WOW! Your Church Needs To Go To The Creation Museum


HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO VISIT A MUSEUM WITH OVER 70,000 SQUARE FEET OF BIBLICAL STUFF! This amazing museum, called the Creation Museum, is located on the border between Kentucky and Ohio. Hundreds of charter buses across the country load up and go here every year! Check out this video for more information:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsdMH0KivK4 You may visit their website by going to: http://www.creationmuseum.org Here are some of the things to do and see:

  • Full wax figures from the Bible
  • Talking wax figures so real-to-life
  • The Garden of Eden
  • Biblical virtual tours
  • Films to watch
  • Presentations
  • A Planetarium
  • Enter a  scaled-down replica of Noah’s Ark
  • An Insectorium
  • Priest and Old Testament animal sacrifice
  • A petting zoo
  • Six Day Theater
  • Wonders Room
  • Seven C’s of History
  • Zip lines
  • Beautiful outdoor botanical gardens and scenery.
  • Awesome biblical bookstore
  • AND TONS MORE!!!
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Offer an Ongoing Ministers’ Development Class


“We have a well established class for ministers on Sunday mornings. One minister each week will teach the lesson from our standard curriculum, while honing their teaching skills. Just before the sessions end, the minister’s alliance leader will take a few minutes to assign upcoming lessons, make announcements, or share other information related to ministers.”

Specialized classes can be created to help develop ministers at your assembly. These classes can be held on Sunday mornings, along with your regularly scheduled Sunday classes.

Here’s how it’s done:

1) Call a meeting with all ministers.
2) Establish a place during Sunday school.
3) Appoint your ministers’ alliance chairperson or someone to faithfully look over the training.
4) Schedule and appoint your teachers months in advance to teach from your Sunday school literature.
5) Have a seasoned instructor to occasionally assist teachers in areas of development.

The steps above are a good way of developing and establishing ministers who feel called and led by God in the teaching ministry.

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Explore Roman and Greek Art at the Art Institute


Art institutes around the country have Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Egyptian art on display from the ancient world. These art exhibits cover many centuries before, during, and after the life of Christ.

Here’s how it’s done:
1) Locate the art institute in your area. Ask about current exhibits and make arrangements.
2) Advertise this event well…even months before you attend and create a “sign-up” sheet.
3) Visit the art institute and pick up pamphlets to display at your church before attending.

THINGS TO NOTE: You must request museum guides beforehand, even with small groups of children.

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Learn To Pronounce Biblical Words


ICEA – Pointing You to Resources

If you are a teacher, minister, or someone who stands before a group to read the holy scriptures, you know trying to pronounce words from the Bible can be a challenge. There are now many resources that will allow you to hear how words are pronounced.

Here’s how it’s done:
1) Go to the website: http://www.dictionary.com.
2) Type your word in the search box in the top area of the website.
3) Hit ENTER on the keyboard to submit your word.
4) Locate the word along with a small SPEAKER icon next to it.
5) Click the SPEAKER icon to hear how the word is pronounced.

THINGS TO NOTE: Some biblical words do not have a speaker icon and cannot be pronounced.

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Happy “Renew” Year!


ICEA – “Church at Study”

Throw off your old sinful nature and your former way
of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.
Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.
(Eph. 4:22-23, NLT)

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Can you count the number of times you have been wished a happy new year during the beginning of this year? Have you ever really thought about what a happy new year looks like? For many it would be 365 days filled with things that would fulfill every appetite.  If we were somehow granted many of the things we thought would make us happy, it would…no doubt…be to our detriment.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof are the ways of death.
(Prov. 14:12)

God has shown us that every 365 days has with it challenges. For many of us adults, each year is not too different from years gone by. There are struggles – things we wish we could change, but, we eventually come to realize that everything will not change just because we make certain yearly resolutions.

As it is written, the just shall live by faith.
(Rom. 1:17)

If we are honest, there are things we have “commanded” (through sheer determination, year after year) to “be” or “not to be,” only to find those things either evading us or stubbornly persisting in our lives. Frustration often follows on the heels of Sheer determination. A frustrated new year does not look like a happy new year. The two are different. Many of us remember…our days prior to salvation were days we spent in pursuit of pleasures, that eventually led to lives of frustration.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,
deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice
and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
(Titus 3:3)

Anyone who seeks to please the flesh, saved or unsaved, will face the same conclusion – that happiness is not found in expectation of fleshly grasping something newly pursued after. (How does your new year look so far?)

The harvest is past, the summer is
ended, and we are not saved.
(Jer. 8:20)

On the other hand, happy new years are happy “renewed” years. Most who are truly happy are those who have renewed and continual relationships with God. They don’t necessarily look forward to a certain day or expectation of a coming year to find their satisfaction. They live their lives in the present (Matt 6:25, 34). (Notwithstanding…they are people of faith!) These are the people who have true faith in the precious promises of God. They have claimed those promises that they might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (II Peter 1:4). They  don’t “nullify” the grace of God by greedily “commanding” premature blessings…not yet intended for them! (James 4:3.)

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
(Prov. 15:15)

“God…please grant us happy days – with things that
truly matter most – family, friends, and relationships!”

According to scripture, being truly happy has little to do with how much a person has or possesses.

And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of
covetousness for a man’s life consisteth not in the
abundance of the things which he possesseth.
(Luke 12:15)

Let’s not look back on the years and see wasted times and opportunities — along with lives of regret. Let’s allow God’s Spirit to renew our thoughts, attitudes and relationships. With God’s help, we can truly make this year a happy “RE-NEW” year!

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