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Project Hail Mary dazzles with its visuals and message on bravery alike, but some content issues may cause chaos on this space mission.
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Dave and Ashley Willis explain the importance of having shalom in your home, and define the word shalom as “breaking the hold of chaos.” They encourage couples to manage conflict deliberately and carefully. They also explain why it’s important to break any “stranglehold relationships” – friends that become too needy -- that might impact your home life.
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Ashley Willis discusses the importance of letting God be your authority.
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God sent Elijah into the rocky, raw, and lonely land of the Kerith Ravine. He had no temple for worship, no faith fraternity for strength. It would be years before he enjoyed fellowship with faithful Jews. Preparation by separation. Purposeful silence and solitude are basic courses in Unbreakable Courage 101.

Jesus found his Kerith in the obscure days of Nazareth and the quiet days in the wilderness. In order to gather strength for the cross, he sought time alone in the Garden of Gethsemane. If Jesus needed Kerith-like solitude, how much more do we? God’s invitation is compelling. From Psalm 46:10 (MSG): “Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me…” When did you last “step out of the traffic” to be alone with your Father?

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Planned Parenthood has spent years trying to distance itself from its founder, Margaret Sanger, but history cannot simply be rewritten. In a recent interview, Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson discussed Sanger’s legacy with a Black influencer.  

Throughout the interview, she attempted to minimize Sanger’s embrace of eugenics and even said that Sanger’s intentions were good! She also failed to address the many credible allegations that Planned Parenthood continues to target minority communities.  

From beginning to end, the abortion industry is saturated with evil. When their business model revolves around killing innocent children, we should not be surprised to learn they have engaged in other awful behavior.  On the flip side, the pro-life movement has a proven, decades long, history of protecting and defending ALL life. 

If you want to have a philosophical discussion about the subject of grandchildren, sorry - I'm busy. But if you want to talk about my grandson or my granddaughter, well I've got all the time in the world. I hope you do. See, if you want to discuss the institution of marriage, say goodnight. If you listen to this broadcast very much, you've heard a lot about the woman that I loved over the years very much. You know my Karen. You want to talk about that relationship, that would be my wife, be glad to talk to you for a long time about that. No-brainer! It's the difference between the institution and the person!

I'm Ron Hutchcraft, and I want to have A Word With You today about "The Missing Person."

You can know all about children and not have a son or daughter. You can know all about marriage and not have a husband or wife. You can know all about children, you can know all about marriage, and you can know all about church, all about Christianity and not have Christ.

It's that great danger that's behind our word for today from the Word of God in 2 Corinthians 13:5. These words are actually written to church people. "Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you - unless, of course, you fail the test?" God says it's important to not assume that you have Jesus just because you're in His "club," because you could even be a charter member of His "club," or maybe you're an officer or a leader in His "club." The question isn't, "Am I in Christ's group?" It's "Is Christ Jesus in me?"

1 John 5:11-12 couldn't make it more clear-cut: "He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." That's eternal life; whether or not you're going to heaven. And it comes down to one thing and one thing alone - do you "have the Son of God"? The answer depends on whether or not there has ever been a time when you, in essence, stood at Jesus' cross and said two words, "for me," whether or not there has been a time when you made a conscious commitment of you to Jesus; putting all your trust in Him to forgive your sin and to take you to heaven when you die. If you did that, you know you did. If you don't know you did, you probably didn't.

Some of the most surprised people in hell are going to be people who believed all the Jesus-beliefs, went to all the Jesus-meetings, impressed all the Jesus-people, and tried to do a lot of Jesus-things. But somehow, they missed Jesus in all of it. Like a person who knows about marriage, who's been to many weddings, who thinks marriage is a great idea, but isn't married. There are a lot of church folks who have the system but they don't have the Savior. Maybe you.

The reason all you've learned and done about Jesus leaves you feeling so hollow and incomplete may be because your heart is still missing Jesus. But it doesn't have to be that way for one more day. No, He's come knocking at the door of your heart one more time. The hardest part for you could be just finally admitting that after all this, Jesus is still not in your heart. But that one step will finally free you to finally know Christ for real.

So if you're ready to move from the religion to the relationship, will you tell Jesus that right now? "Jesus, I don't want to just have beliefs about You. I want to belong to You. I turn from the sin You died for. And I believe You walked out of Your grave by Your own power. Beginning this day, Jesus, You've got me. I'm Yours."

Today, if that's where your heart is, you're ready for this. Go to our website, it's for you. We made it for someone like you at this point. Make sure you've got this done. That website is ANewStory.com. Check it out today, please.

You're so close, but you're not in. But you're about to be. And it will feel so good to