February 2007 - Posts

  • Kids 4 Truth Update | February 2007

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    New Products & Other Releases

    Songbook http://store.kids4truth.com/detail.aspx?ID=311 – This brand new release presents all twelve original Kids 4 Truth songs by Dan Forrest and Eileen Berry. The songbook includes one new song and two loved hymns to use as supplemental teaching tools for each of the twelve doctrinal themes K4T's curriculum emphasizes. Over 60 pages, the songbook contains full sheet music for all 36 songs, as well as photocopy-able "kids' parts" pages for the twelve new K4T songs. To hear piano samples of the twelve original songs, please click on this link: http://store.kids4truth.com/detail.aspx?ID=306

    Watchmaker DVD – http://store.kids4truth.com/detail.aspx?ID=312 – Many have requested the popular Watchmaker dynamation be put into DVD format. We did it. Please watch the low-resolution version of this DVD on YouTube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwEhSsltU6k

    DevosKids 4 Truth Daily Devotional Podcasts – The talented Alan Behn of Northland's speech faculty has been narrating: http://devos.kids4truth.com (click the image at right to hear one now). If you would like to subscribe to this podcast through iTunes, you will find a link on the devotionals home page to help you do so.

    Watchmaker Coloring Pages – http://store.kids4truth.com/detail.aspx?ID=310

    New Free “Up Front” Game Download: Treasure Trivia Do you use a projector and a computer during your teaching time? If so, this game will be a wonderful addition to your teacher toolbox. We hope to produce several more of these review games to be used to help teachers keep kids’ attention while reviewing important truths! This is a self-running file, so no other software is necessary. Just install it, and you're ready to go. (If you are not already a member of the Kids 4 Truth EquipU resource site, free registration is required to access this game file.) http://equipu.kids4truth.com/files/folders/review_games/default.aspx

    Current Projects

    LTAGPraise the Lord with us! A generous church has given us a gift of $3,000 to print our first run of the “Let’s Talk About God” children’s gospel tract. Look for this tract soon! Find out more by clicking the image at right.

    As far as other projects go, we’re working on a ton of new God-focused materials. We hope to be able to show you the following very soon:

    • New dynamation about general revelation called “Creation’s Voice.”
    • Parallels document: This is a 4 column progression of the top 120 questions and answers of the Kids 4 Truth clubs curriculum. http://clubs.kids4truth.com
    • TruthCards: These are downloadable flashcards of the top 120 questions and answers.
    • More “up front” games for teachers to use in group settings.
    • Lyric PowerPoints for the twelve original Kids 4 Truth songs.
    • Enhanced teacher lesson plans available at http://equipu.kids4truth.com

    The Kids 4 Truth Foundation and “Support the Ministry” pages

    Kids 4 Truth FoundationIf you're interested in supporting our ministry, we want to help you be a good steward of your resources. In order to serve your giving needs better we have partnered with the Servant Christian Community Foundation (SCCF) to help you to be a wiser giver. Because of our partnership with SCCF and the formation of the Kids 4 Truth Foundation, we are able to provide you with many creative giving opportunities designed to result in a win-win situation for both our ministry and you.

    You might be surprised to find that you have the ability right now to put to God-honoring use things like old insurance policies, stocks, mutual funds, properties, and even out-of-date business inventory that is doing nothing but sitting around! The SCCF provides both us and our donors with expert guidance from beginning to end on any non-cash donation. The SCCF exists to guide you every step of the way quickly, easily, and with maximum benefit to both you and the Kids 4 Truth ministry.

    Don’t Google It, GoodSearch It!

    GoodsearchGoodSearch is a unique way to legally and legitimately give away other people’s money by performing web searches. Bottom line: you can be a big help to Kids 4 Truth simply by using GoodSearch in place of your existing search engine. For more details about this unusual way to raise money for a good cause, click HERE.

    Personal Announcement from Director Bob Roberts

    It is my joy to inform you that I am to be married soon. Praise the Lord with me that I have gained a new measure of favor in the eyes of God! (Proverbs 18:22). If you would like to read more about this wonderful blessing from heaven, please click here: http://bobsblog.kids4truth.com/archive/2006/09/28/A-Really_2C00_-Really_2C00_-Really-BIG-Personal-Announcement.aspx. Sarah and I covet your prayers for our wedding ceremony, especially since several lost family members will be attending. It is our desire that they will see an overwhelming picture of God’s love and majesty that day and turn to Him in faith and repentance.

