Angel Studios just released its new animated musical David, bringing the biblical account of the shepherd boy who became king to theaters nationwide this weekend. Families searching for wholesome entertainment this Christmas season now have a strong option that retells a familiar story with impressive animation and original songs.
The film follows young David from his days tending sheep in Bethlehem, where he protects his flock from predators and composes early psalms, through his confrontation with the giant Goliath. It continues into his time at King Saul’s court, soothing the troubled monarch with his lyre, and his eventual flight into the wilderness as Saul turns against him.
Directors Phil Cunningham and Brent Dawes, working with Sunrise Animation Studios in South Africa, crafted detailed visuals that capture ancient landscapes and dramatic battles without graphic excess, making it suitable for children while holding adult interest.
Standout songs drive the narrative forward. One early number has David singing about adventure as he defends his sheep, while later pieces like “Tapestry,” a duet between David and his mother Nitzevet (voiced by Israeli singer Miri Mesika), emphasize family bonds and divine purpose. Grammy-nominated artist Phil Wickham voices the adult David, bringing a worship leader’s authenticity to the role. The score, composed by Joseph Trapanese, aims for the grandeur of classic animated epics.
Angel Studios positions itself against the giants of Hollywood, much like the biblical David facing Goliath. Major studios dominate with massive budgets and often push messages that clash with traditional family values, yet smaller outfits like Angel prove quality storytelling can compete when backed by dedicated audiences. The studio’s Guild members helped select and support this project, and pre-sales reached impressive levels before opening weekend.
The story stays rooted in Scripture, from Samuel’s anointing of David to the Valley of Elah showdown and Saul’s growing jealousy. David relies on faith rather than personal ambition, declaring the battle belongs to the Lord. In an era when many films chase fleeting trends or self-centered themes, this one centers on obedience to God and courage in the face of overwhelming odds.
Parents will appreciate the absence of crude humor or agendas that undermine biblical truths. The film entertains with humor in lighter moments and builds tension in dramatic ones, but it never strays from its core message of trusting divine providence.
Angel Studios has built a track record with projects that resonate with audiences tired of mainstream fare. David continues that effort, delivering a polished production that families can enjoy together. It reminds viewers that one faithful individual, equipped with simple tools and unwavering trust in God, can shift the course of history.
Theaters are showing David now, and with the holiday rush underway, it’s worth gathering the family for a story that has endured for millennia. Support like this encourages more films that honor timeless principles over temporary fads.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
There are a handful of these new “Christian” movies which do not live up to the claims made about them. Some are not biblically accurate. Some have watered-down messages. Others are just shoddily-made and an embarrassment to the genre. Though I could pick a few nits, THIS cartoon was absolutely amazing. Its animation is stunning, that gives an almost 3-D effect. Its voice-overs were talented and passionate. And most importantly, its message was bilbilically-sound. In the year 2025, still being able to find something THIS good is like a Christmas miracle. I cannot recommend David highly enough to anyone who has children.
Hopefully, it doesn’t reinforce any Jewish / Zionist / Scofield Bible propaganda about David being Jewish (he wasn’t).