“Let’s not sacrifice the Gospel for coolness … what this generation needs is not more cool stuff, they need Jesus Christ,” Harvest Christian Fellowship Pastor Greg Laurie said of today’s young people.

Laurie sat down with PureFlix’s Billy Hallowell last week for an episode of the streaming service’s Pure Talk interview series to discuss his book Jesus Revolution: How God Transformed an Unlikely Generation and How He Can Do It Again Today and the need for another Jesus Revolution in America. 

Laurie warned that the culture of today is similar to the toxic culture of the 60s and the 70s that was filled with riots, racism, heavy drug use and war. 

“America was in flames. Upheaval, turmoil, riots in the streets, young men coming home from Vietnam in body bags, our leaders being assassinated before our very eyes… there was such chaos in the culture,” Laurie said. 

But somewhere between the issuing of a 1966 Time magazine cover that begged the question “Is God Dead?” and the 1971 Time magazine cover sporting the phrase “The Jesus Revolution,” Laurie said, there was a “spiritual awakening.”

In Laurie’s book, he talks about how the Jesus Revolution saved his life overnight. 

He said, “I was a 17-year-old kid. I was using drugs every single day. I was going in the wrong direction in my life,” until one day he fell upon a bible study outside of his high…

A Steve’s Pizza manager named Dalton Shaffer drove three hours across state lines to deliver pizza to a dying man. 

Shaffer is a manager at a pizza place called Steve’s Pizza in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Richard and Julie Morgan use to live decades ago. According to CBN News, the couple loved the pizza at Steve’s, even going as far as to say no other pizza compared.

When the couple learned that Richard’s cancer was progressing quickly and he was losing his fight to the disease, they reached out to friends and family members to inform them he would be going under hospice care. 

In a statement on Facebook Julie wrote, “Rich is home under hospice care and we are enjoying every minute reminiscing and visiting with family and friends.”

In an effort to do something special for the couple in their time of need, Julie’s father called Steve’s Pizza, and knowing how loved the restaurant was to his daughter and her dying husband, he asked them if they could send a card. Shaffer, however, had a different plan.

Julie wrote, “Unbeknownst to us, my dad contacted Steve’s Pizza and spoke to Dalton, a manager there. He told Dalton a little bit about our situation and asked if the shop might send a friendly text or card to us. Without hesitation, Dalton asked what kind of pizza we wanted, and told my father he would bring it to us.”

The couple lives in…

A group of Ohio pastors will gather next month to “bless” an abortion clinic. The Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice will host the even on November 9^that Planned Parenthood of Ohio’s East Columbus Surgical Center. 

The event will “ask God’s blessing upon Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio’s East Columbus Surgical facility, the abortion providers and staff, and all those who pass through the center.” Organizers of the “interfaith gathering want to show that “Anti-abortion advocates do not have a monopoly on faith or God” and that “Many faith leaders and people of faith hold that accessing and providing abortions are good and godly decisions.

The “blessing” will feature prayers, “testimonies about receiving and providing abortion care,” and a message from Rev. Susan K. Smith of Crazy Faith Ministries.

The Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice claims to work for a “just society,” which in their view is defined as “one where people can live according to their beliefs without coercion. The Coalition says that it seeks “to raise the voices of the faith community to ensure that all people can access the reproductive healthcare they need. Regardless of income, race, or background. Free from judgment and intimidation.”

The Coalition joins other pro-abortion advocates who use moral and religious language to argue…

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….