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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]
Delgado G, Condly SJ, Davenport M, Tinnakornsrisuphap T, Mack J, Khauv V, Zhou PS. A case series detailing the successful reversal of the effects of mifepristone using progesterone. Issues Law Med. 2018 Spring;33(1):21-31. PMID: 30831017. [Full study PDF]
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]
Wahabi HA, Fayed AA, Esmaeil SA, Bahkali KH. Progestogen for treating threatened miscarriage. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2018 Aug 6;8(8):CD005943. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005943.pub5. PMID: 30081430; PMCID: PMC6513446. [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:
Discrete operationsMan-centerednessDeception of goodnessMyth 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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