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April 2019 Newsletter

April 1, 2019

AzOSA News

 

Knowing, Understanding, and Spreading the Word

 
AzOSA Subscribers:

Perhaps you read this newsletter or visit the AzOSA website because you know the truth about the age of the earth and the length of the days of creations based upon God’s Word.

However you may have friends, neighbors, and church leadership who are unsure about creation truth. It is important to invite others to the events hosted by AzOSA. It is also important to ascertain where your lead pastors and youth pastors stand on the age of the earth and the length of the days of creation week. By forwarding the name of your church and contact information, AzOSA leadership will make contact and inquire about teaching a Creation seminar during Sunday school, or church wide on Sunday mornings.

Please forward your information on the AzOSA website. Select the AzOSA tab and complete the Contact Us section.
 

Educating Our Youth and Ourselves

Just as the Israelites in the Book of Judges we are one generation away from Creation truth being silenced. It is up to each of us to equip ourselves as well as the next generation in truth.

AzOSA works diligently to find the resources necessary to educate our youth and ourselves.

Read about the latest opportunities on the AzOSA web site. Simply follow this link and discover opportunities available to you and your family.
http://www.azosa.com/three-education-items
 

Making A Difference

by Mike Riddle
The Creation Apologetics Teachers College

Would you be interested in making a difference?
You can get started by attending one of the most successful classes in creation apologetics.

The Creation Apologetics Teachers College
This is a course for Christians who want to be on the playing field and not be on the sidelines. Read these course facts:
• This is the sixth year this course will be taught.
• We only take 40 new students (college age and above).
• We only offer this course once a year.
• This course is not for the Christian who wants to sit back and be comfortable.
• This course is intense, it is effective, it is a gamechanger for getting Christians prepared for the spiritual battlefield.
• You will spend a week with like-minded believers with a passion to know more about God’s creation and be able to share and defend it.

Do you qualify to attend?
These three things will qualify you
1. You are a Bible believing Christian (Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior)
2. You want to make a difference
3. You are between 18 and 100 years old

Where and when is this course?
Course dates: August 12-17, 2019
Where: Ridgecrest Christian Conference Center in Ridgecrest, NC (Near Asheville, NC)

Can you afford to attend?
The cost to attend is $570. This fee includes the 5-days of training, 5-nights of hotel-style lodging and three meals a day.

We offer a FREE way to attend the course
You can win a scholarship that covers the full cost to attend ($570). It is our essay scholarship contest. How does this work?

This year each contestant must write a 450 word or less paper on the following topic:

“Should Christian schools teach all views about creation (gap theory, day-age-theory, framework hypothesis, literal 6-day, progressive creation, God used evolution) and then let students decide for themselves what to believe?”

Because of some generous donors there will be 3 winners. The rules include:
• Applicants must be 18 years or older
• Essays must be 450 words or less
• All essays must be received by May 1st
• Winners will be announced on May 22nd

For more information or to register:
Email: info@CreationTraining.org
Phone: Contact Mike Riddle at (859) 250-7987
Web: www.CreationTraining.org

We look forward to seeing you there,
Mike Riddle, President and Founder of Creation Training Initiative
 

AzOSA Events

April 2019
 

Arizona welcomes Richard Stevens, J.D. as the April Speaker

Richard Stevens holds degrees in both computer science and law, practiced civil litigation, taught legal research and writing, and has written four books and numerous articles. His avocation is apologetics with study and writing about intelligent design.

 

Consciousness: Accidental, Automatic, or Designed?

April 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Palmcroft Baptist Church – Phoenix, 15825 North 35th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85053

Kenneth R. Miller’s 2018 book, The Human Instinct, declares that human consciousness resulted from evolutionary brain growth. Miller and other authors say consciousness emerges naturally from the billions of interconnections of brain cells. The evolutionists’ claims boast rhetoric but not scientific reality.
SPEAKER: Richard Stevens, J.D.

 

The Three Laws of Robotics Support the Moral Law Argument for God

April 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
First Baptist Church of Tempe, 4525 South McClintock Drive
Tempe, AZ 85282

An often-used argument for God’s existence is the “moral law argument.” Insights from software technology, including Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, strengthen that argument in the 21st Century world.

SPEAKER: Richard Stevens, J.D.
 

Consciousness: Accidental, Automatic, or Designed

April 23 @ 7:00 pm
Payson Public Library, 328 N Mc Lane Road
Payson, AZ 85541

Evolutionists claim that human consciousness resulted from evolutionary brain growth. Kenneth Miller and other authors say consciousness emerges naturally from the billions of interconnections of brain cells. The evolutionists’ claims boast rhetoric but not scientific reality. In this presentation Richard Stevens will give powerful evidence that the most logical and sensible understanding of the human conscious is from a Biblical perspective and how an evolutionary view does not.

SPEAKER: Richard Stevens
 

The Human Instinct

April 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Inspire the Church, 2139 Swanson Ave
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403

The Human Instinct declares that human consciousness resulted from evolutionary brain growth. Miller and other authors say consciousness emerges naturally from the billions of interconnections of brain cells. The evolutionists’ claims boast rhetoric but not scientific reality.

SPEAKER: Richard Stevens
 

Save the Date

May 2019
 

The Bill Nye versus Ken Ham Debate: Key Questions Answered

May 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Palmcroft Baptist Church – Phoenix, 15825 North 35th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85053

This presentation answers many important questions and refutes false accusations made by Bill Nye that were not adequately addressed during his famous debate with Ken Ham.

SPEAKER: Thomas Kindell, Ph.D.

 

Creationist’s Contributions to the Advance of Science

May 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
First Baptist Church of Tempe, 4525 South McClintock Drive
Tempe, AZ 85282

This presentation proves that Biblical faith promotes rather than hinders scientific achievement as documented in the biographies of many of history’s greatest scientists.

 

Biometrics Means – God Invented It First Part II

May 28 @ 7:00 pm
Payson Public Library, 328 N Mc Lane Road
Payson, AZ 85541

This presentation showcases numerous fascinating examples of biomimicry, copying designs found in biology, and also the discovery that many designs that were assumed to have originated by human innovation actually already existed in the world of biology. God thought of them and invented them first!

SPEAKER: Dr. Thomas Kindell
 

June 2019
 

Why Can’t We Be Friends? Oh Wait, Maybe We Are!

June 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Palmcroft Baptist Church – Phoenix, 15825 North 35th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85053

This presentation looks at symbiotic relationships in nature amongst a wide variety of organisms. All 4 categories of symbiosis are explained and examples cited from each, along with what each type teaches us about God, and the fallen world in which we live.

SPEAKER: Michael Calcagno BIO: Michael Calcagno

 

Yeah, But Who Wrote the Software?

June 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
First Baptist Church of Tempe, 4525 South McClintock Drive
Tempe, AZ 85282

This presentation looks at various animals and the instincts that drive their peculiar behaviors. Since these behaviors are not taught by the parents then the ability to perform them had to be “programmed” into the creatures before birth. Any and all evolutionary scenarios attempting to describe complex instincts fall completely short due to the observable evidence that information can only come from prior information, not randomness, which all points to a Creator Who designed organisms to “be fruitful and multiply…

 

Radical Reptiles: “Live” Lessons from the Bible

June 25 @ 7:00 pm
Payson Public Library, 328 N Mc Lane Road
Payson, AZ 85541

This presentation from Steve Lachonas will include several unique live reptiles, and how their incredible design can teach us lessons from both from God’s Word and Creation!

SPEAKER:
Steve Lachonas