Telling Future Generations

This week we continue with the CEF of Illinois '7 Highways' presentation which highlights the ministry outreaches across the state for this past year. As we think about this gift-giving season, we are reminded of God's greatest gift of salvation in God giving to us His Son (John 3:16)?  How should we then respond to God's greatest gift? By giving to God all that we have back to...

At our recent CEF Fall Event, Dr. Katrina Forseth shared a ministry presentation called, 'The 7 Highways, plus more,' of what CEF ministry looks like in Illinois. We hope you enjoy listening to this CEF of Illinois ministry presentation! Go to our website to learn more information about Child Evangelism Fellowship of Illinois.

This week we are airing the last segment of Ken Ham's first session on how, 'Genesis Chapters 1-11 is the Foundation for Everything!' Ken Ham encourages God's People to be bold at what God has said in His Word about foundational issues and doctrinal truths that have been laid out clearly in Genesis. God's Word says what it means, and means what it says. There is no vaguene...

This week we are continuing to air the third part of Ken Ham's first session on how 'Genesis Chapters 1-11 is the Foundation for Everything!' Ken Ham shares that the same problem that begins in Genesis with the entrance of sin, Satan, and death, is answered by the same solution.  What is that answer? The answer is singular, it's the Gospel. The Good News of Gospel is the only a...

This week we will be continue to air the second part of the first session that Ken Ham with Answers in Genesis shared on how, 'Genesis 1-11 is the Foundation for Everything!' We hope you enjoy! Go to our website to learn more information about Child Evangelism Fellowship of Illinois.

Wow what an evening! This Fall, CEF of Illinois held our annual fundraiser and had as our guest speaker, Ken Ham, with Answers in Genesis! Ken Ham shared two 45 minute seminars with us, which we will be airing in their entirety here through our CEF of IL radio program, 'Telling Future Generations.' Please enjoy this first segment from Ken Ham's first session on how Genesis Chapters...

John Chapter 15 is a key chapter where Jesus tells His disciples what we are to be doing while Jesus is physically absent from this earth. Jesus is working, the Father is working, and the Holy Spirit is working. What is our work that we are to be doing until Jesus comes again?  It is simply this, to abide in Jesus! Jesus said in John Chapter 15:4-5, "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch c...

Failed fruit is the story-line of not only Ezekiel Chapter 15, but of the story of Israel.  From the beginning, the Lord called Israel to not only be His People, but to be a Faithful People to produce forth fruit for Him and for others, to point the nations to the Lord--but Israel failed. They forgot their purpose and persisted in their sin of disobedience.                                 However,...

If Noah, Daniel, and Job were alive today, would their righteousness save and deliver unrighteous people living in the land? In Ezekiel Chapter 14, God answers His own question and points to one eternal truth: There is no one who is righteous and there is no one who can save or deliver anyone, let alone themselves. If that were the end of the story, this would not just be disappointed hope, but cr...

Great revivals of people turning their heart to the Lord, do not begin in a vacuum or come from nothing. Biblically-speaking, revivals only happen when God's people who know the Lord repent of their sin and  walk in a right relationship with their God! Ezekiel Chapter 14 is an amazing chapter that lays bare the problem of idolatry from which all sin stems and then points God's people to...

A dual, spiritual 'hot potato' is found in Ezekiel Chapter 13 concerning women who were prophets. The issue was not that they were 'women' or that these women were 'prophets,' but because these women were false prophets who practiced divination that was totally against God's Word. In Ezekiel Chapter 13, we see both a vivid WARNING to God's people who partici...

On September 10th, a Scripture verse was tweeted out on social media by Erika, the wife of Charlie Kirk, saying simply this, ' Psalm 46:1, God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.' This Bible verse was posted at 9:45 am, less than 3 hours before her husband's tragic death in Utah at the college campus. Psalm 46 has been a comfort to God's people down thro...

False prophets not only were a problem back in Ezekiel's day, but False Prophets abound today. These false prophets spew fake news, all because they were fake prophets, and built a fake wall of words to weaken God's people. Ezekiel Chapter 13 is instructive for us today that help us discern three main ways we can understand False Prophets from True Prophets by applying specific Biblical...

