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WEEK 6 - April 2, 2025

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Welcome to Burnt Hickory's Wednesday Night Pastor's Class. Truly glad you have joined the class. I hope that you have found the class informative and it has brought to you an awareness to the issues of the day that not only impact the Church in general but also our day-to-day lives as Christ-followers. Remember, feel free to text with questions or articles and topics you would like to cover and further discuss at 470 223 5665.

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." (Joshua 1:9, ESV)

"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." (John 15:18–19, ESV)

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Allen Jackson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnqKbOz64kY&t=230s

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9 ESV

"And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil." John 3:19

"For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control." 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV

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Sean McDowell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Uz4BjGNqE

Tony Perkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW9ta19mUR4

Sean McDowell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nphcZR4mxCA

"And Jesus came and said to them, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.'" (Matthew 28:18–20, ESV)

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."(Genesis 1:27, ESV)

"Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another." (Ephesians 4:25, ESV)

"And he said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.'" (Matthew 22:37–40, ESV)

"Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error." (Romans 1:24–27, ESV)

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Christian Post

https://www.christianpost.com/news/toddler-reportedly-suspended-from-nursery-for-transphobia.html

Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/31/toddler-kicked-out-of-nursery-for-being-transphobic/

Daily Mail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14553181/toddler-kicked-nursery-transphobic.html

Christian Post

https://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelical-teacher-to-have-43k-forcibly-taken-from-account.html

"And he said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.'"(Matthew 22:37–40, ESV)

"Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea."

(Matthew 18:5–6, ESV)

"So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."

(Matthew 7:12, ESV)

"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart." Hebrews 4:12 (ESV)

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LIFE NEWS

https://www.lifenews.com/2025/03/31/terri-schiavo-died-20-years-ago-today-we-must-never-forget-her/

LIFE AND HOPE

https://www.lifeandhope.com/

MAMA BEAR FORMS

https://www.mamabearlegalforms.com/

GOT QUESTIONS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLrWXpIckDk&t=20s

"Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature" (Genesis 2:7, ESV)

"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live" (Deuteronomy 30:19, ESV)

"No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it" (Ecclesiastes 8:8, ESV)

"You shall not murder." (Exodus 20:13, ESV)

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Roy’s Report

https://julieroys.com/survey-more-men-attending-church-women-volunteering-rebounds/

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."

(Genesis 1:27, ESV)

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

(Galatians 3:28, ESV)

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Albert Mohler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0dT5eNZrBE

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God." Philippians 4:6 (ESV)

"And he said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.'"(Matthew 22:37–40, ESV)

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Sean McDowell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bME42lz6es

Augusta Chronicle:https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/news/politics/state/2025/01/07/pornography-will-be-partially-blocked-under-new-georgia-law-what-to-know/77490065007/

Barna: https://www.barna.com/trends/over-half-of-practicing-christians-admit-they-use-pornography/

"Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth." (John 17:17, ESV)

"You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”(Matthew 5:27–28, ESV)

"Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil." (Ephesians 5:15–16, ESV)

"Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body." (1 Corinthians 6:18–20, ESV)

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." (James 4:7, ESV)

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Christian Post

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-couple-woman-they-led-to-christ-poisoned-to-death.html

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9 ESV

"And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil." John 3:19

"For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control." 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV

"So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."

(Matthew 7:12, ESV)

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18–20, ESV)

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Cissie Graham Lynch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyXv_OldI8I

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9 ESV

"And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil." John 3:19

"For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control." 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV