Jentezen Franklin warns believers not to let the nightmares of life or adversity from the devil steal your God-given dream. In this video, Franklin says, “My dream is my destiny, and the devil has sent his nightmare to destroy it, but hell will not win in the end. The Holy Ghost dream is greater than the demonic nightmare that you’re facing.”

Watch it here.

J.D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, says that missionaries who suggest Muslims and Christians worship the same God may not be wrong. His remarks came as part of a YouTube video posted Monday by the Gospel Coalition. Greear formerly served as a missionary to Muslims and wrote a book called Breaking the Islam Code.

Greear does emphasize that Islam is a “false way of salvation” and that Christianity is the only way to relationship with God. But he frames the question as a complicated subject for missionaries in the field who are looking for a way to effectively evangelize to Muslim populations.

In the video, Greear says:

I’m not trying to be evasive, but I do think you’ve got to make sure you’re asking the right question. If the question is, “Are there multiple ways to God and does God receive the worship of Christian and Muslims alike?”, the answer is absolutely not. Because Islam is a false way of salvation. It presents basically salvation by works and it outright denies several key things that Christianity teaches about God, like God being a Trinity and the personal nature of God and just a number of things. There is some question as to—Muslims say they worship the God of Abraham. And some missionaries have found it helpful to start with that and say, like Jesus said to the woman at the well in John 4, “Who you think you’re worshipping, you’re not actually worshipping.” When Jesus confronted her—a Samaritan woman who was worshipping wrongly and had wrong ideas about God—He didn’t say, “You’re worshipping a different God.” He said, “You’re attempting to worship the one Creator, God, the wrong way.” And I’ve heard people talk about that as an approach to Muslims. and I think it has some merit. I think when you’re a missionary on the field, one of the things that you’re trying to do is you’re trying to say is you’re trying to say, “This God who we believe has created the world, has been speaking through the prophets—this God was revealed fully in Jesus. He is a Trinity. And Muhammad is not an accurate prophet of Him.” If somebody says that, I have less problems with them saying Christians and Muslims are attempting to worship the same God, but in entirely two different ways.

Watch the video to hear Greear’s full remarks.

What do you know! It turns out that we were not imagining things when we complained about the social media giants’ unequal practices. It turns out we weren’t just being paranoid. It turns out we weren’t crazy after all.

Almost seven years ago, in June 2012, I wrote an article titled “The Facebook Censor Strikes Again.” (The word “again” indicates that Facebook was already being called out for discriminatory practices against religious conservatives.)

The article began by stating, “I received the news yesterday that the Facebook page for my book A Queer Thing Happened to America was deleted for allegedly violating Facebook’s “Community Standards.” But Facebook pages like ‘Hitler Fetus is our Jesus,’ ‘Zombie Jesus,’ and a host of other grossly offensive pages apparently do not violate these standards.”

To document this, I noted the existence of pages such as:

“I Hate Jesus,” with this blurb: “Burning churches, stapling nuns, eating your [expletive], whilst [expletive] your muda.”

“I Hate Christianity,” described as, “A group for those who hate all the prejudice [expletive] and ridiculous ideas that come with Christianity … and really any other religions.”

“Zombie Jesus,” with the caption “Zombie Jesus only wants you for your brains”

And “Hitler Fetus is our Jesus,” which stated, “In our cult -ahem, religion- Hitler Fetus is our master. I mean Jesus. OUR SAVIOR.”

So, pages like these (along with violence-inciting, anti-Israel pages) were not in violation of Community Standards but a page devoted to discussion of material in my book was in violation.

Thankfully, Facebook restored my page, but only with the help of an inside contact who offered her services to religious broadcasters at an NRB meeting.

Since then, I have addressed double standards on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter numerous times (see here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here; did I say numerous times?).

To this moment, the instant one of my YouTube videos is posted—and I mean the very instant—it gets flagged as unsuitable for most advertisers, which we then have to contest by calling for a manual review. At that point, you genuinely have no idea what the reviewer will decide.

On a regular basis, my colleague Bill Muehlenberg, an articulate and learned cultural commentator in Australia, is put in what he calls “Facebook prison,” banned for 30 days because of his posts.

Last month, Google labeled the pro-life movie Unplanned as “propaganda,” reversing itself only after an outcry.

This past week, Hollywood actor and political conservative James Woods was “locked out of his Twitter account for over a week now for ‘abusive behavior.'”

As Breitbart reported, “James Woods Banned from Twitter Amid Silicon Valley’s Conservative Blacklisting Campaign.”

The allegedly offensive tweet read, “‘If you try to kill the King, you best not miss’ #HangThemAll.”

