God Saved My Life 5 Years Ago—What Now? A Personal Message From Hank

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Christian Research Institute

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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I am five years removed from a stem-cell transplant that saved my life. And seven years removed from an initial cancer diagnosis of stage four mantle cell lymphoma. I greet you with a heart of gratitude but also a spirit of resolve. Resolve to remember that life is fleeting. Resolve captured by the words, “Only one life, ’twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.”During the past twelve months, users have accessed our website equip.org from more than 230 countries—benefiting from our vast reservoir of unrestricted resources, such as the Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank Unplugged podcast, Bible Answer Man YouTube Channel, Daily e-Truths, and Christian Research Journal online, available to anyone with Internet access anywhere in the world.I am deeply grateful to all who answer by your continued support of the many outreaches of the Christian Research Institute. I am sincerely grateful for all you do to strengthen our 24/7 outreaches. Outreaches making a strategic difference at home and around the globe.As I approach three quarters of a century in age, I am acutely aware of the reality of being in the fourth quarter of my life. A life motivated by the apostle Paul’s admonition to “run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:1–2).In closing, I’ve provided a link to our Website here. Thank you for the vital difference your year-end gift will make in so many lives. https://www.equip.org/product/year-end-gift-2024-hup/

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Hank Hennigraf, President of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Instrument
0:27.4	broadcast, the Hank Unplug podcast. I'm the author of a lot of books, but most of all, I'm here as
0:33.7	President the Christian Research Institute, an institute that I dearly love.
0:40.5	I want to start this short message to you by saying that I am now five years removed from a
0:47.2	stem cell transplant that quite literally saved my life.
0:51.5	And I'm seven years removed from an initial diagnosis of stage four mental cell
0:56.8	lymphoma. So as I'm speaking to you right now, as a dear friend or a supporter of the ministry,
1:04.8	or someone that I hope will become a supporter of the ministry, I'm doing so with not only a heart of gratitude,
1:14.0	but also with a spirit of resolve.
1:18.6	Resolve to remember that life is fleeting.
1:23.6	A resolve captured by words that I have communicated over and over again in my writings,
1:30.8	in my speakings.
1:32.9	It might even sound trite, but it's not.
1:38.9	Those words, only one life soon t'will be passed. Only what's done for Christ will last. As president of the
1:55.0	Christian Research Institute for almost four decades, I have had a front row seat to some of the most bizarre and dangerous cults
2:05.6	in modern history. I think back to 1997, where media outlets flocked, literally flocked.
2:14.6	I mean, they came in with helicopters to our headquarters in Southern California
2:20.3	to gain perspective on the sociologically deviant Heavensgate cult, a cult that ended
2:29.4	that ended in the largest mass suicide in the entire history of the United States of America.
2:40.0	Back then, our broadcast studios were quite literally packed with television cameras
2:45.8	as I conducted an exclusive interview with the daughter of the co-founder of this insidious, treacherous cult.
2:55.6	Now, fast forward 30 years.
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