ON TEACHING AND BEING TAUGHT Miss Adams teaches at our school. We seldom see her smile. She is so busy teaching books, She overlooks the child. She drills and drills and drills some more. The children busy stay. She hammers home the facts and rules In every single day. Now, Mrs. Jones across the hall …
FREE TO BE ME In our attempts to organize and categorize others we often overlook the uniqueness of individuals. Dr. G. H. Reavis, a school administrator, illustrated this fact with his “Animal Story.” Once upon a time the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of the “New World.” So they …
“The people as a whole hung on His words” (Luke 19:48). The late Vince Lombardi, the celebrated former coach of the Green Bay Packers professional football team, faced a difficult challenge one Monday morning on the practice field. A day earlier, the team had suffered a humiliating defeat. In Lombardi’s view, the loss was due …
“And they were astonished at His teaching” (Mark 1:22). Two men went to Church to pray. One was a man named Hornblower, the other was a teacher. The man named Hornblower stood and looked heavenward, saying, “God, I thank you that I am not grasping, unjust, adulterous like the rest of mankind, and particularly that …