Torch, Summer 2006

24 TORCH / Summer 2006 C edarville University is about award-winning academics, about vibrant ministries, about state-of-the-art facilities. But above all, we are about students! Students—and making it possible for them to experience Cedarville—are the focus of our annual fund, gift planning, and endowment initiatives. Meet Grant. Although he worked hard throughout the summer to secure the money to return to Cedarville, he discovered he would come up short. Grant wrote, “I do not even know how to explain all that I went through trying to make sure I had enough money to come back.” He wanted to be at Cedarville, but he finally left it totally up to God. In late July, he received a letter from us—awarding a scholarship funded by friends and alumni—that assured him he was going to be able to return. “God truly worked an amazing thing. It was such a blessing to me!” Grant believes God is using Cedarville to prepare him for a profession and a life of ministry. Yet he would not be here were it not for Cedarville family members who gave unselfishly to provide this educational opportunity. Please consider how God might use your gift to make it possible for students to receive a Cedarville education. God uses gifts of all sizes to help our students! For more information, visit www.cedarville.edu/giftlegacy or call 1-800-766-1115 . T he G ood N ews Through the years there have been many efforts to distort and destroy Christianity. The Da Vinci Code is merely the latest attempt. Yet when carefully evaluated by the data of history, this book is shown to be erroneous in so many places. If the book is false, what then is supported by history? The facts are simply these: the Bible is trustworthy; Jesus is God; He did die and raise from the dead; and His mission, as taught by Him and understood by His followers, is not about the sacred feminine – it is about knowing and having a personal relationship with the only true God. How is this possible? The Bible says that our sins have separated us from God, but that God, in His love, has provided a way through Jesus’ death for our sins to be forgiven and our relationship with God to be restored. Have you received God’s provision, Jesus, as your Savior? “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him” (John 3:17).