You’ve heard about converting to Judaism. But Jediisim?

It’s one more “ism” in a word of “isms.” And it shows just how far religion has strayed from its true purpose.

Hold that thought. Let’s explore the world of the latest religious fad first.

It’s called the Temple of the Jedi Order. Its website reads:

“We are a Jedi church and international ministry of the religion Jediism and the Jedi way of life. Jedi at this site are not the same as those portrayed within the Star Wars franchise. Star Wars jedi are fictional characters that exist within a literary and cinematic universe.”

A recognized 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, the Jedi faith says its adherents believe in peace, justice, love, learning and benevolence and assure the world it’s unlikely its faith conflicts with other beliefs and traditions. They explain:

The Jedi here are real people that live or lived their lives according to the principles of Jediism, the real Jedi religion or philosophy. Jedi followers, ministers and leaders embrace Jediism as a real living, breathing religion and sincerely believe in its teachings. Jediism does not base its focus on myth and fiction but on the real-life issues and philosophies that are at the source of myth. Whether you want to become a Jedi, are a real Jedi looking for additional training or just interested in learning about and discussing The Force, we’re here for you.”

Is this a bad joke? No, this religion, if you can call it that, complete with a statement of faith and a doctrine.

Doesn’t sound too harmful, right? But it is. It’s one more brick in the enemy’s false church structure.

I wrote last week about a new religion called Way of the Future based on Artificial Intelligence with a robot as a Messiah.

As I said previously, this is part of the tsunami of perversion I prophesied in 2015. Expect the enemy to continue perverting what God originally inspired, and guard your heart from the rising deception.

Indeed, this Jediism may seem cute on the surface but it’s a plot of the enemy to mock and distract us from the glory of Jesus Christ.

Davey Blackburn is married once more in a fulfillment of Isaiah 43:16 (ESV):

“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,” Blackburn posted to Facebook after he married Kristi Monroy.

The wedding photo was posted Monday to a slew of congratulations and prayers for the happy couple.

Blackburn’s wife Amanda and unborn child were brutally murdered more than two years ago while Blackburn was out at the gym. Through the trial, Blackburn has preached forgiveness and used Amanda’s death to spread the gospel.

Now, he, his son Weston and Monroy, who has a child, have come together as one family.

Of deciding to marry, Blackburn writes: 

You see a couple months after we began dating I read a book called Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. It’s the story of the biblical character Hosea in a modern adaptation. Before reading this book, I was asking God this question, “Lord, what are you going to do to redeem my story? How are you going to make all this right? How are you going to bring justice for Amanda, another wife into my life and another mom into Weston’s?” While reading Redeeming Love, I sensed God telling me,

“I want to redeem your story, Davey. But maybe I also want to use you to redeem someone else’s story.”

Davey and Amanda Blackburn had founded Resonate Church in Indianapolis in 2012.

More than two months ago at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump declared that “we’re saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again!” to a round of raucous applause.

Incidentally, in the very next sentence of that speech, the president said Congress was working toward a Christmas gift for “America’s hard-working families” through “massive tax cuts”—one of the many Trump administration goals that is currently becoming a reality.

Stephen E. Strang, best-selling author of the new book, God and Donald Trump,,says President Trump has kept yet another of his promises, immersing Americans in the Christmas spirit again as he and First Lady Melania Trump focus on this Christ-centered holiday from the White House. Trump was, Strang said, one of the few in recent memory who engaged with voters by shunning the politically correct ways others had embraced.

“While Donald Trump never said anything about wanting to change the American culture, his attacks on ‘political correctness’ and his insistence on restoring the freedom to say ‘Merry Christmas’ endeared him to the audiences on his tours,” Strang wrote in God and Donald Trump. “After the election, many Christians and other supporters of traditional American values began to think that President Trump might be favorable to any grassroots movement that sought to make America ‘morally’ great once again.

“Thanks mainly to the candidate’s very intentional outreach to evangelical and charismatic pastors, Trump and his advisers understood the concerns of conservative Christians who feel they have been marginalized by the left-leaning secular culture, and Trump’s son spoke to those concerns just two days before the election,” Strang added.

According to a story in , the news site of Fox News host Laura Ingraham, which Strang also details in God and Donald Trump, Donald Jr. told a church congregation in Virginia on Nov. 6, 2016, that Christians “shouldn’t be afraid to express our faith, or say ‘Merry Christmas,’ or stand for our right to free exercise of our religious rights. These sacred rights are in jeopardy now by politicians who defended the status quo of decline for decades.”

In God and Donald Trump, Strang gives an inside look at the journey to the Trump White House through firsthand interviews and perspectives from those who were intimately involved. The book was recently ranked No. 25 on the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) Best-Sellers Top 50 list, as well as No. 24 on the ECPA Non-Fiction list, for December 2017.

Strang is an award-winning journalist and successful businessman who began his career as a newspaper reporter at the Orlando Sentinel. He later founded a Christian publishing house and media company while interviewing and writing about nearly every Christian leader in the country over the past four decades.