According to Breitbart, “The tweet was apparently in reference to the Mueller report, which found no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. The quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson and has been used in various forms in movies and TV shows like The Wire.”

In contrast, “Actor Peter Fonda said that Barron Trump should be taken away from his Melania and put in a cage with pedophiles. Fonda also called for Kirstjen Nielsen to be whipped. He later apologized. Hollywood star Jim Carrey posted a drawing of Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. getting bludgeoned to death by an elephant last year. The tweet is still up.”

Yet Woods, not Fonda, not Nielsen, and not Carrey, got locked out of his account.

But this headline was dwarfed by the news last week that Facebook and Instagram had decided to ban Milo Yiannopoulos, Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and Laura Loomer. As objectionable as some of their content might be (in particular Farrakhan’s; I would not put any of the other three in his category, and some of what they share is important and accurate), President Trump did well to call attention to this censorship.

As he tweeted, “I am continuing to monitor the censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS on social media platforms. This is the United States of America — and we have what’s known as FREEDOM OF SPEECH! We are monitoring and watching, closely!!”

There is good reason for his concern.

A concerned headline on the Jerusalem Post reads, “FACEBOOK SAYS IT WILL ALLOW HOLOCAUST DENIAL. ‘We do not remove lies or content that is inaccurate,’ wrote Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s vice president of global public policy.”

A headline on the Daily Mail declares, “How Facebook is STILL allowing anti-Christian fanatics to peddle extremism – despite claiming crack down on content promoting ‘violence and hate.'”

Another headline on Breitbart announces, “Facebook, Google Pour Big Money into Lobbying Congress While Blacklisting Conservatives.”

That’s why conservative commentator John Nolte wrote, “If you are going to defend free speech, don’t defend your own speech, don’t defend speech you agree with, don’t defend speech you find acceptable—if you are going to defend speech, be an American … go out there and find the most offensive and disgusting speech you can find and defend that because that is the most important speech in the world.”

He continued, “You see, if Louis Farrakhan’s speech is free, if Alex Jones’s speech is free, that means you and I are safe. They are the canaries in the coal mine, and now that those canaries are dead, none of us is safe because the Acceptable Free Speech Boundary has just moved a whole lot closer to us…”

And it’s not just the social media giants who are operating with a dangerous double standard. Also last week, “The Poynter Institute, a journalism nonprofit organization, has completely disabled a list of what they labeled as an extensive list of ‘unreliable’ news websites on Thursday night after facing scrutiny in the days since its publication.

“A litany of conservative publications, including The Washington Free Beacon and The Washington Examiner, were lumped into the list of ‘unreliable’ publications, and it received nearly instantaneous condemnation from them.”

But that’s what happens when you rely on discredited, far-left groups like the SPLC for your information, as Poynter Institute did and as Facebook, Amazon and Twitter still do.

The good news, though, is that the lid of deception is off and the subterfuge is gone. It turns out we weren’t crazy after all.

Either these social media platforms will make the playing field equal. Or they will become relics of the past, like MySpace and Google Plus and Meerkat and Vine.

What will it be?

Listen to the podcasts to hear Dr. Brown’s latest commentary.

If you haven’t heard the name Naomi Scott, that’s about to change soon. The British actress is set to star as Jasmine in the upcoming live-action remake of Disney’s Aladdin as well as the reboot of Charlie’s Angels. Yet more important than her rise to fame is her focus on faith.

“My faith is the foundation of every decision I make, and of my marriage,” the 25-year-old actress said. Scott, who’s married to soccer player Jordan Spence, shared that fame won’t be the crux of their lives. She said, “We’re young people with big aspirations. I want to be a power couple; I want to make all the money and have a big house.” She continued, “but sometimes Jordan and I say, OK, if I never acted in a movie again, if he never set foot on a football pitch, would our world fall apart?

With one’s purpose being centered in Christ; we certainly hope that wouldn’t be the case.

Click here to read the rest of this story from our content partners at Movieguide®.

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It is time that I share the untold side of my testimony, where I left reality and spoke to a demonic entity in outer space that deceived me about eternity, heaven and the true things of God.

I’ve never shared a certain part of my testimony, as I did in this video, simply because it was so radical, so demonic, so deceiving, so “out of this world” that I was always too scared to talk about it. I thought that if I did, people would judge me too harshly.

When I first got saved, I shared this story with several people. There came a point in my life, however, when I felt my position was too ‘recognized’ to share something so “crazy.” I was the co-host of an internationally syndicated Christian program; a place where every word is judged, scrutinized and picked apart because there are so many trolls on the internet who watch it. I didn’t want to say anything so radical that it would destroy my own credibility or the credibility of those around me.

