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Chelsea and I conclude our coverage of Colorado's three radical pro-abortion bills: SB23-188, SB23-189, and SB23-190.

Last week the Colorado House of Representatives debated and rammed through three radical dystopian pro-abortion bills along party lines with no amendments.

In short, the supporters want abortion on-demand at any time in pregnancy for any reason, and abortion providers are a new protected class of citizens virtually above the law. They want "gender-affirming care" and sterilization (yes, that word is in a bill) for anyone of any age without parental consent. They want health insurance providers to pay of all of this without any penalties or additional costs.

They also want us to believe all the non-profit pregnancy centers are the great evil and that giving progesterone to save the lives of babies is "medical fraud."

These bills themselves blatantly contradict each other, and the opposition bravely proved this beyond any doubt. The Colorado House heard untold evil spewed, and a tidal wave of truth crushing every hypocrisy uttered under Denver's golden dome.

Yet, because evil holds the super majority in the House, they could care less! In fact, they had to ram these bills through without amendments! Why? Because the First Lady herself is already scheduled to celebrate the signing ceremony.

Scriptures Referenced:

Psalm 52:3

Isaiah 5:19-21; 41:10

Proverbs 1:29-33

Sources Consulted:

Colorado House Judiciary [Mar 28, 2023 - Upon Adjournment]

Colorado House 2023 Legislative Day 081

Colorado House 2023 Legislative Day 082

Colorado House 2023 Legislative Day 083

ACOG Practice Bulletin 225: "Medication Abortion Up to 70 Days of Gestation"

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Chelsea and I continue our coverage of Colorado's three radical pro-abortion bills: SB23-188, SB23-189, and SB23-190.

In this episode we walk through some details for the three bills and how they could destroy genuine health care in Colorado. Abortion providers become a new protected class immune from criminal charges, even if women die in their "care." Insurance programs must specially subsidize abortions and treatment for promiscuity. Yet, pregnancy centers become the great deceptive villains, and abortion pill reversals (progesterone) must be outlawed.

We play some salient clips from the Senate floor while they debated amendments to the bills. It was like pulling teeth for the opposition even to get the accusation that pregnancy centers are "fake clinics" removed from the legislative declaration of SB23-190.

As of this episode's release the bills are scheduled for committee at the House. We anticipate a long day of citizen testimonies with another 3-to-1 opposition. Of course, this ratio rarely stops the radicals in the majority from being drunk on power to press ever harder a culture of death and an abortion dystopia. Prayers for this situation are very much appreciated.

Scriptures Referenced:

Psalm 37:7-13

Sources Consulted:

Colorado Senate 2023 Legislative Day 072 Part 1 [Recording]

Colorado Senate 2023 Legislative Day 072 Part 2 [Recording]

We found out last Monday evening that the Colorado legislature is ramming through a package of three radical pro-abortion bills: SB23-188, SB23-189, and SB23-190.

The most dangerous and impacting to pregnancy resource centers is SB23-190: Deceptive Trade Practice Pregnancy-related Service. The language of this bill could penalize pregnancy centers for trying to advertise their services to help pregnant women in crisis. Even more devastating is a clear ban on any means of offering anything intending to reverse an abortion pill.

Chelsea and I spent this last week engaged in this battle. Tuesday evening we were working on Chelsea's testimony for the judiciary committee on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday we worked on information to send out to legislators about this bill.

In this episode we play Chelsea's testimony in the bill committee. We also play some salient points from other testimonies. In particular, we respond to some of the testimony of Dr. Mitchell Creinin, who conducted the world-renowned "inconclusive" clinical trial on abortion pill reversal. Dr. Creinin concludes that the practice is unproven and "medical fraud."

We also played clips from other medical professionals who disputed Dr. Creinin's claims.

If you are listening to this episode the day it is released, March 19, 2023, the bill is at the Colorado Senate floor and will voted on today. Prayers for this situation are very much appreciated.

Update: Senate floor debate for these bills has been moved to the next day, Tuesday, March 21.

Scriptures Referenced:

Proverbs 14:27

Sources Consulted:

Colorado Senate Judiciary [March 15, 2023 - Upon Adjournment] [Recording]

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Creinin MD, Hou MY, Dalton L, Steward R, Chen MJ. Mifepristone Antagonization With Progesterone to Prevent Medical Abortion: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Jan;135(1):158-165. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000003620. PMID: 31809439. [Full study PDF]

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Chelsea and I talk about current news of The Satanic Temple expanding programs in elementary schools, including in a small town in Colorado.

Lucien Greaves co-founded The Satanic Temple as a religious institution to claim religious rights recognized under the Constitution. The institution has seven secular humanistic tenants that sound reasonable until they are applied to political causes like abortion.

