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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

How 'I Can Only Imagine' Film Producer Goes Beyond Movie to Make Impact in Churches - CBN News Talia Wise

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How 'I Can Only Imagine' Film Producer Goes Beyond Movie to Make Impact in Churches
04-16-2018
CBN News Talia Wise
The production company behind the hit film "I Can Only Imagine" created a 12-part Bible series that explores hope, healing, and forgiveness. 
Tony Young, president of City on a Hill, is the executive producer of the film and its initial investor. He's partnered with Erwin Brothers Entertainment and Bart Millard to make a 12-week Bible study series based on the film available to churches.
The film chronicles the real-life story of MercyMe's frontman Bart Millard and his journey to forgive his abusive father. The movie has grossed more than $75 million worldwide and with only a $7 million production budget, it is considered one of the most profitable films this year.
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It beat out Disney's "A Wrinkle in Time" despite showing in half as many theatres and it brought in $17 million during opening weekend.
The Louisville, Kentucky based Christian multimedia company is putting out a call to church leaders to use the film as a tool to help their congregations.
"Using Bart Millard's story of pain redeemed, brokenness restored, and God glorified, you can guide your church to recall their past wounds, reorient their present identity, and reimagine their future," reads the City on a Hill website.
The Bible study kit includes six sermons, a leader's guide, a video series featuring Bart Millard, and a journal. 
 Keith Loy, Senior Founding Pastor of Celebrate Community Church in Sioux Falls, SD is using the kit at his church.
"It's such a cool privilege to partner with John and Andy Erwin, Kevin Downes and all the films that have been coming out," he said. "And specifically with these guys because they are committed to serving the local church."
 
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Friday, April 6, 2018

Bible Ban: God's Word Disappears from Online Stores in China - CBN News Talia Wise,Gary Lane


Bible Ban: God's Word Disappears from Online Stores in China
04-05-2018
CBN News Talia Wise,
Bibles are being pulled from online retailers in China as the government cracks down on how its citizens practice religion. Christians fear a new wave of widespread persecution may be underway.
The communist country has always controlled the sale of the Bible, but according to CNN, now online searches for the "Holy Bible" do not garner any results.

JD.com, Amazon.cn and Taobao, China's biggest online marketplaces, did not include the Bible. Some online searches did turn up "baby food bible" and the "autoimmune disease healing bible" and other related study guides and children's Bible stories. 
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Searches did, however, include results on the Koran.
Online merchants have said copies can be obtained through private message, but public listings for the Bible are now impossible on Taobao. 
Sarah Cook, a senior research analyst for East Asia at Freedom House told CNN the ban "is an important example of how internet censorship intersects with restrictions on religious freedom."
"Sensitive religious topics and groups are among the most censored in China," she said. "In our research we found the Chinese authorities increasingly using more high-tech methods to control religion and punish believers - including surveillance and arrest of believers for sharing information online."
China recognizes Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Taoism.
The Bible crackdown comes less than three months after officials demolished Golden Lampstand Church in the city of Linfen, Shanxi province. 
One month earlier, authorities destroyed a 20-year-old Catholic church in the same Chinese province.
Chinese Christians fear a new wave of persecution has now come against them. 
They believe the central government directed the removal of more than 1,200 crosses from atop churches throughout Zhejiang province from 2013-2015.  
And more recently, Chinese Christians questioned the sudden death of prominent Christian lawyer Li Baiguang. 
Li had defended many Christians and unregistered churches targeted by the government for cross removal or demolition. 
Ten Public Security Bureau (PSB) plainclothes police kidnapped Li in October 2017. He was beaten severely and left abandoned at the side of a road. 
Last February, the 49-year-old human rights attorney died suddenly at a military hospital in Nanjing. The cause of death was listed as liver cancer, but China Aid President Bob Fu said Li had attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC just days before his death.

Fu said, "He did not have liver related illness before and his death raises a lot of questions…"
Fordham University law professor Carl Minzner is an expert on Chinese law and governance.
He says China was a one-party state (Communist Party) in the 1980's and 1990's, where collective leadership was the norm.  
But in February, the party did away with presidential term limits. That means like Chairman Mao Zedong, President Xi Jinping is now "leader for life."
"You're now seeing China begin to swing back to the more personalized authoritarian regime that in my view is a lot less stable," Minzner explained.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

'Jesus Was a Man of Extraordinary Beauty': Shroud of Turin Helps Researchers Make 3-D Carbon Copy of Jesus - CBN News Talia Wise

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'Jesus Was a Man of Extraordinary Beauty': Shroud of Turin 
Helps Researchers Make 3-D Carbon Copy of Jesus
04-02-2018
CBN News Talia Wise
One of the most-well known relics in archeological history is leading researchers to believe 
that they know "the precise image of what Jesus looked like on this earth".

The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot linen cloth that is believed to have wrapped the body of 
Jesus Christ after the crucifixion.

Researchers in Rome have unveiled a 3-D carbon copy of what Jesus looked like based 
on the precise measurements of the cloth.
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"We believe that we have the precise image of what Jesus looked like on this earth," Giulio Fanti, 
a professor of mechanical and thermal measurements at the University of Padua, said.

"For the Christian tradition the image that is seen on the Shroud is that of Jesus crucified dead", 
he explained. "And now science is of this opinion too. We have studied for years using the most
sophisticated 3D technologies the image left by the body on the sheet. And the statue is the 
final result."

