On Tuesday night, someone in South Carolina won the $1.537 billion Mega Million jackpot, but evangelist Franklin Graham wants to remind believers to put their faith in God instead of ‘lottery mania.’

Graham took to Facebook to write, “The media is calling it Lottery Mania! Mega Millions and Powerball are at record jackpot levels in the US—crossing two billion dollars. But the odds of winning are minuscule. I want to tell you about something that’s a SURE THING.”

Graham continued, “Every person is going to die and face eternity—money and material things won’t matter at all. The most important question will be: What did you do with Jesus Christ? The answer to that determines where you will spend eternity.” 

He noted, “You can know for sure today that you will spend eternity in Heaven if you put your faith in Jesus Christ.”

“If you believe that God sent His Son to earth where He was born, lived a sinless life, took our sins upon Himself and carried them to the Cross, where He was crucified, died, buried, and raised to life on the third day. Turn to Him today in repentance and faith and accept this gift that lasts for eternity,” Graham continued. 

The Evangelist then offers a bible verse saying, “The Bible says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). That gift is…

Pastor Paul David Tripp has opened up about the sickness he’s been suffering, revealing that at one point, the pain was so unbearable he wanted to die.

The best-selling author and preacher revealed that the experience truly made him believe in what he taught others about Jesus Christ.

Tripp said in a video published on YouTube on Monday that his ordeal began four years ago on Oct. 19, 2014, when he went to the hospital due to some minor symptoms.

“I thought maybe 45 minutes in the examination room, then they would give me medication and send me home. I was shocked when within 15-20 minutes that there were doctors from five different departments in my exam room. I remember hearing in the background doctors discussing whether they would put me on dialysis. I thought they had the wrong room,” the pastor recalled.

“That was when I realized that whatever was going on in my body was way more serious than I had any concept of,” he added. “The first 36 hours at the hospital I went through unspeakable pain, full-body spasms that felt like someone was sticking a knife in me. It was unrelenting, every two minutes. I wanted to die.”

Though not outlining the specific…

An expert in religious liberty is warning that faith-based adoption agencies are under attack following comments from several Democratic candidates for office. 

Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is trying to win the seat held by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, recently criticized a state law that allows faith-based agencies to decline to place children with gay parents. 

O’Rourke told rally attendees that “in this state, with 30,000 kids in the foster care system… they say that under the guise of religious liberty that you can be too gay to adopt one of those children who needs a loving home.”

The law in question requires faith-based agencies who won’t work with same-sex couples to direct them to adoption agencies that will place children in gay homes. 

David Closson, a research fellow for religious freedom and biblical worldview at the Family Research Council, said O’Rourke either does not understand the law or holds “a prejudiced view of the religious beliefs of millions of Americans who believe children deserve a mother and a father.”

Closson, writing at NationalReview.com, said O’Rourke’s comments are but the latest example of faith-based agencies coming under fire.

Dana Nessel, the Democratic candidate for Michigan attorney general, said if elected she would not defend a 2015 law that protects the religious liberty of adoption agencies….

The multi-campus Harvest Bible Chapel in greater Chicago along with founder James MacDonald, has slapped several former workers and independent journalist Julie Roys with a defamation lawsuit alleging the publication of false information about the church, its finances and governance that resulted in the loss of 2,000 members.

“Two weeks ago, after six years of ‘taking it too personally,’ our church’s Board of Elders decided to take legal action against those who have harmed our ministry through their careless campaign to discredit,” MacDonald revealed in an extended statement on the lawsuit that was filed a week ago in the Cook County Circuit Court.

“It isn’t that some of the criticism wasn’t fair. I believe in the marketplace of ideas and of regular, vibrant discussion inside a local church. It’s just that their words were often untrue, their information was incomplete, and over time their tone of reasonableness disintegrated, exposing their obvious goal of ending our ministry. Over a three–year period, their materially harmful untruths drove…