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For a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, one appointment can open the door to practical support, renewed hope, and the life-changing message of the gospel.

Dan Steiner, Founder and President of PreBorn!, joined the show today to explain how the ministry partners with pregnancy clinics across the country to serve women in crisis, protect unborn children, and introduce families to the hope found in Jesus Christ.

Steiner’s involvement in the pregnancy center movement began during his personal time with the Lord. As he prayed about how his life could reflect gratitude for what Christ had done for him, he became increasingly burdened by abortion and the lives affected by it.

That conviction eventually led him to serve at a pregnancy center in the Midwest and later establish PreBorn!.

From the beginning, Steiner says the ministry has been grounded in a simple conviction: Christ must remain at the center. Women facing unplanned pregnancies often need medical services, practical resources, and compassionate guidance. But their deepest need, like ours, is the hope and restoration found in Jesus.

Today, PreBorn! works with nearly 300 pregnancy clinics, particularly in cities with high abortion rates. The ministry helps establish clinics, provides ultrasound equipment, covers the cost of ultrasound appointments, trains leaders, supports medical personnel, and connects women searching online for abortion information with nearby pregnancy clinics.

Ultrasound technology is central to PreBorn!’s work because it allows a mother to see her child, often for the first time.

According to PreBorn!, women who receive an ultrasound are significantly more likely to continue their pregnancies. The image on the screen can transform an abstract and frightening situation into a deeply personal encounter.

Steiner shared the story of a pregnant 13-year-old who arrived at one of the ministry’s partner clinics intending to have an abortion. She believed she was too young to become a mother and had not told her own mother about the pregnancy.

But when she saw her child on the ultrasound screen, she began to weep. She chose life, and an adoption plan was later arranged for her baby.

The ultrasound did not remove every difficulty she faced. It did, however, give her the opportunity to better understand the life developing inside her and to consider a different path.

Choosing life is often only the beginning of a woman’s journey. Many women considering abortion are confronting financial pressure, unstable relationships, housing challenges, or uncertainty about how they will care for a child.

That is why PreBorn’s partner clinics seek to provide more than a single appointment. Depending on the clinic and the woman’s needs, support may include maternity clothing, diapers, cribs, car seats, parenting resources, counseling, and ongoing care for several years.

This compassionate approach recognizes that caring for an unborn child also means caring for the mother.

Christians should never treat a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy as a political symbol or a problem to be solved. She is a person made in the image of God who deserves patience, dignity, truth, and practical help.

“Let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:18).

PreBorn! describes its mission as saving lives for both earth and eternity. Protecting unborn children is an essential part of its work, but the ministry also wants every woman and family it serves to hear the gospel.

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They often give you one when you check into some sprawling motel complex, or a big theme park, or a large convention facility. It’s a map of the place. And for the directionally challenged like me, there’s one important thing I look for on that map. It’s that “X” and those very helpful words, “You are here.” See, you’re not helping me very much by just giving me a drawing of where everything is. In order for me to use that to get where I want to go, I need that one fundamental piece of information - where am I right now?

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “A Real God Wants the Real You.”

It is important to know exactly where you are when you’re trying to get to a destination, and when you’re trying to get to God. In fact, the failure to talk to God about where you really are may explain why He seems a little farther away than He once did - a little less real than He once did.

Hebrews 4:16 is God’s powerful invitation to come boldly to His “throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” The verses that precede this promise of God’s total availability have to do with our total honesty. Hebrews 4 beginning in verse 12 is our word for today from the Word of God, and it begins by saying that God’s Word “is sharper than any double-edged sword.” In other words it opens up our soul surgically and exposes what’s really inside.

Verse 13 goes on to say, “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.” So you might as well come to God totally unmasked, because there’s nothing He doesn’t know about you. If you talk to Him about how you’re honestly feeling, He’s not going to say, “Oh, you’re kidding! Really? I didn't know that!” No, it’s understandable why you may not tell other people how you’re really feeling; they might think less of you. But God already knows, and there’s nothing you can do to make God love you more or love you less.

In fact, these words go on to remind us that “We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are - yet without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence.” Why? Because God already knows all about us, and because we are coming to the Father through a Savior who has felt all the feelings of being human.

You might say, “Well, God already knows, why do I need to tell Him?” So you can open up that part of your heart and your life to His cleansing, His restoring, and His healing. He only goes where He’s invited. Maybe you’ve been saying, “Well, God doesn’t seem real to me right now.” Maybe He’s saying the same thing to you; you’re coming to Him all religious, all together, and all dressed up. If God doesn’t seem real to you, maybe it’s because you aren’t being real with Him. You aren’t starting where you really are. You’re coming as you think you’re supposed to be.

Tell it all to your Lord? Tell Him where you’re hurting, tell Him where you’re afraid, tell Him where you feel like giving up, where you’re angry, where you can’t forgive, where you can’t fight anymore, where you’re desperate for love. Tell Him when you’re spiritually flat. See, He already knows, but He’s waiting for you to open up that part of you so He can bring in His mercy and His grace and His love.

Your spiritual drifting, your distance from God, your unnecessary pain may be because you’ve been coming to God without the real you. You need to get your map out and mark where you are right now. Then your Lord will take you from there to where you need to be. When Jesus says, “If you will open the door, I will come in,” He invites us to come just as we are with a lifetime of sin and doubt that He died to pay for on a cross, a

Connecting with another person is a unique and special blessing. And when you come to know that person and rely on them, you place trust in them. So what do you do when that trust is shattered? Lysa TerKeurst shares her personal stories of her divorce and friendships lost due to broken trust. She’ll help you learn how to have healthy and godly perspectives about trust and relationships so you can get on a path toward healing.
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Who is truly responsible - and deserves the credit - for America’s founding? Cynthia Scott says the answer to that question is God. Join us as she highlights key moments in U.S. history – the Pilgrims and Puritans, the Great Awakenings, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Emancipation Proclamation, and more – revealing God’s providence in founding and shaping our nation. Show how America’s freedom is rooted in the truths of Scripture.

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In this message from 1 Corinthians 11, Pastor J.D. picks up the most fundamental element of Christian worship—the bread and the cup of communion. When we share this meal together, we aren’t merely remembering Jesus’ last meal. We are entering into his presence. Come to this table. There is no place for religious pride here. No place for classism. No place for racial division. But there is a place for you.