and your plans will succeed. - Proverbs 16:3
Friday, March 30, 2007
Decision time
and your plans will succeed. - Proverbs 16:3
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
OBEDIENCE
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
The ministry needs your prayers
Sunday, March 25, 2007
The Seven Year Plan, part 3
Biblical study and note-taking
Debate and speech skills
Group study and also one-on-one care
Private devotion time available in "refuge rooms"
No-holds-barred Q&A time each week (I am already conducting this on the UT campus and the Lord has greatly blessed)
Second-level teaching (going into Greek and Hebrew word study, possibly offering certificates)
Speech and devotional practice (each student will be trained and will deliver at least one message during the course of the week)
Summer Evening Retreats that will be both social and spiritual helps for the students
Overall, the James 1:22 principle will be employed: "Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only."
Saturday, March 24, 2007
The Seven Year Plan, part 2
decision-making opportunities
reality of worship and his "God-walk"
his circle of friends
financial matters
his position of dependent to becoming an independent
The Plan
The James 1:22 principle: "Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." The Bible education is not complete if it remains potential and is never activated as kinetic. There must be action following the education. Part of the proposed ministry is to take this principle beyond the May graduation.
The Westminster Shorter Catechism’s teaching of the duty of all Christians: "Question: What is the chief end of man? Answer: To worship God and enjoy Him forever." Yet many grads will not really understand how to continue on in a walk with God when they feel they’ve been "kicked out of the nest."
I would like to pursue a dream of taking teens into a deeper walk with the Lord.
The L'Abri communities are study centers in Europe, Asia and America where individuals have the opportunity to seek answers to honest questions about God and the significance of human life. L'Abri believes that Christianity speaks to all aspects of life."
WE SHOULD HAVE A L’ABRI HERE, RIGHT IN KNOXVILLE, NEAR THE CAK CAMPUS. We would call it "hepta", meaning "seven," for that would be the main focus of the ministry. We would concentrate our resources on reaching and assisting the CAK student through the seven transitional years - from the Junior year in high school to the first year out of college.
Friday, March 23, 2007
7 year plan
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Closeness of God Himself
Thursday, March 15, 2007
True belief
Here we have Santa....people talk about him. They hang up pictures about him, even sing songs about him. They do more than acknowledge him - they exchange gifts in connection with his image, and they will even have parties based upon the example he sets. They'll teach their kids about him.
Probelm is, he doesn't change their lives, because they don't really believe that he exists.
Here we have Santa....people talk about him. They know his history. The thought of himmakes them feel good inside. They hang up pictures about him, even sing songs about him. They do more than acknowledge him - they exchange gifts in connection with his image, and they will even have parties based upon the example he sets. They'll teach their kids about him.
Problem is, he doesn't change their lives, because they don't really believe that he exists. They compartmentalize his effect on them, because overall, he doesn't mean that much to them.
Here we have Jesus....people talk about him. They know His history. The thought of Himmakes them feel good inside. They hang up pictures about Him, even sing songs about him. They do more than acknowledge Him - they gather and socialize and talk about His life, and they will even have celebrations based upon the example He sets. They'll teach their kids about Him.
Problem is, He doesn't change their lives, because they don't really believe that He exists. They compartmentalize his effect on them, because overall, He doesn't mean that much to them. Their lives haven't changed.
And that is a tragedy.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
God is unchanging
When Lloyd C. Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels, was a university student, he lived an a boarding house. Downstairs on the first floor was an elderly, retired music teacher, not infirm and unable to leave the apartment. Douglas said that every morning they had a ritual they would go through together. He would come down the steps, open the old man’s door, and ask, “Well, what’s the good news?” The old man would pick up his tuning fork, tap it on the side of his wheelchair and say, That’s middle C! It was middle C yesterday; it will be middle C tomorrow; it will be middle C a thousand years from now. The tenor upstairs sings flat, the piano across the hall is out of tune, but, my friend, THAT is middle C!”
The old man had discovered one thing upon which he could depend, one constant reality in his life, one “still point in a turning world.” For Christians, the one “still point in a turning world,” the one absolute of which there is no shadow of turning, is Jesus Christ.
"And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind" (1 Samuel 15:29).