Good morning. Can the President's man at the Federal Reserve be his own man? The Senate considers a new Fed chair. Let me be very clear. Monetary policy independence is essential. That's ahead on Washington Wednesday. Hunter Baker is standing by. Also today, world tour and later a workplace outreach seeking to build relationships among the many seasonal workers who may be running from them. When people come here, there's a part of them that's like, well, I know if I don't make it, I can go to another park. And world commentator Janie B. Cheney on Courage for the moment you're in. It's Wednesday, April 22nd. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported World Radio. I'm Lindsay Mast. And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning. Now the news. Here's Mark Mellinger. President Trump is extending the U.S. ceasefire with Iran indefinitely. The move comes at the request of Pakistan, which is serving as mediator in negotiations between Iran and the United States. Plus, the president says the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, cutting off Iran's ability to export oil, will also continue. Originally, Trump said U.S. airstrikes on Iran would be back on if a deal ending Iran's nuclear weapons program wasn't reached Tuesday. But on social media, Trump changed his tune, saying the ceasefire extension is needed because Iranian leadership is seriously fractured. Earlier Tuesday, during a call into CNBC's Squawk Box, the president sounded optimistic a deal to end the fighting is coming. We're going to end up with a great deal. I think they have no choice. We've taken out their navy, we've taken out their air force, we've taken out their leaders, frankly, which does complicate things in one way, but these leaders are much more rational. Vice President J.D. Vance was set to head to Pakistan for a new round of peace talks Tuesday, but that visit got scrapped. Pakistan says Iran never agreed to a new round of negotiations. Now it's unclear if or when talks will resume. Voters in Virginia have said yes to a redrawn election map, and as World's Travis Kircher explains, Democrats say it boosts their chances of taking back the U.S. House in this year's midterm elections. In a contest that was close all night, Virginia voters approved a Democrat-led referendum to redraw lines for congressional districts. Based on voting patterns in last year's Virginia elections, Democrats believe the new districts give them a good chance to flip four seats currently held by Republicans. That would significantly upend Virginia's representation in Congress. Right now, Democrats hold six of that state seats in the House, and Republicans hold five. Come fall, Democrats think they could secure ten seats to just one for the GOP. But there's one big caveat here. It's still possible the Virginia Supreme Court could rule this redistricting plan illegal, which would render last night's vote meaningless. For World, I'm Travis Kircher. The controversial nonprofit known for putting conservative Christians in the same category with violent extremists in its annual list of hate groups is now indicted on federal charges. The Justice Department says the Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, defrauded its donors by using their money to fund the very extremism the center claims to oppose. FBI Director Kash Patel. They used the fraudulently raised money by lying to their donor network, thousands of Americans, to go ahead and actually pay the leadership of these supposed violent extremist groups. The DOJ says the SPLC paid $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to people affiliated with groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America. The DOJ says the payments passed through multiple bank accounts before reaching members of the groups. The SPLC says it will vigorously defend itself, acknowledging it does pay informants to infiltrate extremist groups and collect information on their activities, which is sometimes shared with law enforcement. The center only recently revealed the existence of this program. The SPLC is facing charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. A congresswoman has quit rather than face possible expulsion from Congress. Sheila Sherfalis McCormick, a Democrat from Florida, resigned her seat effective immediately Tuesday. It came right before a House Ethics Committee hearing to determine her punishment. The committee found she violated several federal laws and House ethics rules. Sherfalis McCormick disputes that. Her lawyer, William Barzee, says... She was left with no choice. She could go along and allow them to just trample her constitutional rights and her due process rights. And instead of allowing that to happen, she decided to step away. The House Ethics Committee chair countered by saying Sherfilis McCormick had two years to respond to the allegations. She's also facing federal criminal charges for allegedly keeping FEMA overpayments to her family's business during COVID. Florida's attorney general has opened a criminal investigation into ChatGPT after last year's fatal shooting at Florida State University. Unfortunately, what we've seen in our initial review is that ChatGPT offered significant advice to the shooter before he committed such heinous crimes. That's Florida Attorney General James Utmeier. Last year's shooting killed two and left six others hurt. Utmeier says chat logs between the gunman and ChatGPT show the AI platform advised the shooter on things like what type of gun to use and which location would allow for the most potential victims. AI is supposed to support mankind. It is supposed to help mankind. It is supposed to advance mankind, not end it. