Pro-life activist was nearly aborted: The power of changed lives and encouragement from one of the greatest sermons of the twentieth century
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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A pro-life activist who survived abortion is making headlines. In The Daily Article for April 15, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells her story, then he focuses on a remarkable article detailing positive results of faith, discusses the privilege and urgency of modeling Jesus' character in our culture, and closes with quotations from one of the greatest sermons of the twentieth century.
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Jim Denison has been a Christian since 1973, but it was many years later that he came |
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| 1:15.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Dennis and this is the Daily Article for Thursday, April 15th, |
| 1:19.8 | 2021. The title is, pro-life activist was nearly aborted, the power of changed lives and |
| 1:26.4 | encouragement from one of the greatest |
| 1:28.4 | sermons of the 20th century. Christianity today is profiling a woman who was nearly |
| 1:33.9 | aborted in 1989. Her name is Claire Colwell. Her mother had an abortion at 20 weeks |
| 1:40.6 | that killed Claire's sibling. Soon thereafter, she discovered that she was still pregnant. |
| 1:46.4 | She had not known that she was carrying twins. She returned for a second abortion, but it never |
| 1:52.0 | took place due to complications from the first. Claire is now a wife, the mother of four children, |
| 1:58.3 | and an activist for the cause of life. In 1989, there were reportedly |
| 2:03.2 | 1,396,658 abortions in the United States. When you hear Claire's story, don't you resonate |
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