(Worthy Insights) – The life and legacy of Charlie Kirk were honored at a memorial service in Arizona on Sunday, in one of the largest memorials ever held for a private citizen.

The 73,000-seat State Farm Stadium in Glendale began filling shortly after the doors opened at 8 a.m., with 20,000 more attending in overflow venues.

Local law enforcement estimated that some 200,000 people tried to attend, some who traveled across the country, and millions streamed the service online and saw it on TV. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Surveys show just shy of one-third of Americans trust the news media, a staggering decline from half a century ago, when more than 70% of U.S. adults believed reporters to be fair and honest.

Certainly, some of that can be attributed to the decentralization of media (factor in the rise of social media) and the hyper-partisan nature of culture over the last decade or so. But those things alone — while contributing factors — aren’t driving the shortage of confidence people have in the news media.

Famed investigative journalist Lee Strobel, the erstwhile Chicago Tribune reporter who rose to fame when he (unsuccessfully) tried to factually disprove the evidence for Jesus and ended up becoming a Christian, recently appeared on CBN’s “Faith in Culture” Podcast, where he asserted it’s the motivation that drives people toward journalism that has changed — and not for the better. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) delivered a body blow to the corporate media industrial complex’s narrative of a robust Biden economy. In its preliminary benchmark revision, the agency slashed its estimate of nonfarm employment growth from March 2024 to March 2025 by a whopping 911,000 jobs — a downward adjustment of 0.6 percent out of 159 million jobs.

Nearly lost in the BLS news report and in the major media is the fact that the revision wipes out half of the new jobs reported through Biden’s last year in office, down from approximately 1.8 million to around 900,000. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Christian minister Edward “Ted” Barham says he will not respond with hate after Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud told him he was “not welcome” during a heated city council exchange over a controversial honorary street sign naming that went viral.

In a new interview with Fox News Digital, Barham said the moment has only strengthened his resolve to speak out about freedom of speech and freedom of faith.

“I did not respond to the mayor with hate. I said, God bless you,” Barham said, adding that he takes seriously Jesus’ command to “love your enemies, bless those who curse you.” He said the incident was not isolated, pointing to earlier clashes with city officials over his public ministry. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Leaders overseeing a faith-based leadership and business event are watching something phenomenal taking place in stadiums around the country. Hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of attendees, are giving their lives to Jesus in what they are calling “a move of God.”

Life Surge gathers thousands of people from around the country to “learn why and how to create and multiply financial resources for Kingdom Impact,” according to their website.

Joe Johnson founded the for-profit organization that invites prominent faith speakers and artists, such as Priscilla Shirer, Tim Tebow, and Chris Tomlin. Additionally, it is known to attract well-known business leaders like Robert Herjavec from Shark Tank and Marcus Lemonis from The Profit. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – It may sound like science fiction, but Israeli researchers say the world could soon witness a paraplegic walking again—thanks to a groundbreaking treatment developed at Tel Aviv University and commercialized by the biotech company Matricelf.

Led by Prof. Tal Dvir, the team is preparing for the world’s first human spinal cord implant procedure designed to restore mobility in people living with paralysis.

“The basis of our technology is to create tissue out of the patient’s own cells,” Matricelf CEO Gil Hakim explained during a recording of the ILTV Podcast. “The spinal cord tissue connects between the brain and the muscles. And in cases where there is a severe, traumatic injury, like car accidents or others, there is a cut in this connection. We take the patient’s cells and create a micro spinal cord and we place it inside the area where there is a cut or an injury… It connects naturally with the existing host. And these connections regain for the patient all movement and function.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The biggest story in the world over the weekend — on social media, that is; legacy corporate state media ignored it entirely because it’s inconvenient to their narrative — was the unprovoked plunging of a blade into the carotid artery of a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee by a hulking thug with 14 prior arrests for violent crime to his name.

In more recently released audio to accompany the video, the killer can be heard congratulating himself: “I got that white girl.”

Unsurprisingly, but still shocking to the conscience, BLM-esque activists sympathetic not to the victim but to the cold-blooded murderer launched not one but two GoFundMe fundraisers in the immediate aftermath, even though video of the assault is widely available on social media and depicts a pre-meditated and, again, wholly unprovoked attack on an innocent and defenseless woman who appears to have barely weighed 100 pounds. [ Source (Read More…) ]blm

(Worthy Insights) – U.S. job growth in the year through March was much weaker than previously reported, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revisions released on Tuesday.

The U.S. economy likely added 911,000 fewer jobs in the year ending in March — or an average of almost 76,000 fewer each month — according to the BLS’ preliminary benchmark revision. The report comes after job growth slowed in August, with the U.S. economy adding just 22,000 nonfarm payroll jobs, according to data released Friday by BLS. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Brand new research from Barna shows a shocking resurgence in church attendance among Millennials and Gen Z. The statistics are wildly encouraging.

According to Barna, “For the first time in decades, younger adults—Gen Z and Millennials—are now the most regular churchgoers, outpacing older generations, who once formed the backbone of church attendance.”