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, calls the shooting a tragedy but says it bears no responsibility and has proactively shared information with law enforcement. The U.S. government says billions of dollars in technology upgrades are well underway at air traffic control towers around the country. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. These upgrades are going to make travel more seamless. We're going to make our skies safer. This massive overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system includes replacing radar from the 1980s that was still being used and converting more than 25,000 radios to digital technology. Plus, the Transportation Department is replacing paper flight strips used to track planes as they taxi, take off, and land with electronic versions. The country's air traffic control system has come under increased scrutiny after several accidents at airports the past couple years. Congress has approved $12.5 billion for the upgrades, but Duffy says it'll take another $20 billion to finish the job. His goal is to finish the overhaul by the end of 2028. I'm Mark Mellinger. Straight ahead, President Trump's nominee to chair the Federal Reserve faces lawmakers under the shadow of an investigation into the current chair, and later stepping thoughtfully and confidently into the good works God already has planned for us. This is the world and everything in it. It's Wednesday, April 22nd. Glad to have you along for today's edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning. I'm Nick Iger. And I'm Lindsay Mast. Time now for Washington Wednesday. President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve, former Fed Governor Kevin Morsh, was up on Capitol Hill yesterday. He faced the Senate Banking Committee, defending both his economic views and his independence. But his nomination is caught up in a broader fight over the Fed itself and an ongoing Justice Department investigation into current chairman Jay Powell. World's Carolina Lumetta reports. Kevin Warsh's nomination faces two major hurdles, questions over independence and the future of current Fed chair Jerome Powell. Warsh on Tuesday defended his record as a governor from 2006 to 2011 during the financial crisis. He also walked the line between promising reforms and independence from the White House. So let me be very clear. Monetary policy independence is essential. President Donald Trump has publicly fought with current chair Jerome Powell over interest rates. During the hearing, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren accused Warsh of being a sock puppet for the Trump administration. Warsh pushed back. Monetary policy makers must act in the nation's interest. Their decision is the product of rigor, deliberation, and unclouded decision-making. And as Senator Warren said, I do not believe that independence of monetary policy is threatened when elected officials state their views on rates. Something the president often does. He has previously argued that American interest rates should be the lowest in the world In a phone interview with CNBC on Tuesday Trump said he would be disappointed if Warsh does not lower interest rates immediately Democrats also probed how Warsh is divesting portions of his $100 million wealth. He's been approved by the Office of Government Ethics to pursue the nomination as long as he divests within 90 days. Meanwhile, Republicans on the committee argued that the Federal Reserve has meddled too much in the U.S. economy. Warsh agreed, saying high inflation is partly due to the Reserve's past actions. I think that means a regime change in the conduct of policy. I think that means a different new inflation framework. I look forward to working with my colleagues at the Fed if confirmed to achieve that. Warsh needs a majority of the banking committee to approve him to head to a Senate floor vote. But not all Republicans are on board with the president's treatment of Chairman Powell, and that could stall Warsh's confirmation. In January, the Justice Department subpoenaed Powell as part of a criminal indictment over whether he lied to Congress about funding for a building renovation project. Powell claims the investigation is a political attempt to pressure the Fed. North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis has promised to block any nominee until the administration drops its investigations. But made it clear he's not against Warsh specifically. The only thing I've found the least bit odd about you is you've never watched an episode of Seinfeld. I look forward to supporting your nomination and I look forward to this investigation being taken down. Powell's term expires on May 15th. If Warsh is not confirmed by then, Powell will stay on as a chair pro tempore until a replacement is confirmed. In a Fox Business interview last week, Trump said if that happens, he would fire Powell. Reporting for World, I'm Carolina Lumetta. Joining us now, Hunter Baker. He is a political scientist and commentator for World Opinions. Good morning, Hunter. Good morning. All right. Well, you heard the report, Kevin Warsh telling senators he will be strictly independent. He's not promised the president anything on interest rates, even as President Trump is openly calling for lower rates. And at the same time, the nomination is, as we say, tangled up in that investigation over the current Fed chairman, Jay Powell, a key Republican saying he's not going to move forward until that's resolved. And he very much seems to want to move forward. But what do you take from the hearing, Hunter? Is the president any closer to getting a Fed chair more to his liking? I don't know