When Mac Powell left his role as the frontman for the Christian band Third Day, he tried his hand at country — an itch he’d been eager to scratch for years — but ultimately, he said, it left him unfulfilled.

The “Soul on Fire” singer-songwriter recently spoke with CBN Digital about how his career has evolved since Third Day — a Grammy-winning mainstay in the Christian rock genre — disbanded in 2018 after 25 years together.

When he first left Third Day, Powell did something he’d always wanted to do: he made a country album.

“That was like scratching an itch I had for a long time,” he explained. “Once Third Day was over, I finally had a chance to do that, but I always knew I was gonna be in Christian music. That’s where I feel comfortable. I love singing about Jesus and sharing my faith through my music.”

Powell released his first solo Christian album, “New Creation,” in 2021. The success of that record ultimately led the 50-year-old singer to launch a tour, and he’s been on the road since.

He is finishing up a fall tour and, after Thanksgiving week, will join K-LOVE’s “Celebrate Christmas” tour beginning Nov. 29. And, starting early next year, Powell will join fellow Christian artist TobyMac on his “Hits Deep” tour, featuring other singers like Jon Reddick, Cory Asbury, and Tasha Layton.

As for his new holiday music, Powell just released an EP, “Christmas.” The five-track album includes holiday mainstays as well as a couple new songs, like “Christmas Time Again My Friend,” which he cowrote with his daughter Scout and her husband, Alec, both of whom are currently traveling with him.

“Man, what a privilege to have my baby girl out on the road with me and my son-in-law,” Powell said of Scout, who plays bass, and Alec, who plays drums. “We’re having a blast.”

He later added, “I’m kind of reliving how I started out through them again. I’m getting that freshness again of getting to see the joy and excitement that they have. Not that it’s gotten old on my by any means; it’s still exciting to be able to do that. But now to be able to bring them in and experience it again with them for the first time, it’s a really special time.”
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NEW YORK — Deliverance ministers featured in the film “The Domino Revival” and their wives recently shared their views of women in ministry and leadership roles, saying they should be able to serve in whatever capacity God calls them to.

Jenny Weaver, who leads an online mentorship program with her husband, Stephen, called The Core Group that has about 18,000 members, has become a well-known preacher. She recently spoke with The Christian Post about some of the backlash she’s received for her ministry at the premiere of “The Domino Revival” which has an encore showing in select theaters on Nov. 13.

“In the Bible, we see women moving in ministry all the time. It’s very natural,” Jenny Weaver told CP at last month’s premiere of “The Domino Revival.” “Actually, it says that when Jesus was moving, it [the Bible] says, ‘the women came together and they took from their resources, and they poured into Jesus.’”

“Women literally supported that very first Jesus movement,” she added. Without all the women coming alongside Jesus and pushing and propelling Him and helping, we don’t know what would have happened. So I love that Jesus; He cared for women. He had women doing things, it was beautiful.

“To me, this is the Bible, and I don’t sit around and argue with people back and forth all over social media,” she said about debates over complementarianism and egalitarianism. “All I’m going to do is the assignment in front of me.”

Her husband, Stephen Weaver, added, “Our whole goal is to see people saved, set free, delivered. It takes a strong man to support his wife. She can do just the same thing as I can do, and she’s doing the will of the Lord, so that’s what it’s all about.”

While women can and do serve in a variety of roles within churches, one of the debates within and among denominations is whether women can serve in the office of pastor.

Complementarians believe that women are forbidden from holding certain offices in the Church. Egalitarians insist that Scripture does not warrant such restrictions.

The Christian apologetics site Got Questions says the question about whether women can serve as pastors is the most asked question they receive. The site explains that, according to the complementarian view, “God has ordained that only men are to serve in positions of spiritual teaching authority in the church. This does not imply men are better teachers or that women are inferior or less intelligent. It is simply the way God designed the church to function.”

Among the verses cited by Christians who oppose women serving as pastors comes from the book of Timothy, which it states:

A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. (1 Timothy 2:11-14).

Got Questions further notes that the Bible details many accounts of women serving as leaders, just not as pastors:

In Romans 16:1, Phoebe is called a “deacon” (or “servant”) in the church and is highly commended by Paul. But, as with Priscilla, there is nothing in Scripture to indicate that Phoebe was a pastor or a teacher of men in the church.

