"For Christians the vision of worldly power is not a calling, but a distraction. It

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." Harry S. Truman

is a temptation Jesus rejected, not because it was dangerous, but because it was trivial compared with his mission. C. S. Lewis had it right: 'If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. the Apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English evangelicals who abolished the slave trade, all left their mark on earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this one. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in.' Aim at earth and you will get neither.' Our eyes should be lifted skyward--toward the company of heaven. The time has come for believers to focus on the next world, not just the next election cycle." Cal Thomas, Newsweek, March 29, 1999, Page 60.

"One measure of the effectiveness of any teacher is the rate at which he makes himself unnecessary to his pupils" Dr. C.B. Eavey

"C. S. Lewis wrote in his essay 'The Weight of Glory,' about what he called 'the overwhelming possibilities' of eternity, he concluded: 'There are no ordinary people. you have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry , snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendours" C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, (San Francisco: Harper 2001) as quoted in A Life God Rewards, by Bruce Wilkinson ( Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah 2002).

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(2.1)The mud ball floated in darkness. God created day, night and time, the first day. The Second day he extracted the water from the mud and made dirt and separated the sea from the land and said it was good. The next day he formed a garden as large as the World itself. On the fourth day he created the Sun, Moon and galaxies of stars as part of the Glory of God [Romans 1:20]. We see the Sun as necessary for light, but God is so far above our thoughts [Isaiah 55:8-9] He doesn't need light holders...He is Light! [1 John 1:5] On the Sixth Day He made a man from the mud but withheld his approval until woman walked on His sod at dusk. On the seventh day God rested from creating the World and the universe around it. Can you imagine the satisfaction on his face as he sipped tea from the banisters of heaven and viewed his creation?

I will take a verb over a noun anytime--
Wm. Paul Young

God's University started not long after this with God walking in the garden talking with them every evening. After the fall God came showing Adam and Eve how to make clothes, probably how to start a fire for sacrifices.

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God did not stay in heaven, but evening-by-evening God walked with his toes in the same grass with man and woman [with no bellybuttons. Which came first, the chicken or egg? Man and woman came before the baby. The chicken and rooster came before the egg.] Can you imagine what God talked to them about? And then Man made a choice to do what he wanted to do and disobey God. Man ate fruit God asked him not to eat. Adam and Eve chose double-breasted leaves suit over God's clothing. God's holiness cannot live with sin and so God extracted himself from sinful man's presence, but before he left God continued to teach Adam and Eve in his classroom. He showed them how to make wool suits (clothes from sheep) and to make a pleasing sacrifice and I imagine a hundred things your parents taught you. Then God walked slowly back into the heavens, God's holy nature required separation from sin. How many times did Adam and Eve feel God left them, when they not God, did the leaving?

I AM -- Jesus

We meet God with his sleeves rolled up working. In the Beginning God created. But part of His time, if that is the right word for an eternal God was to talk and teach Adam and Eve. This hasn't changed over the millennia. The God of Eternity in his good time walked into time and gave us his Word in written record we normally call The Book or Bible.

God talked eyeball to eyeball with Adam. God chiseled the commands on rock tablets. Isaiah probably wrote with stylus on skins and rolled His words just like the Dead Sea Scrolls. Paul may have written in codex (book) format. But today we can see God enjoying His Word moving into the lives and hearts of men and women. 2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:21.

"Education is what is left after what we have learned is forgotten." B.F. Skinner

God not only thinks, and writes, but God acts. We meet God creating and God realized his love, men and women had no hope. It would be like having children guaranteed to die of an illness you could prevent. You most certainly would do anything including giving your life to make your children's lives long and successful. And that is exactly what God did: he sent his Son to die so we could live with him forever. John 3:14-17.

God is a verb -- Buckminister Fuller

We evaluate God by who we are. If we had billions of dollars we would buy things for ourselves and those we love. But God has more money and resources than this, and what God wanted was to love you and me and for us to love him in return. We call this worship. God loves us so much he gave his Son, Jesus. This short comparison of the nature of God and man shows how self-centric, selfish and sinful we are.

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Again, God walked in the dirt, but this time as a man [Matthew 1:23]. He hurt just like other men hurt. He felt every pain and temptation just like every other person. [1 Corinthians 10:13] He felt the humiliation of the scorn and the pain of the cross just like other men would feel pain. Why did he do this, because God is Love. God doesn't just love, God is Love! [1 John 4:16] God can do anything he wants, and he wants to love us. He wanted to save us from the "illness" of sin that will kill us. God wants to walk and talk with us for eternity. In the Garden God walked in the evening, in Eternity we will be with him all the time forever.

Love is a verb -- Toby Mack

Romans 1: 20 NASB, "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse." God's Universe then is God's University.

"If I tell you only part of the evidence and you believe it, you have been indoctrinated. If I tell you all the evidence and you make a decision, then you have been taught." Mike Riddle

God created a cosmos that even the rocks can cry out. [Luke 19:40, "And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out."] As our eyes view the heavens, flowers and the body of animal and man they demand a creator. [Psalm 19:1, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork."]

