New Presentation: "The Awful Reality of 'Choice'"

A few months back, I was asked to speak at a small conference in Vail, AZ titled “Christian Responsibility in an Unchristian World.” I was happy to do so, but when I found out that I was only being asked to deliver only one presentation, I was a bit incredulous. “Really? You’re going to fly me all the way from Washington to Arizona just to have me run my mouth for 50 minutes?”

“Sure. Why, what’s the problem?”

“Well,” I replied, “I’d think that if you’re going through the expense to fly me across the country and put me up in a hotel, that you’d at least want to get your money’s worth!”

There was general agreement to my sentiment, so the pastor of the hosting church said, “Do you want to give a presentation on abortion?”

In my head, I thought “Why couldn’t I just have kept my mouth shut?” I tried to think of some reasons why I shouldn’t be given this task: it’s unpleasant, I’ve never done one before, and it’s well outside of my area of expertise; I do apologetics, not abortion.” But then I remembered the last time that someone asked me to step outside of my comfort zone—to write and deliver “Winning at Fatherhood”—and how much God used that simple act of obedience to bless me with eyes to see things I’d never before realized about what He’d been doing in my life. So, I had no choice but to accept the invitation.

I spent a good couple of months praying about how the Lord wanted me to approach this topic. My knee-jerk response was to take an apologetics-style approach and refute the arguments that the “pro-choice” death cultists like to use, but I thought, “No, that’s just an information dump and nobody is going to remember it; besides, such videos and presentations are a dime a dozen.” The pastor told me that his biggest challenges around Tucson are apathy and complacency, so a “just the facts, ma’am” approach was not going to cut it. I was enlisted to wake people up, not put them to sleep with things they’ll never remember.

So, after much prayer and consultation with both Andrew Kerin of Tiny Heartbeat Ministries and my son (who just finished an internship with Tiny Heartbeat Ministries), coupled with resources from the Education Resource Fund, and LiveAction, I was able to prepare and deliver “The Awful Reality of ‘Choice’”—a presentation that is by far the most difficult I’ve ever had to do. I was positively exhausted by the end of the presentation, but it was worth it—the pastor reported that there were quite a few opened eyes and changed minds at the conference.

Please prayerfully consider watching and sharing this presentation with those in your social circles and spheres of influence. With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, abortions have actually increased in our nation, with an estimated 65% of all abortions being performed today at home with the “abortion pill.” Please take a stand for the unborn in any way that you can.

My presentation is available at https://rumble.com/v5c0kek-the-awful-reality-of-choice.html (it’s not on YouTube since that platform ruthlessly censors content).

Thank you, and may God richly bless you.