We observe four of Satan's devices from the Bible for how Satan operates as the god of this world and through organizations like The Satanic Temple:

1. Discrete operations
2. Man-centeredness
3. Deception of goodness
4. Myth of neutrality

Scriptures Referenced:

2 Corinthians 2:11; 11:14-15

Matthew 13:39; 16:23,26

John 6:70; 12:4-8

Psalm 14:1

Matthew 12:30

Ephesians 6:11-12

Sources Consulted:

Elizabeth Hernandez, "After School Satan Club launching first Colorado chapter, but organizer promises “we are not devil worshippers,”" The Denver Post, March 3, 2023.

"About Us," The Satanic Temple, Accessed March 12, 2023.

"Who is TST Health and What is the Abortion Ritual?" TST Health, Accessed March 12, 2023.

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Chelsea and I continue our series about the Christian revivals in American history.

George Whitefield was an Anglican deacon in Oxford, England. He met John and Charles Wesley in college and joined their Methodist movement. With his Bachelor of Arts degree, booming voice, and supreme acting ability, Whitefield would become a young traveling preacher who could command crowds of up to 20,000 people in one occasion.

Whitefield would become America's first celebrity as he traveled to the colonies seven times and toured up from Georgia to Massachusetts preaching the gospel freely to all sorts of people. He is credited for starting two orphanages mostly for African-American children. In the face of violent opposition and mockery, Whitefield would see thousands of converts, including two unexpected instances.

We address the fact that Whitefield wasn't an abolitionist like his friend John Wesley, but we try to understand his reasoning in light of the time he lived as well as how he was leaps and bounds better than the respectable opinion of his time. In fact, this Englishman was instrumental to preparing the colonies for independence and later for emancipation.

Sources Consulted:

"George Whitefield," Banner of Truth, Accessed March 5, 2023.

"Whitefield, George." Colonial America Reference Library. . Encyclopedia.com. (February 23, 2023).

Mills, Frederick. "George Whitefield." New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified Jun 6, 2017.

George Whitefield, "Of Justification By Christ," ed., Bible Hub, Accessed March 5, 2023.

"George Whitefield Quotes," AZ Quotes, Access March 5, 2023.

"52 George Whitefield Quotes," ChristianQuotes.info, Updated July 24, 2015 by Pastor Jack Wellman.

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Chelsea and I continue our series about the Christian revivals in American history.

Solomon Stoddard, a fiery preacher saw several revivals in his 60 years pastoring the church at Northampton, Massachusetts, but he embraced and expanded the Half-Way Covenant. Stoddard allowed open membership and open communion. The Northampton church grew to over 600 members, but over time the majority were likely unbelievers.

Stoddard's grandson Jonathan Edwards would become the new pastor of the church. He would follow in the footsteps of revivalist preaching, with his famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Edwards would also see that the Half-Way Covenant and Stoddard's church polity was enshrining the "dead religion" they were intended to solve.

Scriptures Referenced:

Revelation 3:16

1 Corinthians 11:30

Sources Consulted:

"Spiritual Awakenings in North America: Christian History Timeline," Christianity Today, Accessed February 26, 2023.

Schafer, T. A.. "Jonathan Edwards." Encyclopedia Britannica, February 18, 2023.

Jack Zavada, "Jonathan Edwards, Reformed Church Pioneer: Famous Revivalist Preacher of the Great Awakening," Learn Religions, August 9, 2019.

Martin Kelly, "Jonathan Edwards: Colonial Clergyman of the Great Awakening," ThoughtCo, July 3, 2019.

Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

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Chelsea and I start a new series about the Christian revivals in American history.

The controversy over the recent "Asbury revival" drove us to ask the question "What is a revival?"

Using a dictionary, Scripture, and a Spurgeon quote, we come up with a working definition of a revival. Then, we dive deep into the setting of the American colonies in the 1600's and early 1700's.

As church life was decaying since the first generation of pilgrims covenanted the first Congregational churches in the Massachusetts Bay colony, pastors begin to look for revival.

Congregationalist churches practiced infant baptism but only granted church membership to attendees who could evidence regeneration. As the first generation's children became adults but didn't become fully covenanted members, could their children be baptized? Could they partake of the Lord's Supper?

Boston pastor Richard Mather argued that the children were proper covenant members in some sense. The question remained whether to baptize children of "unregenerate" members into the third generation.

In 1662, Mather collaborated on what became known as the Half-Way Covenant to revive the church with a structural and political solution. Would it work?

Scriptures Referenced:

Psalm 85:6-8

Acts 2:16-18

Matthew 7:15-16

Titus 3:9,5

Sources Consulted:

"Revival," Websters Dictionary 1828, Accessed February 19, 2023.

C. H. Spurgeon, "What Is a Revival?" Sword and Trowel, December 1866.

Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Richard Mather." Encyclopedia Britannica, January 1, 2023.

"BIOGRAPHY: RICHARD MATHER (1596-1669)," The Mather Project, Accessed February 19, 2023.