if he's going to get a Fed chair that he likes because I think that what he wants is one that he can simply order to lower rates upon command. And that is just not the culture of anybody who would potentially be the Fed chair. There is typically some degree of tension between presidents and the Fed for exactly this reason. Presidents want economic growth. And the easiest way to get economic growth, or at least maybe the fastest, is to reduce interest rates. And so that is always going to be encouraged, you know, reduce interest rates, expand the money supply. But we're in a little bit different period now. After we had the financial crisis in 2008, the Fed stepped in and sort of saved the economy by opening the spigots and reducing rates. I think they reduced them all the way to zero. That really helped in that difficult and frightening period. But that is very much sort of a blunt force kind of a tool. And then COVID happened, and they did it again. And in addition to, you know, really reducing rates in a strong fashion, you have got the Congress massively spending, you know, spending at a shocking rate. And so you've got both the monetary and the fiscal stimulus. And what happened is we got a big time inflation out of that. I mean, none of us have really recovered from that jump in prices that occurred in that immediate kind of post-COVID period. So anybody who becomes the Fed chairman, yes, they're going to be looking at whether they can cut rates and try to stimulate the economy and achieve that full employment type of mandate that they have. But the other mandate is to control inflation. And so anybody who takes over at this moment has to look at inflation. We are still not down to the sort of traditional 2% inflation that has been their target for quite some time. And so it's not that easy just to jump in and cut rates. I want to ask you about the Tom Tillis situation. Senator Tillis from North Carolina, he is not running for re-election, so he's kind of become hostile to President Trump. He's stepping in and he's saying until this Jerome Powell investigation is resolved, nobody's getting confirmed. I will stand in the way. That seems a bit unusual, almost conditioning a vote on something happening with an investigation. It's borderline improper, isn't it? It's definitely unusual, especially because Tillis actually, and he's been clear about this, he supports Kevin Walsh as the nominee. He's very clear. Walsh is highly qualified. He is ready to vote for him, but he is using this opportunity that he could threaten to vote against him as a way to stop this criminal inquiry into Jay Powell's conduct as the head of the Fed. Now, let me say this. It is strange. I mean, the amount of money that they have spent on that Fed building is, in my mind, shocking. Truly a shocking—I think I've heard like $3 billion on that facility. Two and a half billion, yeah. But it's still a lot. It's incredible. Two to three billion, something like that. And so, you know, people have raised questions. And, you know, Trump, I think, trying to put pressure on Powell has pushed this idea of there's going to be some sort of criminal inquiry. And Tillis just does not like it. And so he's kind of pushing back through this nomination. I'm just going to tell you, this is too big of a thing to be captured by this sort of battle between Tillis and Trump. I'm going to predict right now, they're going to work it out. They're going to work it out. And Warsh is going to be confirmed in a timely way because that is what the establishment is ready to happen. That's what Wall Street is ready to happen. And it's going to happen. Well, let's turn now to Virginia. Last night was the voting deadline there on whether to approve a gerrymandered congressional map. As drawn up, the new map would leave Democrats with as many as 10 of the 11 House seats Virginia gets. But it's part of a broader coast-to-coast redistricting fight between the parties ahead of the midterms. Hunter, what do you think of the vote? I think that this is really a terrible outcome. I think that anything that encourages more of this redrawing and constant reengineering of the map is very bad for our political culture. It seems to me that both parties are now, and Trump, I think, has kind of started it in this last round, but both parties are now kind of trying to squeeze every bit of juice out of that electoral map that they can. And it's just terrible because what you're doing is you're disenfranchising large numbers of people in each state, and you're making the districts less competitive. And when that happens, then the parties become more extreme, less likely to work together. And it's just poisonous. I saw redistricting occurring in the state of Georgia back around the year 2000. And it was one of the more poisonous and acidic episodes that I've ever observed. And the idea that we're going to do more of it instead of less of it, and that we're not going to wait for the 10-year breaks between the census, but instead that any year is potentially a year to do it, I think it's terrible. All right, Hunter, let's wrap up with a quick look at the early Senate map, the latest campaign finance filings. We looked at Texas. Democrat James Tallarico is the top Senate fundraiser in the country so far this cycle, bringing in more than $27 million. That's happening even as Republicans are still kind of tied up in a primary runoff. So do you take that as a signal that Texas could be competitive, or is it just early enthusiasm that doesn't necessarily translate into votes? It's always impressive when you can raise a lot of money. It is incredible how much money dictates in American politics. Nevertheless, the fact that James Tallarico has raised, you know, $27 million already, even though he is a person who is not particularly accomplished in politics, does not indicate to me that he has a great chance of winning this contest. And I say that even with the fact that there are polls. You can find polls that show him ahead of Cornyn or Paxton. But I just can't believe it. I'm going from the gut here. I telling you that when I think about a guy who has said trans people need abortions too and who is just extraordinarily heterodox when it comes to the Christian faith I find it hard to believe that he going to be able to win even with a boatload of money I just think that the opposition research is going to overcome him. Having said that, there is such a thing as a wave election. 