It’s Monday, September 29th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
Muslim crowd demands Indonesian church halts worship
A Muslim crowd near Jakarta, Indonesia demanded a Christian congregation suspend worship on Sunday, September 21st, reports Morning Star News.
In Tangerang at least 20 Muslims arrived at the Indonesian Bethel Church at 9:00 a.m., an hour before the congregation was to begin worship in a shophouse, a video recording shows.
The Muslims demanded a halt to all worship until the church obtains all relevant permits.
Slovakia bans surrogacy and homosexual adoption, recognizes only two sexes
Last Friday, the nation of Slovakia rejected European Union legislation by amending its constitution to enshrine recognition of only two sexes, ban the practice of surrogacy, and restrict adoption to heterosexual married couples, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Genesis 2:24 says, “Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
Gunman kills two and injures eight at Mormon place of worship
A gunman opened fire inside a Michigan Mormon place of worship, 60 miles northwest of Detroit, at 10:25am ET during the Sunday service, killing two people and injuring eight. He then set the building ablaze, before police shot and killed him, reports ABC News.
Police Chief William Renye said hundreds of people were inside the building in Grand Blanc Township when a 40-year-old man rammed his vehicle into the front door, then exited the vehicle, and started shooting. The gunman has been identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, reports NBC News.
The suspect is believed to have set the building on fire which caused a five-alarm blaze that caused a partial collapse of the structure. Flames and smoke could be seen for hours before the blaze was put out.
Investigators wonder whether the shooting is connected with the death of the oldest-ever president of Latter-day Saints, Russell Nelson, who died at the age of 101 the day before. The next Mormon president is expected to be 93-year-old Dallin Oaks, per Mormon protocol.
Christian pastor denied access to Dallas airport chapel
A Christian pastor was denied access to the chapel at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport by a Muslim cleric, reports Christian talk host Todd Starnes.
Tom Ascol, a prominent Southern Baptist pastor, wrote on social media that he had been in Dallas to visit the grieving family of Voddie Baucham, a renowned pastor and scholar.
Ascol said that he heard an announcement inviting passengers to visit the Meadows Chapel for a prayer service. The announcement included the phrase “all are welcome.”
Ascol wrote on X, “With broken heart I went hoping maybe Scripture would at least be read. Instead, I found this & was denied access.” The Baptist pastor posted a photograph of Muslims inside the chapel kneeling on prayer rugs.
The pastor said he was physically blocked from entering the room.
He explained, “They blocked my way in the inner room. A man who had offered a loud prayer, not the Imam, said I could come in if I took my shoes off. I refused.”
Church attendance rising after Kirk’s murder, particularly among youth
Some pastors have reported seeing an increase in church attendance following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative Christian founder of Turning Point USA, particularly among young adults, some of whom haven’t attended a worship service in years, reports The Christian Post.
JP De Gance, the founder and president of Communio, a ministry that helps churches evangelize better and expand their outreach capacities, believes that Kirk’s message has inspired many young people to experience the Christian faith through a church community.
He said, “[There has been] a lot of anecdotal feedback from churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Douglas County, Colorado, reporting that they’ve seen an increase [in attendance] over the last two Sundays.”
Communio, which serves around 400 churches nationwide, has received reports of increased attendance from various religious denominations.
Speculating on why Kirk’s death, which was headline news worldwide, might have been the driving force to get young people to attend church, De Gance said that perhaps some began to take stock of their lives after hearing that someone within their age range had died a violent death.
De Gance believes that more young people are coming to know who Charlie Kirk was and what he had to say about marriage, family and living for Christ, beliefs that reportedly were the reason why Tyler Robinson targeted him.
He said, “I think that causes a level of introspection. I think that causes people to ask, ‘What am I living for right now?’”
Why Tim Allen forgave drunk driver who killed his father
And finally, in a podcast with Michael Rowe, Tim Allen, the 72-year-old former star of the Home Improvement sitcom, shared the story of his father’s death in 1964.
ALLEN: “My father was killed by a drunk driver when I was 11 years old. Luckily, he was the only one killed, but he died in my mother’s lap. My other two brothers were thrown around the car. A lot of kids were hurt.”
Tim Allen’s father had been driving home from a Colorado football game with six children in the vehicle along with his wife. Tim was not in the car that day. The drunk driver swerved across I-70, went through a median, and hit the car.
Tim explained what his uncle told him.
ALLEN: “And then I’m walking down to my house, knowing something terrible had happened. I get to the house, there’s police, and my uncle was there and said, ‘Man up. You know, your mom needs you right now. So, no crying, none of that.”
ROWE: “How old are you this point?”
ALLEN: “Eleven. He was a great dad, love of my life. I said, ‘This doesn’t make any sense. I don’t like this.’ And everybody’s answer was, ‘He’s in a better place.’ The pain of it never stopped. The discomfort of it. That whole process started me on asking questions. Generally, getting no answers.”
Tim Allen added, “Every single thing in my life changed. I knew it the moment he was dead, and it was not for four hours that I found out. I’ve hated November since then.”
On Thursday, September 24, he revealed that — after watching Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, forgive her husband’s killer on September 21st — he decided to do the same for the drunk driver who killed his father, reports People Magazine.
Allen wrote on X, “When Erika Kirk spoke the words on the man who killed her husband [Charlie]: ‘That man… that young man… I forgive him.’ That moment deeply affected me. I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: ‘I forgive the man who killed my father.'”
Ephesians 4:32 commands, “Forgive one another, even as God, in Christ, forgave you.”
Indeed, Erika Kirk said, “My husband, Charlie, he wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life.”
Listen to the unforgettable moment when Erika forgave her husband’s assassin at the Memorial on September 21st held at State Farm Arena in Phoenix, Arizona, just 11 days after his assassination.
ERIKA KIRK: “On the cross, our Savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ (Luke 23:34)
“That man, [Tyler Robinson], I forgive him. (applause as she wept) I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and it’s what Charlie would do. The answer to hate is not hate. The answer, we know from the Gospel, is love, and always love. Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.”
Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old man now being held at the Utah County Jail without bail, has been accused of the crime. If found guilty, the prosecutor has called for the death penalty.
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