Look Inside the Time of Jesus by Lois Rock; Illustrated by Lorenzo Orlandi - REVIEWED

About the Book: (from Kregel Publishers)

A fascinating flap book full of bustling scenes from the time of Jesus that will keep inquiring young minds busy. Detailed depictions of Bible history are enhanced by a glimpse behind the scenes with flaps to lift on every page. Brief text explains the setting of the picture, and references events and stories from Jesus’ life. The captivating pictures and to-the-point text make this book especially useful for encouraging reluctant readers. The book covers the first Christmas, a synagogue and carpenter’s workshop in Nazareth, fishing in Capernaum, farming and shepherding in the hills of Galilee, homes of the wealthy and everyday people, the temple in Jerusalem, the way of the cross, and the first Easter.

My Thoughts:

From a stable in Bethlehem to a Garden Tomb, this is a rich flap book that will keep your children entertained for hours on end!  Each picture is exploding with details!  The most memorable of the details are enriched further by lifting the flap and being able to view the picture from a more intimate, “inside” view.  The story line focuses more on the highlights of Jesus’ earthly ministry and includes the Rich Man’s Feast, The Temple in Jerusalem and A Roman Trial.

The concentration is more on the cultural details of the era and not on the truth of Jesus ministry.  I was rather disappointed at the ending, because the book ends with the frightened disciples left behind at the ascension and never progresses to the spreading of the gospel!  So, one more page would have left readers with hope and purpose!  But, children will learn a lot about the culture in which Jesus lived and ministered, and this will give them a greater understanding of the gospel.

I think this would be a great addition to any child’s library!

About the Author:

Lois Rock has established an international reputation as a children’s writer. Specialising in Bible stories, prayer books, and information books, her books have been translated into over 30 languages with sales approaching 4 million copies. She draws on her experience as a mother of three, and as a leader of church children’s groups.|Lorenzo Orlandi graduated at the School of Applied Art of "Castello Sforzesco", in Milan, and has since worked with magazines, advertising agencies and publishers. Specialising in illustration of nature, history, science, and agriculture, he is also an expert in military history and costumes from ancient populations to the First and Second World War.  

About the Illustrator:

Lorenzo Orlandi lives and works in Milan. He works for magazines, advertising agencies, Italian and foreign publishers of adult and children’s books. He likes projects which lets him illustrate books about nature - from dinosaurs to living animals and plants, their evolution history as well as man’s prehistory. He has experience as an art director and has in-depth knowledge on the subjects of military uniforms, history and ancient costumes. 

If You Follow Me by Pam Rhodes - REVIEWED

About the Book:  

In the parish of Dunbridge, the news is out--Claire and Neil are engaged! And yet, almost before the celebrations have begun, Ben, the father of Claire's son, appears back on the scene--keen to pick up where he and Claire left off.

As Neil reels in the face of Claire's confusion, Wendy always seems to be there to provide support and comfort. Little does he know of Wendy's involvement in Ben's reappearance . . .

However, Neil has little chance to ponder his love life as the whole weight of running the church and parish descends upon his inexperienced shoulders. His mother, Iris, who has never hesitated to share her opinions, has just moved to be near him and Neil's time as a curate in Dunbridge is coming swiftly to an end. Where should he go next, and just who will go with him?

My Thoughts:
I don't know if Pam Rhoodes is familiar with the Mitford series, but that is what this book reminded me of.  The small English village of Dunbridge and all of the people that live as members of  Neal Fisher's parish congregation create a community that you will recognize as true and familiar.  From Wendy, Claire and Iris to Sam Ben and Danny, the people of Dunbridge come alive in your heart as you read their stories of heartache, trauma and joy.

All of the characters, including Neal, deal with problems easily recognized by every reader. From addiction to abuse, jealousy to true love, I don't think Rhodes misses much!  The setting and characters are intricately detailed for the readers, and you begin to feel like part of their community!  You will encounter folks you love, and some you dislike all together! This is a very believable community of people.  

If you Follow Me is the last of the Dunbridge chronicles, and though I feel you would feel more attached to the story if you had read the entire series, you are perfectly able to understand the books alone.  This was my introduction to the series, and I fully intend to go back and read the other installments!  

There is some mild language in the story, but nothing that breaks down the truth of the story.  I am more that happy to recommend this series to you!  


