Deeper Still Episode 39: Pastors: Addressing Abortion from the Pulpit with Love

Deeper Still Episode 39: Pastors: Addressing Abortion from the Pulpit with Love

It may feel easier to avoid this subject in sermons, but women and men in your congregation need to hear you preach on this. This podcast addresses why it is important and how to approach the subject of abortion in truth and love.

Deeper Still Episode 172: Janice's Story, Part 3: God broke me free from my stronghold of fear.

Janice challenges Christians to get free from their past abortions, saying, "God never changes His calling over your life." Janice has led many women she ministers to at her church to a Deeper Still retreat. "They needed someone to tell them that they could be free of condemnation." She also discusses the impact of a minor girl going through an abortion without parental consent.

Deeper Still Episode 171: Janice's Story, Part 2: Abortion hurt my ability to mother my future child

After two abortions as a young teenager, Janice became a weekend user of alcohol and drugs, not realizing that the abortions drove her to self-medication. Her daughter was born prematurely, and she heard the enemy say that it was her fault because of her abortions. When she got pregnant again, she sought an abortion again because her heart was so hard. God stopped her from going through with it, but she was very detached from her baby during pregnancy and after he was born. When he was two years old, she returned to church. God started to pull on her heart and heal her.

Deeper Still Episode 170: Janice's Story, Part 1: 2 abortions by age 16 without parental knowledge

Janice started dating at fourteen. Dating consisted of sex. She got pregnant and parented her baby. However, she started dating the father of her baby again and got pregnant again three months later. She knew nothing about abortion but felt like it was a way out of the pregnancy. She went to the Planned Parenthood at age fifteen and had a surgical abortion without parental permission or supervision. She left the clinic alone and rode the bus home. She got pregnant the following year and had a saline abortion, without her parents' knowledge. "I was really messed up".

Deeper Still Episode 169: Generational Healing

This episode is in Spanish. Maria, Cata, and Luz talk about how abortion impacted them and how they found healing. This is the story of a daughter, mother, and grandmother.