before being transported to Houston.  Game wardens Danny Diaz and Adam Broll captured the cat. It was taken to Big Thicket Animal Hospital for examination.  The man’s identity is unknown at this time.

Game Warden Danny Diaz expected to find an animal a little more fierce than the tabby cat he encountered when he was called to a home on CR 3182 in Cleveland on Friday. The cat, like the one pictured, was mortally wounded by a man who attacked the cat with a knife after the cat reportedly attacked the man. During the struggle with the cat, the man sustained cuts and injuries so serious that he had to be taken by air ambulance to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. The cat was later euthanized by a Cleveland veterinarian.

644-656 – • Dr. Dobson will be our special guest-speaker at two upcoming events, both on Thursday, May 26th – first, our Pastor’s Luncheon at the Universal Hilton that’s free to all church staff and their wives, and second, our big listener event that evening at Lake Avenue at 7pm.  They’re both free, but you need to pre-register with us at kkla.com.

• Keith Ablow (Fox, 5/6/2011) Cameron Diaz Is Right — 4 Reasons Why Marriage IS a Dying Institution.  “America’s Psychiatrist” ends his column with this paragraph,

// It’s only a matter of time now. Marriage will fade away. We should be thinking about what might replace it. We should come up with something that improves the quality of our lives and those of our children. And we should keep government out of it, if we know what’s good for us.

• Albert Mohler (5/9/2011) Killing Off Marriage? Dr. Ablow Reports — You Decide.  Marriage is so essential to human happiness and to the organization of human society that it simply cannot be ignored or denied.

• Dr. Dobson will be our special guest-speaker at two upcoming events, both on Thursday, May 26th – first, our Pastor’s Luncheon at the Universal Hilton that’s free to all church staff and their wives, and second, our big listener event that evening at Lake Avenue at 7pm.  They’re both free, but you need to pre-register with us at kkla.com.

400-408 – Dinesh D’Souza, best-selling author and lecturer, was inaugurated as the President of King’s College back on December 2, 2010 (tkc.edu).  His latest book is entitled, The Roots of Obama’s Rage (dineshdsouza.com).

• Guardian (5/5/2011) Ahmadinejad allies charged with sorcery.  Iranian power struggle between president and supreme leader sees arrests and claims of undue influence of chief of staff.

• Aljazeera (5/6/2011) Ahmadinejad row with Khamenei intensifies.  Iranian president said to be considering resignation after intelligence chief he fired was reinstated by supreme leader.

• James Rosen (Fox News, 5/6/2011) Bin Laden Killing: How the White House, Pentagon and CIA Botched the Storyline.

• Express (5/6/2011) FURIOUS BIN LADEN SUPPORTERS VOW ‘REVENGE’ ON STREETS OF LONDON. HUNDREDS of Osama bin Laden supporters clashed with English Defence League extremists today as a “funeral service” for the assassinated terror leader sparked fury outside London’s US Embassy.

• Fox News (5/6/2011) Al Qaeda Confirms Bin Laden’s Death on Islamist Websites.

413-423 – Dinesh D’Souza

428-437 – Dinesh D’Souza

443-452 – Dinesh D’Souza

458-508 – Tony Meggs, president of Christian Care Ministry (medi-share.org, 1-800-772-5623).

512-523 – • Kevin Burke (NRO, 5/4/2011) Post-Abortion Trauma: “Jesus, what have I done?”  

Long before he won accolades as an American Idol judge, Steven Tyler was a bona-fide rock star, with all that that implied. In 1975, when he was in his late 20s and the lead singer for the band Aerosmith, Tyler persuaded the parents of his 14-year-old girlfriend, Julia Holcomb, to make him her legal guardian so that they could live together in Boston.

When Miss Holcomb and Tyler conceived a child, his longtime friend Ray Tabano convinced Tyler that abortion was the only solution. In the Aerosmith “autobiography,” Walk This Way (in which recollections by all the band members, and their friends and lovers, were assembled by the author Stephen Davis), Tabano says: “So they had the abortion, and it really messed Steven up because it was a boy. He . . . saw the whole thing and it [messed] him up big time.”

Tyler also reflects on his abortion experience in the autobiography. “It was a big crisis. It’s a major thing when you’re growing something with a woman, but they convinced us that it would never work out and would ruin our lives. . . . You go to the doctor and they put the needle in her belly and they squeeze the stuff in and you watch. And it comes out dead. I was pretty devastated. In my mind, I’m going, Jesus, what have I done?”

Calls (you can change your name): What’s your story with abortion? How have you found healing? Did you experience a period like Tyler did where you tried to cope in unhealthy ways? How can we, as the church, minister to those who have had abortions? //

528-539 – Calls – Let’s talk with post-abortive fathers, an often ignored group of guys.  Has your experience been similar to Stephen Tyler’s?

544-554 – Calls –

558-608 – Calls – Lisa and her husband Stan run whiteaswoolministries.org for post-abortive parents.

612-623 – Calls – Lori is with abortionrecovery.org, and she runs Foothill Pregnancy Resource Center in Duarte.  They offer baskets in restrooms entitled “When you are ready?” 626-241-5997.

(2:00) Paul Karpf, Founder and CEO of Financial Recovery USA (financialrecoveryusa.com, 800-385-0745), has an “A” rating with the BBB, and is one of just ten companies in America certified by the Attorney General as a “Certified Foreclosure Consultant.”  • And if you call before 8pm tonight to schedule a “face to face,” Paul will have you meet personally and confidentially with one of his counselors for free!  Offices in Orange and Woodland Hills.

628-639 – Rochelle, with Choices near Cal Poly Pomona.  Mike calls to share his ministry started as a post-abortive father.

644-656 – (:04) KB Pre-Surgery. (Karen Butler’s voice before the surgery.)

