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16/06/2026

Steven Spielberg just told CBS News that his new movie, Disclosure Day, might shake the faith of Christians worldwide.

He asked the question his film is built around. “Is God our God only on this planet, or is God a god for every system where there is civilization and intelligent life?”

Hollywood seems to think this question is new.
It is not new.

The Church Fathers were debating it in the second century. The Bishop of Paris condemned the denial of it as heresy in 1277.

Augustine, Aquinas, and C.S. Lewis all wrote about it. The Vatican has its own astronomical observatory, run by Jesuit priests, that has been studying the heavens for 400 years.

Swipe through. See what the Church has actually said about life beyond earth, for almost two thousand years.

Whatever lives among the stars, the man on the cross still made them.

Whatever has been hidden since 1947, the empty tomb has been open since 33.
“By Him all things were created.” Colossians 1:16.

Comment AMEN if the gospel survived Rome, the printing press, the Enlightenment, and the moon landing. It will survive aliens too.

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15/06/2026

14/06/2026

A theologian named Martin Copenhaver counted every recorded interaction between Jesus and another person in all four Gospels.

The results are stunning.

Jesus asked 307 questions. He was asked 183 questions. He directly answered only 3.

The greatest teacher in human history almost never gave a direct answer. He responded to most questions with another question, with a parable, with silence, or with a story.

But three times He answered directly.

Three times across His entire ministry.

Swipe through. See the proof. Read the three questions He chose to answer.

If you only have time to learn three things from Jesus, these are the three. Everything else He left for us to seek.

“Who do you say that I am?” Matthew 16:15.

Jesus never answered that question for them. He still has not answered it for you.

Comment AMEN if your answer is the same one Peter gave Him.

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12/06/2026

Archaeologists in Turkey just uncovered a 1,700-year-old face of Jesus, painted onto the wall of an underground tomb by a Christian who lived during the Roman persecution of the early Church.

The image is unlike anything most Christians have ever seen.

No beard.
No halo.
No robe.

The earliest believers pictured Him differently than we do, and that picture has just been pulled out of the ground.

Swipe through.
See the face.
Read the place where it was found.

Read what was happening to Christians in the year it was painted.

Read what was about to happen in that same town a hundred years later.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” John 10:11.

The painter’s name was never written down. The empire that hunted him is gone. The face on the wall is still here.

Comment AMEN if the faith outlasts every empire that tries to bury it.

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12/06/2026

After 144 years of construction, Barcelona’s Sagrada Família has reached a historic milestone.

Architect Antoni Gaudí dedicated his life to building a church that would point people to Christ, knowing he might never see it finished.

This week, Pope Leo XIV blessed the completed Tower of Jesus Christ, exactly 100 years after Gaudí’s death.

In a world that wants everything instantly, Sagrada Família reminds us that some things are worth building slowly.

Faith plants.
Faith builds.
Faith trusts God with the outcome. ✝️

“Let us not grow weary of doing good.” Galatians 6:9

11/06/2026

After 144 years of construction, Barcelona’s Sagrada Família has reached a historic milestone.

Architect Antoni Gaudí dedicated his life to building a church that would point people to Christ, knowing he might never see it finished.

This week, Pope Leo XIV blessed the completed Tower of Jesus Christ, exactly 100 years after Gaudí’s death.

In a world that wants everything instantly, Sagrada Família reminds us that some things are worth building slowly.

Faith plants.
Faith builds.
Faith trusts God with the outcome. ✝️

“Let us not grow weary of doing good.” Galatians 6:9

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11/06/2026

NASA may have just found the location of the Garden of Eden.

Genesis 2 says Eden was watered by a single river that split into four: Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates.

Two of them still flow through Iraq today. The other two vanished from human memory thousands of years ago.

For centuries, skeptics used those missing rivers as evidence that the Bible was myth.

Then NASA found them.

Swipe through.