About the Author:

Hardie Avenue Releases New Self-Titled Album Featuring Collaborations with Manafest and Pillar's Rob Beckley

(TULSA, Oklahoma) -- Christian pop/rock band Hardie Avenue released their new self-titled album today, available at iTunes, Amazon.com and wherever digital music is sold. On Hardie Avenue, the band has collaborated with fellow hit makers Manafest and Pillar frontman Rob Beckley on the tracks “Dance with My Hero” and “Indestructible,” respectively. 

To celebrate the release, NewReleaseTuesday.com is hosting the world premiere of the band's new music video for the single, “Can’t Live Like This.” View it here:http://nrt.cc/HardieAvenueNRTPremiere

Hardie Avenue is the follow up to the band’s well-received 2013 release, Party at the End of the World. The album earned strong reviews leading to an extended media tour and heavy airplay in many markets from coast to coast. 

The Tulsa-based-band formed in 2005, releasing a few independent projects before stepping into the national spotlight with their 2009 Tate Records release, “Beautiful Words.” In recent years, Yuriy Mayba (lead vocals/guitar), Dave Allie (bass/BGVs), Steve Allie (lead guitar) and Josh Harms (drums) have shared the stage with many of Christian music’s top acts, including Disciple, Hawk Nelson, Family Force 5, Jars of Clay, KJ-52, Sanctus Real, Fireflight, Manic Drive and many more. 

Dreaming on Daisies by Miralee Ferrell - REVIEWED

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Dreaming on Daisies David C. Cook (October 1, 2014) by Miralee Ferrell

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Miralee and her husband, Allen, live on 11 acres in Washington State. She loves to minister to women (as a certified Lay Counselor with the AACC) or through her writing, riding her horse, working in her flower beds and playing with her dogs—her 7 lb, long-haired Chihuahua, Lacey, spends a lot of time on her lap while Miralee is writing. Miralee speak at various women’s functions and has taught at writers’ conferences. She’s been writing since 2005, and her first book released in 2007. Since then, she’s had 10 more books release, both in women’s contemporary fiction and historical romance, and she’s had the honor of being a best-selling and award-winning author.



ABOUT THE BOOK

When her father's debts, brought on by heavy drinking, threaten Leah Carlson's family ranch, she fights to save it. When handsome banker Steven Harding must decline her loan request, he determines to do what he can to help. Just as he arrives to serve as a much-needed ranch hand, Leah's family secrets—and the pain of her past—come to a head. They could destroy everything she's fought for. And they could keep her from ever opening her heart again.

This is western historical romance that offers hope and healing to the deepest wounds in a woman's past.



My Thoughts:

“And what if I’m part of God’s answer?”  (p. 97)

What a loaded question this turns out to be!!  I think Steven never imagined how many lives would be changed through his relationship with Leah.  Of course he had no idea, at the time he spoke those words, of all the pain the Leah and her family had already walked through.  And Leah had to learn the family behind Steven too. 

I think that is what surprised me about this novel – well, pleasantly surprised me – because all of the family ties that unfold, all of the generational ties, it made the relationship that grew between Leah and Steven so much deeper, so much more poignant!!  Trust was hard for both of them for a lot of reasons.  Relationship in general was difficult for both of them.  But I love the way Miralee Ferrell builds and connects all of the layers of relationship in the story!  It winds up being far more complex than I thought it would be, but that complexity represents a very present reality for a LOT of readers!  On so many levels!

Families aren’t perfect, and though love and loyalty exist, families also suffer addictions, betrayals and hardship along the way.  Ferrell weaves a very believable faith through some of the lives of her characters as she reveals the hard parts of their lives.  She does a beautiful job of showing how God woos them to His heart.

This is a very rich novel in many ways.  I almost turned it away as a review opportunity, because I wasn’t keen on a Western romance.  This is SO MUCH more!! I am happy to recommend this novel!

If you'd like to read the first chapter of Dreaming on Daisies, go HERE.

Debra Black Releases “You Go Before” Special Edition Lyric Video Featuring Studio Footage

NASHVILLE, Tennessee) -- Worship leader and singer-songwriter Debra Black has released a special edition lyric video for her worship song, “You Go Before,” featuring in-studio footage. The song is quickly becoming a fan favorite from her debut album, God In Every Season, which was released in August.

