April and her friends often met at the ice cream shop after school to talk and hang out and have fun. Their parents didn’t mind because the ice cream shop is near the elementary school and they could pick them up there. Today they were all excited about the discussion they had in history class when the teacher was talking about the presidents of the country. After they had their lecture and video the teacher had a game called “If I were president” where everybody said what they would change if they got a chance to be president.
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If I Were God
December 10, 2007Getting Back To Basics With The Bible
November 11, 2007We, as Christians, live in difficult times. Society seems to become more and more fragmented everyday, church attendance is at an all time low, and the media is constantly giving mixed messages and inappropriate ideas to our kids. It seems like more and more people are turning away from the Bible and the Word of God!
What’s really bad about all of this is that we are losing the battle for our young. Politicians use the Bible for whatever political agenda they want to push, and this turns off young people who generally have a more liberal frame of mind.
Now more than ever, we need to get back to basics. We have to set the record straight. Instead of getting confused by all the mixed messages, we just need to open that old family Bible and read the Word of God, right there in black and white.
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