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Life: What You Need to Know About Planned Parenthood by PragerU

We are thankful for people and information like this to help others understand the truthful reality of real life issues and organizations, such as abortions and Planned Parenthood.

PragerU's video description:
"What does Planned Parenthood really do? What do they actually stand for? President and founder of Live Action, Lila Rose, lays out everything you need to know about Planned Parenthood."

Life: Billy Graham's Last Message of Hope to America and the World

Billy Graham's last and urgent message to America, which has been the same message he preached for decades and generations -- the gospel. The almost 30 minute video includes testimonies from Lecrae and Lacey Sturm including struggles, sins, shame, and even suicidal plans. Hopelessness seems to grip us during theses periods of time, but, like their testimonies reveal, the gospel changes us to hear, trust, and be transformed by God.

Finances: How The New 2017 GOP Tax Bill Will Affect You by Dave Ramsey

Finances: What to do with Bitcoin by Dave Ramsey

Life: Loving and Truthful Wartime Lifestyle

Hear the passion, wisdom, and focus from Pastor John Piper's video interview about Christians living a 'wartime lifestyle'. We understand this biblically, especially from how Paul trained Timothy in 1 Timothy 6 about training people to live for Christ in real life to love from truth transformed heart to see others come to trust in Christ. Paul even focused on Christians who were wealthy so that Timothy trained them not to put trust in wealth but in God. By this, God uses them to live generously among the world for people to learn of a generous God.

Here's other great articles, audio, and video clips:

1. Don't Waste Your Life series - video playlist
2. 'American Dream'
3. Retirement

Life: Star Parker Congressional Testimony Comparing Abortion to Slavery

The below is accessible and quoted from Star Parker's YouTube video description.

Hearing on H.R. 490, the Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017
For Submission to the Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice

My name is Star Parker. I am the founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education based here in Washington, DC and I want to thank you Mr. Chairman for this opportunity to declare my support of H.R. 490, the Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017.

The abortion industry all across America, and in particularly in our most distressed communities, is preying on our nation’s most vulnerable, brutally dismembering their offspring: and yet there is no federal protection that the women considering abortion receive full disclosure about the human being growing within her.

Recently a famous rapper name Nicki Minaj told Rolling Stone magazine that an abortion of her youth still haunts her: a heart wrenching story being told by many thousands of distraught men and women in hundreds of communities all across our great country.

I was one such woman: when years ago, lost in sexual recklessness, had four abortions; without any counsel nor information from the abortion providers about the distinct humanity of the life that was
growing within me.

I heard all the propaganda of the abortion peddlers, in school, in media, from community and political leaders - yet I heard nothing of infant development in the womb nor any information about their
morality.

Perhaps then, one might argue that little was known about the development or mortality of an embryo or fetus: very few instruments were available to medically or scientifically detect heartbeat.

But today, due to modern technology, this is not an argument that can be made, in particular with the advent of ultrasound where we can now hear and measure a heartbeat within the womb.

Need for H.R. 490, the Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017
To illustrate the humanity of the life in a womb and express the great need for this Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017, H.R. 490, I want to share stories I have heard over and over again in State after State about the impact of abortion on their personal lives.

1. Texas: This man had deep regret of an abortion in his youth after discovery of information on fetal development upon his wife’s first pregnancy and he ended up in counseling for depression. When he saw the heartbeat of their expectant offspring on sonogram, his heart rushed with panic of the abortion he had a decade earlier with a girlfriend.

2. North Carolina: This couple talked themselves into an abortion for financial reasons and then couldn’t look at each other again after thinking about fetal development and thus ended their marriage.

3. Alaska: This pastor found out his minor daughter had had an abortion without consent after she was in agonizing pain in that she was carrying twins and the abortionist only killed one. The survivor of this botched abortion is now an adult and speaking out against abortion.

Interestingly and for the record, all three of these stories were told to me by men.

Churches: Should Pastors Receive a Salary? by John Piper

Here are a two helpful, quick video snippets from John Piper, who had pastored in Minneapolis, MN for over 30 years. The first video though entitled with 'church buildings' only contains the paying and sermon topics. The second video specifies more about pastoral pay (income, salary, wages). He includes a few New Testament examples and explanations, along with sound thinking and counsel for churches to pay pastors.