Glenn shares message of hope following the tragic shooting of a Chicago police officer

September 02, 2015

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In the wake of the shooting death of yet another police officer, Glenn decided to channel his frustration into a message of hope to his radio listeners on Wednesday.

"I want to tell you the story of the widow's mite," Glenn said before recounting the famous biblical tale of a poor widow who gave up all the money she had. Although the monetary value was practically worthless, her gift was cherished above all others by God.

Glenn went on to tell a similar story in his own life, when his team was trying to raise money to meet in Washington, DC for 8/28. Not knowing how they would ever come up with the money, Glenn said he received a very special contribution that was completely unexpected.

"The guy who was sitting on the plane next to me handed me an envelope," Glenn said. "There were eight pennies inside of this envelope. They're here on my desk now. I started crying because it was the greatest donation we had ever received."

Then, Glenn related this story to the police officers who are being shot.

"We don't have the ability to stop this. We're not equipped. We don't really even know what to do. I don't even know what the answer is. The hatred and the anger has been buried so deep in our society," Glenn said.

The solution, Glenn suggested rests with us, in doing whatever small thing we can do.

"They need to know that somebody appreciates them," Glenn said. "I would suggest to you that the best thing we can do is stand in our own communities. If you don't go to a church, then get your kids to make a card. To bake some cookies."

He went on:

"May I suggest that you gather together and you go arm in arm, hand in hand, and you ring those police departments all across the country, and you cover them with a blanket of prayer. A lot of people will think this won't matter, but I think it will," Glenn said.

Listen or read the full segment below.

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

GLENN: We had another shooting of a police officer yesterday in Illinois. There are hundreds that have joined the manhunt for these three people that have killed the police officers. I want to tell you the story of the widow's mite. A woman who came and gave all that she could. The widow's mite is the smallest amount of money you could possibly give. And that's the one that the Nazarene said had given the most.

I have on my desk eight pennies. I had them framed. Eight pennies. They came from Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Smith. All they had to give. We were trying to raise money so we could meet in Washington, DC. And the pressure was on like nobody's business. It was -- it was about eight days before 8/28. We were I think about half a million dollars behind in paying for it. And then we were supposed to raise money for the Wounded Warriors on top of it. And as it was turning out, we weren't going to be able to raise any money for the Wounded Warriors. And we were going to take all of that money and just pay for the event. And that Friday, I got a call from Washington, DC. And they were asking us to provide more security. And it was the Justice Department. And they were doing it because they were trying to bankrupt us.

And we had to pony up with another 500,000 dollars' worth of security. And we were securing ourselves against the Black Panthers, if you remember right. If you look at any of the pictures that you might have taken on the mall, if you took any pictures of anybody speaking and behind us, on top of the Lincoln Memorial, you'll see black clad figures. Those were snipers.

The security was intense and overwhelmingly expensive. The same thing happened here in Birmingham. You didn't see them. But there were snipers on the rooftops. We want to make sure that if we go and do something in this crazy world, we're prepared.

Well, we were now over a million dollars in the hole. And I went down to a fundraiser in Florida, and I had been promised by the people who were doing this that they would raise a million dollars for us. And I got on the plane, and that fundraiser it only raised $75,000. Because everybody there wanted a political solution. And they wanted to be able to see something tangible for their money. And I understand that. But I had wasted 36 hours on the ground because they didn't want me to just come in. I had to go in, speak, then I had to go have breakfast, then I had to have meet-and-greets. And I could have done speeches and made more money. And I got on the plane and I said, what's wrong with us? $75,000, I've just wasted all of this time.

And the guy who was sitting on the plane next to me handed me an envelope after a three-hour flight in complete silence. Because when I heard that we had only raised $75,000, I looked up to the -- to the fan -- to the little air vent in the airplane and I was mad at God. And I said, what else do you want from us? We're willing to risk our lives. We're willing to lose our business. We're doing exactly what you tell us to do, to the best of our ability. What else do you want from us?

There was silence on the plane for about three hours as we flew back to New York. As we were getting to land into the airport, the guy who was with me handed me a letter and said, this might make you feel better. And I read the letter and it said, this is all we have to give. We don't have anymore. But we can't let this go without us making our contribution to make it happen.

And there were eight pennies inside of this envelope. They're here on my desk now. I started crying because it was the greatest donation we had ever received. I understood the story of the widow's mite. It's the small stuff that's the most meaningful, not the million dollars from a bunch of people who are standing around at a cocktail party. But people who search their soul and search the cushions of their couch. That's what makes the difference. Those who are willing to give it all.

I told that story on the air the following Monday. And I don't know how much we raised, but it was well over the million dollars that we were then in the hole. And I believe we ended up for Wounded Warriors, giving them about $3 million in that week, and it all happened because of these 8 cents. It all happened because of these people who gave everything they had.

Now, let me relate this to the police officers that are being shot. You and I don't -- we don't have the ability to stop this. We're not equipped. We don't really even know what to do. I don't even know what the answer is. The hatred and the anger has been buried so deep in our society.

We have opened up wounds that, quite honestly, should have been lanced a long time ago. But they've sat there and they've festered. And then we've had people in our own country that have encouraged it and added to the poison. We in our own homes haven't done enough. We've listened to the so-called experts, and we've given our kids trophies when they didn't deserve it. We didn't teach them our true history. We haven't had to really, truly struggle in our life. And even the poorest among us haven't really, truly struggled. We don't know what real poverty is. The first time I ever saw real poverty, I went to Mexico City, it was just outside of the city limits where people were living in cardboard boxes, and they didn't even have clothing. That's poverty. And that was right across our border.