But now I believe that was all a lie! There is only one person who didn’t want me telling that side of the story, and it was the adversary of our souls: the enemy, Satan.

Watch the video for my testimony.

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In America, we take available clean water for granted. But in many places in the world, they don’t have clean water, especially in Africa. Many women and children have to walk miles just to get water for their families’ daily needs.

That’s why over 50,000 people ran in World Vision’s Global 6K for Water on Saturday, May 4. World Vision, the No. 1 provider of clean water in Africa, uses the funds raised from these races to build wells. With Saturday’s race, the charity organization provided clean water for at least 55,000 people in Africa.

I joined my son Cameron and grandson, Cohen, in one of those World Vision races. Relevant Media Group, which Cameron founded, hosted this particular race and ended up raising $6,389. I recorded a “Strang Report” podcast about the event, which you can listen to here or in this article.

World Vision—the No. 1 provider of clean water in Africa—says a donation of $50 will provide one person with clean water for the rest of their life. So Relevant’s race provided water for at least 127 people.

Cohen had his own fundraising page, to which you can still donate for the next several days. His goal was to raise $250, but as of this writing, he has raised $1,654.

After the race ended, I asked Cameron what motivated him to organize the event.

“We’ve been doing this the last few years to raise money for clean water in Africa,” he tells me. “We wanted to help out and raise money, and we knew our audience would get behind it. … The reason it’s a 6K instead of a 5K is that 6 kilometers is the average distance women and children in the developing world have to walk each day for water, so when we run the raise and raise money, they don’t have to do that.”

Cameron tells me many water projects people see and hear about actually trace back to World Vision.

“They’re the ones behind the scenes, digging the wells and working in the communities and helping turn around communities for sustainable development and water,” he says. “When a child has to walk 6 kilometers to get water, they can’t go to school, they can’t do homework, so they’re uneducated. And if we can get clean water in that village, the kids can get educated, the moms can do other things to help the family than having to be gone getting water all day.”

It was a privilege to encourage my grandson in running for such a noble cause. I hope this article inspired you to use what God has given you to bless others—whether that’s hosting or participating in a Race for Water, donating directly to World Vision or another trustworthy Christian charity, or simply giving what you can to those in need in your community. You can visit , or if you want to donate to Cohen’s fundraiser, just click here.

Listen to my podcast to hear my son and grandson share their excitement for World Vision’s race and the good it will do in Africa.

Jentezen Franklin warns believers not to let the nightmares of life or adversity from the devil steal your God-given dream. In this video, Franklin says, “My dream is my destiny, and the devil has sent his nightmare to destroy it, but hell will not win in the end. The Holy Ghost dream is greater than the demonic nightmare that you’re facing.”

Watch it here.

J.D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, says that missionaries who suggest Muslims and Christians worship the same God may not be wrong. His remarks came as part of a YouTube video posted Monday by the Gospel Coalition. Greear formerly served as a missionary to Muslims and wrote a book called Breaking the Islam Code.

Greear does emphasize that Islam is a “false way of salvation” and that Christianity is the only way to relationship with God. But he frames the question as a complicated subject for missionaries in the field who are looking for a way to effectively evangelize to Muslim populations.

In the video, Greear says:

I’m not trying to be evasive, but I do think you’ve got to make sure you’re asking the right question. If the question is, “Are there multiple ways to God and does God receive the worship of Christian and Muslims alike?”, the answer is absolutely not. Because Islam is a false way of salvation. It presents basically salvation by works and it outright denies several key things that Christianity teaches about God, like God being a Trinity and the personal nature of God and just a number of things. There is some question as to—Muslims say they worship the God of Abraham. And some missionaries have found it helpful to start with that and say, like Jesus said to the woman at the well in John 4, “Who you think you’re worshipping, you’re not actually worshipping.” When Jesus confronted her—a Samaritan woman who was worshipping wrongly and had wrong ideas about God—He didn’t say, “You’re worshipping a different God.” He said, “You’re attempting to worship the one Creator, God, the wrong way.” And I’ve heard people talk about that as an approach to Muslims. and I think it has some merit. I think when you’re a missionary on the field, one of the things that you’re trying to do is you’re trying to say is you’re trying to say, “This God who we believe has created the world, has been speaking through the prophets—this God was revealed fully in Jesus. He is a Trinity. And Muhammad is not an accurate prophet of Him.” If somebody says that, I have less problems with them saying Christians and Muslims are attempting to worship the same God, but in entirely two different ways.

Watch the video to hear Greear’s full remarks.