(:06) KB Post-surgery 1.

(:07) KB Post-surgery 2.

(:05) Husband- Glen Butler.

• CBN News (5/5/2011) Woman Goes to Dentist, Wakes Up with Accent.

• NBC TODAY (5/5/2011) American woman wakes from surgery with British accent.

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• The Blaze (5/5/2011) Joy Behar:  Is bin Laden evil?  This priest’s response may surprise you.

(10:58) Behar full. (Joy Behar brings Father Edward Beck, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Imam Johari Abdul-Malik onto her show this past Tuesday (5/3/2011) to address the question, “Is bin Laden evil?”

(:04) Behar 1. Beck, “I don’t think we can know the heart and mind of somebody, you really can’t know the motivation of somebody…”

(:14) Behar 2. Behar, “But you can rationalize anything and still be evil.”  Beck, “But his actions are evil. Only God can judge the inner heart and soul of somebody. Only God sees the true motivation, you can’t see that.  So how can you deem him as a person evil.  All people are created in goodness and in love.”  Behar, “Really?”

(4:08) O’Reilly full. (Bill O’Reilly welcomes Father Edward Beck to his show on Fox on 5/3/2011. Full video link is here.)

(:27) O’Reilly short.  O’Reilly, “Was bin Laden evil?”  Beck, “That’s not for me to judge. His actions were certainly were evil, and they caused a lot of harm and destruction.”  O’Reilly, “So you as a human being cannot make the decision regarding good and evil, you cannot do that?”  Beck, “No, I think that‘s up to God to ultimately decide who’s evil.”  O’Reilly, “I can.  And I’ll probably be punished for it by the deity.”  Beck, “I see his actions, I don’t know a man’s heart, ever totally.”  O’Reilly, “I know bin Laden’s heart.”  Beck, “His actions were despicable, and should be punished.”

• Dr. Dobson will be our special guest-speaker at two upcoming events, both on Thursday, May 26th – first, our Pastor’s Luncheon at the Universal Hilton that’s free to all church staff and their wives, and second, our big listener event that evening at Lake Avenue at 7pm.  They’re both free, but you need to pre-register with us at kkla.com.

400-408 – • Vanity Fair (5/3/2011) Katy Perry on Her Religious Childhood, Her Career, and Her Marriage to Russell Brand.   She’s the June cover of Vanity Fair, which hits the stands today.  Her real name is Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson.

“My career is like an artichoke,” Katy Perry tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Lisa Robinson. “People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don’t even know that there’s something magical hidden at the base of it. There’s a whole other side [of me] that people didn’t know existed.”

Perry, who tells Robinson that she wants her ashes shot out over the Santa Barbara coast in a firework, reveals that one side of her she has definitively left behind is her born-again upbringing. “I didn’t have a childhood,” she says, adding that her mother never read her any books except the Bible, and that she wasn’t allowed to say “deviled eggs” or “Dirt Devil.” Perry wasn’t even allowed to listen to secular music and relied on friends to sneak her CDs. “Growing up, seeing Planned Parenthood, it was considered like the abortion clinic,” she tells Robinson. “I was always scared I was going to get bombed when I was there…. I didn’t know it was more than that, that it was for women and their needs. I didn’t have insurance, so I went there and I learned about birth control.”

“I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up,” Perry says of her evangelical-minister parents. “Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me. We agree to disagree. They’re excited about [my success]. They’re happy that things are going well for their three children and that they’re not on drugs. Or in prison.” Perry’s mother confirms that she is proud of her daughter’s success, telling Robinson, “The Lord told us when I was pregnant with her that she would do this.”

“I come from a very non-accepting family, but I’m very accepting,” Perry says of her religious beliefs as an adult. “Russell is into Hinduism, and I’m not [really] involved in it. He meditates in the morning and the evening; I’m starting to do it more because it really centers me. [But] I just let him be him, and he lets me be me.” Perry says she didn’t stick with the mold growing up. “I have always been the kid who’s asked ‘Why?’ In my faith, you’re just supposed to have faith. But I was always like…why?” she says. “At this point, I’m just kind of a drifter. I’m open to possibility…. My sponge is so big and wide and I’m soaking everything up and my mind has been radically expanded. Just being around different cultures and people and their opinions and perspectives. Just looking into the sky.”

413-423 – Calls – I hate legalism.  Like Katy Perry, do you also believe that you didn’t have a childhood because of your strict (i.e., legalistic) Christian upbringing?  Many kids tend to swing in the other direction when they have children of their own, if you were raised lenient, did you start out as a strict parent?  Or, vice versa, were you raised strict and started out as a more lenient parent?  Do you think kids raised in a strict household tend to rebel more often than kids in a lenient household? 

Steve Arterburn says that “rules without relationship creates rebellion” have you found that’s true in your own life?

Katy says she didn’t get good answers to her “why” questions, she was supposed to just “have faith” – did you have that in common with her too?

If you rebelled, what brought you back?  What should we as the church learn from your experience?

428-437 – Calls

443-452 – Calls

458-508 – David Hegg, Senior Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Santa Clarita (gracebaptist.org), an adjunct prof at Master’s College, blogs at heggthought.com, and with his co-author Carl Moeller from Open Doors, has written a new book entitled The Privilege of Persecution: And Other Things that the Global Church Knows That We Don’t (link).  And, he’s recently finished a second book entitled The Obedience Option: Because God Knows What’s Good for Us (link).  And, he’s doing “The Bible in 200 Minutes”, a five-week series, which started this past Sunday.  Today, we talk about David’s “allergy to legalism,” bouncing off our “why we lost Katy Perry” first hour.

512-523 – David Hegg,

523 – Don Rohde @ Galpin Ford (818) 262-2092 (galpin.com)  For the past 39 years, Don’s been sales manager at Galpin, the #1 volume Ford dealer in the world for the past 21 years.

