Franklin Graham recently returned from Jacksonville, Florida, where he preached the gospel to more than 18,000 people in person and more than 40,000 others watching the live stream online.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Cleveland, TN–Lee University recently received a Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Serving Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia.

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.”

The 400 Year Project founder, Donald W. Mitchell, announced today that the project will provide 20 in-kind grants of technical assistance and support materials to new Christian ministries seeking to expand their effectiveness. The 400 Year Project is a Christian initiative to demonstrate ways to increase global fruitfulness by more than 20 times between 2015 and 2035.

June 9 (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate approved a bill on Tuesday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks unless the mother was suffering from a medical emergency.