Archive for September, 2008
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Since my last post on home-schooling, I’ve been thinking more about home-schooling. I decided to do some research and I found some very interesting results.
I discovered the results of a couple of studies related to how well-socialized and prepared home-schooled children are when they enter college.
One study I looked at surveyed the parents of home-schooled [...]
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A discussion has begun in the faculty email list at our University on the topic of our “Core Values.”
For those who don’t know, here are our Core Values:
We are Christ-followers — orthodox, conversionist, and evangelical: rooted in the authority of Scripture.
We are character-builders — concerned with personal and spiritual formation and therefore committed to the [...]
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I never thought I would say this but I was, at first, a bit critical of Duane Litfin’s Wheaton College chapel sermon of December 14, 2007. This was, fortunately, his shortest and most content-free sermon of the semester so I am not going to say much about it.
Here’s why I was critical at first. [...]
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The good
I always thought home-schooling was the greatest thing since Sunday School. Here are a few of its many advantages:
They are isolated from evil influences.
They are exposed almost exclusively to the Truth. The way bank tellers are trained to recognize false bills is by being exposed only to real bills. They know to reject immediately [...]
A very short post today just to make sure there’s no confusion about the connection between weather and God’s will.
Focus on the Family president James Dobson famously asked his listeners to pray that God would send rain on those unjust people who wanted to hear Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, [...]
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Read the previous installation in this series!
This is my third post in a series covering Duane Litfin’s sermons at Wheaton College’s chapel last year. Today, I’m excited to tell you about his sermon of November 19, 2007.
His goal in this sermon was to convince us that the role of the church in this age between [...]
The theme and the President’s activities
The theme of this years faculty retreat was our seven core values. The first of our seven core values is: “We are Christ-followers.” The first announcement was to tell us how the retreat was going to be organized. First, the new president would talk about the first value, then we [...]
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In this post, I want to bring your attention to Duane Litfin’s sermon at Wheaton Chapel of October, 29, 2007.
The differences between the sides of the watershed
In his sermon, he was talking about the major watershed again. That is, the period of time between Jesus’ resurrection and Pentecost. [...]