528-539 – David Hegg, & Calls

544-554 – David Hegg, & Calls

Just a few minutes ago on our Facebook page from Eduardo Lopez,

Hey Frank, I learned this from a researcher about successful and unsuccessful parents I order of importance:  1. Authoritative: rules with love (balanced).  2. Permissive: love with few or no rules.  3. Authoritarian: rules no love (legalistic). 4. Neglect: no rules no love.

558-608 – David Hegg, & Calls. 

612-623 – David Hegg, & Calls.  Should Frank play secular bumpers?

628-639 – David Hegg, & Calls.  David summarizes “law and grace,” i.e., the Old Testament and the New Testament.

644-656 – David Hegg, & Calls.  How do we “love” Osama bin Laden.

• Fox News (5/3/2011) ‘Passion of the Christ’ star Jim Caviezel says playing Jesus sunk his career.

• CBS Detroit (5/4/2011) Report: Nearly Half Of Detroiters Can’t Read.

• Reuters (5/5/2011) FEATURE-Scientist seeks to banish evil, boost empathy.  Cambridge psychopathology professor and world-renowned expert in autism, Simon Baron-Cohen, says that we need a new theory of human cruelty – that the word “evil” is not good enough – and that the real source of evil actions is a lack of empathy – the ability to place oneself in another’s shoes.  His new book on this, The Science of Evil, comes out in July.

• Dr. Dobson will be our special guest-speaker at two upcoming events, both on Thursday, May 26th – first, our Pastor’s Luncheon at the Universal Hilton that’s free to all church staff and their wives, and second, our big listener event that evening at Lake Avenue at 7pm.  They’re both free, but you need to pre-register with us at kkla.com.

400-408 – • Calgary Sun (Reuters, 5/4/2011, 1:38pm Pacific) Photos show three dead men at bin Laden raid house.

Jamal Hashweh, is the Jordan Project Manager for Global Hope Network International (ghni.org), also overseeing Syria and Egypt, he was in Cairo during the riots, and he was at Joni & Friends yesterday to coordinate a shipment of wheelchairs to Jordan scheduled for later this year.

413-423 – Jamal Hashweh

428-437 – Larry Cabaldon, is the founder of Boardroom Performance Group, and the co-author of God in the Boardroom: Why is Christianity losing market share? (boardroomperformancegroup.com), along with co-author Brian Klemmer (who recently passed away from a heart attack).  Today, he sets up the fun and insightful story.

443-452 – Larry Cabaldon,

458-508 – Calls – As Christians, Jesus commands you and I to forgive our enemies – how ya’ doin’ at forgiving Osama bin Laden, let alone loving him?  What does that even look like?  Forgiveness usually follows repentance, if the person is living, but how do you forgive someone who’s dead?  Repentance requires two people, forgiveness just one – you.  We best love our enemies by restraining them from committing evil acts, and sometimes this requires deadly force.  Do you believe God loves Osama bin Laden as much as He loves you?  How have you forgiven someone who’s hurt you once they had died?

When you cure a disease, you aren’t celebrating the deaths of the virus, you are celebrating the saving of lives.

“I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” – Mark Twain

Some key distinctions:  1) Forgiveness is surrendering your right to revenge.  2) Trust can only be earned.  And, 3) Reconciliation occurs when the two are once again united.

• Matthew 5:43-48 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’  But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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528-539 – • Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (5/2/2011) How to Respond to Osama Bin Laden’s Death.   Are we required to love “enemies of God”?  The rabbi presents the classic Jewish understanding of Jesus’ teaching on “loving your enemies.”

// But for those who go further and quote to me Jesus’ injunction that we are to love our enemies, I respond that to love murderers is to practice contempt against their victims. Those who do not hate bin Laden have been morally compromised. A member of the Taliban who cuts off a woman’s nose and ears or an Al Qaida terrorist who flies a plane into a building has cast off the image of G-d from their countenance and is no longer our human brother. They deserve not amnesty but abhorrence, not clemency but contempt. And since humans cannot bestow life, neither can they act in the place of G-d and forgive those who take life.

To my Christian brothers and sisters I say, as a Jew who has just completed a book about Jesus that is thoroughly sourced in the New Testament, that Jesus never meant to forgive G-d’s enemies. He words are specific. He says to love your enemy. Your enemy is the guy who steals your parking space. G-d’s enemies are those blow up airplanes. Likewise, in advocating turning the other cheek Jesus never meant that if someone kills 3000 American citizens you are to allow him to kill 3000 British as well. Rather, Jesus meant to forgive petty slights rather than monstrous evil.

I do not believe in revenge, something the Bible explicitly prohibits. The ancient Jewish understanding of the Biblical injunction of ‘an eye for an eye’ was always financial restitution for the lost productivity of an eye rather than the barbaric taking of an organ itself. But I do believe in justice, and forgiving murder or loving a terrorist makes a mockery of human love and a shambles of human justice. The human capacity for love is limited enough without us making the reprehensible mistake of directing even a sliver of our heart away from the victims and toward their culprits.

Ecclesiastes expressed it best. There is not just a time to love but also a time to hate. I hate Osama bin Laden but I will not rejoice in his death. It would have been better for the world had he never been born. But once he was, and once he directed his life to unspeakable cruelty, it was necessary for him to be stopped and killed. And for that I give thanks to G-d and the brave soldiers of the American military for making the world a safer, more just, and innocent place.

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• USA Today (5/4/2011) Forgive bin Laden? Dalai Lama’s surprising view.

The Dalai Lama teaches detachment as part of releasing oneself from suffering, and takes such a line on compassion that he won’t swat mosquitoes supping on his blood.

But Wednesday, speaking on”Secular Ethics, Human Values and Society,” to an audience of 3,000 at University of Southern California, he offered a possible understanding of why the USA assassinated Osama bin Laden.

