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Monday, March 31, 2025

What preaching taught me about teaching

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During parent/teacher interviews, I’ll readily admit that I’m the loudest, most energetic, teacher in the school. I’m sure it’s the residual...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

The prayer you don’t have to pray but hear often

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There is a prayer which I’m sure, if you’ve spent any significant amount of time around churches, that you’ve heard uttered before. And, whi...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Education analogies

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Pitcher/catcher. Doctor/patient. The pitcher wants to do his best. The catcher needs to receive the pitch by focussing on what the pitcher i...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Your ministry in the pews on a Sunday

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Tomorrow, like most Sundays, I’ll be listening to a sermon. While I’ve stood in the pulpit and delivered sermons plenty of times before, I’v...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Pushing beyond the comfortable response

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We all have our comfortable answers. It happens in the classroom. It happens within churches. Sometimes, the challenge required is to take s...
Friday, March 7, 2025

If your the leader, then you must be prepared to do this for every question you ask

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A good leader won’t ask his/her followers to do anything that they themselves aren’t prepared to do. With this being said, whenever a leader...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

How every ministry event should end

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This event will end at (insert time here) and you are then free to leave. No questions asked. But, you don’t have to leave at the allotted t...
Friday, February 28, 2025

The two questions which put student’s opinions into perspective

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I’ve previously written about the best piece of teaching advice I’ve received . To sum up, it is the remember… your students are just teenag...
Monday, February 24, 2025

The prayer you never need to pray

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“God, I pray that you will with us.” You just wasted your breath. By His very nature, God is everywhere. Including your bible study. Includi...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

When are we satisfied with spiritual literacy?

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I’ve just started reading a book about reading. To quote my youngest, when she spotted the book next to my bed, “that sounds boring.” Honest...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

What is the minimal amount you should know?

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Within Islam, the minimal amount that you need to know is the Shahada - Allah is God and Muhammad is His Prophet. Within Buddhism, the minim...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

The overflow stays with them

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In all my subjects I teach a lot of details. Far too many for any student to be able to remember. Fortunately, the majority of things I want...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Overloading the start

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Tomorrow, for the first time this year, I’ll actually stand before students and teach. Needless to say, I’ve had a lot to prepare. Now, as u...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Why it’s good that I’d never run a creative ministry

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I have a lot of talents. Arguably, humility isn’t one of them. But, I’m far from a jack-of-all-trades. This is why you need others. They hav...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Should parents fell bad about skipping church during the school holidays?

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I’ve usually skipped church with my kids during the school holidays. When I worked for a church, I usually expected the same. So, should a p...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Am I a better theologian as a teacher or as a youth minister?

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You would think that the answer was simple…  I was a better theologian while in vocational ministry. I’m not completely convinced. Sure, whi...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Interesting is not the aim of the pulpit

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Hopefully, when I come away from hearing a sermon, I don’t have either of the following reactions… That was interesting. That was clever. Ne...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Education & Faith share the same analogy

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Both are like fire. Both need a spark to be ignited. Both light up the world around you. Both need to remain fed to keep going. Both can pro...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

2024 Best of…

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2024 was a fairly significant year for me as I taught Studies of Religion in senior school for the first time , developing the course from s...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

The best ways to AI your content

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AI is a highway to laziness. This post is not about using AI instead of your brain or resourcefulness. But, AI can play an important (but tr...