 “When my producer and co-writer Josh Williams and I sat down to write for this album, one of the anthems the Lord was singing over me was ‘trust me, I am good,’” says Black. “I started to think a lot about how I as a believer somehow have equated the Lord and His faithfulness, goodness and being able to trust Him down to mere man’s level. Thinking that for some reason He will fail me like so many. The lyrics in this song came alive through the literal walk I was walking.”

 As I walk, through the valley,
I will fear no more I will REST upon your promise,
forever and always You go before,
so I’ll trust you Lord

 Says Black, “I remembered that verse in Isaiah 52:12 that says, ‘But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the LORD will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard.’"

 “Not only has He gone before us,” says Black, “but He is the lamp unto our feet, that when He asks us to take that next step, just the next one, we can take that step with Him being our light, we can approach the unknown with confidence because He is already there, we can step firmly on that next step because He is our Rock, the firm foundation. He will not let us slip or sink like shifting sands. He is Our God who will walk hand in hand as we walk through the fire, as we walk through the desert, or valley. He is Ever Present, God with us, Emmanuel.”

 For more of the story behind the song, visit: http://www.debrablackmusic.com/uncategorized/you-go-before-tis-so-sweet-the-story-behind-the-song/

 Since the release of God In Every Season, Black has kept busy with a broad outreach to churches and an impressive string of media appearances, including Cornerstone Television Network’s Real Life!, JUCE TV’s TOP3, Niteline, Friends and Neighbors, Atlanta Live, Good Morning Arkansas, WREG-TV Memphis’ Live at 9, The Marybeth Conley Show, Life Lessons Radio, Kingdom News, Christian Connections and more.

 Based in Atlanta, Black had already been singing and leading worship for more than a decade when she started working on her own music. She founded and pioneered Worship on the Square, a non-profit organization bringing the church body together in city centers to worship God and bring awareness to social causes. Unique, relatable, and possessed of unshakeable faith, Black inspires listeners to take refuge and find trust in God.

 Connect with Debra:
Website: www.debrablackmusic.com
Facebook: facebook.com/DebraBlackMusic
Twitter: twitter.com/DebraBlackMusic
ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id893273888

'CHRISTMAS REVOLUTION' BY EVA KROON PIKE RELEASES TO CHRISTIAN RADIO

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (November 6, 2014) - "Christmas Revolution," the new holiday single from singer/songwriter Eva Kroon Pike, releases to Christian radio this week. The song, written by Pike and veteran Christian hit songwriter Don Koch, was serviced on Monday, November 3.   The new single, which was inspired by Pike's desire to refocus on the true meaning of Christmas, juxtaposes joyous, bouncy and encouraging lyrics against a military drum roll to create a unique take on the song's revolutionary theme. The martial musical underpinning forms a firm foundation for layer upon layer of shimmering pop instrumentation, and serves to heighten Pike's pristine vocals as she encourages listeners to "Start a Christmas revolution/ where a baby is a king/ where hope can conquer anything!" "'Christmas Revolution' is by far one of my favorite songs we've written," says Pike. "We've allowed Christmas to become commercialized...the focus is on Santa and presents instead of the true meaning--our King came in the form of a tiny baby to conquer this world and give of himself sacrificially to save us from our sins! So many times we as Christians have sat back and allowed the world to take Christ out of Christmas...I think it's time to say 'enough is enough' and start a 'Christmas Revolution!'"    Pike co-wrote the song with her producer, Koch, who has written more than 35 No. 1 songs during his career. He is a multiple Dove Award winner, including winning a Dove Award for Song of the Year in 1994 for "In Christ Alone." Koch's songs have been recorded by the likes of Avalon, Donny Osmond, Michael Crawford, Brian Littrell (Backstreet Boys), and Phillips, Craig and Dean.   The single is being serviced to Christian radio by A-Sides Radio Promotion.   "Eva's new single is not the typical Christmas song you hear," says Jeff McLaughlin, president of A-Sides Radio Promotion. "It's an original and an incredible radio song with a great message...it is time to start a 'Christmas Revolution!'"

