Saturday, June 30, 2018

Question of the Week: Is Pride Worth Celebrating?

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Hillsong United, Lyrics, and Evolution


A number of people have asked us to comment on the words of a popular worship song that has come out of Hillsong United, "So Will I (100 Billion X)." In particular, they have asked for our reaction to the second verse and its use of the words science and evolving. Can we really know for sure what this word evolving means in context?

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Is Pride Worth Celebrating?


June is considered LGBT Pride Month in the United States, Canada, and many other nations. Throughout the month various activities, including Pride Parades, will be taking place in celebration and honor of the LGBT community and sexual diversity.

But this celebration of LGBT Pride points to something the Bible warns against time and time again—and it is not just sexual immorality.

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Making More of the Mountains​


The Smoky Mountains offer much more than breathtaking vistas and vacation getaways. The hills resound with a symphony from the rocks, testifying to God's creation of the world and the global Flood.

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Reclaiming the Bible's Clarity


Is the Bible's message clear? Get answers from Dr. John MacArthur, Ken Ham, and AiG speakers when you join us for this year's Answers for Pastors and Christian Leaders conference, which is open to anyone, October 9–11, 2018! 

Dr. MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church (California), author of over 200 books, and radio host of Grace to You. His teaching on the clarity of God's written Word will encourage you to stand confidently against the tide of compromise and skepticism.

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Register by August 1 to receive our early bird price (a $45 savings). Each registration includes free admission to the world-class Ark Encounter and Creation Museum, and 20% off admission for an accompanying spouse and dependent children.

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"World's Oldest Rain Forest Frog" Was a Frog

This extinct frog species, preserved in amber for us to find today, is just another example of God's limitless creativity.

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Canada Recognizes Three People as Parents of One Child​

Canada has just recognized two men and one woman who are involved in a "polyamorous" relationship as the parents of one child on the child's birth certificate.

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Tasty New Food Options at the Ark Encounter

When you make plans to visit the Ark Encounter, be sure to bring your appetite. One thing's for sure—you won't leave hungry!

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Friday, June 29, 2018

John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

Put prayer really first by having a real season of prayer before anything else of importance in the day. You probably will have to rise earlier than you now rise to do it. You may have to leave off other matters of lesser importance. But "those that seek me early shall find me," says the Lord in Proverbs 8:17. - John R. Rice

Make a habit of praying through about every burden and problem that comes to you. Sometimes we cannot in one day get the full answer to a great prayer, but we can every day, I believe, get a sweet peace to know that God has heard us, and that we left the thing in the hands of our heavenly Father and He has smiled into our hearts and given us peace. - John R. Rice 

You may not, as you pray in one given season, see the salvation of the man for whom you pray; but you can pray until you have sweet assurance that God has undertaken and will do thing you desire. Or you can pray until God's Holy Spirit helps you see how you should modify your prayer to fit with the plan of God. - John R. Rice

Take time to pray about things as they come up. Years ago as a preacher I found it impossible to remember all the requests for prayer that would come to me in a day's time so as to pray for them when I slept or the next morning. So I formed a habit of stopping to pray about every case about which I was impressed that I ought to pray, at the time it was mentioned. And then I never promise to pray for any matter in the future except as God shall lay it on my heart and bring it to my mind. I have found a great peace in going to God with every burden the moment I feel the need for prayer about it. And one of the sweet and blessed results is a constant companionship and fellowship with God. - John R. Rice 

Let us learn the lesson that prayer is not in the form. And let us get out of our ruts, pray when we stand or pray when we sit. In times of great emergency or distress we ought surely be on our very faces on the floor before God, pleading and waiting on Him. But at other times we ought like David to awake in the night, communing with our own hearts upon our beds (Psalm 4:4), and again pray at evening, morning and at noon (Psalm 55:17). - John R. Rice

How wonderful was life in that Garden of Eden! There is nothing to grieve God, nothing to hurt man. The roses, I think, had no thorns. And it may be Adam and Eve slept on a bed of rose petals. If there were any mosquitos, they probably just joined in the symphony orchestra and didn't go about puncturing people with their tiny hypodermic needles. - John R. Rice

Did Cain take well the rebuke of God? No. He was angry. How many men today boast of their good deeds. They want a religion without a bloody sacrifice. They want men to be good and often claim that men are naturally good. But, alas, human experience and the Bible prove that "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23). - John R. Rice

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

DOES THE DEVIL KNOW YOUR NAME? [#2]




ACTS 19:13-20

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. DOES THE DEVIL OR HIS DEMONS KNOW YOU?

