Strength from Above.

Thanks to his mother's choice not to undergo an abortion, "strongman" Bud Jeffries is alive and well, grateful for the chance to bring the power of God to America's youth.

Almost every day, Bud Jeffries does something most people would consider impossible. It may be doing a deep knee bend with more than 900 pounds on his shoulders, or it may be loading that barbell with more than a thousand pounds and carrying it for distance. Some days he will flip a one-ton automobile end-over-end, or pull a 32,000-pound bus. For variety he will occasionally lift people over his head with a single finger, "unbend" a horseshoe, or use a single bare hand to drive nails into planks. He's also perfecting the art of tearing license plates in half.

In the elite sport of drug-free powerlifting -- which focuses on three lifts, the bench press, barbell squat, and dead lift -- Jeffries has won state, regional, national, and world championships. He has set two world and several national powerlifting records. He has also won several titles in the even more rarefied field of "Strongman" events, which focus on lifting large, unwieldy objects, such as barrels, kegs, weighted logs, large rocks, and round "Atlas Stones."

On June 2nd, Jeffries defended his title as the world's strongest man in drug-free competition by winning his weight class in the "U.S. Strongest Man: Battle of…