Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Clipping the Wings of the Eagle

regarding cheating in school. How do you think a group of fourth graders would respond? Situation: Tom's parents are great. They help him with his homework. He gets an allowance for easy weekend chores. He has his own computer and Internet connection along with a telephone and killer stereo. His parents pay him $25 for every "A" that he gets and he enjoys total privacy when he needs to study. Randy has a part time job after school to help his mom pay the high winter heating bills. He lives with his mom and four younger brothers and sisters. When he gets home after work, he makes dinner for the kids, cleans up and bathes his little brother before bed because his mom works until ten. Exhausted and without time to study, Randy doesn't study for his test in the morning. The moral guidelines in the Bible are summed up in the Ten Commandments: the five "dos" and the five "do nots." Reading the Bible in school planted positive values in the minds of kids. I never remember my teacher forcing me to believe the Bible, but I do remember the comfort I felt when I heard the Bible stories. Imagine if every law in America that is based on Scripture was removed! Anarchy would dominate; theft, killing, and fighting would be uncontrollable. Laws are enforced as a tool to restrain evil. Likewise, the laws of God's Word act as a restraint against sins like murder, lust, pride, and deception. Without Biblical standards, what is the basis for right and wrong? Humanists will argue that values vary, and that there are no absolutes. Even the Deists saw the Almighty in nature and revered the absolute power of the oceans and the result of gravity! An Assault on our Identity: Teaching creationism was forbidden. With the Bible banished, science was deemed the source of truth. Scientific evolution was taught as the origin of our species. It is noteworthy that, before his death, Charles Darwin denied his theory of evolution. Have you ever read that fact in one of your kids' textbooks? According to pure scientific process, a theory needs some evidence to support it. There are many missing links in the evolution theory. If kids think they are a result of a random accident of nature, or that they arose from primordial slime, is it surprising that they have no hope in a God ordained future? People will let you down. It is not a matter of if , but a matter of when . But the God of the Bible will never let you down. His

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