Many women excel in gifts of hospitality, mercy, teaching, evangelism, and helping/serving. Much of the ministry of the local church depends on women. Women in the church are not restricted from public praying or prophesying (1 Corinthians 11:5), only from having spiritual teaching authority over men. The Bible nowhere restricts women from exercising the gifts of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12). Women, just as much as men, are called to minister to others, to demonstrate the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22–23), and to proclaim the gospel to the lost (Matthew 28:18–20; Acts 1:8; 1 Peter 3:15).

There are several theologically conservative Protestant denominations that do allow women to hold the office of pastor and others that do not. To read short, non-comprehensive lists of those that do.

In their interview with CP last month, Greg Locke, senior pastor of Global Vision Bible Church and his wife, Taisha, did not specifically address the topic of female pastors, but said he and his wife champion women in ministry.

“Women in ministry is so important for revival because you see Kingdom marriages,” Taisha told CP. “That’s what revival is really about — revival is about your home, revival is about your marriage, it’s about your children. It’s about what happens when we leave the church on Sunday.

Taisha Locke added that it’s important for women to see role models serving in ministries and at churches. “To look at them and say, ‘I can serve the Lord and still be a good wife and still be a good mom,” she said. “For years we’ve seen people choose one or the other. When really you can do all of that.”

Ibelize Pagani, wife of Senior Pastor Alexander Pagani of Amazing Church in Bronx, New York, echoed Taisha Locke, adding, “Women need to see other women being impacted and moving in God, [because] normally you see more men.”

“The Domino Revival” documentary highlights Mike Signorelli’s journey into ministry and how revival has broken out in various ministries in recent years. Those featured in the film include Julie Signorelli, Isaiah Saldivar, Alexander Pagani, Vlad Savchuk, Greg and Taisha Locke, Stephen and Jenny Weaver, Ryan Lestrange, Jeremiah Johnson and Mark Driscoll, among others.
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പ്രശസ്ത സിനിമ താരവും മിമിക്രി കലാകാരനുമായ കലാഭവൻ ഹനീഫ് (63) അന്തരിച്ചു. നിരവധി ജനപ്രിയ സിനിമകളിൽ കോമഡി കഥാപാത്രങ്ങളെ അവതരിപ്പിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. നൂറ്റിഅൻപതിലധികം ചിത്രങ്ങളിൽ അഭിനയിച്ചു.

എറണാകുളം മട്ടാഞ്ചേരിയിൽ ഹംസയുടെയും സുബൈദയുടെയും മകനായാണ് ഹനീഫ് ജനിച്ചത്. സ്കൂൾ പഠന കാലത്തുതന്നെ മിമിക്രിയിൽ സജീവമായി. പിന്നീട് നാടക വേദികളിലും സജീവമായി. നാടകത്തിലൂടെ തുടങ്ങിയ കലാജീവിതം ഹനീഫിനെ കലാഭവനിൽ കൊണ്ടെത്തിച്ചു. പിന്നീട് കലാഭവൻ ട്രൂപ്പിലെ പ്രധാന മിമിക്രി ആർട്ടിസ്റ്റായി മാറി.

1990ൽ ചെപ്പു കിലുക്കണ ചങ്ങാതി എന്ന ചിത്രത്തിലൂടെയാണ് കലാഭവൻ ഹനീഫ് സിനിമയിൽ തുടക്കം കുറിയ്ക്കുന്നത്. ഈ പറക്കും തളിക, പാണ്ടിപ്പട, കട്ടപ്പനയിലെ ഹൃത്വിക് റോഷൻ, ഉസ്താദ് ഹോട്ടൽ, ദൃശ്യം തുടങ്ങിയ സിനിമകളിലെ കഥാപാത്രങ്ങൾ ശ്രദ്ധേയമായി. ഈ വർഷം പുറത്തിറങ്ങിയ ജലധാര പമ്പ്സെറ്റാണ് അവസാന ചിത്രം.

സിനിമകൾ കൂടാതെ അറുപതോളം ടെലിവിഷൻ പരമ്പരകളിലും അദ്ദേഹം അഭിനയിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. “കോമഡിയും മിമിക്സും പിന്നെ ഞാനും” അടക്കം പല ടെലിവിഷൻ ഷോകളുടെ ഭാഗമായും പ്രവർത്തിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഇന്ത്യയ്ക്കകത്തും വിദേശത്തുമായി നിരവധി മിമിക്രി ഷോകളിൽ ഹനീഫ് പങ്കെടുത്തിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഭാര്യ: വാഹിദ. മക്കൾ: ഷാരൂഖ് ഹനീഫ്, സിത്താര ഹനീഫ്.
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