    Facebook Friends

    If you’re on Facebook, please join the Kids 4 Truth Facebook group! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2234535001

    Two Key Questions

    What Are We All About?

    We’re all about teaching boys and girls foundational doctrinal truth about God memorably, creatively, and passionately. Psalm 78:4 – We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.

    Why Are We All About That?

    We’re all about that because it’s God’s divine method for saving sinners through faith in Him. Psalm 78:7 – That they may set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments.

    Hoping in Jesus changes everything for good!

    Sincerely yours,

    The Kids 4 Truth Executive Team

  • Wake Up, Christian

    Yeah, we teach kids to love their neighbor, do good in society, and stay married and faithful to one person. Terrorism at its ugliest, folks.

    Brian Flemming thinks that youth are helpless victims of Christian teachings. Atheism’s foremost apologist, Richard Dawkins, is a heavy promoter of Brian’s newest project: “The Blasphemy Challenge.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcbTJgeJrw0

    Using Mark 3:29 as a platform, Brian encourages boys and girls to video themselves denying God and then post it to YouTube. You can see hundreds of these videos online right now. It’s alarming. Young adults, teens, and even children zealously travel down the road to hell as they deny the God that gives them both the air and capacity to breathe the air they need to twitch the muscles that move their blasphemous mouths. May God be merciful to them and grant them faith and repentance.

    Brian admits he is targeting children with “The Blasphemy Challenge.”

    As a very small child, I could slap my daddy in the face if he picked me up into his arms and held me close. Brian and his followers do the same thing to their heavenly Father. What Brian does not realize is that it is only because of the sustaining and supporting hand of His Creator that gives him the ability to mock the One ultimately granting him existence.

    Actually, Brian does realize this in his heart of hearts. He willingly supresses the knowledge of God. He pushes back God’s gracious revelation like a swimmer that holds a volleyball under water and then argues against the existence of the volleyball.

    Bc2The initial blasphemer you’ll hear in the video above says: “Through basic observation of the world around me, and through logical thinking…I’ve come to the conclusion there is no God.” What he fails to see is that he is borrowing from the Christian worldview every time he uses logic.

    Atheistic philosophy is the true terrorism. The atheists claim they are exposing Christians under delusion. Fine. I’m not trying to silence atheists, or stop them from their atheistic activities, but I do want to expose their philosophy and confront them with it.

    In a truly atheistic universe, Brian and his fellow blasphemers have no objective standard by which to guage what is right and wrong, good and evil. They cannot account for the laws of logic which they use to attempt to make their arguments against God’s existence. Atheism stops short of dealing with the tough philosophical questions and would rather point out the supposed shortcomings of the Christian God. And all the while atheists try to poke holes in Christian religion, they unwittingly use the moral moorings that are provided by the true Christian religion and by the character of the good God of the Christian religion. They must do this because atheism provides none.

    (It’s kind of like arguing against the existence of air while you’re breathing it.)

    Are you moved to action, Christian? Let’s change our affections, brothers and sisters. Let’s stop investing our lives into watching American Idol. Learn how to engage your culture with the truth. This life is not a game. Let’s be different. Let’s be active. I am ticked that Christians are so very, very asleep in our comfortable Americhristianity. Rise up and do something for Jesus. Wake up. Be salty. Be edgy. Be LIGHT. Speak the truth in love. We’re a comfortable subculture; a subculture which has been fed and grown to preposterous proportions by most of our Christian schools and universities. Our walls of “holiness” and protection from the world are solidly in place but our impact upon this culture with gospel truth is pitiful. We don’t speak gospel truth. Many of us don’t even live it.

    Q: How will I know when I am salt and light in the world?

    A: You will suffer persecution from the godless. (2 Timothy 3:12)

    ***IDEA: The Blasphemy Challenge Challenge***

    I’d love to see thousands of kids and teens posting their own personal salvation testimony on YouTube. I’ve got a zillion projects I’m working on and my to-do list is as thick as the “M” volume of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, but if you’ve got an idea of how this can happen, please let me know. Kids 4 Truth has a YouTube account and we could easily post videos through that. The incentive to doing this? Perhaps Revelation 12:11 can help: "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”

    Maybe “The Simon Peter Challenge” from Matthew 16:16?: Simon Peter answered and said, "You [Jesus] are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

    Please let me know if someone else is doing something similar.