Category: Education

Pastor Responds to the Importance of Equipping Christians in the Church

Dr. Anthony Silvestro, CTI instructor and apologist, interviews Dr. Casey Butner, Senior Pastor Beulah Baptist Church, Winter Garden, FL, on the importance of equipping Christians in the church with CTI’s “Creation: Basic Training” course.

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2022 Creation Apologetics Training College

Become an apologetics leader in your church and community this Aug 1-6, 2022 near Asheville, NC. This 5-day course is intense, filled with valuable information, and allows students to practice what they have learned. Because of the techniques used in the course the student success rate is near 100%. You will have the opportunity to …

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Equipping Parents to Teach Apologetics

Training courses to equip parents to teach biblical creation and apologetics to their children.

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2 Timothy 2:2 Education Project

  Did you know over 80% of Christian youth have doubts about the Bible? These doubts start in the early grades. We are losing the education battle for who controls what the next generation will believe. Many have already compromised God’s Word before they reach college. The world is out-educating the church. Welcome to the …

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2022 Creation Apologetics Training College

The cost to attend the 5-day course includes: -A 360-page training manual -Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 5 days -5 nights of lodging -Fellowship with like-minded believers -The opportunity to use (practice) what you learn -Five days of training Learn more

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Is There Evidence for the Existence of God?

Using the Bible, this video gives power evidence for the existence of God that unbelievers cannot disprove. Christians might ask the question in this way: “what is our best evidence for the existence of God?” Non-believers will ask it in a more challenging manner, such as: “Show me any evidence that God exists?” So how …

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How Old Is God?

Does the bible tell us how old God is?

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Not Far Away

“If it is a religious position to say, ‘Jesus is Lord of all, and by Him and through Him all things exist,’ is it not also a religious position to say – in so many words, or lack thereof – ‘Christ and the Bible are irrelevant to our discussion of biology, physics and math?’” Christian …

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How could Noah fit all the animals on the Ark?

Many people have a misunderstanding about what the Bible really states about the Flood and Noah’s Ark. In this video Mike solves this challenge by answering three questions. How did the animals get to the Ark? How big was the Ark? How many animals needed to be on the Ark?

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Sanctity of Human Life with Randy Alcorn

In this video Mike interviews New York Times bestselling author, Randy Alcorn, on the sanctity of human life and how to defend tough questions. Randy has a Bachelor of Theology and Master of Arts in Biblical Studies from Multnomah University and an Honorary Doctorate from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He blogs, is active daily …

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Why we celebrate July 4th

In this short 6-minute video, Mike (former Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps) talks about why we celebrate July 4th. He concludes with a powerful prayer to the only one who can save this country, the Creator of the Universe, Jesus Christ. The video is accompanied with graphics and music.  

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Martin Luther on Education

Martin Luther on Education

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Why we celebrate July 4th

In this short 6-minute video, Mike (former Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps) talks about why we celebrate July 4th. He concludes with a powerful prayer to the only one who can save this country, the Creator of the Universe, Jesus Christ. The video is accompanied with graphics and music.

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Evolutionists’ Responses to the Problem of the Origin of Life

In this talk, Mike answers some counter challenges commonly used by evolutionists about the immense problem of the origin of life by naturalistic processes. Mike’s answers include responses to these seven counter challenges: Probability is not an issue with evolution. The origin of life has nothing to do with evolution. Scientists will figure out how …

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Creating a winning youth program

Deb Badeer from Lincoln, Nebraska has created a program for Christian youth that is making a difference. If your church or community is interested in training youth to defend their faith and share the Gospel watch this video and contact Deb for getting started.

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Is Evolution Both a Fact and a Theory?

This video takes a logical and scientific approach to answer the question. The first step is to establish the proper definitions of both a scientific fact and a scientific theory. The second step is to compare what has been observed to these definitions. Mike uses the big bang, star formation, the origin of life, information …

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Does the Age of the Earth Matter?