For more information on God and Donald Trump, visit  and view the book’s video. Visitors to the site can also download a free chapter and order the book.

God and Donald Trump is published by Frontline, an imprint of Charisma House, which has published books that challenge, encourage, teach and equip Christians, including 14 New York Times best-sellers.

I received an email recently from a friend, asking that my wife and I join her in prayer for a needed miracle.

We have known her since college days and were surprised to hear from her last summer that she had been diagnosed with cancer. She was about to begin chemotherapy treatments at that time and asked for our prayers.

But the message recently was a cry for help. At the time of writing, she has one more chemo treatment and then a PET (positron emission tomography) scan after Christmas so the doctors can decide on her next option. She said, “I am needing a miracle.”

Have you been there? Your natural options are used up, and the only solution has to be a supernatural action from God Himself.

For Christ-followers, the reality is something like the Apostle Paul’s when he said,

“For to me, to continue living is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor to me. Yet I do not know what I shall choose. I am in a difficult position between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake” (Phil. 1:21-24).

In the face of those realities, I continue to be encouraged when I read that “Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people” (Matt. 9:35).

There is something powerful in the “good news” of the “kingdom” which precedes the healing of sicknesses and diseases. I suggest this powerful reality is wrapped up in our better understanding that word, “kingdom.”

You see, the kingdom of God exists everywhere the King is. For now, Christ’s kingdom is “not of this world.” Rather, the Gospels reveal that:

• John the Baptist taught that “… the kingdom of God is at hand.” (Matt. 3:2). It is as real as something we could reach out and touch.
• Jesus taught that “it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32), for “remember, the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21b). It is a parallel reality that is transitioning from a spiritual truth to a physical force and ruling authority.
• Jesus taught his disciples to pray, “[May] Your kingdom come; Tour will be done on earth, as it is in heaven” (See Matt. 6:10).

King Jesus proclaimed the good news that His authority and reign will eventually rule over every evil thing, including “every sickness and every disease.” God invites us to accept the gift of his Son’s redemptive work on the cross and then to partner with him (Luke 19:13) in eternal kingdom business—until he returns to establish his physical rule on earth.

Finally, at this season, we are reminded that King Jesus is called Immanuel, meaning “God with us.” He is in our midst and able to heal every sickness and disease. He is able to restore broken relationships and mend broken hearts.

That is the “good news of the Kingdom,” which Jesus taught and we proclaim as we enter the new year. He is our only hope and the source for meeting every need!

This new year, I invite you to “…seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you” (Matt. 6:33). {eoa}

Ordained to the ministry in 1969, Gary Curtis is a graduate of LIFE Bible College at Los Angeles (soon to become Life Pacific University at San Dimas, CA). He has taken graduate courses at Trinity College in Deerfield, Illinois and Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California. Gary served as part of the pastoral staff of The Church on The Way, the First Foursquare Church of Van Nuys, California, for 27 years (1988-2015), the last 13 years as the Vice President of Life On The Way Communications, Inc., the church’s not-for-profit media outreach. Now retired, Gary and his wife have been married for 50 years and live in southern California. They have two married daughters and five grandchildren.

Once the U.S. Embassy moves to Jerusalem, unbelievable revival will break out, Hakeem Collins tells Sid Roth.

It was all part of a vision God gave Collins and he relayed, months before the relocation was announced.

Watch the video to see all the details.

Evangelist Franklin Graham issued an urgent call to prayer for Kim Davis as she prepares for a feisty election.

The Kentucky clerk will face off against David Ermold in the May 2018 election, but this isn’t the first time the two have met. Davis refused to issue Ermold a marriage license to wed his partner in 2015.

“I think we need to deal with the circumstances and the consequences of what happened,” Ermold says. “I don’t think the other candidates are looking at a larger message. I have an obligation here, really, to do this and to set things right.”

Despite the pressure, Davis refuses to back away from her religious convictions and has the support of many evangelicals behind her—including Graham.

“Remember Kim Davis? She is the county clerk who wanted to be able to do her job without signing same-sex marriage licenses. Well, the gay man whose license she would not sign back in 2015 was recently back in her office, sitting across the desk from her. This time, he was filing the paperwork to run for her job as county clerk—and Kim helped him. Pray for Kim Davis as her stand for her religious convictions put her back into the news again. I urge Christians across the nation to run for office at every level—local, state and federal. We can make a difference if we stand boldly on the side of the Word of God,” Graham says.

Christian actress Candace Cameron Bure knows she must rise above when the world comes after her.

Her response to the haters always boils down to one word: Compassion.

See how she does it.

Brother Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj was a devout Hindu until a massive supernatural experience that converted him to Christ. Now, Selvaraj says God has spoken to him specifically about the devastation of America. Watch the video to see what he says.

There’s the great falling away Paul the apostle prophesied in 2 Timothy 2; then there’s the Way of the Future. Could the two converge?

Way of the Future, a new religion birthed with artificial Intelligence in mind, is setting up church and making news media headlines around the world. Newsweek, Wired, Bloomberg and others are giving this false religion plenty of press.