2006 was a wave election. Americans were incredibly frustrated with how things were going in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I mean, a lot of Republicans got buried in that year. If we end up struggling in Iran, if gas prices stay high into the fall, and if it looks like there's no way out, then we could end up with a wave election with people just expressing their frustration at the ballot box. If something like that happens, then maybe James Tallarico can win. But other than that, I'm saying that he has no chance. When you look across these filings, not just Texas, what do they tell you about the political environment heading into the midterms? I mean, I think that the Democrats know that they have the wind at their backs. I mean, Barack Obama won in 2008 about as impressively as you can win. And he still got hosed in the midterms at 2010. It's just a dynamic in American politics that voters tend to react against those newly elected presidents in that midterm. And I don't know if it's because the nature of the electorate is different. I mean, one thing that used to happen to Democrats is that their voters would show up to vote for a president, but not as much at the midterms. Some people think that the Republicans are starting to fill that role, that Republicans will show up to vote for Donald Trump, but then they won't show up in other elections. So we're just going to see who has more intensity when it comes to actually showing up to vote. Hunter Baker is provost at North Greenville University and a World Opinions contributor. Hunter, thanks so much. Thank you. Additional support comes from Pensacola Christian College. Academic excellence, biblical worldview, affordable cost. Go.pcci.edu slash world. From Dort University, host of the upcoming At Work in the Garden conference, celebrating God's good design of work. Dort.edu slash garden. And from the Lachman Foundation, translator of the New American Standard Bible, a translation true to the original scriptures, nasbible.com. Coming up next on The World and Everything in It, World Tour. A devastating civil war earlier this decade left much of Ethiopia's Tigray region in ruins. The deadly two-year conflict in the northern part of the landlocked African country left about 600,000 dead and many more with lingering wounds. Even now, thousands of people are still in dire need of medical care and wary of another conflict. World's Africa reporter Onise Adoua has the story. Dr. Matthews Bradbury began each day of his stay in the city of Michele last year with the same routine. Spiced eggs for breakfast in the hotel and then go out of a quiet time. He walked to the shop opposite his hotel to get a cup of coffee for about 20 cents. He chatted with people for a bit before a driver picked him up and took him to the hospital for a day of treating patients. Some had waited for help for months or even years. Spradbury is in his 30s, a missionary surgeon living in Norway. Tesfa Foundation, a Norwegian Christian non-profit, sent him to Tigray's regional capital to serve as a vascular surgeon, filling a needed medical gap. He says many of the patients in the hospital were amputees. They're like little gangs of people, of young men and women, just with crutches and with wheelchairs, just all around the hospital. They have nowhere else to go. If they go outside the hospital bounds, they'll be on the street begging, whereas whilst in the hospital they get one meal a day and they get relative shelter. The hospital's backlog of patients waiting for surgery added up to about 5,000. Most needed orthopedic surgeries with others waiting for plastic, general or neurological procedures. Spreadbury mostly operated on patients with blood vessel injuries. A blood vessel is injured. It heals. It's like a hose pipe would just be injured and it's much like a balloon. on a hose pipe, and it can burst at any time. And these are very complex lesions to treat, very rarely seen in the West now. And usually it's exclusively seen through battlefield injuries like bullets, drones, bombs, that kind of thing. His youngest patient had been waiting four years for treatment for an injury she received at 17. And she was actually the most complex case we operated on. It took nine hours to operate on her. There's very many young patients who have their lives put on hold, really. Tigray is one of 10 ethnically divided semi-autonomous federal states in Ethiopia. The region's well-armed Tigray People's Liberation Front dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades. But after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abe Ahmed assumed office in 2018, the group's relationship with him frayed. Regional leaders felt marginalized under Abe's reforms, and the tensions eventually morphed into clashes and a subsequent military campaign. Western nations and aid groups warned of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the