Rick Warren Raising $71 Million for Saddleback Expansion
Pastor Rick Warren has announced plans for Saddleback Church’s biggest expansion yet: raising $71 million for 10 new campuses, 3,000 global outreach missions and more.
Twin Rivers Church Donates to Smoky Mountain Children’s Home
Sevierville, TN–The senior adult group, Young at Heart, from St. Louis, Missouri recently visited the Home for Children in Sevierville, Tennessee bearing lots of love and a financial gift of three thousand one hundred dollars ($3,100.00).
The Supernatural Life of the Man Without Arms or Legs
While in Los Angeles recently, I was allowed to “test drive” a new type of virtual reality game at Digital Domain, which creates holograms and other visual effects for television and movies, including Titanic, Iron Man 3, the Transformers series, Ender’s Game and more than 100 other movies.
Reclaiming the Lost Priority of Evangelism
You may have never heard of Scott Hinkle, but he is one of my heroes. He doesn’t pastor a megachurch or host a daily TV program. He’s not the most popular Christian conference speaker. He makes most churchgoers squirm in their seats because he’s an evangelist, and he is not called to preach nice messages to the choir. He spends most of his time in the streets—and he challenges Christians to join him.
Lee University Wins Better Business Bureau Award
Cleveland, TN–Lee University recently received a Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Serving Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia.
Religion-Free ‘Prayer’ Author Takes Aim at ‘Class Warfare’
According to bestselling author Robert Bakke, “It’s time we pound ‘Class Warfare’ back to the stone ages.” Bakke is a black belt, a jet captain, a NASCAR driver and author of Amazon’s bestselling book, “Prayer at Full Throttle.” Bakke attributes all of his success to the privilege of being born in America. “Just because some people have worked themselves to exhaustion and risked everything to become successful, doesn’t mean they have done anything wrong or made anyone a victim. That is a ridiculous and divisive excuse, and it needs to be shut down. This is America. We are a God-blessed nation, and my God doesn’t think in terms of ‘small and lack’ and neither should you. It’s time we put America and success back on the radar, and do it before the presidential politics of ‘Class Warfare’ begin again.”
