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A Letter to a Failing Middle School
I wrote a letter recently after witnessing an incredible display of antisocial behavior by several students at a local middle school. I haven’t decided whether I plan to send it. First, there may well be a strong backlash. That wouldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged authority, consequences, discipline, law and order, laws, lax, lessons, middle school, real life, real world, right, rules, school, taught, teach, teaching, wrong
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Postcards From the Mohave
“My heart is stirred by a noble theme. My tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.” –Psalms 45:1 The first time I read this verse, my jaw dropped. I had just finished going through an entire week without speaking
Easter in Ephesus
In planning a bit of light fare for this Muse, I got a wild hair and decided to paraphrase Ephesians 1:3-14. Paul may have been the most intense person that ever lived. His writings burst from the page in an … Continue reading
Posted in The Apostle Paul
Tagged Apostle Paul, ardent, bursting, celebration, Christ, Easter, epistle, exuberance, exulting, forgiveness, God, grace, Jesus, leaping, Paul, redemption, salvation, Scripture, soaring, teaching, writings
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Apple For the Teacher
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” –Henry Brooks Adams A chance round of e-mails kicked off by an old friend has put me back in touch with one of my favorite high school English … Continue reading
The Blessing of Adversity
Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. –Hebrews 12:7. Maturity in the Christian life comes slowly and painfully for some. Whether because of entrenched distortions in their thinking,
Posted in Character, Hardship
Tagged adversity, character, discipline, hardship, heavenly Father, maturity, sons, sonship, teaching
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