Christian Home Study - Christian Home Education Curriculum

The Christian Home Learning Guide written for Zane Education by Marshall Foster and Ron Ball provides the ideal guide to Christian home study and Christian home education curriculum for Christian homeschoolers.It is the Christian Companion to Zane Education's Online Learning Video Titles

Welcome to Zane Education's Christian Home Learning Guide - the ideal introduction to the benefits of visual learning and Christian home education curriculum for Christian home study.

This Christian home study guide covers many essential Christian home education curriculum subjects such as History, Literature, Science, Art, Music and Literature and it provides a valuable demonstration that all of the online videos provided in Zane's online educational video library for Christian homeschoolers, teaches each curriculum topic in complete accordance with Biblical teachings. It also includes a valuable section to help prepare your Christian child for College.

Introduction By Ron Ball

SINCE THE BEGINNING of Western Christian civilization, the positive goal of God's glory has infused every part of life.

The truly ultimate questions and perplexities of our world-death, suffering, human connections, and the significance of our lives-have been examined through the arts, which reach deep into the human heart and fly upward to face God and receive His answers. Whether painting, sculpture, theater, or literature, the arts have traditionally sought to understand God, the workings of His world, and our place in it.

History has provided a roadmap through the tangled confusion of past events. It has taught lessons, provided warnings, and stubbornly reminded us that only God's laws work and bring blessing to the human race. We have been witnesses to the lives of those men and women who chose not to obey God. The wreckage of their lives serves as a glaring reminder that God's laws cannot be broken-you only break yourself in the attempt.

Throughout the centuries, education has been a formidable factor in art, literature, political leadership, and spiritual growth. This is not to say that education alone is primary in importance. The relationship of the individual to God through Jesus Christ, of course, supersedes every other element of life. Biblically directed spiritual life is the dynamic core from which all other aspects radiate.

The leaders of the twenty-first century must be equipped and prepared to follow in the spiritual footsteps of our ancestors, those people who challenged and changed the world through their love, service, and obedience of God. Christian leadership should be an honor to God by its intellectual discipline and its spiritual depth and excitement. We should outreach, outwork, and outlove the rest of the world! We know that the mind can be a terrible instrument of selfish pursuit, manipulation, and savage cruelty, or it can be a means to godly study, beautification and enrichment of life, and ongoing blessing for other people. It can be the birthplace of new horizons and fresh ideas, full of excitement and endless possibilities.

It is our conviction that when the intellect, the emotions, the will, and the spirit are in the right balance with God, the whole person becomes an expression of excellence for the glory of God.

The Bible itself stresses the importance of the mind in spiritual growth:

"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth." (2 Tim. 2:15 New International Version) "All Scripture is God- breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Tim. 3:16-17 NIV)

Zane Education's educational program and this document offers you and your children two critical requirements for future influence: (1) solid grounding and factual education; and (2) a biblical Christian perspective and application of the program.

Zane has done an outstanding job in its Learning Video titles. Your children will go beyond the threshold of basic information; they will become educated - a precious commodity in today's society. They will learn the foundation for a rich, full, productive life; they will learn to reason, to think, to create.

The Christian application of the Zane material will keep your children grounded in biblical leadership and authority. It will guide them and mold them as they learn to seek God for themselves and enjoy their relationship with Jesus Christ.

At times, you will encounter secular interpretations of events in the Learning Videos. There is, for example, a clear, evolutionary bias in the material in the Biological Sciences series. Do not be alarmed! It is our conviction that students should know and understand positions outside of evangelical Christianity. We are confident that their faith will be stronger when they know both sides and understand why we believe the biblical view of the world is correct both intellectually and spiritually.

God bless you. You are beginning an adventure in learning, a journey into the hearts and minds of your children.

Together, assisted by this excellent program and humbly dependent on the blessing and help of God, you can build godly men and women who will lead us into the twenty-first century.

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The Christian Home Learning Guide - About the Authors

Marshall Foster

DR. MARSHALL FOSTER is the founder and president of the Mayflower Marshall Foster institute, a non-profit educational foundation started in 1976 that is dedicated to teaching the biblical and historical foundations of liberty.

A nationally recognized historian, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and syndicated radio host, he speaks at business conventions, state-wide homeschool conventions, seminars, and churches. He has written three books, numerous syndicated articles, and is the editor of the monthly Mayflower Institute Journal that addresses current cultural dilemmas. He also is the Director of Education for American Christian Tours, overseeing and leading Christian heritage tours worldwide.

A former Bible College professor who was the founder and director of both the Los Angeles Rams chaplain's program and the Campus Crusade ministry at the University of Southern California, Dr. Foster has been featured on the Trinity Broadcast Network and numerous radio and television programs such as The 700 Club, Focus on the Family, Point of View, and Duffy & Co.

Foster graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a bachelor of arts in economics. His graduate work was accomplished at Talbot Theological Seminary and the California Graduate School of Theology. He earned his doctorate of divinity from Cathedral Bible College. Foster and his wife of twenty-seven years, Irish, reside in Southern California with their two children.

Ron Ball

SINCE DELIVERING HIS FIRST seminar at the age of fifteen, Ron Ball has presented dynamic messages of biblical success to over three million people in America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

As president of the Ron Ball Association, he has spoken over 12,000 times at business conventions, civic rallies, and Christian crusades. He received the honor of Financial Researcher of the Year (1990) by the Financial Research Institute of America. He has appeared on television and radio broadcasts in forty states and has contributed to magazines in four countries.

Ball has shared the platform with such noted leaders as Dexter Yager, Zig Zigler, Dr. Charles Stanley, Art Linkletter, Ronald Reagan, Denis Waitley, Pat Robertson, and Paul Conn.

He has co-authored with Dexter Yager five best-selling books that have now sold more than one-half million copies worldwide and have made best-seller lists throughout the United States.

Ball was born in Paintsville, Kentucky. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Asbury College in 1973 and with a master of divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary in 1976. He did his postmaster's work at Emory University in Atlanta.

Ball and his wife, Amy, reside in Tennessee with their daughter, Allison, and son, Jonathan.

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The Christian Home Learning Guide - Contents

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PART ONE - A Biblical Plan for Godly Education
A Biblical Worldview for Success

• The Battle for Immortal Minds.
• What is a Worldview? 
• What is the Impact of a Biblical Worldview? 
• Timeless Biblical Blueprint 
• Essentials of Home Education
• For Such a Time As This
• Related Scripture
• Suggested Reading

PART TWO - God's Historical Drama
Timeline of Christian History
Geography: Setting the Stage
Geography Topics and Online Video Titles

• Geography: Setting The Stage
• Geography and the Hand of Providence
• How Should Christians Relate to God's Created Order? 
• The "Flat Earth"
• Conclusion 
• Learning Video Analyses 
• Review Questions
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

History 1: The Drama of Ancient History
History Topics and Online History Video Titles

• The Drama of Ancient History
• Heroes and Villains
• Act One, Scene Ten: Curses! Foiled Again!
• Our Role as Spectators and as Players
• Acting Lessons: How to Approach Your Role in History
• The Creation
• The Perfect Scene Marred By Sin
• The Flood
• Civilizations in Rebellion
• Enter Abraham
• From Freedom to Bondage
• Christ Enters a Dying World 
• Christ vs. Caesar 
• Augustus's Legacy
• Christ's Legacy 
• World Cultures in Perspective
• Conclusion
• Learning Video Analyses
• Review Questions 
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

History 2: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance

• The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• Seeing Order in Apparent Chaos
• The Christian Impact in the Development of Europe
• The Dark Ages: Not So Dark 
• Faith Dispelling Barbarism
• King Alfred the Great and English Civil Law
• Kings, Vassals, and Serfs
• The Magna Carta 
• A Faith in Crisis
• John Wycliffe: The Morning Star of the Reformation 
• The Renaissance: The Rebirth of Antiquity 
• Providential Purpose in the Renaissance
• Learning Video Analyses
• Review Questions 
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

History 3: The European Foundations of Liberty

• The European Foundations of Liberty
• Life in 1500 
• The Christ-Bearer 
• The Reformation
• Reformer William Tyndale
• John Knox: A Fire in the Pulpit
• The Sanquhar Declaration
• The Reformation in France
• The Dutch Stand for Religious Liberty 
• London in the Early Seventeenth Century 
• Learning Video Analyses
• Review Questions 
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

History 4: The American Expression of Liberty

• The American Expression of Liberty
• The Providential Landing at Cape Cod
• The Leaven of Liberty 
• The Moses of a New Exodus
• The Connecticut Prototype of Constitutional Government
• America: A Link, Not the Kingdom 
• Providential Turning Points 
• Cromwell's Revolution Leads to Exodus
• New England Stood Still and Saw the Salvation of God
• Biblical Roots of Liberty
• The Great Awakening 
• Lexington and Concord
• Learning Video Analyses
• Review Questions
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