While Buddhist understanding, and most Western religions, counsel compassion, even forgiveness for the evildoer, “Forgiveness doesn’t mean forget what happened.”

According to the Los Angeles Times coverage, he also said it is sometimes necessary to take countermeasures against evil.

But most religions teach that forgiveness follows repentance, an avowed turn to the righteous path. Repentance doesn’t obviate punishment in a just legal system on earth, but it leaves to God the final judgment.

Rev. James Martin at America’s blog In All Things, takes the Catholic view:

I am glad he has left the world. And I pray that his departure may lead to peace. But as a Christian, I am asked to pray for him and, at some point, forgive him. And that command comes to us from Jesus, a man who was beaten, tortured and killed. That command comes from a man who knows a great deal about suffering. It also comes from God..

There’s no hint of repentance in bin Laden’s life, however. So, does he merit forgiveness on earth or in heaven in your faith or philosophy?

• LA Times (5/4/2011) Dalai Lama suggests Osama bin Laden’s death was justified.  Speaking at USC, the Buddhist spiritual leader says of the Al Qaeda chief’s assassination: ‘Forgiveness doesn’t mean forget what happened.’

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• From Facebook:   Matt Sebastian Jesus taught us in Matthew 5:44 to “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”. If the purpose of this teaching was to relieve us of the burden of carrying anger and hatred in our hearts, then this teaching should apply not only to those who hurt us personally, but also those who have committed grave sins against several people (such as Bin Laden). Otherwise, if we love our “personal” enemies but hate the mass murderers, we’re still carrying the “burden” Jesus was trying to relieve in the first place.

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• Fox News (5/3/2011) Katy Perry: Strict Christian Upbringing Kept Me From Having a Childhood.

• Fox News (5/3/2011) ‘Passion of the Christ’ star Jim Caviezel says playing Jesus sunk his career.

• CBS Detroit (5/4/2011) Report: Nearly Half Of Detroiters Can’t Read.

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400-408 – • San Diego 6 (5/3/2011) Former Navy Seal Breaks Down bin Laden Kill Mission.

The Navy SEALs who carried out this week’s capture or kill raid on Usama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan are some of the most physically fit and mentally equipped soldiers on the planet – and for good reason.

These men, known as the Navy’s sea, air, land commandos, are put through what many experts regard as the toughest and most rigorous training in the world.

It involves a seven-week course known as BUD/S, which stands for Basic Underwater Demolition/SEALs. This period includes an indoctrination course, followed by a conditioning phase and land warfare phase. If that wasn’t enough, the infamous “Hell Week” is thrown into the mix as well.

This phase of the training is the by far the harshest, with 132 hours of continuous physical training and less than four hours of sleep. This is not only a true test of the limits of a person’s physical capabilities, but it’s really about their mental toughness. 

According to one Navy SEAL instructor, “Hell Week” requires 90 percent mental and only 10 percent physical strength and capability. //

• Fox News (5/3/2011) Navy SEALs Exhibit the Ultimate Mental Toughness.  Currently, there are about 2,500 active duty Navy SEALs with nine SEAL teams dispersed throughout the East and West Coasts. Every year, about 1,000 men start SEAL training with only 200 to 250 making it through the grueling process.

Commander Mark Divine, was a Navy Seal for 20 years, and is the founder and CEO SEALFIT in Encinitas, where current SEALS and SEAL candidates train to become warrior-athletes (sealfit.com).  Commander Divine spent 10 years active duty, 5 years with SEAL Team 3, 2 years at SEAL Delivery Team 1, and 2 years at the Naval Special Warfare Group 1 (with a tour in Iraq in 2004), he has a total of 10 years with the SEAL Reserves.  He just retired earlier this year.  Mark is a graduate of Colgate University with a BA in Economics, then he did an MBA at NYU, and was working for Cooper & Lybrand on Wall Street preparing to take the CPA exam on Wall Street – when he decided to take on a real challenge, becoming an officer with the Navy SEALS.  Mark graduated as the Honor Man of his class in 1990, the honor bestowed upon the top student of the class.

• Official Website of the US Navy SEALS.  See their training manual!

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458-508 – • George Friedman (Stratfor, 5/3/2011) The Death of bin Laden and a Strategic Shift in Washington.  With the President removing Petraeus from the battlefield and placing him at Langley to run the CIA, this removes a key obstacle to an accelerated withdrawal from Afghanistan.  (Colson’s Breakpoint was along the same lines.)

512-523 – • Albert Mohler (5/2/2011) The Trial that Still Must Come — The Death of Osama bin Laden and the Limits of Human Justice.  As is always the case, we are left with a sense that a higher court is still needed. Christians know that Osama bin Laden escaped the reach of full human justice and a trial for his crimes, but he will not escape the judgment that is to come. Bin Laden will not escape his trial before the court of God. Until then, sober satisfaction must be enough for those still in the land of the living.

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• Ynet News (5/3/2011) J’lem imam: Obama will soon hang.  (Video) Al-Aqsa Mosque imam vows to avenge killing of Osama bin Laden in Youtube video. ‘Dogs should not rejoice too much for killing lions’.

• Kevin Eckstrom (Religion News Service, 5/2/2011) Is it OK for Christians to cheer the death of a terrorist?

544-554 – Errol St. Clair Smith, with P.I.C.S. Worldwide Ministries (picsworldwide.com), which stands for Photographers In Christ’s Service based at Saddleback Church.  Their vision is to build a global network of Christian photographers to share their knowledge, skills, and experiences.

558-608 – Errol St. Clair Smith,

612-623 – Eric Metaxas, author of the bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (ericmetaxas.com) – which just won “Book of the Year” from the Christian publishers last night in Colorado Springs!