About Eva Kroon Pike: "Music is my passion," says Eva Kroon Pike, who has been singing since age 3 and also plays the flute, guitar and keyboard. During her career, Pike has performed in front of thousands of people and has shared the stage with the likes of Anne Graham Lotz, Mark Harris, Babbie Mason and Third Day. Pike's ministry, she says, is about "spreading the Gospel, one song at a time." Pike believes that God has a plan for her life and that He chose, through her adoption as an infant, a very special family for her to grow up in to learn life's lessons. Her heart's desire is to point people to her loving Father who sent His Son to die so that everyone who believes in Him will live eternally. Pike focuses on the theme of adoption in her song, "Grace That Chose Me," in which she sings, "If I'm anything close to what I'm meant to be, I owe it to the hands of Grace that chose me."

Q&A with Bruce Malone Author of Brilliant: Made in the Image of God

1) What makes BRILLIANT: Made in the Image of God unique among other books about creation?

First, the topic is completely different than typical creation books.  Most books on creation deal with the scientific evidence supporting the reality that we have a designer.  Brilliant places creation in a real Biblical timeline of Earth history.  If the Bible were given the same respect and consideration as any other book, it would have to be acknowledged that it clearly states that the Earth (and all life upon the Earth) was formed approximately 6000 years ago, death entered into all of creation because of mankind’s rebellion against God shortly after that, the entire Earth experienced a globe restructuring flood approximately 4350 years ago, and every culture in the world arose subsequent to these real events of Earth history.  Brilliant takes the Bible seriously and every page contains an artifact from some ancient culture testifying to the reality of these true events of history.  Every article also includes a timeline central to the subject discussed upon that page - showing where ancient cultures and artifacts fit into a biblical viewpoint of history.

Second, every page of Brilliant is exquisitely illustrated to draw the reader into the topic of that page before going onto a new artifact or topic on the next page.  This book is the Christian version of Dorling Kindersley educational books but it makes the Bible central to its discussion of history and brings the biblical timeline alive to the reader. 

Third, if Christians are going to make the Bible credible to the world around us we have to start treating it as credible from the very beginning.  Re-establishing a biblical timeline of history is central to this and Brilliant does exactly this.  Cultures throughout the world are filled with mysteries which do not fit the pervasive evolutionary time-frame but make perfect sense if the Biblical timeline of history is understood.  Page after page confirms the credibility of the Bible’s timeline of history. 

2) Are there any new revelations or findings included in BRILLIANT? If so, please elaborate.

Every page is filled with revelations showing that the biblical timeline is correct and the millions-of-years evolutionary time-frame could not possibly be true. For instance:

• Soft, non-decayed dinosaur tissue has been documented inside of numerous dinosaur bones.  This is absolutely impossible if these bones are millions of years old but perfectly fits the burial of dinosaurs 4350 years ago during Noah’s flood.  Yet professors showing this information to students have been fired.  Other pages display ancient burial stones from Peru revealing drawings of dinosaurs and ancient medical technology – both testifying to mankind’s brilliance and recent creation.
  
• The Ice Age was a direct consequence of the global flood.  This is carefully explained and documented throughout the book.  Following the flood, mankind was traveling the world looking for places to settle and seeking new sources of raw materials.  One article documents an ancient map showing the coastline of Antarctica BEFORE it was covered by ice of the Ice Age. Modern textbooks place the start of the Ice Age starting 200,000 years ago - making this map impossibility.  The Bible would place the Ice Age after the flood - meaning the existence of this map confirms biblical reality because people after the flood would have been exploring Antarctica before it was covered with ice and documented what they found. 


• Carbon-14 levels would have radically shifted following the flood and the implications of this are explained so that readers clearly understand why this method of dating cultures gives erroneous dates and has mislead people as to the true age of ancient artifacts.


• Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man were simply races of people living in a harsh Ice Age environment immediately after the flood.  They were actually highly intelligent human beings who developed chemical glue compounds which even modern researchers have struggled to reproduce, and artwork few today could duplicate.  There were obviously as intelligent and creative as modern man.


• Ancient Chinese artifacts document events from the Garden of Eden in both the written symbols of their language and ancient bronze sculptures.


• Pyramid structures build by ancient civilizations have been documented from around the world and had to have been produced simultaneous with the Egyptian pyramids.  Even today it is debated how these ancient cultures could have developed such advance technology so early in human history.  Brilliant shows how this knowledge came from a source which predates the flood of Noah (i.e. knowledge from brilliant people living before the flood would have come through the flood with Noah) and shows how multiple civilizations containing millions of people would have rapidly developed within 4-5 centuries of the flood.

