Carl and Laura Lentz attend Justin Bieber s wedding in 2019. | Instagram/Laura Lentz
Months after Hillsong Church fired her and her husband following his moral failures and infidelity, Laura Lentz has opened up for the first time about what sheâs learned about herself in this challenging season.
Lentz took to Instagram on Wednesday for the first time since October to share a photo looking upward toward several tall palm trees. The wife of the celebrity pastor Carl Lentz started her caption off by explaining how symbolic the trees are to her current season.Â
âThey are strong, can weather the biggest storms, they always grow upwards,â she wrote, equating those facts to âFreedom, righteousness, reward, resurrection.â
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Legendary actor Edward James Olmos says he has clung to his faith throughout life tragedies even as he recently lost family members due to COVID-19 and is encouraging others to cling to God in both the good times and bad.
Olmos is the lead actor of the new faith-filled film “Walking With Herb, a comedy film directed by Ross Marks. Along with Olmos, the film features Kathleen Quinlan and George Lopez. I believe that the story itself was one that I was so grateful [that it] found my door. [Writer] Mark Medoff wrote it for me and with me in mind to play the role. That very seldom happens,” Olmos told The Christian Post in a recent interview.
Model Kathy Ireland poses for photographers at the 82nd Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, March 7, 2010. | REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
World-renowned supermodel Kathy Ireland recently revealed details about her faith walk and her first unexpected encounter with the Bible.Â
Ireland has been a featured model in Sports Illustrated s swimsuit edition for more than a decade, including the 25th-anniversary issue, which became the highest-selling cover of all time. Now at 58, Ireland said she s surrendering to Jesus, following years of picking and choosing what aspects of Christianity she wanted to follow.Â
Ireland first became intrigued with God at age 18. At the time, she was an up-and-coming model living in France.
The filmmaker behind the blockbuster hit, âI Can Only Imagine,â Jon Erwin, March 2019 | Facebook/NRB
The filmmaker behind the blockbuster hit âI Can Only Imagineâ said the success of the film in the United States made it possible for the film to be a witnessing tool in other countries, including China.
Last year, the film I Can Only Imagine brought in $17.1 million domestically during its opening weekend, and over $83 million in total, superseding expectations. Its popularity made it go âon global autopilot,â Jon Erwin explained at the NRBÂ convention in March.
He shared that when a film in America does well, it automatically gets dubbed in multiple languages to be distributed in several countries.
Billy Graham prays, 1968 | (Photo: BGEA)
Billy Graham passed away peacefully Wednesday at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, and as many took to social media with farewell messages honoring the world renowned evangelist, MercyMe frontman Bart Millard shared a personal experience with Graham that really impacted him. I loved Dr. Billy Graham so much, Millard wrote on Instagram. Of all the amazing things Dr Billy Graham has done for the kingdom of God, nothing will resonate more with me than that single moment.
The moment took place during one of Graham s last evangelistic crusades. MercyMe was scheduled to perform at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, but a week before the 2004 crusade, Millard s 2-year-old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Graham s people supported Millard s decision to stay home with his son.