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Encouragement, Warnings and Tips for Teachers

Teacher have it hard. No one can believe or understand how hard until they have taught. Further, it is worse than it has ever been.
I remember how shocked my mother was when she went back to teaching after 15 years away. Society changed. I certainly saw changes during my 20 years experience.

Today, our episode honors and helps teachers. It is an exegesis of I Timothy 2 and 3. I remember how much encouragement and guidance it gave my practice of teaching when I first did this study. Suitable for those in both Christian and public schools. Suitable for teachers at every level.

This is one of 6 messages in a series called God’s End-Time Advice for Parents and Teachers. I strongly encourage you to get this series. This week, like last, we are running a half price sale, in order to get it into your hands. Sorry, we have to do this the old fashioned way: send $25.00 and $5.00 for s/h to P.O. Box 971 Cedar Park Texas 78613.

God is on the Move in Education: Be Part of It

We are praying in a new way, in declarative prayer. When you know what God wants, based on Scripture, and you are inspired of the Holy Spirit, why pray timidly? God wants the best for all children. Join with me as I pray for better education, blessed teachers, and blessed children.

Turnover in Education God is on the move in education and you can be part of it.

The Government is Not a Village

“No! It takes parents!” is what many people said in response to “It takes a Village. But the discussion needs to continue. And here it is, just when we thought we could be smug and one sided. First we look at James 1:27 — widows and orphans. Then we hear what John Adams had to say about education. This man, promoter of Independence, second president, and foundational thinker had something to say about public expenditures on education. We have a lot to learn — and we are about that business.

Celebrating Independence is Nearly as Important as ….. Christmas?

This is 3rd in our series on Independence Day. Today, a quote from John Quincy Adams. Look for a forthcoming workbook on civics from upper elementary and junior high students.

Why is it, friends and fellow citizens, that you are here assembled? Why is it that entering upon the 62nd year of our national experience,e you have honored with an invitation to address you from this place a fellow citizen of a former age, bearing in the records of his memory the warm and vivid affection which attached him – at the distance of a full half century – to your town and to you forefathers, then the cherished associated of his youthful days? Why is it that next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, you most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? And why is it that among the swarming myriads of our population thousand and tens of thousand among us …yet united with all their brethren of this community year after year in celebration his, the birthday of the nation?

Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? –that it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is is not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? – that it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christian and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before?

Oration by John Quincy Adams, 1837.

Why is the Declaration of Independence so very important according to John Quincy Adams? Why is is important that we celebrate it. How might we apply this today?

Next time, let’s see what he said were the aims of the Declaration — and why his view is so compelling.