You Need to Watch Expedition Bible

December 9, 2023 Leave a comment

I have been watching the Expedition Bible videos on YouTube for a while now and the way Joel Kramer presents recent discoveries in archaeology from the Holy Land that support what the Bible says have been most helpful. The videos take you to the sites that match events recorded in the Bible and you get to see 3D Diagrams of what it might have looked like in the past as well as drone fly overs with interactive arrows showing where people went. This has helped me to visualize what the Bible describes and clarified what happened during some events. You need to watch and subscribe to this channel.

Beyond visualizing what happened the information given supports the church and our faith showing that we are not blindly following manmade stories but events that happened. It is a great tool for apologetics, showing proof to the world that the Bible can be trusted. These are resources along with others like Timothy Mahoney’s Patterns of Evidence that both help us to see and give us hope and reasons for confidence.

For example, the picture below is from the vblog about where Jacob wrestled God. I had always found it odd that Jacob sent his family ahead of him crossing the ford, seemed kind of cowardly. But what I saw here was that the road was on the right side of the river and when he sent his family ahead across the ford that would have been to the left where the river curves while he went up the hill to watch for his brother Esau. It was to protect his family. You can understand passages in the bible better when you can see where they happened. 

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ExpeditionBible

WebSite: https://expeditionbible.com/

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Make a Defense – Origins Part 1 – Nature of God

April 22, 2020 Leave a comment

Introduction

For the past several months I have been working on presentations which may be used with youth to prepare them to defend their faith.  I released an introduction a couple months ago and now I am releasing my first of two presentations on Origins.  Why am I doing this you may ask.  Well a recent Pew Research polls found that the number of professing Christians in America has decreased from 78% to 65% in the past 10 years.  Further one in three young adults abandon their Christian Faith soon after graduating from High School.  These are alarming trends.  Many young adults loose their faith while they attending college.  In this environment they are challenged to defend their faith and their reasons for belief are often questioned by atheist or agnostic professors.  This video is intended for use by inividuals or church groups, please feel free to watch and I hope it helps answer some questions.

Note: Clip of continental mega sequences taken from the Movie “Is Genesis History” as well as much of the verbiage for descriptions of the Naturalistic Paradigm and Creation Paradigm.

Inserted below are links you may use for further investigation.

Is Genesis History

Answers in Genesis

Institute for Creation Research

Case for a Creator <Book> – <Movie>

Expelled No Intelligence Allowed

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Always Ready to Make a Defense

December 20, 2019 Leave a comment

Introduction

For the past several weeks I have been working on presentations which may be used with youth to prepare them to defend their faith.  Recent Pew Research polls have found that the number of professing Christians in America has decreased from 78% to 65% in the past 10 years.  Further one in three young adults abandon their Christian Faith soon after graduating from High School.  These are alarming trends.  Many young adults loose their faith while they attending college.  In this environment they are challenged to defend their faith and their reasons for belief are often questioned by atheist or agnostic professors.  There are several professional curriculum for teens and young adults which churches may want to consider.

Journey Advocates by Awana

Answers ABC Bible Curriculum by Answers in Genesis

The resources I am working on are a bit more short term; covering only 5 sessions.  Sometimes churches have other topics and material they feel is important.  I am trying to make this a subset apologetic material to answer some of the most common questions and objections that young adults and teens face. Inserted below is the first video in the series.

Make a Defense – Introduction on Vimeo.

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