Canopy Ministries

Canopy Ministries - Lecture Topics

All messages are in the form of PowerPoint presentations but PowerPoint is not a necessary. All messages are designed to bring all listeners to the point where they must make a decision. As such, they indeed do present the Gospel clearly without requiring an invitation. (One can be given if the Pastor wants to.) Most of these have been adapted to middle school and high school as well. When teaching in schools, we teach the Bible solely as a historical book and not as a religious book and emphasize the science.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PATH YOU CHOOSE – about 45 minutes with PowerPoint This lead-off message deals with the relevance of the creation vs. evolution belief systems. It presents the idea that there are two paths in life, or two worldviews. You can believe either one, but there are consequences that come with the choice you make. Few people understand that evolution is really a faith based belief system that teaches that man is the "god" in control of his own life and it is having devastating effect on our society, especially our young people. This topic presents the perfect creation and fall of man and the redemptive work of Christ on the cross. It finishes with the choice each makes regarding the person of Jesus Christ.

The Relevance of Creation - About 49 Minutes – PowerPoint This is an excellent lead off message since it deals with the compromise that Churches and individual Christians have made with the evolutionary world view. Using the text from Acts chapter 2 and Act chapter 17, it compares the two powerful sermons that Peter and Paul preached to two very different groups. This message also deals with the issue of what the Gospel is and how we are failing to realize that we need to begin our evangelistic efforts like Paul did in Acts 17 by teaching the 7 C’s of history. Why is Genesis and creation so important? You can’t get them saved unless you first get them to see that they are lost. How do you do that? You connect them to Adam. (This is a very powerful and motivating presentation.)

What is Truth? - About 53 Minutes – PowerPoint This presentation deals with the two world views. Humanism and it’s foundation of evolution and atheism, and Biblical Christianity and it’s foundation on revealed truth as it deals with origins in the Genesis creation account. The presentation deals with the five tenets of the Humanist Manifesto and how our public education system has been taken over by the Humanists. This talk also deals with the results of following the humanist religion and how we are now reaping what we have sown for the past 70 odd years since John Dewey signed the “Manifesto” in 1932. It also offers solutions to the education system problems of poor discipline and general lawlessness in our public schools. It finishes with the fact that truth is embodied in the person of Jesus Christ.

The Fallen World - About 40 minutes – PowerPoint This talk deals again with the 2^nd “C”, the Corruption, by dealing with the results of the fact that we live in a fallen world of death, disease, and bloodshed by addressing two big questions. Is there really a God? And if so, why does He allow bad things to happen to “good” people. It deals with 9/11/01 in addressing the second question and uses some interesting facts from several scientific disciplines to address the question “Is there really a God?”

The Fossils, Grand Canyon and the Flood - About 51 minutes - PowerPoint This message deals with the 3^rd “C”, the Catastrophe, and attempts to bring the listener to an understanding of just how catastrophic the breaking up of the fountain of the great deep really was. It does so by asking and answering four questions. Is evolution true science while creation is just religion? Is the fossil record evidence for evolution? Where do fossils come from and how do they form? Does it really matter if the flood was local or global? How long it takes to make a fossil, coal, and oil are also discussed. The talk finishes up with a discussion of how Grand Canyon formed by presenting Dr. Austin’s breached dam explanation of canyon formation.

Dinosaurs and Dragons - Fact or Myth - About 46 minutes – PowerPoint (One of the most requested topics, especially for youth groups and in schools) This talk again deals with the 3^rd “C”, the Catastrophe, by asking and answering four questions about dinosaurs. Where did they come from and when? When did they die out and become extinct? Why did they become extinct? Have there been any dinosaurs alive in recent times and are there any alive on the planet today? Four or five evolutionary explanations are briefly discussed before giving the historical reason recorded in the Bible.

The Mystery of Ancient Man - About 52 minutes – PowerPoint This talk deals with the 4^th “C”, the Confusion at Babel, Nimrod and his establishment of astrology and the tower of Babel as an observatory to study the stars. It does so by dealing with ancient artifacts that indicates a technological explosion occurred about 5,000 years ago. It discusses ancient maps, ziggurats, batteries, computers and other items that indicate that ancient man was anything but primitive. It ties the history of the worlds peoples to the common ancestry of Noah and his three sons and ultimately to Adam and Eve.

ONE BLOOD – The Biblical answer to Racism - About 54 minutes – PowerPoint (the most requested topic overseas) This deals again with the 4^th “C”, the Confusion, by using genetics and showing that we are indeed “ONE BLOOD.” It discusses natural selection and the fact that creationists don’t have a problem with natural selection. We call it variation within a kind. It also deals with two long held church myths; the alleged curse on Ham, and what real interracial marriage is. This deals also with “skin color”, slanted eyes, and other genetic variations within the human kind.

The 7 “C’s” of History - about 63 minutes - PowerPoint This presentation covers the perfect “CREATION” that was created by God that was “CORRUPTED” by man’s sin of disobedience. It covers the resulting rapid decent into unmitigated violence until God finally judged the world with the “CATASTROPHE” of a global flood destroying the entire surface of the planet. It briefly explains the continued rebellion of mankind resulting in the “CONFUSION” of languages at Babel. Finally it finishes with the coming of the “CREATOR” into this world as a man, and the voluntary subjection to death on a “CROSS” for the redemption of fallen mankind and the entire creation, and covers the glorious hope of the coming “CONSUMMATION.”

LIVING with the EAGLES - about 45 minutes – PowerPoint This is an uplifting message for Christians who need encouragement, and is intended to help us live victorious lives. It deals with the second gift that Christians are given at the point of salvation, one that most of us miss. It deals with the fact that most of us split our lives into two compartments, the sacred and the secular. Bringing people to understand their Creator and our position in relationship to him is key to becoming powerful and bold witnesses. This message seeks to give us the motivation to become “apologists” for the Gospel, the Bible, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

USING THEIR OWN WORDS AGAINST THEM – about 48 minutes – PowerPoint This lecture shows why evolution is not only not a fact, but why it is not even a good theory by using a good number of quotes by leading evolutionists. (using their own words against them) As the lecture moves through the quotes, it becomes obvious that evolution is not science at all, but really a religion. Indeed, evolution is an anti-god religion of death, disease, bloodshed and struggle that finally ends when death wins. It finishes with the fact that this is a good time to be a Bible believing Christian.

WHY QUESTION BIBLICAL AUTHORITY? – about 50 minutes – PowerPoint This lecture deals with the compromise that Christians make in trying to add millions of years to the Bible, and the different ways they try to do that. The “day-age” theory, Progressive creation, Theistic evolution, and the Gap theory are dealt with in some detail. Then, using quotes from evolutionists, we show that the evolutionists themselves know that evolution is a faith-based religious system. The talk finishes by asking “Why compromise?” and discussing some of the consequences of compromising with the religion of evolution.

Additional topics available:

DOES RADIOMETRIC DATING PROVE THE EARTH IS VERY OLD?

CREATION AND THE GENETIC CODE

BIRD EVOLUTION? FEATHERS – AN INSURMOUNTABLE PROBLEM

WHERE DID INFORMATION COME FROM? Did the Big Bang produce it?

NOAH’S ARK – TOO SMALL FOR MILLIONS OF SPECIES?

SCIENCE AND THE CLASSROOM

LET’S DEBATE EVOLUTION VS CREATION

SHOULD CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION?

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE – The Lie that keeps on taking!