Posted on 10/25/2025 6:47:25 AM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani
The Bible is selling out, Christian music is breaking charts, and millions are rediscovering what truly matters
They told us faith was fading in America. That the old stories, the old institutions, the old Book — it was done. That people no longer needed the scriptures, the songs, the Sunday-morning rituals.
But if you peer beneath the surface, if you look at the numbers creeping up behind the headlines, you’ll see something quite different: a quietly rising tide of spiritual engagement.
The Bible: not just still alive — booming
Here’s one part of the story: in the United States, sales of the Bible have surged. In 2024, through October, the number of copies sold hit roughly 13.7 million, a 22 % rise over the same period the year before. In the U.K., between 2019 and 2024, Bible sales jumped some 87 % — an astonishing rebound.
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How are the blog hits you are soliciting from FR trending?
God is merciful.
These are signals, not assurances.
There is a God created void in man that needs to be filled. It will be filled with something. The question is what.
Luk_24:47 It was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of His name to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem: ‘There is forgiveness of sins for all who repent.’
Do we really believe the above verse? Is that the message we are proclaiming?
It is a rather offending proclamation, isn’t it...............
Yesterday the Youtube algorithm prompted me to watch a short post from a woman in liberal Massachusetts. She and her husband were driving to church, he was driving and she was gazing down at her phone. He said “look up.” She did, and saw a long line of cars creeping toward the church for second service, and another long line of cars leaving first service. She was stunned: she had never seen this sort of attendance before. So yes, something has changed.
Charlie Kirk effect.
That’s why the Democrats murdered him.
I think we still need to bring back the Knights Templars.
This piece opens with
“The Bible is selling out”
🤔
Looks like Projection 101.
Churches are filling up.
But not the WOKE ones.
WOKE church is committing suicide.
Not only they are switching from eternal God’s law to some most recent fad, but making themselves redundant!
WOKE people by design do not need God!
Marx is sufficient for them.
My (LCMS) church has been up 10% in attendance in 2025 over 2024, which was also up about 10% over 2023.
Indeed
I am amazed by the number of young people raised in secular or even atheist homes are “discovering “ God. Even in France thousands of young people made a pilgrimage on foot from Paris to Chartes Cathedral.
My independent church is growing. It's majority black. New members say they join because we have enough whites for the newbies to know that the messages won't be full of blame-the-whitey every Sunday. They want real love God -- love people -- live it like ya mean it encouragement, not the love-God-cuz-He's-made-us-superior-black-to-hate-whites type lessons they've heard almost every Sunday in many black churches.
The two Catholic churches closest to where I live are bursting at the seams, mostly young people and young families. On of them is planning on building a new larger church building starting next year. My men’s Bible study group has almost doubled in size (mostly younger men) and we had to move to a bigger room. Both parishes are Norvo Ordo, but they have Latin NO masses. Lots of women, young and old, wearing veils, and lots of kids. Lots of people, but still a very welcoming atmosphere.
I'd say that's a good thing, but it only weakly correlates with piety.
Here is my tupence...this movie that has made a home for itself, for both viewing and review, “Nefarious”, is a hot item.
I have seen the film, and downloaded too, yes. There are similarities to work by Mssr. c.S.Lewis, which I read “last millennium”. This might prove an inspiration. It might get that cranial itch to look deeper.
Or, this is the drive for the present krwe, that “The Omen” had for those folks.
I give kudos to the two actors, in their portrayals, o the h
‘host, and the other, so well bamboozled, all that was missing is the bow tying hi m.
The ORIGINAL article by Martin Mawyer is dated 21 October.
This thread "borrows" often from other sources, without giving full credit to the original ----
Turns Out God Isn’t Dead — He’s Trending Martin Mawyer Oct 21, 2025
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