Christian Education is the process of showing everything that exists from the reason the Atom holds together to life to eternal life, these are topics that fit in Christian Education. They are things that God may have discussed with Adam and Eve in the Garden. [Colossians 1:16-17, "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."]

Occasionally, we imagine heaven as place where we will be sitting bored, harping along on a cloud. I don't think so. I believe God is so majestic and mighty in power; God will need an eternity to share the half of his infinity to us finite beings just like he began in the Garden to Adam and Eve. God's University then is Earth and his creation. His students are each person in humanity. Some fail and some pass. Those that choose to accept his greatness, His gift of Eternal life [Romans 6:23] and accept his grace [Ephesians 2:8-9] will live with him forever. These students will pass. Not because we deserve it, but because God is working in us and on us. God wants us to pass his University course. [Luke 19:10]
Love then is a verb. In the beginning God created. For God so loved the world he sent his Son. He asks us to Go into all the world and preach and teach. Can't you see God grinning and helping those that love him?

As I read my Bible I find the premium is on doing, not knowledge. If knowledge was the end in itself, God could have placed ten questions at the end of each chapter and if you didn't answer seven correct, a trap door could propel you to the depths. Now you need to know, to do, but organized activity is where God puts the premium. I believe all knowledge in the church and Christian school and all other activities of Christian Education should leave us needing to do, not just sit in the pew satisfied we have learned our nugget of truth for the week.

The last thing Jesus said on this Earth is "Go into all the world teaching and preaching" Matthew 28:19-20. To this point Paul writes in his letters, "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." Romans 10:17

"For He says, `At the acceptable time I listened to you, And on the day of salvation I helped you; behold, now is 'the acceptable time, 'behold, now is 'the day of salvation--" 2 Corinthians 6:2

And James states it this way, "Be ye doers of the Word and not just hearers, deceiving yourself." James 1:22

"About this time I met with a track written by an atheist. It read as follows: "Did I firmly believe, as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another, religion would mean to me everything. I would cast away earthly enjoyments as dross, earthly cares as follies, and earthly thoughts and feelings as vanity. Religion would be my first waking thought, and my last image before sleep sank me into unconsciousness. I should labour in its cause alone. I would take thought for the morrow of Eternity alone. I would esteem one soul gained for heaven worth a life of suffering. Earthly consequences should never stay my hand nor seal my lips. Earth, its joys and its grief's, would occupy no moment of my thoughts. I would strive to look upon Eternity alone, and on the Immortal Souls around me, soon to be everlastingly happy or everlastingly miserable. I would go forth to the world and preach to it in season and out of season and my text would be, "WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOOSE HIS SOUL?" C.T. Studd, Autobiography, pg 40.

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"Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us? "Then I said, "Here am I, Send me!" Isaiah 6:8

Don't forget we remember: 10% of what we hear, 30% of what we read, 50% of what we see, 90% of what we do.

Quotes with Eternal Values
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. - C.S. Lewis

"Many a false step is made by standing still."

What you believe determines how you think.
What you think determines what you do.
What you do dominates your life.

Daydreams may be pleasant but accomplishments are more satisfying. --Chinese cookie

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. --Harvey Mackey

"Our ability to reach SEEKERS is directly related to how well WE care for their Children" Bill Hybels

"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him...Sin is what we do when we are not satisfied with God."
John Piper

A.W. Tozer's Rules of Self-Discovery:

1. What we want most?

2. What we think about most?

3. How we use our money?

4. What we do with our leisure time?

5. The company we enjoy?

6. Whom and what we enjoy?

7. What we laugh at?

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those prayers down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.
Peter Kreeft

"You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed." - Dr. A.J. Gordon

When you pray, if you get bored and your mind wanders...it is a gift from God. God is telling you what is more important than Him. Notice what you think about, these are more important than God and therefore your idols. -- Brandon Pasion

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."
The Innocents Abroad (1869) Mark Twain

"ANYWAY"
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world your best anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

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We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven't so far.

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Don's Axiom reads, "Every organization starts with vision and zeal, moves to complacency and ends killing itself with rules and regulations--always with the best intentions."

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The ebla tablets, dead sea scrolls, or qumran scrolls, writings from Egypt such as, rosetta stone, behistun inscriptions, mesha stele, Rosetta Stone, the Tell el-Amarna Letters, the Stela of Merneptah, the Elephantine Papyri, and the Sinai Inscriptions. Writings From Mesopotamia such as Behistun Inscription, the Creation and Deluge Tablets [Epic of Creation, Sippar Tablet, Gilgamesh Epic, Nippur Tablet, other generally unnamed but important tablets from Nineveh, Nippur, Kish, etc], the Code of Hammurabi, the Mari Tablets, the Nuzi Tablets, the Records of Shalmaneser [his Monolith, Bronz Plates, Black Obelisk, etc], Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III, Cylinder of Sargon II, Cylender of Sennacherib, Archives of Ashurbanipal, Babylonian Chronicle Records From Syria: These include [among others], the Ras Shamra Tablets, the Gebal Inscriptions, the Dog River Gallery. Records From Palestine: These include [among others], the Lachish Letters, the Siloam Inscription, the Samaria Ostraka, the Moabite Stone, the Gezer Agricultural Tablet, the Lachish Ewer.

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