From Defending the Faith / Answers in Geneis:
Ken Ham writes My Ways Are Higher than Your Ways.  Some could call it an “evolution” of a vision. This month, we celebrate its one-year anniversary. The vision started over 30 years ago, when—as a public school science teacher in Australia—I took my students to a local natural history museum.  Read more ...  (Posted July 5, 2008)

From Baptist General Conference / Desiring God Ministries:
John Piper writes,  Christian Hedonism Forgive the Label, But Don't Miss the Truth  God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.  Read more... (Posted July 5, 2008)

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Books & Magazines

Baptist Press: Southern Baptist online newspaper updated regularly. News and opinions about contemporary events.
Christian Computing magazine: Book, newsletter, internet resources and Christian links. An aid to godly use of the internet with access to books, newsletters, links and other internet resources.
Christianbook.com: Online site to shop for bibles, commentaries, books, music and gifts.
Christian Book Summaries: Summaries of noteworthy Christian books.
Parable: Online site to shop for bibles, commentaries, books, music and gifts.
World Magazine:  News magazine with a Christian world view.

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Campus Ministries

Intervarsity Christian Fellowship: an evangelical campus mission serving more than 35,000 students and faculty on more than 560 college and university campuses nationwide.
The Navigators:  Navigator staff help Christ’s followers "navigate" spiritually, coming alongside to support them as they search the Word of God to chart the course of their lives. The hallmarks of our ministry are one-to-one relationships and small-group studies focused on discipleship.
Campus Crusade for Christ:  a worldwide, interdenominational Christian ministry committed to showing people how they can know and experience God's plan for their lives.

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Christian Radio

KGDP:  660 AM.  Christian radio for the Central Coast.   Dozens of teaching / talk programs each day.
KLFF:   890 AM.  "The New 890 AM", interactive Christian talk radio.
KLVH:  88.5 FM.  K-LOVE, "Positive, encouraging", contemporary Christian music.
KLFF:   89.3 FM.  K-Life, Contemporary Christian music.
KGDP   90.5 FM.  Bread of Life - Christian Talk Radio for the Central Coast.
HCJB: Worldwide Christian radio on shortwave. For more than 70 years, HCJB World Radio’s passion has been making disciples of Jesus Christ. Using mass media, healthcare and education.


Christian Web Browsing

Internet Filtering Services:  Links to several Christian ISPs, provided by CrossSearch.com.
Bsafe Online: a simple, yet powerful software program that puts you in control. It filters online, inappropriate adult content, monitors Instant Messaging and more.
 

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Church Today

Grace to You: The site for articles by Dr. John MacArthur.  John’s decades of study and pastoral experience are brought to bear on a broad range of questions about the Christian life.
Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals: A call for the church to reform and confess the truth of God’s Word, rejecting gimmickry and shallowness for the sake of “growth.
Peacemaker Ministries: Peacemaker Ministries trains and assists Christian adults and children to resolve personal, church, business, and legal conflict through biblical peacemaking, negotiation, forgiveness, reconciliation, mediation, and arbitration.
The Spurgeon Archive: England's best known 19th century preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, spoke often on the decline of the modern church.
Voice Of The Martyrs: The Voice of the Martyrs exists to serve the Persecuted Church through: Running to help those who suffer for their faith. Remembering the families of today's Christian martyrs. Rebuilding the Church's witness after persecution ends. Reaching out in love to the persecutors. Raising a voice for those who cannot speak.

