BATTLING DISCOURAGEMENT?
“Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord will be with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9, NIV Discouragement, murmuring, gossip, condemnation, and judgment love to inhabit and haunt the hearts and minds of educators. We may feel like we are being spiritually suffocated by the increased burden of responsibility, seemingly irrational […]
SIGNS OF GROWTH
… that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God;…Colossians 1:10, NKJV “See, Mrs. Wilson!” My first graders always loved to show off the empty space in their mouths created by their newest lost tooth. The school nurse, barraged by so […]
HIS OWN
For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was pleased to make you his own. 1 Samuel 12:22, NIV Christian educators working in public schools are brothers and sisters in Christ. The Lord has set us aside as His people—His chosen people, His ambassadors in our […]
LIVING
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20, ESV During this Easter season, we can take the […]
GLAD TO BE GUILTY
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him […]
FRONT LINES
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For […]
THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT
Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other […]
MAKE THEM WONDER
“Let your light so shine before men, that they see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 5:16, KJV During my senior year of high school, the disc player in my little two-door stickshift car played the newly released Newsboys album “Shine: The Hits” on relentless repeat. With no AC, […]
WHAT SCARES YOU?
I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 34:4, NIV When I first became a Christian, praying out loud scared me. I was intimidated by the thought of praying out loud myself, and I was uncomfortable around other people praying out loud. I would get nervous, my […]
WE ARE NEW CREATIONS
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV Everyone, at some point in their lives, has wished they could leave their mistakes behind and start fresh. But this can be hard to do. Sometimes, we don’t want to let go […]