If you liked “Fireproof” and “Facing the Giants,” don’t miss “Courageous.” The newest film from Sherwood Pictures, a ministry of the Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., just may be the best. Opening today in 900 theaters across the nation, “Courageous” tackles the crisis of fatherhood in America.

Alan Moore, Faulkner’s 61-year-old placekicker and the oldest-ever college football player, knocked through the Eagles’ first extra point of the season Saturday. See an interview with him and a video of the kick.

Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., displayed 2,977 flags on campus Sunday — honoring the victims and emergency responders who died on 9/11.

The terrorist attacks on 9/11 resulted in nearly 3,000 death. As Americans all over the country prepare to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 911 here at home, one college is reaching out to those who died who were not American. Harding University in Searcy, Ark., started a unique program this year to collect flags from the 55 countries that represent the 381 non-American lives lost on 911.

John Tesseyman, who helps World Bible School ship its lessons to churches across the nation, is a native New Yorker who worked for the transportation department in New York City at the time of the 9/11 attacks. He and his wife also were members of the Manhattan Church of Christ. Tesseyman was in a subway when the planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center. In the video, he recalls the moments after the attacks and the Sunday service that followed.

The annual Asia Mission Forum, a meeting of missionaries from Churches of Christ across Asia, reached the half-century mark recently. Organizers have provided a treasure trove of photos, videos and speeches from the event. A record-breaking crowd of 252 people attended the forum, held this year in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

The Bible faculty at Oklahoma Christian University is, um, at it again with this First Week Follies video, featuring a cameo appearance by President Mike O’Neal. Watch at your own risk.

About 100 church members and representatives of community organizations gathered in Kansas City, Mo., recently to celebrate South Sudan, which became an independent nation on July 9. “I know they say it takes a village to raise a child,” John Gak told the audience. “It takes an entire church — the Swope Parkway Church of Christ — to build a school in my hometown.” Gak, a native of South Sudan and a member of the Swope Parkway church, oversees Brothers’ Organization for Relief, or BOR, a ministry dedicated to establishing a church and multi-use education building in Kongor, Gak’s hometown.

“Love God, serve others and take as many people with you to heaven as you possibly can,” President Phil Schubert urged students at the opening chapel of Abilene Christian University’s 106th school year.
 

Once again, my friend Brute Wolf assures that “no babies were harmed during production” of this promotional video. It aired during services Sunday at the Park Plaza Church of Christ in Tulsa, Okla.