History 5: The Birth of a Nation

• The Birth of a Nation
• The American Revolution vs. the French Revolution
• The Christian Rights of Resistance
• Divine Providence: In the Revolutionary War
• Character Counts
• Christmas Day: Snow, Hail, and Victory
• Made Strong in Weakness
• The American Napoleon?
• The Constitution: Deistic or Christian? 
• The Convention
• Three Christian Pillars of the Constitution 
• Passing on the Holy Cause of Liberty
• Learning Video Analyses 
• Review Questions
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

History 6: The Christian History of Black America

• The Christian History of Black America
• Christ Among Slaves
• Black Americans and the Constitution 
• Phillis Wheatley
• Freedom and Equality
• The Heart of Black America Today
• Learning Video Analyses
• Review Questions
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

History 7: The Drama of Modern History

• The Drama of Modern History
• The Decline of Modern Theology
• The Sins of the Church 
• Confessing Great Sin
• Education: In Search of its Roots 
• Educational Neutrality: The Impossible Dream
• Social Welfare: The Early American Model
• Christian Free Enterprise 
• The Economic Textbook
• From God's Law to the Law of the Jungle
• Twentieth-Century Survey: The Dawn of the Twentieth Century (1900-1925) 
• The Second Quarter (1925-1950) 
• The Third Quarter (1950-1975)
• The Fourth Quarter (1975-2000) 
• Learning Video Analyses
• Review Questions
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

Crime: It's Causes and It's Cures
Social Science Topics and Online Social Sciences Video Titles

• Crime: Its Causes and Its Cures
• Twentieth-Century America
• Christianity Addresses the Crime Problem
• Learning Video Analyses
• Review Questions
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

PART THREE - Academic Disciplines That Manifest God's Principles

Art: Worldview Expression in Art
Art Topics and Online Art Video Titles

• Worldview Expression in Art
• Classical Greek Art 
• The Middle Ages 
• The Renaissance 
• The Reformation
• The Enlightenment and Romanticism 
• Impressionism 
• Modern Art 
• Conclusion
• Learning Video Analyses 
• Review Questions
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

Literature: Worldview Expression in Literature
Literature Topics and Online Literature Video Titles

• Worldview Expression in Literature
• The Value of Reading 
• The Role of the Bible 
• The Age of Faith 
• The Age of Man
• The Age of Chaos 
• Conclusion 
• Learning Video Analyses 
• Review Questions 
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

Music: Faith and Music
Music Topics and Online Music Video Titles

• Faith and Music
• The Gift of God 
• Great Christian Composers 
• George Frideric Handel
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Franz Joseph Haydn 
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Franz Peter Schubert 
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Learning Video Analyses 
• Review Questions
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

Science: Faith and Science
Science Topics and Online Science Video Titles
Biology Topics and Online Biology Video Titles

• Faith and Science
• The Gift of God
• Evolution vs. Creation .
• Problems with the Evolution Theory 
• Philosophical Darwinism 
• A Theory Losing Support 
• Conclusion
• Learning Video Analyses 
• Review Questions 
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

Mythology: Myths & Legends
Myths & Legends in Literature Video Titles

• Myths in Christian Perspective
• Is Christianity a Myth? 
• Learning Video Analyses 
• Review Questions
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

PART FOUR - Christian Leaders

Leaders in Christian History
Religious Studies Topics and Online Religious Study Video Titles

• Christian Leaders
• Leaders in Christian History 
• John Wesley 
• George Whitefield 
• Jonathan Edwards 
• Charles Finney 
• Dwight Lyman Moody
• John Mott
• Charles Spurgeon 
• Billy Sunday 
• Billy Graham
• Other Important Christian Leaders
• Review Questions, Suggested Reading, Answers

PART FIVE - College Preparatio: Preparing For the 21st Century

Preparing the Christian Student for College

• Preparing the Christian Student for College
• Eternal Vigilance 
• Preparing for the Battle 
• Step One: Know God 
• Step Two: Know God's Word 
• Step Three: Associate with God's People 
• Step Four: Know God's World 
• The Battle of Worldviews
• Non-Christian Worldviews 
• The Christian Worldview Answers Them All 
• The Final Step 
• More Than Conquerors 
• Review Questions
• Related Scripture, Suggested Reading, Glossary, Answers & Notes

PART SIX - Conclusion

A Magnificent Optimism
Library Skills Topics and Online Library Skills Video Titles
Health & Wellbeing Topics and Online Health Video Titles

• A Magnificent Optimism
• Notes

PART SEVEN - Appendixes

Appendixes Includes:
The Apostle's Creed
The Declaration of Independence of the USA
Final Proclamation of Emancipation 1863
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
The Magna Carta
The Mayflower Compact
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
The Rights of The Colonists
The Ten Commandments
The Constitution of the United States of America
Farewell Address of President George Washington
The Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation
The Westminster Shorter Catechism

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