628-639 – Eric Metaxas,

644-656 – (3:23) Jay Sekulow Montage played today about the death of Osama bin Laden.

• Dr. Dobson will be our special guest-speaker at two upcoming events, both on Thursday, May 26th – first, our Pastor’s Luncheon at the Universal Hilton that’s free to all church staff and their wives, and second, our big listener event that evening at Lake Avenue at 7pm.  They’re both free, but you need to pre-register with us at kkla.com.

Osama bin Laden is dead!

My Summary Notes – Seal Team 6 aka “DevGru” (Naval Special Warfare Development Group, under Join Special Operations Command under Vice Admiral William McRaven and soon Maj. Gen. Joseph Votel), had rehearsed the raid at Bagram AFB on 4/7 and 4/13.  24 Seals rappelled into the $1 million compound built just 5 years ago and located just 30 miles NW of Islamabad, at 115am local time.  The 40 minute fire fight ended with the death of OBL.

Obama order the execution of bin Laden on Friday, but it was delayed due to weather until 330pm Sunday EST.  He watched it live in the War Room.

The nicknames of the two brothers who were bin Laden’s couriers were gotten via waterboarding at Gitmo in 2003.  Their names were discovered in 2007.  Then, in August 2010, the location of the compound identified.  Bin Laden was buried at sea off the carrier USS Carl Vinson at 2am Eastern.

• (3:12) Fox: Bin Laden captured full. (Bill Hemmer in New York and Jennifer Griffin from the Pentagon with Fox News on 5/2/2011 give news about the covert operation which killed bin Laden.)  • Fox News (5/2/2011) Courier Led CIA to Bin Laden.  Trusted messenger located using intelligence from Gitmo interrogations. 

•• Marc Ambinder (National Journal, 5/2/2011) The secret team that killed bin Laden.

(:22) Celebrations: Hemmer. (Bill Hemmer with Fox news tells of the celebrations happening in front of the White House and in NY city on 5/2/2011.)

(9:17) PO Bin Laden dead full. (President Obama speaks to the American people about the death of Osama bin Laden from the White House on the evening of 5/1/2011.)

• (:18) PO Bin Laden 1 short.  “Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.”

(:09) PO Bin Laden 2 short. “The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat al Qaeda.  Yet his death does not mark the end of our effort.”

(:29) PO Bin Laden 3 short. “We must also reaffirm that the United States is not –- and never will be -– at war with Islam. I’ve made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own. So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.”

(:04) PO Bin Laden 3a. “So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.”

(:35) PO Bin Laden 4 short. “But it’s important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding. Indeed, bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan as well, and ordered attacks against the Pakistani people.  Tonight, I called President Zardari, and my team has also spoken with their Pakistani counterparts. They agree that this is a good and historic day for both of our nations. And going forward, it is essential that Pakistan continue to join us in the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates.”

(:03) PO Bin Laden 4a. “This is a good and historic day for both of our nations.”

(:29) PO Bin Laden 5 short. “Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are. And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror:  Justice has been done.”

(:07) PO Bin Laden 5a. “We can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror:  Justice has been done.”

(:43) PO Bin Laden 6 short.  “Tonight, we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it’s the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place.  Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.  Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.”

• Yahoo (5/2/2011) Obama: bin Laden’s death makes the world safer.

• Politico (5/2/2011) Getting bin Laden: How the mission went down.

• Bloomberg (5/2/2011) U.S. Forces Unsure Bin Laden Was There Until Face to Face.

• Jake Tapper (ABC News, 5/2/2011) In March, President Obama Authorized Development of Plan to Bomb Compound but Wanting Evidence of OBL’s Death, Did Not Execute*.

• Fox News (5/2/2011) Osama Bin Laden Killed in Firefight With U.S. Special Ops Team in Pakistan.

• Stratfor (5/2/2011) The Tactical Irrelevance of Osama bin Laden’s Death.

• Nine MSN (4/26/2011) Capturing bin Laden ‘would unleash hell’.

• Huffington Post (5/2/2011) Osama Bin Laden Dead: Obama Speech Transcript.

400-408 – Joel Rosenberg (joelrosenberg.com) former communications advisor to the once-former and now-current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and million-selling author of such page-turners as The Last Jihad, The Ezekiel Option, The Copper Scroll, Dead Heat, Epicenter, Inside The Revolution, and his latest The 12^th Imam.  You can watch Joel’s “Rapid Response Videos” at joshuafund.net.  His Epicenter Conference in Jerusalem is coming up May 15-16, you can watch it at the joshuafund.net website.

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428-437 – Ken Timmerman, contributing editor at newsmax.com, also runs the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (iran.org), is the author of many bestsellers including his latest about the persecuted church in Iraq entitled St. Peter’s Bones (kentimmerman.com).

443-452 – Ken Timmerman

458-508 – Ret. Lt. General Tom McInerney, was the #3 man in the USAF as the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff at the pinnacle of his distinguished career, you see him regularly on Fox News as their senior military analyst, and he’s the author of Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror.

512-523 – Ret. Lt. General Tom McInerney,

528-539 – Calls – How can Christians rejoice in the death of the wicked when God doesn’t?  “Rejoice” – defined, to “feel or show great joy or delight.”  Can’t we be grateful without rejoicing?  The military celebrates the success of the mission, not the death of their enemies.  If enemies surrender, they will not lose their lives.  In a far lighter sense from sports, a team celebrates their victory, not the injuries inflicted upon the other team.

Ezekiel 33:11 – “’As I live!’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live…”

Ezekiel 18:23 – “Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked,” declares the Lord GOD, “rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?”

Prov 24:17 – “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; Or the LORD will see it and be displeased, And turn His anger away from him. Do not fret because of evildoers, Or be envious of the wicked; For there will be no future for the evil man, The lamp of the wicked will be put out.  Don’t rejoice but be grateful.”