1. They Know Jesus [v. 15, Luke 4:31-35, 8:26-28]

2. Some Knew Paul [v. 15, 16:16-18]

3. Satan Knows Some Believers [Job 1:9, Lk. 22:31]

II. DO YOU KNOW THE DEVIL?

1. Do You Know of His Desires [Lk. 22:31, 1 Pet. 5:8]

2. Do You Know of His Devices? [2 Cor. 2:8-11]

3. Do You Know of His Darts? [Eph. 6:16]

III. DO YOU KNOW THE LORD?

1. His Power Can Shield You [Eph. 6:10-20]

2. His Presence Can Protect You [James. 4:6-7, 2 Kings 6:16-17, Psalm 34:15, 1 Peter 3:12]

3. His Prayer Can Deliver You [Lk. 22:31-32, Heb. 7:22-25]

Monday, June 25, 2018

GOD THE FATHER HAS NOT CHANGED!


                                                          JAMES 1:16-17                                                  

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. GOD HAS NOT CHANGED

1. His Power Has Not Changed [Isaiah 50:2, 59:1]

- Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
-Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

2. His Policy Has Not Changed [Malachi 3:1-7]

3. His Predictions Have Not Changed [Isaiah 34:16]

- Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

II. GOD’S WORD HAS NOT CHANGED

1. It has the Same Comfort [Romans 15:4, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4]

- For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
-Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

2. It has the Same Hope [Romans 15:4, Acts 26:6]
- For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
- And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

3. It has the Same Promises [Ps. 77:8, 2 Peter 1:4]

-Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
- Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

III. GOD’S EXPECTATIONS HAVE NOT CHANGED

1. His Love Hasn’t Changed [Jeremiah 31:3, Jn. 3:16, 1 Jn. 4:7-11]

-The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
- For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

2. His Longing Hasn’t Changed [Rm. 5:8, 2 Peter 3:9]

- But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

3. His Loyalty Hasn’t Changed [Psalm 119:90, Lamentations 3:23, 1 Cor. 1:9, 10:13]

-Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
-They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
-God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
-There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Sunday, June 24, 2018

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?




JAMES 4:13-17

Pastor Rick Jackson

Over a quarter of a century ago I heard Evangelist Lester Roloff say, “There is not a question raised in the Bible but that is also answered in the Bible.” I do not know for sure if that is true, but I have never found anything to make me question it. All of life’s greatest questions are answered in the Bible- including the question asked in verse 14, “What is your life?” Well… what is your life?

I. YOUR LIFE IS PLAGUED BY UNCERTAINTY [v. 13-14]

II. YOUR LIFE IS SHORT IN COMPARISON [v. 14]

III. YOUR LIFE IS PURPOSEFUL IN CHRIST [v. 15]

IV. YOUR LIFE IS PREDICATED ON CHARACTER [v. 15]

V. YOUR LIFE IS HAZARDOUS IN CARNALITY [v. 16]

VI. YOUR LIFE IS JUDGED ON CHOICES [v. 17]

Saturday, June 23, 2018

Question of the Week: What does Jurassic World imply about God and his creation?


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Water at the Bottom of a Cliff

Water: An Underappreciated Gift


Water might not immediately come to mind when we think of God's good gifts to us. But water is so well designed for our use that a seemingly simple glass of the clear liquid should cause us to recognize the fingerprint of the Creator and give him glory.

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Incredibles 2, Equality, and Fathers


Many movies today express the importance of women being treated as equals but do so by making the men look foolish. How does Incredibles 2 portray these roles?

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom


We found a few surprise elements in our review of this new release, but overall the film ran predictably, particularly along the lines of the Jurassic Park series. The greed of man leads to his downfall, genetic engineering at its worst plays a central role, and Dr. Ian Malcolm's chaos theory is given a nod—to tie it all back to the late Michael Crichton's inaugural novel, Jurassic Park of 1990.

What lessons does Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom portray, including implications on the character of God and his role in creation?

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Did dinosaurs roam the earth millions of years ago? Get answers from this book and DVD pack.

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Discoveries of Dinosaur Soft Tissue

Are dinosaur fossils really over 65 million years old? Can tissue and proteins possibly survive that long? This compelling book and DVD pack shows new evidence for creation and the accuracy of Genesis.

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Will Jurassic Park be Reality Someday?

Jurassic World recently prompted an article in Scientific American titled "Jurassic World: Can We Really Resurrect Dinosaurs?"

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It's Officially Summer—Find out What That Means​

The summer solstice, or alternately the June solstice, occurred at 6:07 a.m. EDT on June 21, 2018. What does this mean?

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Canadian Supreme Court Limits Religious Freedom

The Supreme Court of Canada handed down a highly disappointing decision to a Christian university—a decision that will impact religious freedom in that nation.

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