Thoughtful Tuesday

"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own."  

-- Nikos Kazantzakis

Thoughtful Tuesday

"If we are going to serve the Lord, we must stop focusing on other people."

~ Evangelist Jim Pruitt

Thoughtful Tuesday

"God will not call you to do something that He will not enable you to do."

Thoughtful Tuesday

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Thought Provoking Quotes

“In order to teach the Bible creatively and with authority so as to change lives, we must begin with a high view of Scripture. Such a view mandates that the Bible teacher recognize the inspiration of Scripture and understand something of the literary nature of the inspired text” 

 (Creative Bible Teaching, p.35)

Thoughtful Tuesday

"Your mission as a teacher is to help students focus on the lesson and to present information in a way in which they will remember it. The presentation of the lesson affects its staying power...The more you include the five senses in your lesson preparation, the more associations your students' brains will make with the material."

~ Regular Baptist Press, Primary Teacher's Guide

Thoughtful Tuesday

"For all the thousands who are eager to share their knowledge and skills with others, there are just a handful who are willing to share their LIVES, who are willing to be transparent, vulnerable, and open about their successes and their failures, their joys and their pain, their faith and their doubt."


- Ron Lee Davis

Thoughtful Tuesday

"A teacher should make it their goal to understand each student. You teach students first, subjects second. If they don't understand, nothing will happen. What do you know about your student? Have you visited his home? If not, you probably still don't know why he acts the way he acts."

- Abb Thomas, Director of Training Master Ministries
Taken from 7 Great Ideas for Teachers

Thoughtful Tuesday

"What America needs is not more advancement along material lines, not more development in social reform, but more knowledge of the Bible, the change of heart and life which this knowledge should bring, and the application of Bible truths to daily living."

C. B. Eavey

Thoughtful Tuesday

"Information is giving out; communication is getting through."

~S. Harris

Thoughtful Tuesday

 I hear, and I forget;

            I see and I remember;

I do, and I understand.

            —Chinese Proverb

Thoughtful Tuesday

With a handful of dedicated people who will give me their lives, I will control the world.

~ Lenin

What are our goals?

"Educational goals are outcomes we hope to achieve through the power of the Holy Spirit in the lives of students that will make them more capable of knowing, loving, and serving God."

~ Dr. Lois LeBar

Thoughtful Tuesday

Remember your enthusiasm is contagious! 

Old and impractical knowledge results in dull and uninteresting teaching. 

Routine teaching results in routine learning.

Thoughtful Tuesday

"Burnout is only possible if you have a fire."

L. Neagle

Jeremiah 20:9

"Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay."

Thoughtful Tuesday

"If the teacher is equipped and prepared to teach the Word for life change, lives will be changed. If that teacher is only telling what the Bible says, minds will be filled with facts while lives remain transfixed instead of transformed."

~ Bruce Wilkinson

Thoughtful Tuesday

"God's work done in God's way never lacks God's supply."

~ Hudson Taylor ~

On the Subject of Prayer

"It is not enough for the believer to begin to pray, nor to pray correctly; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray. We must patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer.

 Further, we have not only to continue in prayer until the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing.

Those who are disciples of the Lord Jesus should labor with all their might in the work of God as if everything depended upon their own endeavors. Yet, having done so, they should not in the least trust in their labor and efforts, nor in the means that they use for the spread of the truth, but in God alone; and they should with all earnestness seek the blessing of God in persevering, patient, and believing prayer.

 Here is the great secret of success, my Christian reader. Work with all your might, but never trust in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing in God, but work at the same time with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. 

Pray, then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. And so on, all the days of your life. The result will surely be abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, such kind of service will be blessed."

~ George Muller ~

Thoughtful Tuesday

We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves.  The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God.  That is what the Christian life is all about.

R. C. Sproul

Thoughtful Tuesday

“Education is not the filling of a bucket

but rather a lighting of the flame.”