So we haven't really even struggled. All we're being asked to do is to give whatever we can. And I'm not talking about money. We have been racking our brains to try to figure out, what are we going to do? How can we help support Houston, the police department there, and let people know that we're behind them?

Now, there's going to be thousands of people that I think that are going to show up for this funeral. I'm going to be there for the funeral on Friday. There's going to be people from Houston that will go to this funeral. People that will just go stand outside of this church. You'll probably have to park a ways away. They're worried about how many people are going to come. And I know there will be people within the sound of my voice that will want to be there, that will want to join hands, and they will want to pray.

But may I suggest that we consider something else. That those of us in communities all over the country that know that there are bad cops, but the lion's share, the vast majority are good men and women who risk their lives every single day. Whether they're standing at a gas pump and they get shot in the back of the head or they're chasing people and they get shot while they're trying to arrest them. Or they're just approaching a car for speeding, and they get shot. These people risk their lives every day.

May I suggest that you call your church, you call your friends, I would like to see us all over this country ring our police departments, standing hand in hand, praying a blessing over the people that work in that building, the people who leave those buildings in every community. This isn't going to be solved on the national front. This isn't going to be solved by a president, especially a president who refuses to call evil by its name. But it's not going to be solved by any president. It's going to be solved at the local level.

And our police department, they're being hunted. They need to know that somebody appreciates them. Because I don't care where the police officers are. You don't have to be in Chicago or Houston to feel this. You don't have to be in Chicago or Ferguson or Baltimore to feel that you're being hunted. You don't have to be in any of these cities where we have lost police officers, to have your wife or your husband look at you as you're putting on your uniform and saying, let's -- why are you doing? Nobody appreciates it. It's not worth it. I want you to come home to me.

I suggest that there's going to be a lot of people in Houston. And if you're in Houston, you stand. There's going to be a march next week. We'll tell you about it, in Houston.

But I -- I would suggest to you that the best thing we can do is stand in our own communities. If you don't go to a church, then get your kids to make a card. To bake some cookies. In today's world, they probably will throw them in the trash, but it's the thought that counts. In the sick world we live in, cops probably won't eat a tray of cookies or cupcakes that have made for them to say thank you. We can't just go into our local police station because some sicko would probably poison it and they can't trust it, so they probably won't eat it. But they will notice. Because we live that and we notice it when people do it to us.

May I suggest that you gather together and you go arm in arm, hand in hand, and you ring those police departments all across the country, and you cover them with a blanket of prayer. A lot of people will think this won't matter, but I think it will. And even if you think there is no God, it's the gesture that we're standing behind them and we worry about them and we appreciate them, that I think needs to be said.

And because I believe in God, I do believe that our prayers can help give them the armor that is beyond the body armor that they currently wear.

Antifa isn’t “leaderless” — It’s an organized machine of violence

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The mob rises where men of courage fall silent. The lesson from Portland, Chicago, and other blue cities is simple: Appeasing radicals doesn’t buy peace — it only rents humiliation.

Parts of America, like Portland and Chicago, now resemble occupied territory. Progressive city governments have surrendered control to street militias, leaving citizens, journalists, and even federal officers to face violent anarchists without protection.

Take Portland, where Antifa has terrorized the city for more than 100 consecutive nights. Federal officers trying to keep order face nightly assaults while local officials do nothing. Independent journalists, such as Nick Sortor, have even been arrested for documenting the chaos. Sortor and Blaze News reporter Julio Rosas later testified at the White House about Antifa’s violence — testimony that corporate media outlets buried.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened.

Chicago offers the same grim picture. Federal agents have been stalked, ambushed, and denied backup from local police while under siege from mobs. Calls for help went unanswered, putting lives in danger. This is more than disorder; it is open defiance of federal authority and a violation of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.

A history of violence

For years, the legacy media and left-wing think tanks have portrayed Antifa as “decentralized” and “leaderless.” The opposite is true. Antifa is organized, disciplined, and well-funded. Groups like Rose City Antifa in Oregon, the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club in Texas, and Jane’s Revenge operate as coordinated street militias. Legal fronts such as the National Lawyers Guild provide protection, while crowdfunding networks and international supporters funnel money directly to the movement.

The claim that Antifa lacks structure is a convenient myth — one that’s cost Americans dearly.

History reminds us what happens when mobs go unchecked. The French Revolution, Weimar Germany, Mao’s Red Guards — every one began with chaos on the streets. But it wasn’t random. Today’s radicals follow the same playbook: Exploit disorder, intimidate opponents, and seize moral power while the state looks away.

Dismember the dragon

The Trump administration’s decision to designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization was long overdue. The label finally acknowledged what citizens already knew: Antifa functions as a militant enterprise, recruiting and radicalizing youth for coordinated violence nationwide.

But naming the threat isn’t enough. The movement’s financiers, organizers, and enablers must also face justice. Every dollar that funds Antifa’s destruction should be traced, seized, and exposed.

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This fight transcends party lines. It’s not about left versus right; it’s about civilization versus anarchy. When politicians and judges excuse or ignore mob violence, they imperil the republic itself. Americans must reject silence and cowardice while street militias operate with impunity.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened. The violence in Portland and Chicago is deliberate, not spontaneous. If America fails to confront it decisively, the price won’t just be broken cities — it will be the erosion of the republic itself.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

URGENT: Supreme Court case could redefine religious liberty

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

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

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

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

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

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

One‑sided freedom

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

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

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

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

Censored belief

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

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

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

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

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

Faith on trial

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

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

The real test

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

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

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

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

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

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What our response to Israel reveals about us

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But that’s not what we hear.

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

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

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

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

That’s an everlasting promise.

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

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

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

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

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

“Take me instead”?

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

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

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

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

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