God has given to us, His people, the gift of God's Word, not only so that we would know the Lord and be in a right relationship with Him, but also so that we would depend on God's Word! Ezekiel Chapter 12 is a great reminder to God's people to help us know how to depend upon God's Word by resting on God's Word, by believing on God's Word, both in whole or in part, and...

The people in Jerusalem had a problem. God said, they were a 'rebellious house.'  Through the prophet Ezekiel, God wanted to get the people's attention because God knew what His people's answer was to their problem.  God's people, back then, as well as now, need to rightly respond to God's Word immediately.  This includes not only having open ears and open hearts to r...

Ezekiel Chapters ' 7-Eleven ,' contain many Biblical principles that we can pick up like walking through a grocery store aisles that we can place in our spiritual grocery cart and take to heart. In Ezekiel Chapters 7 and 8, -- God is the God who sees and who knows all things. In Ezekiel Chapter 9-11, -- God is the God who knows His people by name and marks us out as His people all by His...

Can you imagine finding HOPE in the book of Ezekiel which is filled with prophecies of doom and gloom and days of coming difficulties for God's people? Yes, we can! Embedded in Ezekiel Chapter 6, God promised that He would 'save a remnant,' and one day, carry His people back to their promised land. This is not just a promise for God's People in the Old Testament times back then...

In God's, ' 7-Eleven ,' grocery store in Ezekiel Chapter 7-11, we see Biblical truths laid out for us on the shelf that we need to put into our 'spiritual grocery cart' to help remind us of WHO OUR GOD IS and that GOD IS THE GOD WHO SEES ALL THINGS. If we truly understood that GOD IS THE ONE WHO KNOWS ALL THINGS and WHO SEES ALL THINGS, including the hidden crevices in our...

The book of Ezekiel is filled with specific prophecies and righteous judgments, but it is also filled with HOPE! In fact, the overarching storyline of the whole book of Ezekiel is that even though God in His Holiness must judge and discipline His People because of their sin, God in His mercy has a Grace-filled plan to bring His people back into a right relationship with Him! In other words, becaus...

The Lord has a call upon all of His people to, ' Go and Speak God's Word to Others.' This God-given commission is not just for pastors, missionaries, and full-time Christian workers, or even to Old Testament prophets back then, but to each of us today! In Ezekiel Chapters 2 and 3, God tells His prophet Ezekiel the 'where' and the 'how' to speak God's Word to...

God's 'Plan A' from all eternity is to send forth His people to go and speak God's Word to others! In Ezekiel Chapter 2-3, the prophet Ezekiel was commissioned and commanded by the Lord to go and speak God's Word to His people, including to the Jews in captivity in Babylon. However, this commission and commandment was not only for Ezekiel and the Old Testament prophets bac...

Ezekiel's vision of the heavens opened in Chapter 1 is absolutely stunning! As Ezekiel came near in his vision to the presence of the LORD, he saw the Cherubims, the special class of angels who are the guardians of God. Ezekiel also saw the moving Chariot carrying God's Spirit, turning like a wheel in the center of a wheel! Don't stop there, because above the created firmament desig...

In Ezekiel Chapter 1, God gave to Ezekiel an amazing vision of the heavens opened. Ezekiel was lifted up to the highest heaven coming near the presence of God and saw with his own eyes the cherubims, God's guardian angels, and God's constantly moving chariot, which was the Spirit of the Lord ever turning and working, like a wheel in the center of a wheel! This is an amazing vision, but w...

Today, we wrap up Acts chapter 2 that focuses on the four-fold ministry of the church. According to God's Word in the book of Acts this includes, not only the evangelizing ministry, the enfolding ministry, but also the establishing ministry, which includes an intentional focus on God's people PRAYING TOGETHER.  Then the final four-fold ministry of the church includes the extending minist...

Today on our program, we are continuing our second part of the interview with Mike Fox and Eddie D. who was our Chapel Speaker at the recent CEF Summer Missionary Training School ' for our young people... high school through college-age! Eddie D shares a sample overview of his chapel messages that he shared, including giving our students tools how to dig deep into God's Word called &apos...