​​Daniel Copeland, Barna’s vice president of research, explained, “It’s typically older adults who are the most loyal churchgoers. This data represents good news for church leaders and adds to the picture that spiritual renewal is shaping Gen Z and Millennials today.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – In an exclusive interview with CBN News’ Paul Petitte, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee discusses the importance of the Sept. 9th United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York, and why countries wanting to declare a Palestinian state is an “insane” move and a “futile effort.”

Huckabee explains what needs to change for Israel to win the global public relations battle and why the war against Hamas is a fight against “the most demonic forces ever unleashed on this earth.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The island of Mallorca, Spain, is often seen as an international party destination. For two weeks this summer, however, hundreds of Christians there shared the love of Jesus through boardwalk prayers, beach services, and ocean baptisms.

These young people, mainly from Germany, Switzerland, and Spain, worked with local churches to share the gospel in Mallorca’s nightlife zones.

Gernot Elsner of Gospel Tribe says the island is one of the most fruitful places for evangelism despite its reputation.  [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Scientists at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology say they’ve engineered a bacteria whose genetic code is more efficient than any other lifeform on Earth.

They call their creation “Syn57,” a bioengineered strain of E. coli — yes, the same bad boy that can make you extremely sick if you eat an undercooked hot dog — which uses seven less codons than all life on earth. A codon, put simply, is a three-letter sequence found in DNA and RNA which delivers instructions for amino acids, a fundamental “building block” of life.

For the past billions years or so, all known life on earth has used 64 codons. Scientists cracked the code detailing which codons corresponded to which amino acids — mapping the standard genetic code, in other words — in 1966, revealing only 20 total amino acids. [ Source (Read More…) ]

Editor’s Note: Scientists may claim they’ve “engineered” a more efficient genetic code in their Syn57 bacteria, but all they’ve really done is tinker with what God already designed. They didn’t create life from scratch, nor did they invent the genetic code itself—they edited an existing system that was already far beyond human invention.

For thousands of years, life has functioned perfectly well with the 64-codon system. The fact that humans had to borrow from God’s design and carefully rewire parts of it only highlights that the genetic code is not random—it’s intentional, complex, and intelligently ordered. If anything, Syn57 proves that life does not “evolve” into better systems on its own; it takes intelligence, planning, and foresight to alter even the tiniest aspects.

In other words, every “advance” that science claims only points back to the brilliance of the original Creator.

(Worthy Insights) – At 13 years of age, Michael Myrand’s father committed suicide without embracing or affirming him. Then a kid at school blamed Michael for his father’s death, telling him, “Your dad killed himself because you’re a {gay slur}.”

Abuse and rejection by boys from kindergarten through high school only reinforced Myrand’s pain and feelings of abandonment growing up without his dad in Michigan, where he lived with his praying mother.

In high school, Myrand became friends with a girl who identified as bisexual. She introduced him to people who, for the first time, accepted him. “I’m getting attention from men. Boys are flirting with me, and I’m liking it. I concluded that I must be gay,” Myrand told a crowd in Oregon on Saturday.

Rejecting LGBTQ identities to follow Jesus, men and women from across the nation gathered in Portland to evangelize, worship, pray and testify at the 14th annual Freedom March, organized by Rainbow Revival. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Evangelist Ray Comfort is known for boldly sharing the Gospel through movies, social media, and other creative means, but the Living Waters founder also has a passion for in-person, one-on-one dialogue with young people.

“I go out twice a day to a local college, and then I go to Huntington Beach on Saturdays, and we film for our television program and for our YouTube channel each time,” Comfort said. “I [also] go on to the local college on an electric bike with my dog on a platform.”

His dog, who dons sunglasses during these excursions, is a great tool for opening conversations with students, breaking down barriers, and sparking Gospel conversations. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A Maryland pastor is back home with his family after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and transported to a Louisiana facility where he was held for nearly a month. Despite the hardships he endured in jail, he reports that God used the time to allow him to reach many souls with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Family spokesman Len Foxwell confirms that Pastor Daniel Fuentes Espinal was recently released on bond and has returned to Easton, MD. “This is the best social media post I’ve ever had the privilege to write: Pastor Daniel Fuentes Espinal is home,” Foxwell said on Facebook.

“His daughter, Clarissa, flew to Louisiana yesterday, picked him up and brought him back to the great State of Maryland,” he said. “Obviously, there remains work to be done. Let it be said, however, that Pastor Fuentes Espinal and his family are together again for the first time since that terrible morning of July 21.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Months after the U.S. Department of Education rescinded its historic fine against Grand Canyon University (GCU), a Christian college in Phoenix, Arizona, the school has scored another major victory: a separate lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was also dropped.

The FTC sued GCU in late 2023, alleging the school deceived students about costs associated with doctoral studies and had engaged in what it saw as illegal telemarketing practices. At the time, the FTC said the “university, its marketer, and its CEO deceptively advertised the cost and course requirements of its doctoral programs and its nonprofit status, and made illegal calls to consumers.”

That lawsuit, which originated just months after the Department of Education levied its own defunct fine, is now officially suspended. [ Source (Read More…) ]