In general, Christians are woefully ignorant of how to fit the Ice Age, ape-men, archeological discoveries, continental plate tectonics, and/or ancient Chinese/Egyptian/Peruvian/and other cultures fit into a real biblical timeline.  Brilliant shows how all these things not only logically fit a Biblical perspective but confirm its accuracy while contradicting the evolutionary perspective.

 3) What do you say to Christians who accept a hybrid belief of Creationism and Darwinism?
If you do not treat the Bible like it actually means what it says at the very beginning, when do you start deciding it means what it actually says?  If a book starts by saying that a foundation concept is “The sky is green”, how credible do you think the rest of the book will be?  If Christians do not accept the absolutely crystal clear statements of God’s Word about creatures reproducing after their own kind (repeated 10 times in Genesis 1), death existing because of mankind’s actions (Genesis 3), a real worldwide flood (Genesis 5-9), and the creation of the universe and everything in it in 6 literal days (Genesis 1 and Exodus 20:11) then how can they say they take God’s word seriously?  They are, in essence, saying the Bible cannot be trusted when it speaks on subjects dealing with biology, geology, ancient history, cosmology, or the age of creation.  If Christians treat God’s Word with such disregard, is it any wonder our culture is increasingly treating the entire Bible as irrelevant?   

Furthermore, all of this is absolutely unnecessary because evolution simple does not work to explain the origin of time/space /matter, the formation of life, the existence of the DNA code, the development of stars, or the transformation of one type of animal to a completely different type.  So why believe what these same intellectuals say about the age of things?  Blending creation with Darwinism is no different than blending atheism with Christianity.  It simply does not work and it is pure foolishness to pretend otherwise.  Romans 1:19-23 states that everyone is without excuse for belief in God because we can know God exists simply by observing what He has made (i.e., creation).  Yet if Darwinian molecules-to-man evolution is true, there can be no evidence for God’s existence from examining creation because everything in creation is explained by natural processes.  Our books are filled with page after page of examples of why Darwinian evolution is simply not true.   

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4) Are there any key scientific or archaeological facts that all Christians should be aware of to support the biblical account of Creation?
Brilliant and Censored Science are books about the scientific and archeological evidence supporting the reality that biblical creation is true and they form a powerful “one-two” punch to answer this exact question.   

Censored Science shows the evidence for each major scientific discipline (first third - biological science, second third – earth science, last third – physics/cosmology) in a non-technical, easy to understand way.  Briefly – the laws of science reveal that evolution is impossible.  Matter cannot create itself…DNA is coded information and information cannot write itself…life only comes from pre-existing life and every experiment ever done testifies to this…there is not one missing link but systematic gaps between every  different kind of body structure…gas always expands outward –never packs tighter together so stars could never form themselves – and no one has ever seen a new star form.  Brilliant documents these and dozens of other examples of how we can know creation has a Creator and did not make itself. 

Brilliant shows that the literal timeline of the Bible is absolutely correct and that mankind has been brilliant and creative from the beginning of creation.  Had we come from apes there should be an extended period of slow development of technology, language, civilizations, and knowledge.  Yet there is not.  The “god’s” of ancient Greece have amazing parallels to the actual patriarchs of mankind – showing that even Greek mythology was based on a knowledge of early humanity; every culture in the world has a remembrance in the form of a story concerning the worldwide flood; an ancient worship center has been found at the very base of Mt. Ararat and worship was Noah’s first act after disembarking from the ark; ancient Egyptians and Chinese both have artifacts showing they understood the use of metalwork and this was listed as something mankind invented within four generations of Adam – yet these ancient cultures were supposedly still stuck in the “Stone Age” where no knowledge of metalworking should exist; working batteries have been found made from clay pots in ancient Babylon; examples of typesetting have been found in Greece - 2000 years before the process was “discovered” by Guttenberg.  Every two-page article and illustration in Brilliantbrings to life a different example of the biblical brilliance and creativity of mankind – because mankind was literally made “in the image of God”. 