Does the Bible give enough information to determine how long the days of creation were? Have scientists really proven the earth is billions of years old? What should Christians believe about creation? Should the age of the earth really matter to Christians?   To help us determine the answer to these questions Mike examines two …

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Preparing Laborers for the Harvest (Luke 10:2)

Creation Apologetics Teachers College Watch this 6-minute video about how to: Get equipped to train Christian youth to defend their faith. Become a teacher/speaker on biblical creation.

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New Resource in Spanish

A Great New Resource for the Spanish Speaking Population The Spanish speaking world has a large population that has remained mostly unreached in understanding that God is the Creator of all things. Answers in Genesis (answersingenesis.org) has a new ministry to reach the Spanish speaking world. In this session, Dr. Danny Faulkner (Ph.D. Astronomy) and …

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The Fossil Record

Does the fossil record really support evolution? Does the fossil record demonstrate millions of years of death and struggle? In this session Mike presents three facts about the fossil record: 1. What we believe about the fossil record influences our interpretation of the Bible. 2. The fossil record does not support evolution, but does confirm …

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Evidence for the Existence of God, Part 4

In this fourth session on evidence for the existence of God, Mike demonstrates through empirical science that the worldview of materialism (secular humanism) is false. In the talk Mike explains why information is nonmaterial and that information can only come from an intelligent sender and never from random processes.

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CTI’s 5-Day Creation Apologetics Teachers College

  In this session Mike gives the seven steps it takes to become an effective speaker/teacher on creation apologetics. He also answers important questions about CTI’s 5-day Creation Apologetics Teachers College. Why we need this course? Where do we hold this course? How much does the courses cost? Who should attend? What are some of …

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Why America Will Fall

This is a hard hitting and very alarming presentation. The fact that America was founded upon biblical principles is well documented. But why has America changed? Why has the public education system as well as the secular universities abandoned these principles? In addition, how did secular humanism make its way into many churches, Christian schools …

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Aliens, UFOs and the Bible

Is there really intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? What about all the claimed UFO sightings? Has NASA made contact with alien life? In this session Mike examines these questions and more. Based on the laws of science and logic, is it possible for alien life to travel vast distances across the universe? Mike also …

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Mike interviews Dan Biddle (Ph.D.) and Dave Bisbee from Genesis Apologetics

  In this session, two creation speakers and teachers, Dan Biddle (Ph.D.) and Dave Bisbee answer some important questions about our youth. What are they being taught and how are they responding? When do students begin to have doubts about the Bible and why? Why is it important to teach a young earth? Is there …

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Interview with Michael Oard

In this session Michael Oard, an atmospheric scientist and research geologist, discusses the ice age. He answers some of the most asked questions. What is an ice age? Was there really an ice age? How do we know there was an ice age? How big was the ice age? How long did the ice age …

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Why the Bible is True

Why should we believe the Bible is the true Word of God and not other religious books? In this session Mike provides five powerful reasons why the Bible is the only true Word of God. 1. Is there any difference between religions? 2. Who wrote the Bible? 3. Which religious book agrees with reality? 4. …

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Mike Interviews Roger Patterson, AIG

  In this session, Mike interviews a former high school biology and chemistry teacher (Roger Patterson). Roger describes how he taught evolution to students in public high school for eight years and then found out the truth. By doing his own research he discovered that evolution was not supported by true science, but was just …

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A Model for Christian Education

In this interview with Doug Rolfe, Mike and Doug discuss a model for Christian education that is highly successful. Doug talks about the recent course he attended called Creation Apologetics Teachers College and how it has better prepared him to be a teacher and evangelist. Mike and Doug discuss the techniques used in the course …

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Probability and Evolution

  Many people believe that evolution really happened and that life originated by purely naturalistic means and humans evolved over millions of years from some ape-like creature. Rather than just listening to claims of events that no one has ever observed (big bang, the origin of life, human evolution,…),  Mike challenges us with the question, …

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