• Kevin Eckstrom (Religion News Service, 5/2/2011) Is it OK for Christians to cheer the death of a terrorist?

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612-623 – Tom Doyle, Director of International Ministries and Middle East Specialist for E3 Partners (e3partners.org, “Equip, Evangelize, Establish”), and author of Breakthrough: The Return of Hope to the Middle East (goodnewsfromthemiddleeast.com).  Tom recently was “blacklisted” by Syria. 

628-639 – Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (aifdemocracy.org), an organization “committed to demonstrating the synergy of American democracy and its founding principles with the religion of Islam,” refers to himself as a “Jeffersonian Muslim,” he is a former Navy Lieutenant Commander in the Medical Corps, former president of the Arizona Medical Association, and today is an Internist in private practice in Phoenix.  Check out the excellent documentary he narrates, The Third Jihad (thethirdjihad.com).  AIFD just launched “The Muslim Liberty Project” last month with the purpose of inoculating youth against radicalization, and helping families deal with their children perhaps becoming radicalized.  And, as a result of the recent hearings in Washington, Zuhdi is no longer the lone voice talking about modernization.  Now, there’s this coalition, americanislamicleadership.org.  In response to the recent humanitarian crisis in Syria, Zuhdi was part of the team that started savesyrianow.com.

644-654 – (3:23) Jay Sekulow Montage played today about the death of Osama bin Laden.

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400-408 – Keith Pugh, pastor Open Door Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa (opendoormin.com), has been out ministering to the victims of the recent tornadoes that has hit his city, as part of the larger swarm that has been ravishing the midwest and south for the last few days in the worst tornado outbreak in four decades – leaving over 280 dead, two-thirds of those in Alabama.  The tornado that went through Tuscaloosa was an F5, meaning winds of over 200mph, and it cut a path up to one mile wide and it may have cut that path for almost 200 miles!

• Yahoo (4/28/2011) Tornadoes devastate South, killing at least 280.

• Tuscaloosa News (4/28/2011) Aerial view of tornado damage.

413-423 – David Hegg, Senior Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Santa Clarita (gracebaptist.org), an adjunct prof at Master’s College, blogs at heggthought.com, and with his co-author Carl Moeller from Open Doors, has written a new book entitled The Privilege of Persecution: And Other Things that the Global Church Knows That We Don’t.  And, he’s recently finished a second book entitled The Obedience Option: Because God Knows What’s Good for Us.  And, he’s doing “The Bible in 200 Minutes”, a five-week series, starting this Sunday.

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458-508 – • Fox News (4/28/2011) Superman Renounces His U.S. Citizenship in 900th Issue of Action Comics.  Calls: Superman fans, is this a big deal or not? General calls: Does it matter to you, how the world views Americans? What does the ‘American Way’ mean to you and how can the church stand up and reflect the virtues and values that our nation is founded on?  The “American Way” is DOI, Constitution, separation of powers, bicameral legislature, free markets, rule of law, human rights, tolerance, pluralism, equality, individual responsibility.

• Laura Hudson (Comics Alliance, 4/27/2011) Superman Renounces [SPOILER] in ‘Action Comics’ #900.

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523 – Don Rohde @ Galpin Ford (818) 262-2092 (galpin.com)  For the past 39 years, Don’s been sales manager at Galpin, the #1 volume Ford dealer in the world for the past 21 years.

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558-608 – KKLA has partnered with six great Christian schools in Southern California, and we’re offering half-off tuition to only two qualified families per school.  Here’s your opportunity to get a quality Christian education for your student, and get HALF OFF this Fall’s tuition.  Call right now (888) 799-4999, and get more details at kkla.com.  When you call, please have your credit card ready – and this offer is for TODAY ONLY.  The six schools are:  Valley Christian in Cerritos (K-12), Good Shepherd in Simi Valley (K-8), Chino Valley Christian in Chino (K-8), Lutheran High School in La Verne, Concordia in the San Fernando Valley (K-12), and Pasadena Christian School in Pasadena.

Edward Amey (HS $7500, ES $5800), Executive Director of Concordia Christian Schools (concordia.org). 

Nancy Hawthorne ($6100), principal of Good Shepherd Lutheran School in Simi Valley (K-8) (gsls-simi.com).

Lance Ebel ($7000), Principal of Lutheran High School in La Verne.

612-623 – Richard Kennedy, our KKLA Director of Church Relations, who put the whole thing together.

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• Stratfor (4/28/2011) Portfolio: Risk of U.S. Debt Default. 

• LAT (4/28/2011) LAUSD to remove chocolate, strawberry milk from schools, superintendent says.  During an appearance with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, LAUSD Supt. John Deasy says the Los Angeles school system will stop offering high-sugar chocolate and strawberry milk.

• Ken Cohen (Exxon-Mobil Perspectives, 4/27/2011) Gas prices and industry earnings: A few things to think about the next time you fill up.

400-408 – Today we announce the special phone number that’s going to give you a chance to send your child to a great Christian School this Fall at half-price the regular tuition!  The first 12 “qualified” callers will be given the opportunity to enroll their student in one of six excellent Christian Schools – this to limited to just two qualified families per school:  Valley Christian in Cerritos (K-12), Good Shepherd in Simi Valley (K-8), Chino Valley Christian in Chino (K-8), La Verne High School in the San Gabriel Valley, Concordia in the San Fernando Valley (K-12), and Pasadena Christian School in Pasadena.   Log on right now to KKLA.com for details about each of these schools and to see which one is the perfect fit for you and your family!   Ready?  Here’s the number:  888-799-4999.

If you’re a qualified family, have your credit card ready, because you’re going to pay for the full one-half of the tuition today! 

