Tag: education
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Speaking for the Unspeaking: Bathsheba’s Advice to Her Grandchildren About Living Justly in Proverbs 31.
Solomon advised his children using the words of his mother, Bathsheba. Don’t give your strength to women. Don’t live such a lifestyle by which you drink wine or desire strong drink. Essentially, don’t live life for the purpose of satisfying yourself. When we live life to satisfy our own lusts, hungers, or thirsts, we come…
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Project Gospel
Over the course of the last year, I have been honored by several people abroad who have asked me to come speak at pastor’s conferences and local churches—from India to Kenya to Pakistan. Each time I had to decline because I have a local church here in the United States I get to invest my…
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How “Good Things” Distract Us From God Things
In the previous chapter, we saw that Christ’s word is the final word and that He alone upholds all things by the power of His word. We have discovered that if we really believe in Jesus as Lord, we will choose Him over school, work, hobbies, free-time, and anything else. None of these things has…
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The March For Our Lives- Thinking Well?
Welcome to the class that you skipped. Today’s lesson: Hasty generalization (the assumption that all conservatives or liberals are a certain way) and ad hominem attacks (attacking someone’s character instead of addressing the validity of their argument). I saw these things over the last few days, in your absence, as proponents and opponents of the…
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Another School Shooting: I think we’ve missed the mark
Yesterday there was yet another shooting in another school. Today there is yet another debate on gun control. The left wants more regulation and the right wants more freedom; whatever that means. If I thought for one second that public school violence could be solved with one debate over one issue, I may not be…
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The Pilgrim’s Relevancy Book XIII: Public Education
As they walked, they noticed a building that they had not seen before. It was concealed by the crowd and above the door it had a sign that revealed it as a public school. People stood on both sides of the border between Power and Religion. The citizens of Religion spoke out against the public…