Fanti said the statue is a three-dimensional representation of the actual size of the Man on the Shroud.

"According to our studies, Jesus was a man of extraordinary beauty. Long-limbed, but very robust, 
he was nearly 5 ft. 11 in. tall, whereas the average height at the time was around 5 ft. 5 in. And he 
had a regal and majestic expression," he said.



The University of Padua and Padua Hospital worked in collaboration with sculptor Sergio Rodella 
to create the life-size image, according to Il Mattino di Padova, an Italian publication.

In August, researchers from the Institute of Crystallography found chemicals in the stains on the 
shroud, confirming that the stains were actual blood. Researchers also learned that the blood 
belonged to someone who suffered from extreme amounts of injury and pain.

"The blood serum tells us that before dying the person was suffering," Elvio Carlino, a researcher 
from the Institute of Crystallography, told CBN News. "This means that the Turin Shroud is not 
fake...It is certainly the funeral fabric that wrapped a tortured man."

Fanti used to research, the cloth, and the three-dimensional projection of the figure to confirm that 
the man sustained numerous wounds on his body before death.

"I counted 370 wounds from the flagellation, without taking into account the wounds on his sides, 
which the Shroud doesn't show because it only enveloped the back and front of the body, Fanti 
explained.

"We can, therefore, hypothesize a total of at least 600 blows," he continued. "In addition, the 
three-dimensional reconstruction has made it possible to discover that at the moment of his death, 
the man of the Shroud sagged down towards the right, because his right shoulder was dislocated 
so seriously as to injure the nerves."

From now on, it will no longer be possible to portray it without taking this work into account," 
Fanti added.
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Friday, March 9, 2018

Michigan School Boots Christian Student Group for Leaders Affirming Their Faith - TALIA WISE/CBN NEWS

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Michigan School Boots Christian Student Group for Leaders Affirming Their Faith
A Christian student group is suing a Michigan university after the school revoked the group's campus privileges.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is a student-led campus ministry that has served students at Wayne State University (WSU) for the last 75 years. Now, school officials have stripped the group of official recognition because they require its leaders to affirm their Christian faith.
Lori Windham, senior legal counsel at Becket, represents InterVarsity. She told CBN News Wayne State de-recognized the group because InterVarsity requires its Bible study leaders to be Christians.
"We think that Wayne State is engaging in religious discrimination by de-recognizing InterVarsity. Wayne State allows college Democrats to have democratic leaders," she said. "It allows Muslims, Jewish and Hindu student groups to say that they are there to serve their communities. It allows fraternities to have only men and sororities to allow only women. I think it's just the same to allow InterVarsity to have Christians as its Bible study leaders." 
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Wayne State is one of the oldest InterVarsity chapters in the country and has held weekly Bible studies, meetings and organized service opportunities on campus for a number of years. It is open to students of all backgrounds but stipulates that leaders must adhere to its tenets of faith.
In October, the WSU dean of students declined to renew the organization's status for the 2017-2018 school year. They claim the group's constitution violates the school's discrimination policy.
"It means that they are not allowed to be at a student organization fair to recruit new students," Winham explained. "They are not able to advertise to new students on the school's website. They are not able to reserve free rooms anytime they are ready to rent a room and have a Bible study. They have to pay a fee just like an outside vendor in order to do that."
InterVarsity is now suing the Wayne State University Board of Governors, President Roy Wilson, state officials and others, claiming its Constitutional rights have been violated, according to the lawsuit.
"InterVarsity just wants to continue to serve Wayne State students as we have for 75 years," said Greg Jao, InterVarsity director of external relations. "Students should be able to find a campus community which reflects their faith tradition with authenticity and integrity." 
Becket is working with InterVarsity to get the organization reinstated on campus.
"They've been on this campus for 75 years, and they hope to be there 75 more," Windham said.
CBN News reached out to Wayne State University for comment. The school has not yet responded to our inquiries.
Reprinted with permission from CBN.com. Copyright The Christian Broadcasting Network, all rights reserved. 
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Franklin Graham Shares Gospel with Rosie O'Donnell: 'Let Him Heal Your Heart' - CBN News Talia Wise

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Franklin Graham Shares Gospel with Rosie O'Donnell: 'Let Him Heal Your Heart' 

CBN News Talia Wise 12-27-2017


Evangelist Franklin Graham has told actress Rosie O'Donnell to "put her faith and trust in Jesus" after she tweeted a message telling House Speaker Paul Ryan to go "straight to hell."
"Rosie, you don't have the keys to hell, but I know the One who does," Graham wrote on Facebook.
"I hope one day you will put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ and let him heal your heart, clean up your mouth, and forgive your sins," the evangelist added.
His message comes after the ex-View co-host attacked Speaker Ryan over a Christmas video message he posted on Twitter Saturday.
 

Apparently, O'Donnell was upset over passage of the GOP tax reform law and Ryan's Christmas message touched off a rant.

Graham responded to O'Donnell tweet by sharing the Gospel.
"Hell is going to be filled with people who rejected God's offer of salvation and turned their backs on His laws and standards, refusing to repent," he wrote. "Jesus Christ is God in the flesh, and He took your sins and mine to the Cross, dying in our place, so that we might live--if we would turn from our sins and put our faith in Him."
Previously, O'Donnell attacked conservative commentator Ben Shapiro with an obscene tweet over the GOP tax plan.
Shapiro reported the incident to Twitter who initially declined to delete the tweet.

The company later reversed its decision.
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