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Learning Disabled or Learning Abled?

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There is no label I hate more than “learning disabled.” Who is disabled? That means not-able. Even though I may not have some abilities, I do have others. I can learn. And so can every child. Every child can succeed. Even in school. Not everyone is called to be a scholar, but everyone has a calling from God. And some of us, even those of us who might be diagnosed as “dyslexic” ARE scholars, with honors glowing. Every mother should have faith that God wants good for her child. Every grandparent should be able to glorify God for a couple of generations after them that have improved. This is God’s will. Let’s take it, by robust faith. Tune in or subscribe and hear how. — GSB

Don’t be decieved with man’s wisdom

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Having said that Col 2 does not disallow college attendance, let us also admit that there is plenty of man’s wisdom with which to be decieved at college — and elsewhere. This is not a trivial matter. God’s word tells us specifically not to be deceived. How do we avoid it? Stay away from college by making such a rule? Smiling a lot and having real happy youth times? Pretending that there are no challenges to our faith? These seem to be the most chosen responses.

What the Word says, however, is that we should recognize Jesus, the Anointed One and His Anointing. We should realize that all the fullness of Deity lives in him. Therefore, there is all wisdom –even about this natural world — in Him. So just as we recieved Him (by faith), so we should continue in Him (by faith.) We should be rooted and built up. We should be strengthened in the faith we were taught. We should overflow with thanksgiving.

No — not overstuffed at Thanksgiving.

Specifically, making rules about staying away will not work. The youngster bound and determined will go to college will surmise that our faith is weak and we are afraid to meet the challenges to our faith. Let us instead, go farther into faith, into Jesus the Anointed One and His anointing. Let us follow him, humbly, into victory.

And where are we going, following Jesus, the Christ? Servant leadership. Servant leadership IS consonant with college — but not with everything taught there.

We might way, “separate the wheat from the chaff.” There it would be called critical thinking.

Hold on to Jesus’ Victory

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Vince Lombardi said “We didn’t lose the game, we just ran out of time.”

Jesus said, “Love one another as I have loved you.”

Parenting, and teaching always were challenging. They are more challenging now than ever before.

Sometimes we feel beat down, discourgaed, overwhelmed.

We need to stay in the game, improve our game, and not hold out for our victory, but hold onto God’s victory.

It is not about being tenacious until we win — exactly. Because if I said that, you might be determined to win at all costs. Then you would lose. Because it is not a fight. Students, adminstrators, or you child’s teacher wanting to fight you is temptation to get off your love walk. We win in Jesus’ victory. It is our faith that overcomes the world. And faith worketh by love.

This is the correct meaning behind “conquer under the sign of the cross.” When we pour out divine love, we are winsome. It is in serving, that we reign.

Hold on to Jesus. Hold on to love. Stand by faith. Then you will never lose.

Prosperity

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I wrapped up my mini-series on prosperity this week. Thanks for not writing a torrent of criticism. Many words make for many places to be imprecise, misunderstood, and plain mistaken. I rely on tutelage and grace of Holy Spirit.

But really, prospserity needs to be looked at in 2 new ways, or 2 ways that are seldom talked about. The first is that prosperity is fundamentally about having enough to richly invest in a new generation — because that is where the most abundant harvest will come from — naturally speaking. The men’s world of economics is normally the place where monetary considerations are discussed, but the whole point is the women’s world of child-rearing, in my view. Investing in the Kingdom, investing in children, that is what is truly important; the rest is toys, fun, luxury.

And secondly, we seldom talk about the necessity of diligence. Proverbs makes it clear. I think that this is because there is an element, like me, that maybe work too hard, and faith is like rest. (And there were those trained that poverty was holy.) The faith message is and must be really about the grace of God and the often miraculous part of prosperity. The childrearing end of that must feature some training in diligence — without of course, overlooking faith.

How could we more use faith to improve, deepen, enrich the reaing of children?