A decade after Fireproof became the top independent film of 2008, it continues to impact lives. Actor Kirk Cameron, who starred in the lead role, thinks he knows why.

“Nobody wants to fail when it comes to marriage and family … if things are right in their home, things are right in life,” he told PureFlix.com’s Pure Talk in a video interview. “… I think Fireproof speaks to that core value that God [has] put in us.”

Cameron said a stranger came up to him at church one recent Sunday and explained the impact Fireproof was having on him. A friend had urged the man to watch the film.

“I’m in the eye of the hurricane right now with my wife … I don’t know what to do but I just know that God’s trying to get my attention,” the man told Cameron.

Said Cameron, speaking broadly about the film, “You are called to be Christ to [your wife], to lay down your life for your bride and to love and lead your children to advance the Kingdom. And Fireproof speaks to those sensibilities.”

The film starred Cameron and Erin Bethea and was the third movie from Alex and Stephen Kendrick, the Georgia filmmakers.

Cameron was engaged at age 19 and married the next year. He’s been married for 27 years and has six children. He often speaks about marriage at seminars.

“The opportunity to speak from experience on this subject is big because I’m up…

(RNS) For the collector who has almost everything, there’s a chance this week to claim ownership of a Bible that literally was out of this world.

A Los Angeles auction firm is taking bids on a microform, or photographically reduced, King James Bible that went to the moon on the 1971 Apollo 14 space flight. Similar in appearance to a piece of microfilm, the microform is certified as containing the entire biblical text. Its print is so small that one needs a microscope to read it.

The tiny, space-traveling Bible was one of 11 that left Earth’s atmosphere in the care of landing module commander Edgar Mitchell, who died in 2016 on the eve of the 45th anniversary of that lunar landing. He carried them in a container for personal items. A print Bible would have been too heavy for a space mission, but the lightweight versions posed no obstacle.

Minimum bid for the rarity is $50,000, according to the Nate D. Sanders auction firm, which will close bidding at 5 p.m. Pacific time on Thursday (July 26).

Apollo 14, carrying astronauts Alan Shepard Jr., Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 31, 1971. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons

According to auction house spokesman Sam Heller, a similar lunar Bible flew along for the famously aborted Apollo 13 mission of 1970, in which mechanical malfunctions forced astronauts back to Earth under hardship…

An amazing trend is taking over the internet. All across the country, police departments are performing and recording hilarious lip syncs. Then, they challenge other departments to do the same.

The Norfolk Police Department, the Sherman, Texas Police Department, and the Hollywood, Alabama Police Department have all participated, just to name a few. And their viral videos are so much fun to watch.

But when the Crandall, Texas Police Department decided to get involved, their faith-filled lip sync managed to draw heat from a group of atheists known for making trouble!

As this fun challenge swept the nation, the citizens of Crandall, Texas urged their local police department to participate.

“What an awesome way to create conversations and relationships with the community,” the department wrote on Facebook after posting their own lip sync video. “Have fun in life, keep safe and be humble.”

For their video, the Crandall Police Department decided to honor Jesus by singing along to the Christian song ‘God’s Not Dead’ by the Newsboys.

The citizens certainly seemed to love it, with loads of supportive comments rolling in. In fact, even the Newsboys themselves praised the officers for their amazing work.

But, of course, you can’t please everyone. And after giving the video a “thumbs down,” the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) issued…

Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters of California declared in a speech on Sunday at First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles that she feels “sent by God” to oppose President Donald Trump and all the harm she says his administration is doing.

“We never dreamed we’d have someone in the White House who was divisive, who could not tell the truth, and who was intent on not making America great again, but taking America down!” Waters told the congregation, referring to Trump.

“I will not sit quietly and allow the President of the United States, or anybody else, to undo all that’s been done,” she added.

“And ladies and gentlemen, I am in this fight!” she said.

Towards the end of her speech at the megachurch, the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus suggested her will is guided by God.

“You’ve gotta know that I’m here to do the work that I was sent to do, and as pastor said to me when I came in this morning, when God sends you to do something, you just do it!” Waters vowed.