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The Case Of The Missing Mountain by Kim Jones

Case Of The Missing MountainOne of the main arguments evolutionists bring against Creationism is a lack of evidence for a global flood. However, the evidence is compelling for those who are willing to take a closer look. One such accumulation of evidence lies in the destruction caused by Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980.

Mount St. Helens’ eruption is rich in evidence for a global flood. But how do you go about teaching that to children? Geology is a tough subject for younger kids, especially early elementary.

Fortunately, Kim Jones has found a way to teach the truth of Noah’s flood through the evidence presented in the Mount St. Helens catastrophe. In The Case Of The Missing Mountain, Jones creatively examines the evidence, which she has provided in a series of clues, leading the young researcher to the final conclusion of volcanic activity being part of the mechanism God used to destroy the earth in Genesis 6-9.

My kids are excited to go through The Case Of The Missing Mountain as a part of our geology unit in our homeschool science curriculum. I feel it will serve as a great resource for me to teach the reality of Noah’s flood. And Jones has made it interesting and fun.

I highly recommend The Case Of The Missing Mountain. This is a valuable resource to include in your library, and will assist your children in the development of a biblical worldview.

If you are interested in reading The Case Of The Missing Mountain, you can order it from Amazon.com.

Disclosure of Material Connection:
I received this book free from New Leaf Press/Master Books as part of their Blogger Review Program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. Also, some of the links in the post above are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will add value to my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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Passport To The World by Craig Froman

Passport To The WorldPassport To The World is a great book to introduce young children to several different world cultures and languages. Featuring 26 different cultures, this resource is an excellent primer for a family to use as a family activity, prayer guide, or a homeschool resource.

Passport To The World includes several interesting features for each culture visited, including location around the world, population and other statistics, phrases from that particular language, and several facts about the country or culture being examined.

Passport To The World also includes a children’s “visa” and a series of stickers that can be inserted after reading about a particular culture.

While not going too in-depth, Froman has created a great resources that can introduce not only world cultures to young children, but world missions as well.

There are numerous possibilities for using Passport To The World. We plan on using it with our children to examine a particular people group, and add more details to our study using resources available from Operation World.

I think it will be a well-used book in our home.

If you are interested in reading Passport To The World, you can order it from Amazon.com.

Disclosure of Material Connection:
I received this book free from New Leaf Press/Master Books as part of their Blogger Review Program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. Also, some of the links in the post above are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will add value to my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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Deadly Disclosures by Julie Cave

Deadly DisclosuresDeadly Disclosures is Julie Cave’s first book in her Dinah Harris trilogy. I read and reviewed the second book in the series, A Shadowed Mind, late last year, and I loved it.

So I went back to read the first book in the series. And loved it as well. Julie Cave does a great job of weaving current issues into a non-stop, edge-of-your-seat, gripping plot-line.

In Deadly Disclosures, FBI agent Dinah Harris is called upon to investigate the high-profile murder of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. While dealing with her own issues, such as alcoholism and the loss of her husband and son, Harris has to get a grip on her life in order to dig to the bottom of this conspiracy.

And conspiracy it is! What could cause someone to murder the Secretary of the Smithsonian? Creationism. When the Secretary wants to add displays featuring Creation to the heavily evolutionized museum, he causes some serious agitation in the highest levels of society and government.

Cave does a great job in this book explaining the young-earth creation model, and its struggle with evolutionism. And she lands firmly in the camp of Creation, without compromising.

As with A Shadowed Mind, I am extremely impressed. Order this one and read it today!

I highly recommend that you read these two books. Order Deadly Disclosures from Amazon.com by clicking here. Or, you can order A Shadowed Mind by clicking here.

I received this book free from New Leaf Press/Master Books as part of their Blogger Review Program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.

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Tips For Becoming More Consistent In Your Bible Reading

Bible Reading

I am convinced that in order to grow as a Christian, you have to be connected daily to God’s Word. But one of the hardest things to do, in my experience, is take the time to make this a priority.

Here are a few tips that I’ve picked up over the years that have helped me become more consistent in my Bible reading. Maybe they’ll help you too.

Remove distractions. Turn off your phone, iPod, TV, etc. Don’t read the Bible on your computer, where FaceBook or other websites could be a distraction. Distractions keep you from concentrating. Removing all that you can will help ensure success in your Bible reading.

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Engage: Philippians

Engage: Philippians

Our annual Winter Retreat at our camp system was this weekend. We called it Engage: Philippians. Our goal was to present the letter of Philippians in a fresh, new, exciting and deeper way than our students have ever understood it. We had an incredible weekend!

This is typically a weekend focused on high school students. This year we opened it up to college-age students as well.

I’m not sure how successful we were. The weekend was a great success, sure. And if we’d focused on strictly high school students, it would have been a huge success. If we had geared it to only college-aged students, it would have been smaller, but still a great weekend.

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Stuff You Can Use

It’s Friday. That means it’s time to take a quick look at a resource that I find helpful or inspirational.

This week I want to share a great website hosted by Southeast Christian Church, in Louisville, KY. It’s a collection of resources, images, videos, and messages that were produced for SCC’s student ministry and young adult/college ministry.

Stuff I Can Use

Their purpose is to share the quality productions that they’ve created for their own use. After they finish with them, they figured that it’s pointless to just leave them sitting around, collecting digital dust. So they posted them to share with other ministries. For free.

Did you catch that last part? It’s free.

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Fossilized Octopus Evidence For Noah’s Flood

Octopus in Shallow Water

Recently, five octopus fossils were discovered in Lebanon. Supposedly 95 million years old, these fossils are remarkably well preserved, including all eight tentacles, and even evidence of suckers and traces of ink!

It’s surprising that the octopuses even became fossils. Since an octopus doesn’t have any hard parts, other than the beak, its body decomposes very quickly into a mushy blob and is gone in a matter of days.

According to evolutionary theory, in order to become fossilized, an octopus would have to sink to the ocean floor, and slowly become buried by sediment, all without decomposing, or being eaten by scavengers or bacteria. That scenario isn’t likely. In fact, even Charles Darwin, in his uniformitarian thinking, wrote, “No organism wholly soft can be preserved” (The Origin of Species, first published 1859, quote taken from p. 422 of the 6th Edition, 1872, reprinted 1902).

In order for this creature to become a fossil, it had to be buried very rapidly. Something catastrophic would have had to happen to make an octopus quickly sink to the ocean floor and be buried before any decomposition could take place, much less be eaten by another animal for dinner!