In a span of only 25 years, under the direction of Shirley Dobson, the National Day of Prayer has been observed at over 630,000 events with more than 33 million people praying for America. Today, a new chapter begins as Mrs. Dobson steps into the role of Chairman Emeritus and passes the mantle of leadership to Mrs. Anne Graham Lotz.
Timothy Paul Jones’ book, How We Got the Bible, won a prestigious award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.
(NOTE: The following article reports on an on-going revival which was sparked at a local high school, and broke loose at the Regional Church of God in Delbarton, West Virginia. Reported by Ken Walker of PE News, the news source of the Assembly of God).
New film “God’s Compass” has won the award for best screenplay at the 2016 International Christian Film Festival. Starring Karen Abercrombie and TC Stallings from Fall 2015’s surprise box office number 1 hit “War Room,” “God’s Compass” releases on DVD May 3, 2016 and will also screen this week at the 2nd annual Bentonville Film Festival.
The scientist calls them “individuated units of consciousness,” but to author Stephen Hawley Martin, a Christian, “souls” is a more descriptive moniker. The physicist says they’re on earth and have bodies in order to evolve and thereby reduce their entropy. According to Martin, that’s another way of saying we humans are here to learn to do what Jesus said to do, which is to love one another.
He’s “America’s Best Preacher,” according to TIME magazine; one of Ebony’s Power 100; and a movie and television presence, not to mention the winner of countless awards, according to his biography. But the man T.D. Jakes is today is not the man he was in his mid-20s.