region. As many as 800,000 people remained displaced. Spreadbury took his first trip to Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa back in 2022, months before a peace agreement ended the Tigrayan War. And it really just breaks your heart. You see that injustice in the world seeing this. You know, this is a war that claims 600,000 lives, which at the time when I was there was more than the Ukraine war. Poor implementation of the peace agreement has left the situation volatile. Spredbury acknowledges that working in the face of such need could seem hopeless. Federal aid is barely trickling into the region, and people rely heavily on aid groups like the Red Cross for medical care. Integray, Spredbury said his team operated on about 10 patients during his three-week stay. If we had equipment and supplies, we could operate day and night. There is no short-loss of patients. He says the need for the surgeries showed in the breakdown of the equipment he used. In Europe, they would last 25 years, these instruments. They were worn out within two years. But Spadbury says he focuses on treating the patient in front of him. It's a thought process he honed while working in other countries like South Sudan, Rwanda and Myanmar, also known as Burma. It keeps going on and in those moments you realise that it's not in your own strength. It really isn't because in your own strength you should be absolutely exhausted and sleep for two days. But it really does give grace to those who need it and strength as the labourers increase. Earlier this week, the Tigray People's Liberation Front Party said it was taking back political control of the region, sparking concerns that Tigray may be headed for more conflict. That's this week's World Tour. I'm Onise Adoua in Abuja, Nigeria. In South Africa, a marathon mix-up, race officials say, two men ran in a women's half marathon using race bibs belonging to female runners. And they didn't just finish, they placed top ten. But photos from the Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town raised a few questions, such as, why was a runner named Larissa in reality a man named Luke? Well, officials looked into it and disqualified the guys. The two women they beat were added back to the top ten, and now the scammers could face bans of up to two years. Turns out, sometimes it's not politics, it's just plain old cheating. It's the world and everything in it. Today is Wednesday, April 22nd. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning, I'm Nick Eicher. And I'm Lindsay Mast. Coming next on The World and Everything in It, a fleeting mission field. The Grand Canyon attracts millions of visitors every year. It also home to a large workforce of seasonal employees who come and go quickly World Todd Vishen reports on Christians at the park who are working to beat the clock building relationships quickly with people who need them Lisa Spencer is one of about 3,000 people living and working for the National Park Service or concessionaires at the Grand Canyon. The transient nature heightens my awareness of how much time do I have to develop relationships with these people. Here, there's no guarantee they could be gone. In an hour. She remembers a co-worker she spent a couple of days getting to know. He greeted her in the hallway one morning, and then she never saw him again. He's like, go get him, Lisa. And I'm like, I will, John, you too. And then an hour later, I'm like, where's John? Oh, he quit. In a place where 4 million visitors come annually to marvel at the views, many of the seasonal workers come here each year just to hide for several months. And a lot of them are transient. A lot of them are not rooted in the typical society. And I think when people come here, there's also a part of them that's like, well, I know if I don't make it here, I can go to another park. Spencer works in the employee cafeteria. It is running around four to six miles every shift, carrying things, cleaning things. It's a very hard, hard job. Like, I can't believe I'm in my 60s and I'm doing the same kind of work I did in my 20s. A lot of her co-workers came here for the beauty of the canyon. But she's also noticed a good number of them come carrying a lot of baggage. They're hiding or running from things such as substance abuse or failed relationships and want to be somewhere they can be left alone. There's a lot of people here who do their job. They go to the market, they get a six-pack, they go back to their dorm, and they sit for the night. Their relational connection is at work. Darwin Glassford sees that isolation as an opportunity. He's the interim minister for the Grand Canyon Community Church. As the coordinator for a Christian ministry in the National Parks activities here, He also helps Spencer and others on the small ministry team land their jobs. He encourages Spencer and her teammates to walk alongside their hurting co-workers. Because sharing struggles, hopes, and dreams allows them to share the gospel, too. How are y'all doing today? Good. Yeah, good. My name's Katie. I'll be taking care of y'all. Katie Ruiz works six days a week serving hungry sightseers at the Harvey House. It's a restaurant in the Grand Canyon's historic Bright Angel Lodge. Working in the restaurant industry in general is challenging to hold your fruits, like your anger and, you know, thing. And I guess with me, this job specifically, the restaurant shows me where I need to work on my fruits and just how to be a light. Vocational ministry can be exhausting, especially working eight to 10 hour shifts in the hospitality industry. But Ruiz often reminds herself why she's here. Your biggest goal is to make connections