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How God Responds to Attempts to Cancel Culture: The “Children of the Promise”   May 1, 2021 Larry R Evans   Reflective Quiz   1      True or False?  Trying to replace one culture with another is arbitrary and wrong. 2     True or False?   Cancel  Culture and  Cancer  Culture are concerns the Bible does not address. 3.      True or False?  Protecting those who are guilty is a form of prejudice and should not be tolerated. 4.      True or False?  God’s plan for Abraham did not end at the cross. 5.      True or False?  The fact that God chose Abram, an obscure nomad, suggests that God’s values are often different from ours.   Introduction   What’s so wrong with “counterculture? When God spoke to Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, wasn’t He promising to replace one culture with another? When the Bible tells us, that God has a “new heaven and a new earth” (Rev. 21:1) ready to receive us, doesn’t this mean that He is canceling one culture and replacing it with another? How is what God is plann

Why Are We Afraid to Be Honest with God?

Why Are We Afraid to Be Honest with God?  (An Overview of Our Covenants with God) Larry R Evans, DMin April 10, 2021 Quiz   (1.)            True or False – We should be afraid of God. (2.)           True or False – If we don’t tell anything false, we have been honest? (3.)           True or False – Our sin hurts God more than it hurts us, but being disciplined hurts us more than it hurts God. (4.)           True or False – Covenants are necessary because God might change His mind. (5.)           True or False – Covenants and contracts are the same.   Introduction The Reasons We Fear God   As an author was writing a book, he had a conversation with a friend. Here is some of the actual conversation.   Author:  “I am writing a booklet, to be called,  Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I am?   Other : “Do you want an answer to your question?”   Author : “That is the purpose of the booklet, to answer the question.”   Other:  “I’m afraid to tell you who I am, because, if I tell you who I am, yo