In this episode, Monte Larrick converses with Presidential Candidate Larry Elder at the 2023 Black Conservative Summit.
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Pastor Leflore and David Smith sit down with one of Chicago’s finest pastors in this episode. Pastor Charles Moodie is head of Chicago City Life Center, right in the middle of the Englewood neighborhood. His church is building a crisis pregnancy center, and you can find out more by going to their website.
| Jenna Smith | April 19, 2023 9:05 PM | Comments Off on Building the Kingdom in Chicago (Illinois Family Spotlight #352)
In this episode, Kenna Rose and Eliana discuss the importance of good entertainment.
| Jenna Smith | April 13, 2023 9:08 AM | Comments Off on All About Entertainment (Self Evident #37)
In this episode, we feature remarks from attorney Ann O’Connor with the National Institute for Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA). O’Connor recently presented this lecture at Speakout Illinois’ 2023 pro-life conference, and called attention to legislation that is targeting crisis pregnancy centers with the goal being to shut them down. O’Connor is the Vice President of legal affairs at NIFLA, and is a champion of 1st Amendment rights.
You can find more information about NIFLA by clicking here.… Continue Reading
| Jenna Smith | April 11, 2023 6:06 AM | Comments Off on Protecting Pregnancy Centers (Illinois Family Spotlight #351)
This is the second segment in David Smith’s conversation with Eric Hovind and Helmut Welke. This conversation spans faux fossils, training your children to ask the right questions, and why a young earth perspective is crucial to a Biblical worldview.
When asked why the question of young earth/old earth is still being debated in American churches, Eric Hovind captured the problem in one sentence: “Pastors are taking a book that has never been proven wrong and compromising it with a theory that has never been proven right.”… Continue Reading
| Jenna Smith | April 4, 2023 6:15 AM | Comments Off on Creation Science & The Christian II (Illinois Family Spotlight #350)
In this episode of Spotlight, David Smith co-hosts with Self Evident’s Jenna Smith to converse with two spectacular guests about the importance of Scripture and the necessity of knowing Someone Who knows everything.
President and Founder of Pensacola-based organization, Creation Today, Eric’s passion to reach people with the life-changing message of the Gospel has driven him to speak in five foreign countries and all fifty states. He lives in Pensacola, Florida with his wife Tanya and three children and remains excited about the tremendous opportunity to lead an apologetics ministry in the war against evolution and humanism.… Continue Reading
| Jenna Smith | March 30, 2023 11:31 AM | Comments Off on Creation Science and The Christian (Illinois Family Spotlight #349)
Content Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of what a “gender reassignment” surgery entails.
In this episode of Self Evident, the topic of transgenderism and its tragic truth is discussed once again.
This episode will cover the rising star of the transgender movement, Dylan Mulvaney and TLC star, Jazz Jennings. This episode will also discuss Chloe Cole, who is a staunch advocate against gender-affirming surgeries, having been prey to one herself. Finally, this episode will cover Laura Perry and the hope she found in Christ in her de-transition journey.… Continue Reading
| Jenna Smith | March 29, 2023 11:43 AM | Comments Off on The Travesty of The Transgender Lie (Self Evident #36)
In this episode of Self Evident, Alyssa, Kenna, Jenna and Eliana cover the subject of medically assisted suicide, which is likely coming to the state of Illinois very soon…
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: 5 Reasons to Oppose Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide
Arguments for and Against Assisted Suicide
USA Today Article on Drug Cocktails for Euthanasia
No Such Thing As Painless Death
| Jenna Smith | March 23, 2023 12:16 PM | Comments Off on The Lethal Truth About Euthanasia (Self Evident #35)
This special episode of Spotlight has one of IFI’s favorite people: Stephanie Trussell!
Stephanie is a mom, grandmother, entrepreneur, board member for the Illinois Family Institute & Good Soil, Good Seed, and former candidate for Illinois Lieutenant Governor. Monte, David and Stephanie recap the November 8th election, the campaign trail that led up to it, and Stephanie regales mostly humorous anecdotes that occurred to her while traveling the state of Illinois.
One of the questions that comes up in this episode is how can Illinois Republican voter turnout improve.… Continue Reading
| Jenna Smith | March 21, 2023 11:07 AM | Comments Off on A Conversation with Stephanie Trussell (Illinois Family Institute #348)
In this edition of Self Evident, Alyssa, Kenna Rose & Brynn run through three issues going on in America: Arizona public schools banning Christian teachers from applying, Illinois legislators proposing that bathrooms should be for all and all should be for the same bathroom, and more.
To send an email to Illinois lawmakers voicing your disapproval of HB 1286, click here.
| Jenna Smith | March 15, 2023 12:28 AM | Comments Off on A Rundown of Current Issues (Self Evident #34)