Let’s meet three of the schools:  Steven Gray, Superintendent of Pasadena Christian School (PK-8);  Michael Quiroz, Middle School Principal of Chino Valley Christian School and Yvette Taylor the Principal of their Elementary School(PK-12); and Mike Wunderley, Principal at Valley Christian School (PK-12).

Steven Gray, Superintendent of Pasadena Christian School (PK-8).

413-423 – Michael Quiroz, Middle School Principal of Chino Valley Christian School, and Yvette Taylor, the Elementary School Principal (PK-12).

428-437 – Mike Wunderley, Principal at Valley Christian School in Cerritos (PK-12).

443-452 – All guest chat.

458-508 – Shirley Dobson, Chairman of the National Day of Prayer coming up the first Thursday of May 5th (nationaldayofprayer.org), with this year’s theme “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” – and Joni Eareckson Tada is the honorary chairperson this year.  Shirley took over the task force 20 years ago from Vonette Bright with just $6K and one volunteer – and look what the Lord has done! 

• Dr. Dobson will be our special guest-speaker at two upcoming events, both on Thursday, May 26th – first, our Pastor’s Luncheon at the Universal Hilton that’s free to all church leaders and pastors and their wives, and second, our big listener event that evening at Lake Avenue at 7pm.  They’re both free, but you need to pre-register with us at kkla.com.

512-523 – Let’s talk about Lady Gaga and her prayer.

528-539 – • “Judas” by Lady Gaga, lyrics.  She was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986.

When he comes to me, I am ready, I’ll wash his feet with my hair if he needs

Forgive him when his tongue lies through his brain, Even after three times, he betrays me

I’ll bring him down, bring him down, down.  A king with no crown, king with no crown

I’m just a Holy fool, oh baby he’s so cruel.  But I’m still in love with Judas, baby

I couldn’t love a man so purely.  Even darkness forgave his crooked way

I’ve learned love is like a brick, you can.  Build a house or sink a dead body

I’ll bring him down, bring him down, down.  A king with no crown, king with no crown

[Bridge]  In the most Biblical sense, I am beyond repentance

Fame hooker, prostitute wench, vomits her mind

But in the cultural sense, I just speak in future tense, Judas kiss me if offensed, Or wear ear condom next time.

I wanna love you, But something’s pulling me away from you

Jesus is my virtue, Judas is the demon I cling to.

• (7X) YouTube (4/22/2011) Lady GaGa – HBO backstage concert in New York.  Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on March 28, 1986, and was raised Catholic, and attended Catholic schools.  HBO is doing a documentary on her, and they caught this tender moment of her backstage at Madison Square Garden.  What’s your analysis of her prayer?  What jumps out at you?  I think she gets lots of things right.  Man, I wish I could talk with her.  She needs the Lord, bottom line.  I’m sure lots of people are shocked that someone whose art is so perverse can have such a seemingly-genuine spiritual side. 

1) “people trying to stop me”

2) “I feel like a loser”

3) “I cannot be destroyed”

4) “I’m fighting for every kid who feels like I do”

5) “I wanna be queen for them”

6) “It’s not about being a winner for me anymore, but for them.”

7-1) “Thank you for the blessings of my friends, family, and fans”

7-2  “Help me to empower those around me”

7-3) “Grant me courage”

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• Fox News (4/27/2011) White House Releases Obama’s Long-Form Birth Certificate.

The document released by the White House lists Obama’s birthplace as Honolulu, Hawaii, and his birth date as Aug. 4, 1961. The hospital listed is Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital. The name on the birth certificate is Barack Hussein Obama II. 

•• Hey gang, tune-in tomorrow right at 400pm for that special phone number that’s going to give you a chance to send your child to a great Christian School this Fall at half-price the regular tuition!  The first 12 qualified callers will be given the opportunity to enroll their student in one of six excellent Christian Schools – this to limited to just two qualified families per school:  Valley Christian in Cerritos (K-12), Good Shepherd in Simi Valley (K-8), Chino Valley Christian in Chino (K-8), La Verne High School in the San Gabriel Valley, Concordia in the San Fernando Valley (K-12), and Pasadena Christian School in Pasadena.   Log on right now to KKLA.com for details and to learn which of these schools is the perfect fit for you and your family!  And, make sure to be listening tomorrow right at 4pm, and then call-in on the correct phone number for the opportunity to get half-off this fall’s tuition.  Again, get all the details at kkla.com.

400-408 – Wesley J. Smith, is both an attorney and a bioethicist, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and his Second Hand Smoke blog is available at First Things (wesleyjsmith.com).  His latest is A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of Animal Rights.  Today we talk about the “rights of nature” movement, something called “ecocide,” and the ongoing battle against human exceptionalism.

• Fox News (4/25/2011) Former Obama Adviser Van Jones Helping to Push ‘Human’ Rights for Mother Nature.

• Wesley J. Smith (First Things, 7/30/2009) Obama Science Adviser: Trees Should be Allowed to Sue, Babies Not Yet “Human Beings”.

• Wesley J. Smith (First Things, 4/12/2011) Radical Environmentalism: Bolivia to Push “Rights of Nature” at UN.

413-423 – Wesley J. Smith

428-437 – Wesley J. Smith

443-452 – Wesley J. Smith

458-508 – Wesley J. Smith.

512-523 – Wesley J. Smith

528-539 – Dan Rupple, has over 35 years in the entertainment industry and is the founder of Seriously Funny Entertainment (seriouslyfunny.tv) – he was a founding member with the pioneering sketch-comedy team Isaac Air Freight with 8 comedy albums and 1200 concerts and TV appearances under his belt, then he spent over 10 years as a Supervising Producer for CBS Television (The Price Is Right, Late Show with David Letterman, The Prime Time Emmys, Family Feud), and has been named the Honorary Chairman of the Christian Comedy Association.  He’s also an ordained Foursquare minister, and he’s on the Executive Advisory Board for the Biola Media Conference.  He and Peggy have been married 33 years, and celebrate 3 married children and 3 grandkids.