See what the satellites uncovered.
See where the four rivers converge.
Read the confession of the Harvard archaeologist who set out to disprove Genesis and ended up recanting.

“I speak as a former skeptic. Now I am recanting.” James Sauer.

Every generation thinks it has finally outgrown the Scriptures. Every generation discovers they were standing on top of them.

Comment AMEN if the deeper they look, the truer it gets.

10/06/2026

You have seen this medal a thousand times.
You have never been told what is written on it.

A monk in Bavaria found the key in an old manuscript in 1647.

What he discovered changed how Catholics have treated the medal ever since.

The letters are the initials of a Latin prayer. The prayer is not a blessing.
It is not a devotion. It is one of the oldest exorcisms in the history of the Church, and it has been carried on the bodies of believers, embedded into the walls of their homes, and placed in the cribs of their newborns for 400 years.

Swipe through.

Meet the saint behind it.
Read what was hidden.
Read what was revealed.

Then read why the faithful do not just wear the medal.

They mount the crucifix that carries it inside their home.

“He who lives in this house will not flee from the face of evil. The Cross is his light. The dragon is not his guide.” Saint Benedict.

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Consecrate your home the way the faithful have done since Bavaria, 1415.

08/06/2026

Russia just declared a 74-year-old retired pastor a terrorist.

His name is Yuri Sipko. He is a Baptist. He is a grandfather. He has eleven children.

For decades he served as president of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, one of the most respected Protestant voices in his country.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Sipko did the one thing his government did not want him to do.

He prayed for peace. Out loud.

He refused to call the war anything other than what it was.

Russia had made that a crime.

In August 2023, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against him. His home was raided.

His son was briefly detained.
Tipped off by friends, Sipko fled to Germany days before his arrest.

On May 28, 2026, his name was officially added to Russia’s federal registry of terrorists and extremists.

The same list that names ISIS fighters now names a 74-year-old pastor whose only weapon is his Bible.

Read his crime again. He prayed for peace.

Two thousand years ago, Rome called Christians traitors for refusing to bow to Caesar.

Today, Moscow calls a Baptist grandfather a terrorist for refusing to bless its bombs.

The names of the empires change. The names of the saints change. The story does not.

When asked how he felt about losing his country, Sipko said only this. Silence is also a crime.

Pray for Yuri Sipko. Pray for every pastor in exile tonight.

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:10.

Comment AMEN to stand with him.

06/06/2026

His name was Jonathan Sia.

Twenty-three years old.
A student at the University of San Carlos in the Philippines, a week away from graduating Magna Cum Laude.

He had loved Jesus since he was five.

His friends called him a prayer warrior.
His parents called him obedient.
His professors called him exceptional.

A week before graduation, a kidney disorder put him in the hospital. Even there, intubated and fading, he kept telling the nurses about Jesus.

In his final moments, his father said Jonathan’s eyes locked on something his father could not see.

The doctors had intubated him. He could no longer speak. So his father handed him a pen and paper. Jonathan was too weak to hold the pen properly. His hand trembled.

But he wrote.
Three words.

Jesus is real.

Seconds later he flatlined. The doctors called Code Blue. They tried to revive him.
He was already gone. His mother said she saw a bright light in the room, and a hand lifting him up.

He passed away with a smile on his face.

On July 6, 2024, his father Joel Sia posted the story on Facebook. He attached the photograph of the note. Within weeks, the three words his son scratched onto paper had reached millions of people.

A 23-year-old who never lived to give a sermon delivered the loudest one of his life from a hospital bed he never walked out of.

Most of us will have decades to figure out what we believe. Jonathan had seconds. And the only thing he wanted the world to know was the same thing the apostles died for, the same thing the martyrs whispered through fire, the same thing the church has been saying for two thousand years.

Jesus is real.

If a dying boy holding a pen with the last strength in his hand spent his final breath writing those three words, what should the rest of us be doing with the breath we still have?

Comment AMEN if those three words are also yours.