We just wanted to provide some answers for several of the recent news stories that are blatant attacks on Christianity and the Bible. In case you hadn't heard, the Gnostic Gospel of Judas has made a big splash over the last couple of days. Secular scholars and skeptics are coming out and saying that this casts doubt over the biblical account of Judas. Notice that they are more than happy to jump on the bandwagon with something like this that is from the third or fourth century. They have 9 pages of it and this somehow is supposed to be able to overcome the 24,000+ documents that we have supporting the New Testament that date back to within 25 years of the original writings. Refer to your lesson on "Is the Bible reliable" for more information and you can also read an article on this subject at www.aomin.org.

Another attack has come in the form of a new "transitional fossil". The title of "Fossil shows how fish made leap to land" could be seen on the AP article 4/7/06. You can go here http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0406fishin.asp to read some preliminary thoughts relating to this supposed evidence for evolution. Read the AP article and notice all of the words like "probably, may have, might have, etc." Make sure that you provide answers to the issues for your students. These issues are in their faces. God Bless - Anchors Away Ministry Team

We are having the group over early next week for pizza and worldview games or activities. So we are trying to think of some activities to do with them --We thought we would replicate the activity Nancy did at the training by getting a bunch or newspapers, magazines, etc and have the groups find worldview related articles and label them.
Any other ideas from your end??? - Alice Nelson, Boston

Church of Christ - In relation to the recent email about the Church of Christ cult, we would like everyone to know that not all churches called the Church of Christ are cults. You can contact the Anchors Away office to find out exact locations for them around the world. There are many Churches of Christ that are not cults and you should ask for a doctrinal statement from any church that you may have a question about. - Anchors Away Ministry Team

For great DaVinci Code information and refutation click here - Anchors Away Ministry Team

We would like to welcome you to the all new Anchors Away Blog. If you don't know what a blog is then join the crowd. This is basically just an information sharing forum. We have set this forum up so that all of the Teachers and Facilitators for Anchors Away could come together to share ideas, ask questions, share tips and tricks. Also, if you have any information about setting sites up or how to network with people in your area, please share this for others to use. We have Anchors Away sites now in all 50 states and we are in 18 countries around the world. When you come in you can create your own posts (basically these will be your comments or questions) and other leaders from all over the world can read and comment on them. It should be pretty self explanatory to post or comment but if you have any quesitions you can always contact us at anchors@anchorsawayministries.org. When you make a post or comment, please sign it and tell us where you are located. Please make sure to keep your comments focused on the subject matter as this will help others to be able to glean the information they need in the most efficient manner. If you do come up with something that you think is extremely helpful in teaching a lesson or facilitating, please continue to forward those to rexsmith@anchorsawayministries.org so that we can make sure that those are distributed to all of the leaders around the world. We pray in the hope that God will bless each and every site and that His name would be magnified in everything that we do. If you are a leader and you have not been invited into this forum, send an email to rexsmith@anchorsawayministries.org. We will verify that you are one of the leaders and then we will get you added on. May God bless you and keep you. -The Anchors Away Ministry Team