A new short film hosted by pastor Greg Laurie launches online this weekend as part of a “cinematic crusade” to answer what he calls “life’s greatest questions.”

The film, A Rush of Hope, will stream for free Sept. 4-7 at Harvest.org and on various social media platforms. It was produced by Kingdom Story Company and features clips from Woodlawn, I Can Only Imagine and I Still Believe, along with performances from For King and Country, MercyMe and Jeremy Camp.

Ben Smallbone (Steve McQueen: American Icon, Priceless) directed it, while Jon and Andrew Erwin served as executive producers.

“We’ve never done anything like this before,” Laurie said in a statement. “The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed all our plans, but it has opened an incredible window of opportunity for the gospel. Now, more than ever, people are hungry for something the world cannot give them. This cinematic crusade is designed to reach as many people as possible and help them answer the deepest questions of their hearts.”

All three movies discussed in the A Rush of Hope are based on true stories.

Laurie, at the beginning of the film, compares life to a movie. The backdrop for A Rush of Hope is a drive-in theater. Laurie also interviews Camp and MercyMe’s Bart Millard.

“Life is like a movie. It has a beginning, middle and end – full of surprises, twists and turns, storm clouds and…

Missionary and political activist Sean Feucht has slammed officials in Seattle for their “hypocrisy” in shuttering a local park to prevent him from hosting a prayer rally on Labor Day while allowing protesters to engage in “looting” and “riots.”

Feucht, who has helped local pastors host 19 prayer rallies in defiance of coronavirus guidelines in 19 cities over the last eight weeks, reacted to the closure of the Gas Works Park by Seattle Parks and Recreation after officials announced the park would be closed all day Monday “due to anticipated crowding that could impact the public health of residents.”

“This is the height of hypocrisy for the city of Seattle to turn a blind eye to riots, looting, and AntiFa, while refusing to let Christians gather in a public park to sing and worship,” Feucht said in a statement. “First the government shuts down churches. Now it’s shutting down parks to stop us from worshipping. Time to stand up church!”

Park officials explained in a statement Friday that the decision was taken to shutter the park because they anticipate people would attend the event and flout social distancing protocol….

After more than 20 years at the helm, Todd Wagner, senior pastor and co-founder of Watermark Community Church in Dallas, Texas, announced Sunday that he is temporarily stepping away from his pulpit due to the sin of pride.

“For the first time in 20 years, I’m stepping back from what I usually do so I can do the hard work of hard work. So don’t be looking for some scandal. Don’t even think this is scandalous. What is scandalous is when a Christian plays with, overlooks or welcomes sin, respectable or not,” Wagner told his megachurch, which averages about 11,000 weekly worshipers across four campuses.

“I thank God I have friends to help me. Pride kills. And I would call what I’ve heard my friends describing and telling me, pride. That’s the sin. And it’s really interesting because you know I don’t think of myself or I fool myself into thinking I’m not a prideful person because I never look in the mirror and clap,” he explained.

Wagner explained that he and his elders have been in talks about his sin since June and they have walked through a period of repentance and he was now asking church members for their…

Christianity is a faith with a long and detailed history, with numerous events of lasting significance occurring throughout the ages.

Each week brings the anniversaries of great milestones, horrid tragedies, amazing triumphs, and everything in between.

Here are three things that happened this week, Sept. 6-12, in Church history. They include the arrival of Spanish missionaries in Virginia, the ordination of the founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and Latin American bishops issuing a justice statement.

Pastor Tony Evans, the longtime pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Texas, launched a new sermon series, titled “Kingdom Voting,” on Sunday, preaching on what God has to say to Christians about how to vote.

The pastor began his sermon acknowledging that a conversation on voting can easily become toxic, as people take sides and remain dedicated to their positions.

There’s divisiveness not only in the culture but also in the Church “that has facilitated disharmony, disunity and conflict in the broader society,” he said months ahead of the presidential election.

And that is due to a lack of proper Kingdom perspective when it comes to God’s activity in society,” the Dallas pastor noted. This is why “the Church has become as bad as, or worse than, the world, allowing ourselves to be a poor example of who God is and how God functions with regards to government.”

So how should a Christian vote?

“Until the Church gets it right, the culture can’t get it right,” he emphasized.

The Kingdom perspective is in the Bible but the problem, he said, is that people who…