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Culturally Engaged Christian

ACLJ.org: The American Center for Law and Justice specializes in constitutional law and is dedicated to protecting our religious and constitutional freedoms.  ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow can be heard on his daily radio broadcast, Jay Sekulow Live!
Albert Mohler Radio Program:  Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, hosts an news and analysis radio show.
Citizen Link: Focus on Abstinence Policy Bioethics/Sanctity of Life, Education, Gambling, Homosexuality & Gender, Marriage & Family, Origins, Persecution, Political Islam, Pornography, The Law & the Courts, Worldview & Culture.
Janet Parshall's America:  News, interviews and commentary by Janet Parshall.
The White House:  Official web site of the U.S. President.  Click E-mail to send an e-mail.
USA.gov:  Convenient starting point for all government web sites.
U.S. Senate:  Official web site of the U.S. Senate.  Click on Senators, and go to Sen. Boxer's or Sen. Feinstein's web site.
Write Your Representative:  Let your voice be heard - write an e-mail to your U.S. Representative.


Defending the Faith, Christian Apologetics, Cults

Alpha and Omega Ministries:  Solid Christian information on troubling apologetic topics.  Dr. James White, Director.
Answering Islam: Can you stand for Christ when challenged by a Muslim? Do you know what they think of Christians? This site can be of great help to you.
Answers In Genesis.  An apologetics ministry, dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith, and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively. We focus particularly on providing answers to questions surrounding the book of Genesis, as it is the most-attacked book of the Bible.
Apologetics.com: Seeks to provide the best answers to the hardest questions people ask about the truth of biblical Christianity in a manner that is most effective with inquirers and most glorifying to God.
Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics: Biblically sound online resources for apologetics, church history and doctrine.
Christian Apologetics And Research Ministry: CARM helps believers learn not only about cultists, but evolutionists, new-agers humanists and atheists.
Christian Communicators Worldwide: This site promotes the reformation of the churches in doctrine and methods, Christ-centered preaching and the unction of the Spirit upon the proclamation of the truth. All with a burden for evangelism should study this site.
Christian Research Institute.  Home of CRI and Hank Hanegraaff, host of the Bible Answer Man radio program.
Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: Founded on the Danvers Statement, the Council seeks to study and set forth the Biblical view of the relationship between men and women, especially in the home and church.
Deception In The Church: Not only cultists, but false teachings masquerading as true Christianity attack believers and churches today. Many of them are new to us; this site can help you.
Guide to Early Church Documents: From the Institute For Christian Leadership. Large collection of links to documents relating to the early church, including canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history.
ICR - Institute for Creation Research: Research the scientific evidence supporting creation over evolution.
Josh.Org: Another Josh McDowell site; this one dealing with apologetics and geared toward the student as well as the rest of us. There is teaching material available and also the "Ask Josh" link where you can send in your own questions.
Mormonism Research Ministry:  a missionary/apologetics organization that was organized to propagate the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to critically evaluate the differences between Mormonism and biblical Christianity.
Prison Fellowship Ministries: Thought-provoking site includes BreakPoint by Charles Colson. Discussions on apologetics and explaining contemporary issues from a biblical point of view. The Wilberforce Forum seeks to engage campuses, media, the Church and political/legal communities with the weight of historic Christian intellectual tradition. The Forum hopes to stimulate thought and dialogue to bring about the renewal of our culture.
Ravi Zacharias International Ministries: “…To the questions of the skeptic and the believer we offer an apologetic – we give an answer – to the counterclaims of secularism and other worldviews. We address the intellectual and essential assumptions of our culture, realizing that for some, the door to the heart is through the mind, and for others through the imagination.”
Sola Scriptura Magazine.  Devoted to affirming the authenticity, accuracy, and authority of the Bible - the standard for truth. Includes studies on Last Things (eschatology).
Stand to Reason.  Stand to Reason equips Christian ambassadors with knowledge, wisdom, and character. An effective ambassador has three essential skills: Knowledge, Wisdom and Character.
Wall Watchers: The ministry's research arm is tasked with reviewing, evaluating and rating Christian ministries in order to make useful information about these ministries available to the public. Our second program, thegoodsteward.com, is an educational web site committed to bringing together the best writers, commentators, and teachers in the area of Christian stewardship to help inform and equip the Christian community.  Click on Wall Watchers.  On their site, click on "Ministry Watch", then click on "Support Christian Ministries in Response to Hurricane Katrina".
Walter Martin’s Religious InfoNet: The late Dr. Walter Martin, author of Kingdom Of The Cults, compiled a great deal of experience dealing with cultists and this site passes much of it on to us.
Watchman Fellowship:  an independent Christian research and apologetics ministry focusing on new religious movements, cults, the occult and the New Age.
Wilberforce Forum.  Goal is to help Christians approach life with a biblical worldview so that they can in turn shape culture from a biblical perspective.

