Intro by Julie A. Smith:

John Wallace is pastor of Blood n Fire Ministries in Dallas, Texas. I first had contact with John last year when he asked me to edit his new book Kingdom Come! Tales of a Supernatural God which you can order below. John is full of wisdom and I've sincerely appreciated the encouragement and life he's spoken into me over the last year...he's truly a father. Even though he recently turned 62 years old and has been a pastor for many years, God isn't about to let John settle down and "coast in" as he shares in this article.

And I highly recommend that you order John's E-Book. This book is filled with supernatural stories of God showing up in peoples' everyday life. It brought much hope and life to me as I edited through the pages last year while I was going though some hard trials of my own, and I know it will do the same for you. I actually saw that many people would be saved, healed and delivered while reading his book and it would be going into prisons to minister to multitudes.

I hope you enjoy John Wallace's book and article!

	Kingdom Come! Tales of a Supernatural God by John Wallace  E-Book $8.99
	God Says "Run to My Throne of Grace NOW!" by Steve Shultz Audio 2-Pack $13.99        $7.99

Recently on the way to the fitness center, I was having a good time with the Lord. Praying and humming a worship song, I was interrupted by the Great Interruptor as He said, "So, are you going to coast in?"

I just turned 62 years old, and with 40 years of following our Lord, 24 of which have been as a pastor of a local church, I was stunned by the implication of the Lord's gentle rebuke. "Coasting? Coasting? Is that what I'm doing, Lord?" I asked. The dawning realization struck me beyond a gentle rebuke—to not allow the past ministry years carry me for the rest of my life. What God said was a warning...and a promise.

The warning is I can let "coasting" be my default setting in life with God. The promise is that I have the option to "cruise" not coast. Cruising (definition: to travel at a speed providing maximum operating efficiency for a sustained period) fits the advancing nature of the Kingdom of God much more than coasting. God made me and you to live life at "maximum operating efficiency." Jesus called it as having "life, and life abundantly" (John 10:10). It fits because the Kingdom of God, His expanding rule over all created things, starts first with my heart and then moves. It moves ahead. The Kingdom doesn't stall, doesn't idle in the parking lot, and doesn't lose energy. The Kingdom doesn't "coast."...(more)

"Moviegoers clearly prefer clean movies...They want good to triumph over evil and justice to prevail. They want to be inspired."

(Los Angeles, CA)—Family advocate and Christian media scholar Dr. Ted Baehr, publisher of Movieguide®: The Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment, announced recently that a new three-year study of the Top 25 movies released in 2006-2008 earning the most money overseas shows that international moviegoers prefer movies with strong or very strong Christian, moral and/or redemptive content and values.

"This study is significant because it matches our annual study of the Top 25 Movies at the Box Office in America and Canada and the top home video sales annually," Dr. Baehr asserted, "and because Hollywood now makes more money overseas than it does in the United States."

The Movieguide® study found that 20 of the Top 25 Movies Overseas in 2006-2008, or 80%, contained strong or very strong Christian, moral, redemptive, and even Biblical content, earning $8.39 billion out of $10.59 billion total, or 79.2% of the money among the Top 25.

"That’s an average of $419.5 million per movie!" Dr. Baehr exclaimed.

For just a couple of the best examples, Dr. Baehr cited SPIDER-MAN 3 and INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, both of which actually made it into the Top 10 Movies Overseas in 2006-2008.

"SPIDER-MAN 3 has a very strong Christian worldview with very strong redemptive themes, where the hero goes in repentance to the foot of the Cross to shed his sins," Dr. Baehr explained. "The new INDIANA JONES movie shows the hero rejecting the evil tyranny and mind control of Communism and ends with a brief church wedding scene that quotes the words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 19 and Verse 24 of Chapter Two of the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament!"...(more)

Source: ASSIST News Service

"Who can understand how He spreads out the clouds, how He thunders from His pavilion?" –Job 36:29

(New York, NY)—After a heavy thunderstorm last week in New York City, the sky was filled with unusual clouds and color, and people came out from all over the Big Apple with cameras to catch a shot. (Photo: MSNBC)

According to the MSNBC report, the extraordinary cloud formation was said to be "Mammatus" clouds which are typically found where moist air interacts with dry air.

Descriptions of the remarkable sky included "apocalyptic," "strange," "orange" and "awe-inspiring." To watch the MSNBC video of the clouds over New York, follow the source link provided...(more)

Source: MSNBC