Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Walk on Water, Pete! – Matthew 14:22-33


 


In the end, who looks better? Peter who tried and sank or the other 11 who didn’t even try?
http://www.keepbelieving.com/sermon/2009-07-10-Walk-on-Water-Pete!/
It was Helen Keller who said, “Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing at all.”
Heavenly Father, grant that we might be great risk-takers for the kingdom of God. Shake us loose from the security of staying in the boat. Help us to walk on the waters of faith because we believe that Jesus will hold us up. Amen.

Creative Thinking

Creative thinking - you can be like a sponge, absorbing everything and anything, even the dirty water
or you could be panning for gold. sieving through the rubbish for the gold. 

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Total Forgiveness



RT Kendall's book on Total Forgiveness
7 Steps on totally forgiving others

1. Make the deliberate and irrevocable choice not to tell anybody what they did
2. Be pleasant to them should you be around them
3. If conversation ensures, say that which would set them free from guilt
4. Let them feel good about themselves
5. Protect them from their greatest fear
6. Keep it up today, tomorrow, this year and next
7. Pray for them

The 5 stages in praying for our enemies
Duty
Debt
Desire
Delight
Durability


RT Kendall on Total Forgiveness

Friday, October 21, 2011

The Law of the Harvest

As you sow, so shall you reap.

In order to have an abundant crop this year, you have to follow particular steps, in order. You have to cultivate and prepare the ground. You have to plant and sow the seeds. You have to water and tend to your growing plants. Finally, you have to bring in the harvest at the right time and put it in a safe place.

If you try to take a shortcut with any of these steps, all of your efforts will have been for nothing.

In fact, a key element of the law of the harvest has to do with our mind and our attitude towards life.

Your mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so you may tend the garden of your mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts.

By pursuing this process, you sooner or later discover that you are the master gardener of your soul, the director of your life.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. As the reaper of your own harvest, you learn both by suffering and bliss.

Let us alter our thoughts and we will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of our lives.
http://www.morejoyinlife.com/the-law-of-the-harvest/

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Evaluate to Motivate


Use of LMS Tools to Evaluate Learning Effectiveness
Possible techniques
1. COD - Content, Organization, Delivery
2. POSE - Positive, Objectives, Suggestions, Encouraging
3. GLOVE - Gestures, Language, Organization, Vocal Variety, Enthusiasm