The Answers in Genesis Curriculum Sale

I'm still trying to get it into my head that it is 2020.  Twenty-Twenty. TWENTY-TWENTY.  That just seems unreal to me. My grandmother and I were very close. She passed away when I was 25 but she was born in 1923. For so long, 1923 didn't seem so long ago but it was almost 100 years ago. Crazy! Anyway, in celebration of the new year, Answers in Genesis is hosting a huge curriculum sale.

 The Answers in Genesis Curriculum Sale

New Resources for a New Year! It’s 2020! Get the Truth about Biology, Sexuality, Climate Change, Origins and more! January Specials expire February 29, 2020.  

Now is a great time to resolve to teach your children Biblical truths.  In a world where false theologies are taught without regard to the truth of scripture, it is more important than ever to ground your children on a firm foundation of Scripture.  Give them the tools they need to stand firm as the world around them falls prey to Satan's lies.  Falsehoods and confusion are tools of the enemy and the enemy is after our children. 

The following resources from Answers in Genesis will help you arm your children with truth regarding cultural issues while educating them to grow into solid, confident, productive Christian adults.

Fearfully & Wonderfully Made

In this presentation, Dr. Menton explains the development of an infant from the embryo to birth. Explore the amazing sequence of fertilization, implantation, development of the placenta, and finally the birth process itself.  Fearfully & Wonderfully Made is appropriate for teens and adults.

Watch the following clip featuring Dr. David Menton.

 Unplanned 

What happened when a Planned Parenthood clinic director, abortion advocate, and deeply pro-choice woman observed an abortion? Well, it changed her life.  This film is from the co-producers of God's Not Dead.  Parents, please be advised of mature theme content. 

Watch the Unplanned official movie trailer.

 

Are People Born Gay?

We need to lovingly show that, regardless of feelings, the choice to embrace any sexual lifestyle other than God’s design for marriage is sin, and as with any sin, the only hope for deliverance is the redeeming work of God’s grace offered through his Son Jesus Christ.

 Comparative Religions Curriculum Set

An eye-opening 36-week course with an apologetics foundation, focused on the history and basic tenets of religions from around the world!

Discover what makes the Creator God in Genesis unique and how all religions fall into one of two categories: man-made or God.

The complete set of World Religions and Cults Books. Includes Counterfeits of Christianity, Moralistic, Mythical and Mysticism Religions, and Atheistic and Humanistic Religions.

• Examines over 40 different world religions and cults against the truth of God’s Word
• Equips your student to identify a false religion and powerfully refute their tenets
• Includes 24”X 40” poster with church and denominational history from Creation to present day

 Climate Change

 

What is the truth about climate change? Are the ice caps melting? Is man the chief cause of global warming? What should Christians do about climate change? These and other questions are answered in this Climate Change Pocket Guide.

God's Design for Science Curriculum Set

The God’s Design series is a highly regarded, complete science curriculum for grades 3 through 8. Covers life science, earth science, physical science, and chemistry & ecology. In the award-winning, full-color student curriculum the lessons are short, easy to teach, and take a hands-on approach using ordinary household items for experiments and activities. But easy does not mean lacking in substance; God’s Design textbooks and the all-new teacher supplements are comprehensive. Most important, God’s Design authors Debbie and Richard Lawrence approach science from a biblical worldview, emphasizing God’s handiwork in the world around us and showing how real science supports biblical authority and the Genesis account of creation.

I Really, Really, Really Like Fossils

The media teaches children that fossils prove evolution. That's not true! This book of fossil facts teaches kids how fossils are made, where to find fossils, and what can be learned from fossils. All from a biblical perspective! Excellent for early grade school and other young explorers!

Buddy Davis' Cool Critters of the Ice Age

Here is an exciting Ice Age animal exploration led by popular adventurer Buddy Davis! Discover elk with antlers over twelve feet long, rhino-like animals that ate plants, amazing "monster birds" of North and South America, and more!

Cultural Issues:  Creation/Evolution and the Bible Curriculum Pack

Now you can use the popular Answers Books 1 & 2 as apologetics homeschool curriculum. The Answers Books contain answers from scientists in geology, astrophysics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, and more.

God's Design for the Physical World Complete Set

Have fun with electricity, magnetism, and light; learn about machines and technology with hands-on activities and experiments. This fascinating series covers studies in motion, energy, and technology. Grades 3–8.

