RECENT UPDATES
July 2024 Update.
- A series has started under Roland’s blog with a general title of “There is a Place” that is intended to speak to young people about the peaceful and fruitful path that young people can have as followers of Jesus Christ.
- We are beginning an abridged version of the biblical creation resource that will be suitable for training pastors. Outreach To Asia Nationals (OTAN) has requested the work, which is forecast to be complete late this year.
- . Home groups continue to meet at our NC home and outreach to the local community will start this summer. A bible study series is staring in July on the Gospel of the Kingdom: Content, Impact, and Opposition. Sky observing sites at our home are in use this summer. If interested in joining us for sky observing from a biblical view in the central North Carolina region, please contact us on this cell number: 434-981-3642). We have also prepared materials and equipment for travel where God opens opportunities to share about biblical creation, including conducting observations of the night skies. We continue to pray for parts of Asia, for open doors to share the biblical creation cell phone application, and our local church area in NC.
Free Resources Announcement and Update (2024). The paper and eBook versions of A Study of God’s Creation Filled With Purpose, Direction, and Consequence (high school and adult version) were published in 2020. eBook and hardcopies continue to be available for a low cost. Now we have two free cell phone applications for both Apple and Android cell phones. The Android application is in two forms. The first was named the Creation Study and is available on Google Play. The second (published in March 2021) is named Creation Study Helps. It has the resource, links to videos (and a couple complete videos), links to a Bible, special images that support the resource, and several other features. The Creation Study Helps application is the larger resource, but still takes less space than a small number of images on your cell phone. To take full advantage of all the features, one needs an internet connection, but the content of the original book is usable without the internet. These applications are free on the Google Play Store. The Apple version (also free) uses the same white hand emblem with a blue background to identify it on the Apple Store. Both Android and Apple versions are produced by RJ Beard Publishing (www.rjbeardpublishing.com).
GENERAL WELCOME AND SITE CONTENT
Welcome. Thank you for visiting our site. It is here to encourage, exhort, and inspire visitors. We are Bible- and Christian-based in function, including testifying and showing that the earth and the universe did not happen by accident but by the design and command of God. We unashamedly declare the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There are inspirational blogs and courses that have drawn people, so feel free to visit them. Our materials are generally free unless noted otherwise. Some of the courses are downloadable. We do not keep personal information or mailing lists for anything downloaded. A good deal of our work is in the mission field, where we provide various educational helps in the form of training and teaching. We invite you to look at reports and review more About Us.
Inspirational Blogs. We use a group of blogs about the heavens, the earth, and people to tell short stories with images. The things around us provide many parables and lessons. We invite you to read them. Usually we two to four new posts each month.
Courses. One of our primary purposes is to provide educational helps to those who are needy and need biblically-based materials. Some versions of the courses are downloadable without charge, unless otherwise specified, and passable to others as long as the copyright information is carried with the material. Material downloaded freely can be passed without charge unless restrictions are stated. Currently we have two courses available:
(1) The Biblical Creation Study (Bible study and a second edition that is a course for high school reading level and above) and cell phone applications.
(a) The bible study course addresses some key questions about fossils, the Ice Age, dinosaurs, and the origin of the universe. Comparisons to this world view are made with the current popular evolutionary or naturalistic conjecture for the origin of the universe, which depends on chance occurrences over deep time, self-organization of energy, and life from non-life with no external influence. As near as we can tell, there have been over 3000 downloads of the free course from our site or passed to others (which is permitted).
(b) A second expanded and re-edited edition of the course was published in 2020 for UK, CA, US, AU/NZ for adult or high school and adult level. The eBook and hard copy is for sale by the author at Amazon, Target, and various other retailers. The free cell phone applications are explained above and are downloadable from the Apple Store or the Android Play Store. An online version is on this site for those who wish to use it, which contains copiable support resources that can also be downloaded. APPs for Android cell phones are free and can be downloaded from Google Play.
(2) Astronomical Observing from a Biblical View. AOBV teaches, as we have done in several countries, how to observe the heavens with eyes and the assistance of small optical instruments. AOBV is a practical course but is underpinned with a biblical viewpoint of the heavens, which are often addressed in the Bible. The delight of observing the created heavens is practical and obtainable if the course skills are mastered. The 10-lesson course is downloadable as a PDF on this site.
Note: Training and presentations are available on all the courses described above. If interested, send us a request via the <Contact Us> form
Prayer and Purpose. As we tell our Christian friends, please keep us in prayer as we move forward. Go under the About Us menu if you are unfamiliar with us and want to know more about the ministry foundation and motivation. We are home-based and all volunteer but we aim to assist others when we can. Our real desire is to have hundreds of families and individuals, who are committed Christians, doing similar things. There is much work to do. If you are interested in training, supporting what we do, or learning how to do similar things yourself, please read the Support Us section.