• The Biola Media Conference (BMC) is this Saturday, April 30^th, on the CBS Studio lot, register at biolamedia.com.  This year’s theme is “Beyond Digital: What Matters Now” since “disruption has become the ‘new normal.’”  Keynote by the founder of Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly, and special guest Sean Astin (“Rudy,” and “Samwise Gamgee” in LOTR).

• Dan’s three keys he shares with those who want to be in media:  1) Be passionate about your story telling, 2) Learn your craft well, and 3) Know your audience – especially, the new “digital” audience.

END 544-554 – Dan Rupple, 

BEG 558-608 – Kevin McCullough, nationally-syndicated talk show host, columnist and author (thebingethinker.com), and my favorite guest-host when I’m off riding Barney, is out with a new book entitled No He Can’t: How Barack Obama Is Dismantling Hope and Change (Amazon) which examines the Obama presidency in four areas: Economics, National Security, Foreign Affairs, and Social-Moral Values.  As Huckabee pointed out on his television show last week, Kevin was the first person in America to predict an Obama presidency in 2006.  Today, Kevin predicts that if Mike Huckabee is the nominee, he’ll defeat Barack Obama in 2012.

• Get your signed copies at the website.

• Kevin McCullough (Townhall, 4/24/2011) PROVEN: Obama the Tax Hypocrite.

• YouTube (4/18/2011) Kevin McCullough on the Huckabee show discusses his new book “No He Can’t”.

END 612-623 – Kevin McCullough

BEG 628-639 – Kevin McCullough

400-408 – Dr. James Dobson, host of Family Talk with Dr. James Dobson (myfamilytalk.com), heard weekdays at 10:00am, along with co-hosts Luanne Crane and his son Ryan Dobson – their one-year anniversary is coming up May 3^rd.  Doc’s latest book is the long-awaited Bringing Up Girls: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Women.  Shirley is once again the Chairman of the National Day of Prayer coming up the first Thursday of May, May 5^th (nationaldayofprayer.org), with this year’s theme “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” – and Joni is the honorary chairperson this year.

• Dr. Dobson will be our special guest-speaker at two upcoming events, both on Thursday, May 26^th – first, our Pastor’s Luncheon at the Universal Hilton that’s free to all church leaders and pastors and their wives, and second, our big listener event that evening at Lake Avenue at 7pm.  They’re both free, but you need to pre-register with us at kkla.com.

413-423 – Dr. James Dobson,  How do we address the modesty-in-clothing issue with our daughters, especially when you’ve got the Bratz dolls and Barbies increasingly looking like pole-dancers, and Abercrombie selling push-up bras for tweens – which, by the way, is getting younger and younger every year.

428-437 – Jeff Myers, will become the new president of Summit Ministries (summit.org) in October 2011, replacing the retiring David Noebel after 49 years of wonderful service – their 50^th Anniversary is in 2012 – having mobilized over 150,000 students to intentionally move into positions of culture-shaping influence through in-person programs and study.  Jeff was formerly the Chairman of the Board of Summit and the President of Passing the Baton International (passingthebaton.org), and for the past 20 years, he’s been on the front lines of youth leadership development as a college professor, communicator, author and curriculum developer.  He’s authored seven books including Handoff, and five video-coaching systems including Understanding the Times, the curriculum that introduced biblical worldview training to Christian schools around the world.  More than two million people have used Jeff’s training courses in worldview, leadership and communication.  Summit hosts 2-week conferences throughout the summer around the country, and the cost is just $895 for the entire two weeks – a great insurance policy against the thousands of dollars you’ll be paying in college tuition, and a wonderful way to inoculate your kids against the toxic ideas that infect university campuses.

• Jeff and David Noebel are on Family Talk tomorrow with Dr. Dobson at 10am!

443-452 – Jeff Myers,  When and how do we start teaching worldview to our kids?  Is it ever too late to start?  What if we’re new believers ourselves, how do we start?

• The Place to Start is “Who is God?”  (See the pdf here.)

• The essential worldview document is the Summit Worldview Chart, get it here (summit.org/resources/worldview-chart).

458-508 – Jeff Myers,

512-523 – Jeff Myers,

528-539 – Hugh Ross, founder and president of Reasons to Believe (reasons.org), is both an astrophysicist (Ph.D.  Astronomy, University of Toronto, and post-doc research at Cal Tech), and a pastor at Sierra Madre Congregational Church.  The author of over a dozen books, including his latest, now in paperback, Why The Universe Is The Way It Is.  Today, we start by talking about the “God particle,” then we take your calls on the Bible and science.

• Hugh Ross (RTB, 1/24/2011) HAVE THE REAL “GOD PARTICLES” BEEN FOUND? PART 4 (OF 4).

• Fox News (4/25/2011) WH Fails to Release Easter Proclamation.

• Fox News (4/25/2011) Has Quest for the Elusive ‘God Particle’ Succeeded?

• Fox News (4/22/2011) World’s Largest Atom Smasher May Have Detected ‘God Particle’.

540 – Paul Karpf, Founder and CEO of Financial Recovery USA (financialrecoveryusa.com, 800-385-0745), has an “A” rating with the BBB, and is one of just ten companies in America certified by the Attorney General as a “Certified Foreclosure Consultant.”  • And if you call before 8pm tonight to schedule a “face to face,” Paul will have you meet personally and confidentially with one of his counselors for free – that’s a savings of $250!  Offices in Orange and Woodland Hills.

544-554 – Hugh Ross,

558-608 – Hugh Ross,

612-623 – Hugh Ross,

628-639 – Hugh Ross,

644-656 – Hugh Ross,