Richard Mather, "A DISPUTATION CONCERNING Church-Members AND THEIR CHILDREN IN ANSWER to 21 QUESTIONS," 1657.

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Chelsea and I talk about more recent victories over Molech.

First, we look at the recent leaked document from the FBI targeting "traditional Catholics" as potential "terrorists."

Then, we see four cases in the UK in which police punish pro-life people for their "silent prayer" activity in a censorship zone:

1. Isabel Vaughn-Spruce
2. Adam Smith-Connor
3. Sean Gogh
4. Livia Tossici-Bolt

All four are challenging the charges and seeking to be cleared in a court. We believe their cooperative but steadfast battles are victories over Molech. they reveal how absurd the Public Space Protection Orders are to try to shield abortion clinics from people who must be asked "Were you praying silently in your head?"

Scriptures Referenced:

Matthew 6:5-6; 5:10-16

2 Chronicles 32:7

Sources Consulted:

Ewan Palmer, "FBI Under Pressure for Targeting Catholics in Leaked Document," Newsweek, February 10, 2023.

Caroline Downey, "Charges Dropped against British Woman Arrested for Praying outside Abortion Clinic," National Review, February 3, 2023.

Kevin J. Jones, "Second Bystander Ensnared By English Ban On Prayer Outside Abortion Facilities," EWTN, January 22, 2023.

Steven Ertelt, "Police Arrest Catholic Priest for Silently Praying Outside Abortion Clinic," Life News, February 9, 2023.

Madeleine Teahan, "UK woman praying in public asked to ‘move on’ by local authorities," Catholic News Agency, November 25, 2022.

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My wife Chelsea is back with me to talk about recent victories over Molech.

First, we explain the Biblical background of the pagan practice of sacrificing children to Molech. We see Satanic temples today claiming that abortion bans violate their "religious freedom" as abortions are literally a sacrament for them. The "NOW" statue at the New York supreme court looks like an idol to celebrate Ruth Bader Ginsburg's fight for abortion "rights."

Mark Houck, a pro-life volunteer at a pregnancy center, was recently acquitted of charges that he violated the FACE Act that could have landed him in prison for up to 11 years. Chelsea and I look at the media's narrative on his story and how they ignore all the important details.

We walk through Houck's story to see the lies and intimidation from the pro-abortion side. Houck shows us how standing up for truth ultimately leads to victory over Molech.

Sources Consulted:

Micaiah Bilger, "Artist Confirms She Created Satanic Statue to Support Killing Babies in Abortions," Life News, January 30, 2023.

Micaiah Bilger, "Satanic Temple Sues to Stop Abortion Bans, Claims Killing Babies is a Religious Right," Life News, January 6, 2023.

Micaiah Bilger, "Satanic Temple Opens New Abortion Clinic to Kill Babies in Ritualistic Abortions," Life News, February 1, 2023.

Charisma Madarang, "Anti-Abortion Activist Accused of Pushing 72-Year-Old Volunteer Found Not Guilty," Rolling Stone, January 30, 2023.

George Parry, "The Story of Mark Houck: Killing the Monkey to Scare the Chickens," The American Spectator, February 3, 2023.

Samantha Kamman, "Mark Houck jury deadlocked, to resume Monday as pro-lifer faces up to 11 years in prison," The Christian Post, January 27, 2023.

Joe Bukuras, "UPDATE: Mark Houck cleared of FACE Act charges in rebuke to Justice Department’s aggressive prosecution," Catholic News Agency, January 30, 2023.

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I go solo in this episode to explain how political ideology can abuse the Bible's call to charity. This episode is based on notes that were originally for part of the Truthspresso Express series "Was Jesus a Socialist?"

After walking through the Sixth through the Tenth Commandment of the law, we see how coveting can be the most difficult command. Yet, too many Christians can support a backdoor to validate covetousness and stealing.

Putting government-enforced welfare schemes under the microscope of the Bible, we ask ourselves this question: Is it ever a morally virtuous and Christian thing to support threatening or initiating violence on someone who has not committed a crime?

We may think that coercive wealth distribution schemes are "doing God's work," but when we think deeply about it, does God ever command anyone to steal from people by the force of violence to provide for the poor? Perhaps the Christian doctrine of charity is that it is always lovingly and voluntary.

We also see how compromising a universal application of "Thou shalt not covet" and "Thou shalt not steal" can lead us to compromising all God's commands.

Scriptures Cited:

Exodus 20:13-17

Romans 7:7

Hebrews 13:5

Exodus 18:21-22

Amos 8:4-6

Proverbs 6:30-31

Jeremiah 22:16-17

Romans 2:21

Sources Consulted:

David Roach, "Bible doesn’t command wealth redistribution, presenters say at theological meeting," Baptist Press, December 13, 2012.

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