Encouragement Treasured

Sister Helen Mrosia writes:

In an earlier grade, I'd taped Mark's mouth shut for talking too much in class. Now he was one of my students in junior ...

"Mr. Holland's Opus": Leaving a Legacy

Mr. Holland's Opus is a movie about a frustrated composer in Portland, Oregon, who takes a job as a high school band teacher in the 1960s. Although ...

John Wooden's Example

[John Wooden's] UCLA teams won ten NCAA championships in 12 years…. No one speaks more eloquently about Wooden than Bill Walton, who played for UCLA ...

Lessons in Unselfishness

What does the Lord do to help broaden my horizons and assist me in seeing how selfish I am? Very simple: He gives me four busy kids who step on shoes, ...

Knowledge Comes from Obedience

Never try to explain God until you have obeyed Him. The only bit of God we understand is the bit we have obeyed.

Kindergarten Blues

When Mike returned home from his first day in kindergarten, his mother asked if he'd had a good day. "I can't read and I can't write ...

Teaching What We Know

We teach what we know; we reproduce what we are.

The Way into the Scriptures

You cannot make your way into the Holy Scriptures without having someone to go before you and show you the road.

Spotlight the Scripture

In recent years I have become increasingly aware of the dangerous possibility of making the Word of God sensational. Just as people can watch spellbound ...

Your Lawfully Wedded Pet Peeve

Mrs. Foster, a teacher at my school, had a frustrating day with one of her first-grade boys. "You've been doing irritating things all day today. ...