I remember the firestorm of media reports when our full-size Noah’s Ark at the Ark Encounter opened in 2016. People wondered why anyone would build an ark—and many people accused us of doing it “for the money.” So why’d we do it?

Well, because it’s a powerful gospel outreach to our increasingly secular culture. Through the Ark itself and the Ark’s three decks of exhibits, we show that God’s Word can be trusted from the very beginning. And if the history in God’s Word is true, the gospel message is also true. So we built the Ark to boldly and clearly present the message the world needs—the gospel of Jesus Christ!

Yesterday, we learned that Noah’s ark wasn’t a cute little fairy-tale ark. It was a massive wooden ship over 500 feet long!

Now, that’s almost 200 feet longer than the height of the famous Big Ben clock tower and longer than the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza! It’s one and a half football fields in length, and three NASA space shuttles would fit across the ark’s deck.

The ark was a massive ship. Many of us are so used to seeing the ark as a little flimsy boat, we forget how big it actually was. Noah had more than enough room for two of every kind of land animal, food, supplies, and his family aboard the ark.

When many people picture Noah’s ark, they see the cute little boat overloaded with creatures and a happy, smiling Noah. But that’s not what the ark looked like!

The Bible describes a massive wooden ship. It was 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, and 51 feet high. There was more than enough room for the animals.

We need to teach our children that the history in God’s Word actually happened. The ark was a real ship that survived a real flood. Instead of cute drawings that make the account look like a fairy tale, we need to show the ark like it actually was: a massive ship that saved mankind from the floodwaters.

Yes, America is a divided nation. Lots of people know this, but they’re not addressing the real problem or solution. America has and always will be a divided nation because there’s a spiritual battle that’s been raging for 6,000 years. You see, we don’t wrestle against flesh and blood.

There’s a worldview clash because people have different starting points. It’s God’s Word versus man’s word.

The spiritual battle for the hearts and minds in our nation isn’t fought with physical weapons. It’s fought with prayer, the authority of God’s Word, and the preaching of the gospel. It’s the gospel that changes hearts for now and also for eternity.

Climate change alarmists often wonder why people aren’t convinced by their “facts.” They claim we just ignore them. But are facts really the problem?

The issue isn’t about the facts because the facts don’t speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted. And what you believe about the past determines how you interpret the evidence. So it isn’t science versus the Bible or science versus religion. It’s one interpretation of the evidence competing with another interpretation.

Because creationists start with God’s Word, beginning with the book of Genesis, we come to an entirely different conclusion than those who start with man’s ideas about the past.

In the Old Testament, God challenged false gods to prove themselves by predicting the future—and of course, they can’t. But the Bible does! Thousands of times!

For example, the prophet Isaiah predicted that a man named Cyrus would let the Israelites return home before Cyrus was even born! Jesus, through his birth, life, death, and resurrection, fulfilled dozens of very specific prophecies, including being born of a virgin and having lots cast for his clothing.

Other religious writings don’t make specific predictions that’ve come true. Only the Bible does! And why? Because it was written by the one who knows the end from the beginning.

Some people claim the Bible was just made up by people who lived long after its events supposedly happened. But did you know the Bible’s been confirmed by archaeology? Take these three examples:

The Bible wasn’t made up at all. The ultimate author is God, who does not lie. It really is the Word of God.

Some people claim the Bible was just made up—how do we answer this claim? Well, here’s the first of three evidences I’ll give you this week that confirm the Bible came from God and not man.

Number one: The Bible isn’t what we’d expect if it were made-up. First, it shows the flaws and faults of its heroes—it doesn’t whitewash them.

Secondly, manmade religions teach we must work to achieve salvation. But the Bible’s message is the opposite. We can’t do anything—Christ has done it all for us! Man’s religions are about what we can do for god; the Bible teaches us what God has done for us. The Bible’s radically unique.

Anytime scientists discover a planet that is earth-sized, they get excited about the possibility of finding life. But does earth-sized mean life?

Well, no, it doesn’t. You also need liquid water, the right gravitational pull to hold onto an atmosphere, the right gases in that atmosphere, the proper distance from the sun, a day/night cycle, the right kind of sun, a moon the right size and distance away, and so much more! And that just gets you the conditions favorable for life—that doesn’t get you life or the information system needed for life!

All life was created by God—it certainly didn’t evolve on this planet or anywhere else.

Most Christians thank God for providing their meals. But we should thank God not just for providing us with a meal but for creating our food in the first place!

He created an incredible variety of flavors in every color and texture imaginable. And he put so much variety into each created kind that we can have dozens of different types of apples or broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage—all from the same kind!

He gave us mouths to taste and detect flavors, including different receptors for different tastes. He even designed the water and growth cycle that grows our food!

The very food we eat points us to our Creator.