Antonio Sabato to Launch New Production Company with Movies Where ‘God Is the Center of Attention’

Antonio Sabato to Launch New Production Company with Movies Where ‘God Is the Center of Attention’


Antonio Sabato Jr., a conservative Christian actor best known for his role in “General Hospital” in the ‘90s, is launching his own production company aimed to help creative professionals who have been blacklisted by Hollywood for their religious or political beliefs, according to the Christian Post.

“We are putting together a plan to create a conservative movie studio for all patriots to do projects that Hollywood would never do,” Sabato tweeted. “No more blacklisting and no more injustice from the socialist’s elites.”

The first project, called “Trial Blazers,” will feature other conservative actors, including Kevin Sorbo, Stacey Dash, Scott Baio, Kaya Jones, Kristy Swanson, and Dean Cain. Co-written and directed by Sabato, the movie tells the story of “the ultimate battle between good and evil, between darkness and light, between God and Satan himself,” according to the movie’s IMDb page.

In an interview with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo, Sabato explained that the studio would produce moves “that are uplifting and where God is the center of attention.”

Sabato’s passion for the production company came after he lost everything in 2016 for supporting President Donald Trump.

“All my representatives left me, from agents to managers to commercial agents. I literally had to move, find a new job to survive and take care of my…

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Kanye West says COVID-19 vaccine is ‘mark of the beast;’ Hank Hanegraaff responds

Kanye West and the Sunday Service Choir performed before 12,400 students gathered in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee for the Strength to Stand Conference on January 19, 2020. | Strength to Stand

Hank Hanegraaff, also known as the “Bible Answer Man,” weighed in on whether or not a COVID-19 vaccine could be the mark of the beast as referenced in Revelation 13:18 in response to comments made by Kanye West.

In a July 15 episode of his Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hanegraaff shared his thoughts on the issue after West told Forbes Magazine he was “extremely cautious” about the idea of a coronavirus vaccination. 

“It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed. … So when they say the way we’re going to fix COVID is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious,” West said. “That’s the mark of the beast. They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can’t cross the gates of Heaven. I’m sorry when I say they, the humans that have the devil inside them. And the sad thing is that, the saddest thing is…

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These 3 historic hotels give guests a glimpse at the past

Three historic hotels in Colorado take guests back to when mining towns boomed in the mountains.

In other words, guests get an experience that no modern chain hotel could ever replicate. These hotels are also perfectly situated for summer road trips to some of the country’s best state and national parks, where social distancing is never an issue.

The Creede Hotel in Creede, an old silver mining town in Colorado. | Dennis Lennox

Creede Hotel

The aptly named Creede Hotel in Creede (population 290) is actually a bed-and-breakfast inn with four rooms above a local restaurant. The rooms — each is named after an Old West legend — are dated and could use an update, which hopefully will come soon as the hotel is for sale with an asking price of $889,000.

Dating to the 1880s, the hotel and restaurant also sit next to a popular theatre housed in the old silver mining town’s opera house. Just down Main Street, which features several shops, galleries and even an old-fashioned hardware store, is the early 1890s Denver & Rio Grande Railroad depot-turned-town museum.

Creede, about five hours’ drive from Denver, has more to offer than small-town charm. Surrounded by the San Juan Mountains, it is perfect for outdoor recreation, including fishing in the Rio Grande River.

The Grand Imperial Hotel in Silverton, Colorado, first opened its doors in 1883. | Dennis Lennox

Grand Imperial Hotel

On the other side of the…

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Hollywood Set Designer Left Homosexuality for Christ: ‘He’ll Never Leave or Forsake Me’

Hollywood Set Designer Left Homosexuality for Christ: ‘He’ll Never Leave or Forsake Me’


A man who formerly worked in Hollywood as a set designer with such stars as Katy Perry and Paris Hilton says Christ freed him from homosexuality and he hopes to encourage others who are walking a similar path.

Becket Cook, author of the 2019 book A Change of Affection: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Redemption, shared his testimony this month on The 700 Club. Francis Chan wrote the foreword for the book, which Thomas Nelson published.

