The Jewish celebration of Passover begins this Friday, and though I am not Jewish, it will be my third time observing this particular feast with my family. While it started as a means to teach my children about the history of this feast instituted at the time of Moses and about the Last Supper Jesus […]
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As a calculus teacher, I have found that many times my students don’t always struggle with the calculus concepts but struggle with concepts from lower-level math that should have been mastered prior to calculus. Oftentimes their mistakes aren’t in taking an integral or finding a derivative but in simplifying a radical or combining fractions. There
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So often we reduce the words of Jesus down to the happy platitudes that fit nicely on a wall plaque. They tend to focus on His words of love and mercy, things that certainly embody who Jesus is. Those are great reminders of the compassion of Jesus, but if we limit our understanding of Jesus
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There are lots of jokes and memes about entering into a new year of the 2020s. The first two years of this decade seem to have brought a lot of challenges with it. Most are entering into the new year with the motto “Proceed with caution.” Many people may be so discouraged that they aren’t
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Even though as believers we know that God is sovereign in all things, sometimes in our everyday lives we wonder if certain things are the result of God’s hand or just merely coincidence. But there are times when things are so clearly from God that it leaves no question in our minds about His sovereignty. One
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As we set out the nativity scenes around our homes this Christmas season, it is important to remember that the Christmas “story” is not just a heartwarming story about a couple traveling on a donkey and giving birth in a stable. It’s not some fascinating tale of shepherds hearing a chorus of angels in the
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When my children were little, it was always entertaining when they wanted to show me how high they could jump. As toddlers, they would each bend down and swing their arms super high and grunt even – but then never got off the ground. Until I observed this hilarious attempt at jumping, I didn’t realize
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As everyone is starting back for another school year, it is a good time to remind ourselves the purpose of education and the role we each play in it. Charles Spurgeon once said: “It has been said that ‘the proper study of mankind is man.’ I believe it is equally true that the proper study
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I’ve encountered a lot of different worldviews that hold a lot of different ideas about the flood during the days of Noah…and those are all within the Christian mindset. For some reason the flood described in Genesis 6-8 has become rather contentious lately. Why is there such a vast array of opinions about what happened
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I have to admit that I have always been a fan of Amy Grant. She released her first album in 1977 and my mom had it on tape. So as a child, I grew up listening to her music all the time. My first concert to attend was her Heart in Motion tour. I had
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