5) When did you start Search for the Truth publishing and what motivated you to form the company?
The goal of Search for the Truth Publications is to “awaken hearts and minds to biblical truth”.  The Bible has become totally discredited in our culture because for the last 100 years Christians have largely quit explaining why it was trustworthy from the very beginning.  They thought if we just concentrated on Jesus and spiritual stuff, nothing else really mattered.  Yet Jesus never separated Scriptural statements about history from spiritual subjects.  As a matter of fact in John 3:12 he stated, “If you do not believe me when I talk of worldly things, how will you believe me when I speak of spiritual things.”  Search for the Truth exists to reconnect history and science with the Bible.  All of our creation books conquer complex technical subjects with short, two-page summaries including accompanying photos.  They are not long boring technical books seeking to turn people into science experts, but rather, they are interesting, relevant, extensively-illustrated books. These books show that modern science excludes the biblical viewpoint so it is misinterpreting the evidence from the world around us. We also make multiple copies of our materials available at extremely low cost so they are easy to share with others.  For instance, both of our full color coffee-table quality sewn hardcovers are available for only $6.00 per copy when purchased 10 at a time in any combination with any of our books.

6) List some of the company's significant accomplishments.

We have published 12 different titles from six authors along with video presentations.  Search for the Truth Publications currently has almost 200,000 copies in circulation – primarily creation related - but also materials dealing with sexual purity, escape from the addiction to pornography, a study guide for Christian living aimed at teenage girls, and a Christian adventure series for youth.   

My background is in scientific research. I worked as a research leader for Dow Chemical for 27 years and have 17 patents.  Now, I lecture frequently on the subject of creation and biblical history, and have spoken over 600 times in 12 countries. We have given away over 50,000 books to students and prisoners – every student who attends one of our lectures always receives the free resource of one of our books. 

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7) Talk about your fiction series and why you added that genre to your catalog.

Our youth need quality Christ-affirming materials in all venues. But let’s face it, typical Christian literature is all too often preachy and poorly written.  The Freelandia adventure series is the Christian alternative to the Harry Potter and vampire fascination which has swept through the youth culture.  I published this series because it is simply a phenomenally well-told story which keeps you wanting to know what is going to happen next. You fall in love with the fascinating principle characters (a young orphan with phenomenal musical talent, an ancient warrior in charge of a tiny nations hopelessly outnumber defenses, and a young man gifted with the ability to discern the outcome of current actions of future events).  This Christian adventure trilogy is the epitome of a fast-paced page-turner yet the heroes truly desire to trust God in the midst of hopeless situations.  A central theme woven throughout the books is the effect of a supernaturally, musically-gifted person to lift people beyond the natural concerns of life with her music.  The results change individuals and entire nations in the process.  Quoting the music director of a major church, “I have never read a more exciting Christian adventure portraying the power of worship to transform the lives of individuals (and entire nations) as it central theme.  Once started, I couldn’t put it down!  I highly recommend this book to anyone from 8 to 108.”  

8) What future plans do you have for book acquisitions/ideas?

Our most popular books are creation related.  We have two books (A Closer Look at the Evidence and Inspired Evidence) which are laid out in devotional format - with a short interesting evidence for the reality of biblical creation on each page - from 26 different areas of science and knowledge.  Over  80,000 of these books are in circulation and our next publication will complete this series as a trilogy of creation devotional evidences.  As a set, these books will document over 1000 different examples of why we can trust God’s Word to mean what it says.

Our full color hardcovers have shown why the Bible is scientifically accurate (Censored Science) and why the timeline of the Biblical is absolutely historically accurate (Brilliant: Made in the image of God).  I am just starting a third full color hardcover which deals with another aspect of how mankind has been made in the image of God – we have been given the freedom of choice.  This is the opposite of what evolution implies.  If evolution is true then mankind is simply the product of chemical processes.  Ultimately life has no meaning and we are just complex chemicals doing what chemical randomly came together to do.  Thus in a broad philosophical sense, we ultimately have no choice nor are we ultimately responsible for our choices. 
By being made in the image of God and given the freedom to accept or reject God, we were also created with a brain which is capable of rejecting or accepting the truth.  Once we trade the truth for a lie we can reach the point where we fail to see the obvious truth even when it is right in front of our face.  I plan to document examples through history of how rejection of the truth and departure from obvious biblical principles has blinded people and cultures to reality and has caused enormous and tragic damage.  Our current age is being blinded by an acceptance of evolutionary principles and its accompanying timescale.  This is the foundation battle raging within our culture.  All other symptoms of our decaying morality (abortion, homosexuality, increasing crime, suicides, etc…) can be traced to the rejection of God’s Word as a basis for meaning and morality - and this rejection of God’s Word can be traced to the rejection of creation and the early parts of the Bible.