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Entertainment & Reviews

American Portrait Films: The best in Christian, Young Earth Creation, and Pro Life Videos.
Christian Film News: A non-profit ministry of Films for Christ.  This is the world's leading news source devoted to Christian film/video production/distribution. This site will tell you what wholesome, biblically-based films will be coming out and gives you a brief synopsis of the film.
Christian Spotlight on Entertainment: from ChristianAnswers.net.  Every time you buy a movie ticket or rent a video you are casting a vote telling Hollywood "That's what I want."  Why does Hollywood continue to promote immoral programming? Are you part of the problem?
MovieGuide: One of the most complete Christian rating services for movies; it not only advises families of what type of film each is and it's objectionable content vs. it's redeeming qualities - it rates the artistic merit.
Planet Wisdom: Movie reviews.  Why movie reviews? We want to warn Christian students about negative content and/or lousy films and we want to help Christians think biblically about movies.

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Evangelism

Presentations:
Are You a Good Person?  Produced by Living Waters.  "Almost everyone thinks they are a good person ... But the question you should be asking is, "Am I good enough to go to heaven?" How would you know?"
The Four Spiritual Laws  The original, produced by Campus Crusade for Christ.
Umbrella Analogy Produced by Compass Bible Church, Aliso Viejo, CA.  A great presentation of the gospel.

Resources (see also, Campus Ministries, above):
Living Waters   Evangelism ... witnessing ... fulfilling the Great Commission... What does it all mean? Simply put, Christian evangelism is when we share our faith with others. Living Waters, the ministry of Ray Comfort, has been equipping Christians across the world for more than 30 years. We train Christians who want to learn evangelism -- by teaching them how to witness the way Jesus did.
Pocket Testament League  Want to share your faith? There's no easier way than by giving someone a free gift: the Word of God in a compact, pocket-sized Gospel. Membership is free. Gospels are free, and available in a variety of cover designs.

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Missions organizations that we support

American Missionary Fellowship: to partner with AMF missionaries to reach unchurched people for the Lord Jesus Christ.
Awana: Awana is a blast for kids from preschool to high school. Along the way, parents, pastors and kids’ workers are glad to know their youth are learning valuable biblical truths that will influence them for the rest of their lives.
BGC World Missions: to help people around the world experience Jesus, establish churches and empower Christian leaders by sending missionaries with a passionate love for God to serve Him in creative ministry opportunities.
Cadence International: our passion is serving the military community through hospitality, Bible studies, and discipleship. We serve U.S. military personnel and those of other countries, their families, and youth.
Care Net Pregnancy and Resource Center: We approach each woman in crisis pregnancy using as an example the way Jesus approached people in need. First, trained counselors build relationships by focusing on the woman’s immediate needs. The Center then meets those needs with real, practical assistance. Finally, counselors share enduring principles that will be of the most help in the long run.
Child Evangelism Fellowship: With workers in more than 150 countries around the world CEF has personal, individual ministry with more than 5 million children each year. God has given us a passion to not only bring children into a right relationship with God, but to disciple them in His Word and establish them in Bible teaching churches so that they can become mature in their faith.
Chosen People Ministries: an organization of Jewish and Gentile believers committed to bringing the Good News to the Jewish people.
Friends of Israel: The Friends of Israel has a wide range of ministries to acquaint believers with the Jewish background of the Bible and with the place God’s ancient people occupy in His plan.
New Tribes Mission: NTM's missionaries are planting tribal churches to reach people who have never had a single opportunity to hear the Good News. Our vision is for every tribe to have the opportunity to hear and respond to the Gospel.
OC International: a mission organization dedicated to mobilizing godly and effective church leaders to reach all nations.
TEAM: Our purpose of helping churches start new churches that in turn start more new churches is the key. We have hundreds of people called by God and strategically placed around the world trained for that very mission.
WorldVenture: (formerly CB International): a community of more than 500 missionaries working in more than 60 countries around the globe.
Wycliffe Bible Translators: Our mission: to assist the church in making disciples of all nations through Bible translation.

