God ensured the ark was well-suited to withstand the flood.

There is a lot of television and movie programming this year that honors them and those they left behind, as well as Independence Day-themed content.

Yair Netanyahu shared a survey on Instagram favoring Ofer Winter as Defense Minister, a controversial figure praised by Avigdor Liberman.

Despite the shadow of war, Israelis will mark Independence Day across the country with subdued celebrations - here is a guide to events in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Herzliya, and Rehovot.

God ensured the ark was well-suited to withstand the flood.

If he had known that the crying he heard at Lumber River State Park on April 27 was that of a woman who was about to take her life, Johnnie Jacobs believes he would have tried to help. Jacobs now regrets not checking to see what was going on before he heard a gunshot when Pastor John-Paul Miller's late wife, Mica Miller, decided to kill herself.

One of the founding leaders of Victory megachurch, he never stopped running to share the gospel.Ferdinand “Ferdie” Cabiling, a bishop at one of the Philippines’ largest megachurches who ran across the Philippines to raise money for disadvantaged students, died April 1, the day after Easter. He was 58 years old.Dubbed “the Running Pastor,” the moniker describes not only Cabiling’s epic race but how he lived his life and served as an evangelist. For 38 years, he was a vocational minister of Victory Christian Fellowship of the Philippines, which has nearly 150 locations in the country. The branch he led, Victory Metro Manila, averaged more than 75,000 people each Sunday. [Note: The author is a member of Victory Church and was a part of the late pastor's small group in 2014.]In the past two years, his focus was on teaching evangelism to Victory leaders. Every time he received a teaching invitation, his answer was always yes, said his assistant, Faye Bonifacio.“He was a maximizer,” Bonifacio said, noting that Cabiling developed a habit of taking short naps while parked at a gas station between long drives. “Because he liked to drive, he did a lot in a day.”Hours before his death, Cabiling had visited a church member at a hospital an hour away from his hometown of Cuyapo before parking his car at a gas station, likely for a break before heading to his next destination. It was there that an attendant found his lifeless body and rushed him to the hospital he had just visited. Cabiling had died of a heart attack.“He was a serious man of passion, action, and conviction,” wrote Steve Murrell, the founding pastor of Victory, the flagship church for the charismatic-leaning Every Nation Churches and Ministries, which has churches and campus ministries in ...Continue reading...

The controversial iPad ad proves that technology can indeed flatten—or crush—what is real.A recent advertisement from Apple for the new iPad Pro has somehow managed to existentially disturb me. Titled “Crush!” it shows an ominous hydraulic press above a platform filled with symbols of humanity, creativity, and joy: a metronome, guitar, classical statue, piano, analog cameras, books, paint, and more.The metronome starts, and the press descends to Sonny & Cher’s “All I Need Is You,” slowly obliterating everything in high-def slow motion, before rising again to reveal only a “thinner than ever” iPad Pro. “Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create,” Apple CEO Tim Cook posted on the social platform X.I am not alone in my revulsion. Actors Hugh Grant and Justine Bateman join me, as do apparently thousands of vocal people on the Internet and what appears to be the entire nation of Japan. The backlash, particularly from the “creatives” that Apple was courting for their product, was so pronounced that the company issued a rare apology, saying they had “missed the mark.”But what mark did they miss? More than missing just the tastes of their buyers, they missed the mark of reality—both of the creative process and of the goodness of the embodied nature that is essential to our humanity.I see why Apple produced the ad. There is tremendous economic incentive for tech corporations to replace previous, more embodied experiences and tools. Apple Music will never scratch like the fragile grooves of a vinyl record (also, it contains most of the recorded music in the world). GarageBand can’t go out of tune (and its digital “instruments” can mimic the entire orchestra). One can “paint” all day on ...Continue reading...

Christian urban designers and developers explain how their faith affects their work—and how their work affects your faith.The design of our communities shapes how we interact with one another, love one another, and grow with one another. But who shapes those communities? In a broad sense, we all do. Our choices of where and how to live, learn, work, and worship collectively influence the market, ministry decisions, and what feels “right” and “normal.” But some professions—city planners, urban designers, architects, and real estate developers—take a larger and more direct role in creating our cities and neighborhoods. And for many Christians in these industries, faith guides their construction of spaces for community flourishing.Where we live can echo both the creation and redemption yet to come (Rom. 8:18–25). These places can foster deep, lasting community in a fragmented world, four Christians in these industries told me, and the local church can be a model of inviting, appealing design.The pillars of good urban design—beauty, function, community building, accessibility—are more than fads or human preferences. They’re a foretaste of the redeemed earth, a signpost pointing us toward a better way of living. And it shouldn’t be lost on us, said Chris Elisara, chair of the Congress for New Urbanism Members Christian Caucus, that the world to come isn’t described as a garden or a quaint village but as a city (Rev. 22:3). “As we participate in kingdom building,” he told me, “it culminates with [that] city description in Revelation. And that’s where God dwells with his people again.”Accordingly, more mundane “kingdom building” through city planning and urban design shouldn’t be thoughtless, out of touch, ...Continue reading...

A faith-based film has made it into the Netflix Global Top 10, prompting one of its producers to proclaim that “God is not finished” with the movie even though it was released nearly two years ago.?

I am so excited to share that the Logos Theatre from the Academy of Arts is returning to Ark Encounter to share their production of The Horse and His Boy.

What is a woman? Well, that question's sparked a lot of debate. One Justice even said she couldn't answer because she's not a biologist!

I am so excited to share that the Logos Theatre from the Academy of Arts is returning to Ark Encounter to share their production of The Horse and His Boy.

Florida native Paul Faust says flight attendant accused him of causing trouble on the plane after remarking on pro-Palestinian pin she was wearing; carrier issues apology after threats of boycott from American Jews

What is a woman? Well, that question's sparked a lot of debate. One Justice even said she couldn't answer because she's not a biologist!

I am so excited to share that the Logos Theatre from the Academy of Arts is returning to Ark Encounter to share their production of The Horse and His Boy.

By Julian Rose Just under the surface of daily life two starkly opposing forces are at work:? ‘the will for life' and ‘the will for...Madkind-v-Mankind — A Race Against Time

Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org At $1.5 million per job, this new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm....Pritzker Doubles-Down With $827 Million Taxpayer Handout To Troubled EV-Maker Rivian

By Julian Rose Just under the surface of daily life two starkly opposing forces are at work:? ‘the will for life' and ‘the will for...Madkind-v-Mankind — A Race Against Time

Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org At $1.5 million per job, this new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm....Pritzker Doubles-Down With $827 Million Taxpayer Handout To Troubled EV-Maker Rivian

Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org At $1.5 million per job, this new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm....Pritzker Doubles-Down With $827 Million Taxpayer Handout To Troubled EV-Maker Rivian

By Julian Rose Just under the surface of daily life two starkly opposing forces are at work:? ‘the will for life' and ‘the will for...Madkind-v-Mankind — A Race Against Time

Holocaust Remembrance Day, Monday Morning, 6th The national wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day began Monday morning (6th) at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. The ceremony was attended by Israeli ... Read MoreThe post News Digest — 5/6/24 appeared first on The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry.

The? "She Reads Truth"? devotional Bible has sold more than 1 million copies, and to mark the milestone, it recently received a Platinum Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.

Following his critical and viral response to pop star Taylor Swift's latest album, evangelist Shane Pruitt explained his remarks and why Christian parents need to be more discerning.