Learn a lot more about all of the above resources and many more including videos, sample pages, and documents here at Answers in Genesis.  Don't forget that this sale ends February 29, 2020.

Be sure to check out all the resources available to you.  I've only shown you 10. 

In addition to the curriculum materials available at Answers in Genesis, I highly recommend a field trip to the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter.  My family has visited both sites.  It is definitely a trip you should make with your family.  Florence, Kentucky is a great place to book a hotel room.  You'll be within minutes of each attraction as they are about half an hour apart.  We enjoyed our stay in Florence where we could choose between plenty of restaurants, stores, gas stations - pretty much anything we needed.  While you are there, you might as well visit Cincinnati, Ohio which is about 5 minutes from Florence, Kentucky.

I hope this Answers in Genesis Curriculum Sale guide has helped you make the decision to resolve to educate your children in the truths of Scripture while training them up to be mature, responsible adult citizens. 

Best wishes to you and your family on your 2020 learning adventures. 

As part of our pastor's Viewmaster Series, we are studying the Bible as it relates to our Biblical Worldview concerning "hot topics" of today.  Today's lesson is about God's design for sexuality.  The world will tell us that all sorts of sexual identities and practices are "normal" or acceptable.  However, sex was created by God and He has a design for it.  It is important that we know what God's design for sexuality is.  Our worldview on this topic should be shaped by God's Word, not the world.

Our pastor quoted a sad statistic.  He says that only 10% of the American population believes in an absolute truth.  Even more sad, 80% of professed Christians make decisions based on how they feel, rather than the truth of Scripture.  Friends, our feelings should NEVER supersede the revelation of Scripture.

You are invited to watch, listen, and worship with us here as our pastor preaches this sermon.  My notes on this sermon are found below the video.

God's Design For Sexuality. | September 15, 2019 | Pastor Jeff Crook from Christ Place Church on Vimeo.

God's Design for Sexuality

1.  God's Design

Loveless truth and truthless love are BOTH wrong.

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. - Genesis 1:27

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. - Genesis 1:18-25

God created only 2 sexes to compliment one another for the purpose of creating children in the context of marriage.  

Current worldly culture tells us that there are different ways to look at this but God has already spoken His design for sexuality and His plan (design) for human flourishing is evident throughout the whole Bible.

God's Word is VERY CLEAR about what we are to NOT do.

You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination. - Leviticus 18:22

It's right there in the Bible.  The Bible clearly states that homosexuality is an abomination.

When we step out of God's design, we are stepping into sinful rebellion.  God's design for gender identity is just as specific as sexuality. 

A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. - Deuteronomy 22:5

This verse in Deuteronomy is not talking about women wearing jeans or men wearing a pink shirt.  This verse speaks to women pretending to be men and men pretending to be women.  Like homosexuality, the Bible calls this practice an abomination.

The roots of gender rebellion are in atheistic evolution/revolution. 

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries. - Mark 7:21

Read the entire chapter of Leviticus 18 here at Bible Gateway.  This chapter clearly describes God's design for sexuality from the Old Testament to the New Testament. 

Both marriage and celibacy are blessed by God.

Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?”  And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?”  He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.  And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

The disciples said to Him, “If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.”  But He said to them, “Not all men can accept this statement, but only those to whom it has been given. For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it.” - Matthew 19:3-12

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.” But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.  Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. - 1 Corinthians 6:13-20

2.  Our Rebellion

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. - Genesis 3:6-7

All sin comes out and when it comes out, it hurts.  

Sin will take you further than you want to go, cost you more than you want to pay, and make you stay longer than you want to stay. (I'm not sure who originally said this, but I remember this same true statement from one of my earlier Beth Moore or Priscilla Shirer Bible studies.)

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. - Romans 1:21-27

When we violate God's divine design, we bring judgement upon ourselves.

There is a way which seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death. - Proverbs 14:12

3.  Hope for Sexual Sinners

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” - Genesis 3:13

We are ALL broken, but just because you have a "feeling," you don't have the freedom to act on it.

It is import for us to remember that we should not "throw stones" at one another.  

We need to stop excusing our behavior and repent.

Allow God to transform you into a person living under His divine design.

As Christians, what is our roll?  We are to stay true to Scripture and love people back to Jesus.

View all posts in this View-master Series here.

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