“At a very young age, I knew that I was attracted to the same sex,” Cook told CBN. “I had to keep it to myself. I dated girls. In elementary school, I went steady with girls. In high school, I dated girls. But it was all a facade. After college, I ended up moving to L.A. to pursue acting and writing and … a creative field. I just came out to everyone. That’s when I fully embraced homosexuality as my identity.

“… I was very successful in my career as a set designer, production designer. I was doing covers for Vogue and for Harper’s Bazaar,” Cook said. “And I worked with a lot of pop stars like Katy Perry and Paris Hilton and Oprah … everyone you can imagine, I worked with them. And I also started my own men’s fashion line.”

Cook’s clothes were sold in Los Angeles, New York City and Paris.

“I went to all the shows, I went to all the after-parties,” he said.

But God began working on his life at one specific…

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Texas pastor, father of four killed while helping another driver: He ‘faithfully proclaimed’ Christ

John Powell tragically lost his life on July 18, 2020. He was the pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in New Caney, Texas. | GoFundMe

Russell Moore and other prominent Christian figures expressed heartbreak after John Powell, a church planter and pastor, was killed in a highway accident as he was helping a driver who had stopped in the traffic lanes. 

On Sunday, Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, shared the news of Powell’s death on social media.

“I am shocked and shaken and grieving this morning, beyond what I can say,” Moore wrote on Twitter. “My former student John Powell was killed last night, hit by an eighteen wheeler while helping stranded motorists off of a highway.”

According to a local news report, Powell, senior pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in New Caney, Texas, and another man stopped to help a truck that had been rear-ended by another car and caught fire around 11:30 Saturday night.

While the men were assisting the truck, a semi-truck came toward them on the highway. According to…

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Ex-New York drug lord finds Jesus: I had millions of dollars, it was never satisfying

Herman Mendoza was once a New York drug lord with the world at his fingertips. With millions of dollars, women and worldly possessions, Mendoza thought he had it all — until his arrests and detainments led him on a path to discovering God and transforming his life.

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Mendoza, author of the new book Shifting Shadows: How a New York Drug Lord Found Freedom in the Last Place He Expected, is now a Christian pastor in New York City.

And he recently told “The Pure Flix Podcast” about his foray into narcotics, explaining that he started experimenting with drugs as a teenager.

But it wasn’t until Mendoza’s 20’s when he couldn’t find employment that he really dove deep into the drug trade, following in the footsteps of his brothers.

“I was married and living with my wife and I was laid off from a job that I was working at,” Mendoza said. “And so I was desperate for money.”

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So, Mendoza joined his brothers in distributing cocaine. It didn’t take long for him to feel untouchable, as money came flooding in and he began to party and enjoy his newfound riches.

“I thought that, ‘Hey, this is an easy way to make money and get rich,'” he said, noting,…

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Christians in India Return to Village Where Followers of Tribal Religion Attacked Them

Christians in India Return to Village Where Followers of Tribal Religion Attacked Them


HYDERABAD, India, July 20, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A Christian couple and their children were asleep in their beds in central India at 11 p.m. recently when villagers who follow the local tribal religion broke into their home and began beating them with wooden batons.

The family of Bhima and Devi Markham fled from their home in Devkupli Para, Chhattisgarh state that night, May 20, to save their lives, an area pastor said.

“They ran into the wilderness to hide while the assailants vandalized their belongings, throwing away the food grains in their homes,” pastor Ramdhar Kashyap told Morning Star News.

The mob of 15 furious villagers went on to beat Christians Chenna Markham and Joga Kunjam and their families, along with an unidentified elderly Christian woman, driving them from their homes.

“The three families including their children and the elderly sister, a total of 14 injured Christians, fled from Devkupli Para in different directions fearing for their lives,” Pastor Kahyap said.

They journeyed about two miles on foot before reaching his church premises in Burdi village at about 3 a.m., he said.

“They were profusely bleeding,” the pastor said. “I called 108 ambulance service in the wee hours and took them to the hospital.”

