In the new Great American Pure Flix series “Destination Heaven,” Harry Lennix (“The Blacklist,” “Man of Steel”) stars as God as He encounters people from all walks of life who are challenged, encouraged and ultimately changed. The series will include guest appearances from Doug Jones, Emily Rose, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Carrie Wampler, John Michael Finley, and Hero Hunter. In the first episode, Kevin Sorbo (“God’s Not Dead,” “Hercules”) appears as Darrell, a homeless man who’s faced hard times and needs a helping hand.

“He’s just been dealt a bad hand, and he’s become pretty bitter about it,” Sorbo said.

Darrell befriends Jenna Tate, a businesswoman who gives him money and “they actually end up helping each other.” Sorbo said the lesson here is to not judge a book by its cover and to reach out to others through human kindness. Through trying to help Darrell, Jenna ultimately finds that God was trying to help her all along.

“It’s great messaging, what they’re doing,” he said. “(Great American Pure Flix) created the series, and it’s just a reminder to the people that God is always available for the toughest parts of people’s lives, and that’s what I think this series is all about.”

The actor, who first rose to prominence on the hit television series “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” said returning to television, especially not as the main character, was “pretty easy.”

“I just did one episode, but a show like ‘Hercules,’ when you’re the star of the show and you got all these action things you got to do as well, it was pretty much door to door for me,” he said. “We’d be around 16-17 hours every single day.”

For the past decade, Sorbo has been at the forefront of faith-based entertainment, first through the breakthrough hit “God’s Not Dead” and then a series of Christian films such as “Let There Be Light” and “Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist.” For him, those films are part of a “spiritual battle” between opposing ideologies.

“Walt Disney said back in the 1950s that movies and television will influence our youth,” he said. “You certainly see the way it’s influenced the youth out there. You see the anger; you see the over-sexualization. The stuff they have on TV now today, you wouldn’t have that on the show even back in the 70s or 80s.”

Great American Media, he says, is “fighting back in a friendly way,” giving parents options of entertainment that encourages, inspires, and safe to watch with their children.

“I get stopped all the time by people saying, ‘We love what you do. We love the products and projects you’re a part of. I know I can take my family to watch it,’” he said. “It’s pretty cool.”

Sorbo continues to line up new projects. First up is “The Firing Squad,” releasing August 2, which is a true story about a man who killed someone in Indonesia when he was in his twenties and received a death sentence. During his time in prison, “he became a pastor, he found God.” The pastor prayed many people through to faith in Christ before his (spoiler alert) execution in 2015. In “Reagan,” the highly anticipated biopic of the former president starring Dennis Quaid, Sorbo again steps into the shoes of a pastor.

After that, he has three documentaries releasing, one dealing with The Last Supper, and three more movies to film this year.

“It’s a busy year for me and a lot of travel coming up,” he said.

As far as his breakthrough turn in the original “God’s Not Dead,” which earned more than $140 million, would there be a chance to bring Sorbo back to the franchise, even though his character, Professor Radisson, was killed?

“I heard rumors about that,” he said. “I was just at the International Christian Film Festival in Orlando. I met with the writer of the last two or three ‘God’s Not Dead’ films. They just finished shooting the fifth one. He said, ‘Would you go back into one if we came up with a way to resuscitate your character from God’s Not Dead 1?’”

Sorbo explained to the writer that he had a script that could have accomplished that feat, which he ultimately turned into the film “Let There Be Light.”

“Destination Heaven,” starring Harry Lennix, is currently airing on Great American Pure Flix.