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Heroes for Today

Heroes for Today

By: John Kremer
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Heroes for Today features ordinary and extraordinary people commenting about today’s world and current events. These comments will stimulate new thought and challenge your assumptions to help you think more broadly and more clearly.

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Episodes
  • Valentine Love Song
    Feb 3 2026

    Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a pop song about love.

    This pop song is taken from Saint Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, 13:1-13. I used AI to create his letter as a pop song. I hope you like it.

    Saint Paul is truly a hero for our time, for past times, and for all times.

    Love Song Lyrics

    Love suffers long, and is kindLove envies notLove causes not a stirLove is not puffed upLove does not behave unseemlyLove seeks not its ownLove is not easily provokedLove thinks no evil

    Love does not rejoice in iniquityLove rejoices in the truthLove bears all thingsLove believes all thingsLove hopes all thingsLove endures all thingsLove never fails

    Where there are prophecies, they shall failWhere there are tongues, they shall ceaseWhere there is knowledge, it shall vanishFor we know in part, and we prophesy in partWhen the perfect comes, the part falls away

    When I was a childI spoke as a childI understood as a childI thought as a childWhen I became a manI put away childish things

    Now we see through a glass darklyBut then face to faceNow I know in partThen I will know as I am knownNow abides faith, hope, love — these threeBut the greatest of these is love

    Love bears all thingsLove believes all thingsLove hopes all thingsLove endures all thingsThere are three: faith, hope, and loveThe greatest of these is love

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    3 mins
  • The Lincoln Song, Soul Version
    Feb 2 2026

    Celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday and Presidents Day with this song (written as a poem by Walt Whitman, edited by John Kremer, with music and performance by AI.

    O Captain! My Captain! Lyrics

    O Captain! my Captain!Our fearful trip is done,The ship has weathered every rack,The prize we sought is won,The port is near,The bells I hear,The people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel,The vessel grim and daring;But O heart! heart! heart!O the bleeding drops of red,Where on the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.

    O Captain! my Captain!Rise up and hear the bells;Rise up. For you the flag is flungFor you the bugle trills,For you bouquets and ribboned wreathsFor you the shores a-crowding,For you they call, the swaying mass,Their eager faces turning;Here Captain! dear father!This arm beneath your head!It is some dream that on the deck,You’ve fallen cold and dead.

    My Captain does not answer,His lips are pale and still,My father does not feel my arm,He has no pulse nor will,The ship is anchored safe and sound,Its voyage closed and done,From fearful tripThe victor shipComes in with object won;Exult O shores, and ring O bells!But I with mournful tread,Walk the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.

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    3 mins
  • Erika Kirk: Choose Christ, Country Version
    Jan 9 2026

    This country song is based on Erika Kirk’s statement at the memorial for her husband (Charlie Kirk):

    Choose prayer.Choose courage.Choose beauty.Choose adventure.Choose family.Choose a life of faith.Most importantly, choose Christ.

    Choose Love Lyrics

    Choose love.Choose prayer.Choose family.Choose care.

    Choose courage.Choose beauty.Choose quests.Choose duty.

    Choose life.Choose awe.Choose kindness.Choose law.

    Choose peace.Choose good.Choose understanding.Choose I could.

    Choose faith.Choose odd.But above all elseChoose God.

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