Though villagers had persecuted the Christians for months, they attacked that night because the Christians had refused to…

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Harvest Bible Chapel founder James MacDonald faces foreclosure on $1.6M home

Pastor James MacDonald | Screenshot: Harvest Bible Chapel

James MacDonald, controversial founder of Harvest Bible Chapel in greater Chicago, is now in danger of losing his custom-built home in Elgin, Illinois, for failing to pay his mortgage with the Republic Bank of Chicago, according to a new lawsuit.

MacDonald, according to a Daily Herald report, owes the Republic Bank of Chicago $947,546.34 on the 5-bedroom, 5.5-bathroom home that sits on 10 acres along Highland Avenue.

The Harvest Bible Chapel founder who was ousted from the helm of the church in February 2019 for “highly inappropriate recorded comments” he made on a radio program as well as “other conduct,” allegedly borrowed $990,000 from Republic Bank of Chicago to purchase the home in 2016. Since last December, MacDonald hasn’t made a mortgage payment, the bank argues, and now owes $925,902.96 on the loan, $20,669.34 in unpaid interest, as well as $974.04 in late charges.

MacDonald’s LLC, Vanilla Bean, is also named as a defendant in the foreclosure lawsuit filed last week in Kane County.

James Madonald’s home…

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The most addictive coffee you’ll ever taste: A lesson on smuggling sin

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Police in Italy recently encountered a new kind of coffee bean after examining a suspicious shipment at Milan’s Malpensa Airport. The package originated in Columbia and was addressed to Santino D’Antonio, the fictional mob boss in the movie John Wick: Chapter 2.

The name aroused their suspicions. Upon opening the package, they found more than five hundred coffee beans that had been hollowed out, filled with roughly 130 grams of cocaine, and sealed back up with dark brown duct tape. Police then proceeded to track the package to its intended destination, where they arrested a fifty-year-old Italian man when he came to collect it.

While this bust was notable, however, it was far from the only time the Italian police have encountered creatively concealed drug shipments recently.

As CNN reports, Italy’s Guardia di Finanza captured over fifteen tons of amphetamines, worth roughly $1.12 billion, earlier this month after they were smuggled inside industrial-size paper cylinders. They believe the amphetamines were produced by ISIS in Syria.

Drug lords have an obvious motivation for trying to disguise their products as something innocuous or unworthy of note. Exposure threatens their preferred way of life, so they go to great lengths to conceal that which they would prefer others not see.

However, they’re not alone in doing so.

The vanity of smuggling sin

Most of us take a similar approach to the pet sins in our lives, i.e., the ones we know are wrong but really don’t want to give up. We’ll address the big stuff because we have to. But we’re far more hesitant to fully repent of our penchant toward gossip, holding a grudge over a past wrong, or any number of more seemingly acceptable sins.

Jesus warned against that kind of hypocrisy, though, and we would do well to heed his words: “Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark…

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Postcard from Michigan’s best-kept secret

Lower Harbor in Marquette, Michigan. | Dennis Lennox

The biggest city in Michigan’s vast Upper Peninsula has been on the map for the last few years.

Yet, Marquette — named after 17th-century Roman Catholic priest and explorer Jacques Marquette — still feels as if it is the best-kept secret in Michigan.

Arguably, you can thank geography. At nearly 500 miles from Detroit, it is far enough away to avoid the congestion of more popular summer destinations. In fact, there seems to be more visitors from Chicago or Milwaukee, which makes sense as both are closer than the Motor City.

July and August are the high season. That is especially true this summer. The relatively warm weather of late means Lake Superior is considerably more tolerable than normal. Plus, social distancing is hardly a concern in the sparsely populated Upper Peninsula.

Despite its small population (21,491 at the last census), Marquette feels much bigger due in part to its unofficial status as capital of the Upper Peninsula. Then there is its past, when mining was the major industry.

Early morning on Lake Superior at McCarthy’s Cove, near downtown Marquette, Michigan. | Dennis Lennox

The past is apparent downtown. Among the notable edifices are the Roman Catholic cathedral and a Romanesque Revival old city hall.

Today, Marquette — if it’s even known — is known for natural beauty and fabulous outdoor recreational opportunities;…

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