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Money Management

Dave Ramsey: Author, speaker and radio talk show host Dave Ramsey has developed the Total Money Makeover and Financial Peace University.  A sample: "Debt is dumb. Most normal people are just plain broke because they are in debt up to their eyeballs with no hope of help. If you're in debt then you're a slave, in the sense that you do not have the freedom to use your money to help change your family tree."
Crown Financial Ministries:  Howard Dayton and his staff host the daily radio show "Money Matters".  Their mission: equipping people worldwide to learn, apply, and teach God's financial principles so they may know Christ more intimately, be free to serve Him, and help fund the Great Commission.


Youth & Family

Adventures in Odyssey:  Radio episodes and games from Adventures in Odyssey.
BibleNet.net:  Site for Christian humor, trivia, chat room, and forums.
Kidstuff: Missionary stories and games for children from the New Tribes Missions Online web site.
Wonderzone: From Child Evangelism Fellowship - a fun site for kids with games and activities as well as Bible lessons, greeting cards and daily devotionals.
FamilyLife.com: In support of traditional marriage. This site links to the radio broadcast "FamilyLife Today", hosted by Dennis Rainey & Bob Lepine. The featured articles in the site cover topics on parenting, marriage, singles and life issues.
Family Matters:  “…a non-profit ministry whose goal is to equip families for every age and stage of life. Through conferences, speaking engagements, books and other resources, we equip family members to put Christ at the center of their lives.” Material includes Basic Training for A Few Good Men, a study used periodically here at Grace Baptist.
Beyond Belief: Inciting a Cross-Culture Revolution from Josh McDowell: Rejection of the false beliefs of religion and rebuilding the true foundations of Christianity. Josh McDowell's Beyond Belief message provides a revolutionary blueprint to raise up a generation of transformed followers of Christ who know why they believe what they believe.
HomeWord.com: (formerly YouthBuilders) Being a parent or youth worker has never been easy, but today it is even more difficult. YouthBuilders is committed to helping make your job easier by bringing you a growing collection of articles on a variety of topics.
Youth Pastor.com: The internet’s top free resource to equip those who work with youth.
ChildrenSermons.Com: Choose from 124 free children's sermons that take less than five minutes to give. Each sermon has a summary, Bible reference, complete text, and a prop.
Planet Wisdom: A site for young people; helping students live life from God's perspective. WisdomWorks is designed to show teenagers how to let God work in and through them for His glory and their destiny.
Focus On The Family: The official site for Focus On The Family featuring Dr. James Dobson. It also includes movie reviews for the discerning parents and children.
Hume Lake Christian Camps: They say “Hume Lake isn’t Heaven, but you can see it from here”. Did you know the camp director, Jeff Lilley, grew up in Grace Baptist Church?
Institute For Biblical Counseling and Discipleship: God's Word is sufficient to meet the challenges faced by His children — even in the chaotic, materialistic world we face today.Childhood Conversion:  by Jim Eliff of Christian Communicators Worldwide. “The church must consider the benefits of returning to a better method of dealing with the souls of our children…”
The Merritt Ministry: Their ministry is, well, balloons; but the site has a good library of links for those working with children.
These Little Ones: A delightful page with links to children’s sites and teaching material for workers.