"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." - John Dewey
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." - Chinese Proverb
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." - Alvin Toffler
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
Education
You Might Be a Pastor If…
(Author Unknown) Everybody stops talking when you enter the room. You’ve ever lied at a funeral. You always read the obituaries. You’ve ever suffered an anxiety attack while playing Bible Trivia Pursuit. You wonder why people who have some time to kill want to spend it with you. You get your second wind when you
How You Know You Are a Teache
Jeff Foxworthy’s Take on Teachers 1. You can hear 25 voices behind you and know exactly which one belongs to the child out of line.2. You get a secret thrill out of laminating something.3. You walk into a store and hear the words “It’s Ms./Mr. _________” and know you have been spotted.4. You have 25
Volume 08, Issue 06
Insightful QuotesWarren Wiersbe “In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserable–or succeed more miserably.” (George MacDonald) Perhaps you have read some of the novels or sermons of Scotsman George MacDonald (1824-1905) whose writings were influential in bringing C. S. Lewis to faith in Christ. Lewis even compiled George MacDonald: An Anthology, a book
Do You Know?: Frederick Cowin (Part 2)
(Taken from American Preachers of To-Day by Edgar DeWitt Jones, 1933) Cowin’s method of sermon composition is, I think, unusual. He does not write his sermons out in full. In truth, he writes little if at all. He reads, fills himself full of his subject and then walks, walks, walks. He does not pace his
Is Your Lord Large Enough?
How C. S. Lewis Expands Our View of God – Peter J. Schakel. IVP Books. “…opens to you the more practical parts of Lewis’s wonderful books. Covering areas of potential struggle such as prayer, suffering, doubt and love, Shakel draws principles from Lewis’s nonfiction as well as illustrations from the Chronicles of Narnia to stir
A Reader’s Guide to Caspian
A Journey into C. S. Lewis’s Narnia – Leland Ryken and Marjorie Lamp Mead. IVP Books. “This guidebook has two basic purposes–to introduce C. S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian and to give readers some assistance in the basic principles of reading literature.” Christopher Mitchell of Wheaton College says it “help[s] the reader to interpret their experience through an
Steve Hale Ministries
The website of Evangelist Steve Hale from Woodstock, Georgia. www.stevehaleministries.com 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build up the church, seek revival, and encourage pastors.
The Christian and This World
by Vance Havner John 17:6-19 We are saved out of this world (v. 6).We are still in this world (v. 11).We are not of this world (vv. 14, 16).We are sent into the world (v. 18) to win others out of the world–and that is our only business in the world! 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online
"Lord, send Your Holy Spirit in power that we might not be a dead church, striving to look alive, pretending to function as though alive, while the life is actually gone." - A.W. Tozer
Revival
"If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that 'It is not by might, but by My Spirit.'" - Jonathan Goforth
"Revivals begin with God’s own people. Oh, what responsibility this lays on the children of God. If you grieve Him away from yourselves or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers sorely." - Andrew Bonar
"Urgently do we need a revival of personal godliness. Sanctified men are the salt of society…" - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"What we need now is a revival of holiness. A revival of character. A revival of people who are utterly selfless and prepared to lay their lives on the altar for God." - Leonard Ravenhill
Charles G. Finney described revival as "a new beginning of obedience to God."
E. M. Bounds wrote, "Revivals are among the charter rights of the church…A revival means a heartbroken pastor. A revival means a church on its knees confessing its sins--the sins of the individual and of the Church--confessing the sins of the times and of the community."
In 1870 J.B. Johnston wrote, "True revival lives in prayer. Prayer draws power from revival. We need only to follow the way-marks of their remarkable history to be satisfied of their inseparable unity."
Revival
Reaching the Christmas and Easter Crowd
Inside the minds of holiday-only attenders. John Huffman, Jr.October 1, 1999 Every pastor encounters them: the Christmas and Easter faces that appear in church only on the holiest of days. It’s easy to grow cynical about the once-or-twice-a-year crowd. On the other hand, holidays provide the opportunity to touch the lives of the “under-churched.” John