and to bring people to Christ, but maybe just the little seed that you're planning is making the difference in someone's life. Just sitting down with them or saying hi to them, you know, that'll make their day. The ministry has found that most of the meaningful conversations occur near the end of each season. Jordan Dolphin Schlater came to the Grand Canyon from a small town in Minnesota a year ago. It took three months of on-the-job conversations before one of her co-workers shared his religious experiences. He confided on a nighttime hike that he had gone to church for years, but still didn't trust Christians or even God. We had our headlamps and we were just walking down. And it was really peaceful and the stars were just so bright that night. And it was so beautiful. After seeing a satellite streak by and bantering about aliens, Duffin Schlater's ministry teammate, who was also on the hike, veered the conversation toward the vast universe visible from the dark canyon. And so that just led into a conversation about God being our creator and our need for him and how he loves us. Hiking back to the rim, they stopped to rest. And I think that I just asked him, like, hey, do you have a Bible? And he said no. And I said, well, if I gave you one, would you read it? And he said, yeah, I think so. After a career running her own business, Lisa Spencer now spends her days at a cutting board in the cafeteria. It's here where she sees hearts open up. Because of the harshness that this life does bring and the hardships that go with it, the people who I've found here are very open, I believe, to the Holy Spirit and to God and to learning more. They may not present that way, but when I sit there, you know, chopping vegetables next to someone and the conversation will come up about God or life or whatever, I see and I hear an understanding of God. Reporting for World, I'm Todd Vishen in Grand Canyon Village, Arizona. Good morning. This is The World and Everything In It from listener-supported World Radio. I'm Lindsay Mast. And I'm Nick Eicher. Sometimes the hardest step is simply the next step. Here is world commentator Janie B. Cheney. The book of Joshua records a high point in the complicated history of Israel. After the Lord brought them out of Egypt, These former slaves saw signs and wonders, ate the bread of angels, drank water from rocks, and complained at almost every turn. After their rebellion had earned them 40 years of wandering in the desert, that generation died off and a better one, or at least a less passive one, emerged. Under Joshua's leadership, they crossed the Jordan River, laid waste to Jericho, and moved on to conquer and claim the land their father Abraham once walked, and walked with no more than a promise it would someday be his. Promises kept. Yet Israel hesitated. In Joshua chapter 18, we read about the whole congregation assembling at Shiloh. Some tribal boundaries had been drawn, but for various reasons, seven and a half tribes had not claimed their territory. I can sense Joshua's exasperation when he asks, how long will you put off going to take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you? A reduced Canaanite population remained, but they were no threat. The main work is done. Why do you wait? Israel had been functioning as an army on a grand military campaign. Now it was time to settle, plow and plant, be fruitful and multiply, subdue the land, build a nation. Maybe after 40 years of wilderness wandering, they had forgotten how to do that. What's our excuse? I wonder how much territory we leave unclaimed. Because we all have some. Our little sphere of influence may not extend beyond the nursery or the nursing home, but size isn't the point. Possession is. Caleb, Joshua's intrepid fellow spy from the old days, understood this. Years of frustration never dimmed his memory of the land flowing with milk and honey. See Joshua 14, 12, where, walking like a man in his prime at age 85, Caleb stepped up to his old commander and reminded him of the promises of God, adding, So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke of me on that day. Yes, he remembered those giant Anakites in their fortified cities, but so what? It may be that the Lord will be with me and I shall drive them out just as he said. Caleb had vision. We have more. Caleb saw the establishment of Israel. We see Jesus establishing the kingdom of heaven. Caleb experienced history in the making. We experience history fulfilled in the gospel. Every child of God has been let out of bondage and sustained in the desert. Every redeemed soul has seen horses and riders thrown into the sea when death was defeated. Every Christian has a glorious inheritance. And it begins right now. What's your territory? It could be a boardroom, a classroom, a construction site, a home. Anywhere God has placed you and me to do the good works he prepared in advance for us. What we need is the confidence of a Caleb to claim it. For World, I'm Janie B. Cheney. Tomorrow, using AI to help solve personal medical problems. We'll have a report and an interview with the man who fled Iran during the 1979 revolution. That and more tomorrow. I'm Lindsay Mast. And I'm Nick Iker. The world and everything in it comes to you from World Radio. World's mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates, and inspires. The Bible says, May the glory of the Lord endure forever. May the Lord rejoice in His works. who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke. I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have being. May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord. Verses 31 through 34 of Psalm 104. Go now in grace and peace. Thank you.