Anthony Levandowski, the Silicon Valley multimillionaire who developed the robotics team for Uber’s self-driving program and Waymo, the self-driving car company Google owns, launched the first AI-based church to propagate a perverted religion.

Levandowski filed papers to form the church in May. According to Wired, the documents state this false church’s activities will focus on, “”the realization, acceptance and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed through computer hardware and software.” 

Wired reports, “The religion will seek to build working relationships with AI industry leaders and create a membership through community outreach, initially targeting AI professionals and ‘laypersons who are interested in the worship of a Godhead based on AI.’ The filings also say that the church ‘plans to conduct workshops and educational programs throughout the San Francisco/Bay Area beginning this year.'”

The Way of the Future is beyond humanism and evolutionist theologies. This makes a mockery of all religions and especially Christianity, using terms like Godhead. The only Way is Jesus (John 14:6).

Nevertheless, Levandowski is deceived and deceiving others. He has started evangelizing through the media and has set in motion a discipleship methodology.

“What is going to be created will effectively be a god,” Levandowski told Wired. “It’s not a god in the sense that it makes lightning or causes hurricanes. But if there is something a billion times smarter than the smartest human, what else are you going to call it?”

How about a robot. But a robot messiah? It’s not beyond the realm of possibility in an age in which many people around the world are already worshipping technology.

Former Facebook president Sean Parker recently expressed concern over what Facebook is “doing to our children’s brains.” He says he is experiencing “tremendous guilt” over his work on a platform that is “ripping apart the social fabric of how society work.”

For some, Facebook seems to be their god. They share their problems, worries, fears, successes and failures—and otherwise offer TMI (Too Much Information) about private issues the world doesn’t want to hear.

Levandowski is taking idolatry to a new level by bringing official organization to technology worship. His false god reminds me of Revelation 13:15, “He was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.”

Is Levandowski’s work setting the stage for perverted worship in the end-times. Could the Way of the Future fuel the great falling away? This is part of the tsunami of perversion I prophesied in 2015. Expect the enemy to continue perverting what God originally inspired, and guard your heart from the rising deception.

And let’s pray for Anthony Levandowski. Imagine if he had a supernatural encounter with Creator of the universe, repented for his false church and preached Jesus, the way, the truth and the life.

I have been deeply stirred for this next year 2018!

Over and over, as I have prayed I hear in my spirit, that it is time for the bride of Christ to come alive! Come alive? What does that mean?

Let me explain. This last year, Karen and I have watched God do supernatural things in the remnant vision. We saw the launch of the new book, Rebuilding the Altar, the growth of the iAmRemnant Movement (22 locations), the birth of the altar movement and the moving of our home and ministry to Ft. Worth, Texas. Yet, this has also been a trying year in some areas. It has been a year of fighting for breakthrough and revival.

This year, we experienced attacks from Satan like never before. At one point this year the Lord visited Karen and told her to trust him during this season. We held on to those words from the Lord. We have heard the same things from many leaders and many of you, that this was a tough year. I don’t know about you, but we are ready for 2018! As I began to study the number “18” I was astonished to find out what the number “18” means in the Hebrew! In fact, the #18 is very sacred in the Jewish culture. The Hebrew word for “life” is ×— (chai), which has a numerical value of 18. That’s right, it means life. As I began to pray over 2018, God told me to tell you that it is time to live again!  Isaiah 43:18-19 declares, “Do not remember the former things nor consider the things of old. See, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not be aware of it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert” (Isa. 43:18-19).

It is time to let the past go. God is going to do something new. I believe God is going to restore families, ministries, churches and callings in 2018. I also believe that what has seemed hard to accomplish in the past will seem simple this next year.

As you prepare to go into 2018 I want to challenge you to do seven things:

1. Take time to hide away with the Lord. Give God priority in your busyness of life and watch as He draws near to you (James 4:8). God desires to commune with you! He is life. John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

2. Establish a bold prayer life. Seek wisdom from the Lord. Start each day with Jesus and end each night with praise. “He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will find good” (Prov. 19:8).

3. Start over. Ask God to restore lost promises in your life that have been lost, buried or forgotten. I believe that this is the year where “old things have passed away. Look, all things have become new” (2 Cor. 5:17). “He who follows after righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, and honor” (Prov. 21:21).

4. Let it go. Clean out yesterday’s hurts, disappointments and pain. It is time to forgive. “As in water face answers to face, so the heart of man to man” (Prov. 27:19).

5. Change your language. Declare in your life that the old is gone and behold God is doing a new thing. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit” (Prov. 18:21).

6. Grab a pen and paper. Write down areas you are believing God to restore. Post those prayer requests somewhere in your home. “And the Lord answered me: Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who reads it may run. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it delays, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay” (Hab. 2:2-3).

7. Be a giver! It rebukes the devour. When you sow seeds, it produces a harvest. I have also always believed that you must sow where you want to go! “But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully” (2 Cor. 9:6).