Do You Know What Your Children Are Being Taught in School?
By Mike Riddle

     Most parents who take their children to church on Sunday also send them off to a secular school the rest of the week. This is the case in approximately 88% of U.S. households with school-age children. If the teacher teaches from secular textbooks, the child’s Christian education is challenged.
    At church they are taught that they are special in God’s eyes; in fact, they are created in His image. In most secular schools they hear the philosophy of naturalism, the idea that mass and energy are all that exist and that the universe and life all arose by natural processes. There is no supernatural Creator God.
    In a key 1995 statement, the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) affirmed that naturalism is a fundamental tenet of science education: “The diversity of life on earth is the outcome of evolution: an unsupervised, impersonal, unpredictable and natural process of temporal descent with genetic modification that is affected by natural selection, chance, historical contingencies and changing environments.”
    “Unsupervised” means no Creator God. “Impersonal” means life has no special meaning. “Unpredictable” means we are a product of blind chance. “Natural process” means processes inherent in matter. It should be noted that in 1997, the NABT removed the words, unsupervised” and “impersonal” when they realized they were distancing themselves from religious people, but the words “unpredictable” and “natural processes” remain.
    It appears that secular textbooks are following these tenets well. Consider these quotes from some popular textbooks: “Evolution is not goal oriented” (Campbell and Reece, AP Edition Biology, 2005, p. 486). “But all researchers agree on certain basic facts. We know, for example, that humans evolved from ancestors we share with other living primates such as chimpanzees and apes” (Miller and Levine, Biology, 2000, p. 757).
    The NABT’s position statement directly contradicts biblical creation and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As Jesus said in Mark 10:6, “But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female” (KJV).
    Jesus clearly states that man and woman were on planet earth from the beginning of creation, not after millions of years of unsupervised evolution. If we can’t trust the words of Jesus, then why should we trust Him as our Savior?

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Truth Project Could Change Our Nation
By Bev Ehlen

     The issues of the day are more than troubling; abortion, divorce, the redefinition of marriage, human cloning, rampant immorality, government corruption. America has lost its way. But it is not the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, the pornography trade, Hollywood or the mainstream media who are at fault. The fault lies with Christians who have either abdicated their responsibilities or bought into the world’s lies out of ignorance and are living according to the world’s standards as opposed to God’s.
    God promised to heal our land when His people turn from their wicked ways. The key to our country being healed is Christians repenting. The need for repentance will become evident once our minds are transformed by the Word of God.
    There is something that could help turn our hearts and minds to God - a study that could not only change us but could change our nation.
    Focus on the Family has produced The Truth Project which is a study that is probably the best tool available for transforming minds and lives of Christians. The Truth Project is a DVD-based small group curriculum which is a systematic and comprehensive biblical worldview study that looks at all of life. This home study is the starting point for looking at life from a biblical perspective. Each lesson discusses in great detail the relevance and importance of living the Christian worldview and will equip people to make a Christ-centered difference in our culture by applying God's principles to daily life.
    The following are brief descriptions of each of the 12 lessons taught by Dr. Del Tackett.

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