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Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

“Let’s Roll,” The Story of Todd Beamer (Hank Unplugged Short)

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Christian Research Institute

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9809 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Hank Hanegraaff, host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, reflects on the heroic, Christ-honoring actions of Todd Beamer on Flight 93, September 11, 2001, who helped prevent the Muslim hijackers from crashing the Boeing 757 into the United States Capitol. Beamer’s source and impetus were the very Creator who made us all icons of Himself.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Hank Hennigraph, present to the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible

0:17.2

Answerman broadcast with another Hank unplug short.

0:20.4

I'm in my office this morning looking at to the Bible Answer Man broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short.

0:25.8

I'm in my office this morning looking at a plaque.

0:30.8

A plaque I received from my publisher recognizing my book,

0:35.6

The Prayer of Jesus, as a Christian bookseller Association,

0:39.0

number one, the seller.

0:47.6

But right under that recognition is the number two book,

0:55.2

and that book is titled Let's Roll by Lisa Beamer.

1:01.9

And that book is the story of Todd Beamer, her husband.

1:08.5

The story of his heroism on 9-11, 2001.

1:30.2

Todd was one of the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93, a passenger who helped prevent the Muslim hijackers from crashing the Boeing 757 right into the U.S. Capitol.

1:39.7

Todd was, well, he was an accomplished athlete, but above all, he was a committed Christian who ended his final call with airophone operator Lisa Jefferson with a question.

1:49.5

That question, would you pray with me?

1:54.3

And so with passengers joining in, they prayed the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples to pray.

2:03.2

The prayer that I call the prayer of Jesus, but the prayer we know more popularly as the Lord's Prayer.

2:12.7

And then after reciting Psalm 23, Todd, well, he looked at those who were to join him as heroes and simply said, let's roll.

2:31.9

Today I remember Todd Deamer.

2:37.8

Not only a hero in the secular sense, but a hero of the faith.

2:48.2

And of one thing I am certain, though he is absent from the body, he is present with the Lord.

2:58.4

And one day when Jesus Christ appears again, the non-physical aspect of this humanity will be united with a resurrected body.

3:14.3

And he will forever live and grow and develop in a new heaven and a new earth where in dwells righteousness.

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