Lighthouse Faith

The Oscars shine a bright light on the best of the film industry. When done right, movies can help audiences understand complex realities through storytelling — but when context is limited, films have the power to fictionalize narratives to mislead and rewrite reality. 

 On this episode of Lighthouse Faith podcast, Jacki Alexander, CEO of the media watchdog Honest Reporting, explains why the Oscar nominated film, "The Voice of Hind Rajab," is filled with a one-sided portrayal of the Israel-Hamas war. The film chronicles the plight of a young Palestinian girl caught in the crossfire of the war, desperate for help. It's a tragedy beyond tragedies. But, as the article in Honest Reporting suggests, "The audience is not invited to understand what is happening. It is instructed whom to blame." And the blame is cast squarely on Israel.

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There's a biblical narrative that mirrors today's war in Iran and cannot be ignored. The Jewish holiday of Purim commemorates the Bible story of Queen Esther of 2,300 years ago, when the young Jewish woman confronts the Persian King Xerxes about the plot to kill all the Jews hatched by his high official Haman. The king then allows the Jews to protect themselves against their aggressors, which becomes a bloody conflict.  

Today, many Jewish leaders are noting the parallels in Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who frequently touted "Death to Israel" and was killed just days before Purim began on March 2. On this episode of the Lighthouse Faith podcast, Rabbi Josh Joseph, Executive Vice President and COO of The Orthodox Union, discusses how Purim serves as a continual reminder for the Jewish people to remain diligent in their faith and identity.
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"I Can Only Imagine" is recognized as the greatest-selling Christian record of all time. Adapted into a movie of the same name in 2018, it tells the real-life struggles of MercyMe's lead singer, Bart Millard's complicated relationship with his father. Now, a sequel to the film has just been released. "I Can Only Imagine 2" digs deeper into the song, "Even If", about Millard's struggles and pain dealing with his young son's diabetes.

On this episode of the Lighthouse Faith podcast, the multiple Dove Award-winning MercyMe's lead singer and songwriter, Bart Millard, talks about the film, his unshakeable faith, and the reckless love of God that endures all.

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Is the Devil sexist? Yes, and No.  Satan has a war chest of spiritual deceptions in his arsenal; some are tailored specifically for women, says Christian author and speaker Emily Wilson Hussem.  

It doesn't matter the age, the enemy tries to destroy women with discouragement, sorrow, and even despair in life against the particular light that women bring to the world.

On this episode of Lighthouse Faith podcast, Hussem talks about her book Sincerely, Stoneheart. It's modeled after C.S. Lewis' famous book The Screwtape Letters, about a senior devil agent named Screwtape, writing to a junior agent about how to corrupt and discourage God's image bearers. While Satan attacks both men and women, there is a very specific way he goes after women.

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The prophet Jeremiah warned about putting too much reliance on the heart, saying, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"And yet in today's nomenclature, the heart reigns supreme as the purveyor of truth, that its feelings equate with reality.  But what if the heart is filled with darkness? What if the heart leads you into spiritual depression and anxiety?  

On this episode of the Lighthouse Faith podcast, Pastor Nate Pickowicz talks about his book, "Overcoming The Darkness", and his own battles with anxiety and spiritual darkness, and how the Bible has long offered solutions. This conversation differentiates between a battlefield of the mind and spiritual warfare. 

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