Bible-On-Display: The home school girls have completed their Bible class projects and invite you to view them. They are displayed in the welcome lobby by the restrooms. Please respect their work and don’t let your children touch them. Thanks. These are great teaching opportunities to share with your little ones. They will be taken down today so don’t miss this opportunity.

A big thank you to the keyboard donor! Please bear with me as I learn how to play it. Please go beyond the mistakes and worship the Lord with all your heart. Robin

CORRECTION: Sis. Cindy Coakley sent a letter home with the Wednesday night kids about the ECF Program at the hospital. Please note – the correct date is the 21st and not the 12th as stated in the letter. Sorry about the mix-up.

When doing your Christmas cards this year, take one card and send it to this address. They will deliver the cards to recovering soldiers. 
If we pass this on to all of our friends and everyone sends one card, think of how many cards these wonderful special people who have sacrificed so much would get.

We Support You During Your Recovery

c/o American Red Cross

P.O.Box 419

Savage MD 20763





PARENTAL ALERT: THE GOLDEN COMPASS [Please take this seriously]

THE GOLDEN COMPASS movie is based on a trilogy of children’s books by British author, Philip Pullman, who is an avowed atheist who has dedicated his life to undermining Christianity and the Church, especially among young readers. One of Pullman’s goals in writing these books is to be the “anti-Narnia” series.
FIRST: The message of the movie, and the books on which it is based, is anti-Christian propaganda. THE GOLDEN COMPASS movie features a dishonest, selfish and stubborn heroine and is the opening to a story that glorifies atheism (primarily in the later two books). We believe in freedom of the press. Anyone can write a book or screenplay that makes Christians look sinister, stupid or wicked. That does NOT mean Christian parents need to buy that message and feed it to their children. 

SECOND: In the movie business, the purchase of a ticket, or DVD, is a vote for more of something. If a studio loses money on an expensive anti-Christian adventure it is less likely to make more of the same. In this case, THE GOLDEN COMPASS is the first part of a trilogy that gets worse as it progresses. If THE GOLDEN COMPASS is a monumental flop the second and third book may never get made into movies. 

While THE GOLDEN COMPASS movie is not as overtly anti-Christian as the books by looking at some of the excerpts from the novel you can see what the author hopes to teach children: 

One fallen angel tells one of the novel’s young heroes, “The Authority, God, the Creator, the Lord, Yahweh, El, Adonai, the King, the Father, the Almighty – those were all names he gave himself. He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves – the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself.”

When the heroine finally finds this “god,” he is ultimately described as a “demented and powerless” creature that “could only weep and mumble in fear and pain and misery.” The boy then kills this “god” by breaking him out of his crystal cell, thereby evaporating him. The only “god” in this universe is matter.

In the book, the Church is depicted as an organization bent on power, control and the torture of children by cutting.

The heroine in the story turns from the Church when she realizes, “there wasn’t any God at all and... the Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.” Children learn scripts of behavior from the movies and entertainment. The role model in this movie is Lyra who is commended for lying, stealing, cheating, and trying to kill her mother. Even worse, the official website has an area where children can meet their own daemon. It says: “To discover your very own Daemon, look into your heart, and answer the following twenty questions openly and honestly. Your true character and the form of your Daemon will be reveled…”