Issues in Education

When God Doesn’t Make Sense

12/28/24 When God Doesn’t Make Sense 1917
Since God is good and all-powerful, why does He allow terrible things to happen to people? Why is God silent when I am hurting? How do you handle unanswered prayers? Dr James Dobson, author of When God Doesn’t Make Sense – Holding Onto Your Faith in the Toughest Times, tells how broken he was by seeing his 3 year old son Ryan suffer during a medical procedure. So too, God the Father suffered watching Jesus on the cross. Jesus weeping with Mary and Martha over the death of Lazarus shows how God suffers with us. Jesus demonstrated His power over death by raising his dead friend Lazarus back to life.

The Birth of God

12/21/24 The Birth of God 1916
The greatest event in all history was that the Creator of the universe became a baby, the man Jesus. It’s amazing that the God who created everything came to earth as a single cell, says famed actor Bruce Marchiano. Pastor Francis Chan, author of Crazy Love, gives an impassioned Christmas message exclaiming how God emptied himself and left heaven to become a man! If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus! Jesus shows that God isn’t angry but loving, patient and kind. When a primitive tribe first heard the gospel and how God had forgiven them of all sins, they leaped for joy and celebrated for hours.

Celebrating Christ

12/14/16 Celebrating Christ 1915
What is God like? Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Isaiah prophesied about Christ, “Unto us a Son is given: and His Name shall be called Mighty God, the everlasting Father.” Was Jesus really God? Was He the Creator? He was. God came to the earth He created in the smallest form possible, as a single cell. Film maker Bruce Marchiano, who acted the parts of Jesus in more films than any other, is the author of Jesus Yesterday, Today and Forever. What was Jesus like as a child? What was it like for Mary, expecting Jesus to rule the world, to see Him crucified? Why did Jesus have so much supernatural joy?

USA vs China

12/7/24 USA vs China 1914
While China is preparing for war with America, America has no plan for defense. China’s rapid military buildup of a nuclear arsenal and massive navy is the largest since WWII. Is war with China inevitable? Gordon Chang a renowned expert in US China relations and the author of Plan Red- China’s Project to Destroy America, says, “China’s President Xi Jinping has committed the crimes of the century causing the bio-weapon covid to spread to every nation killing millions of people and manufacturing fentanyl causing the death of 75,000 American annually.” China’s hostile regime is fueled with money and tech from the USA.

From Crime to Christ

11/30/24 From Crime To Christ 1913
One of the most powerful and wealthy Mafia crime bosses has become an ambassador for Christ. Michael Franzese made over $1 billion dollars, $5 to $8 million per week, but gave it up for Christ. When Michael’s dad went to watch his baseball games with 6 other mobsters, no umpire would count 3 strikes on him. Out of the 50 biggest Mafia bosses in Fortune magazine's list, he is the only one not murdered. After 10 years in prison and 3 years in solitary, he was alone with a Bible and Jesus, he quit the Mob to follow Jesus. He saw his mother-in-law face death from cancer without fear but a joy that she was going home.