Hello, Owen!
Ever wonder what it sounds like to be mobbed by 50 adoring teens as you hike up the trail to David’s Waterfall at En Gedi? Wait no longer. Read more
Posts tagged ‘quotes’
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Feb 27
C.S. Lewis: Only Lazy People Work Hard
It was a favorite theme of C.S. Lewis that only lazy people work hard. By lazily abdicating the essential work of deciding and directing, establishing values and setting goals, other people do it for us; then we find ourselves frantically, at the last minute, trying to satisfy a half dozen different demands on our time, none of which is essential to our vocation, to stave off the disaster of disappointing someone.
Eugene Peterson, “The Contemplative Pastor”
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Teaching to Preach
The project of learning has changed fundamentally in the past few decades. Not too long ago, much of education was a matter of learning how to find information. That’s no longer the case.
Thanks to the advent of the Internet, locating a wealth of information on any topic is as quick and easy as tapping a few words into your web browser.
Finding information is easy. Figuring out what to do with it is the new challenge. What sources are trustworthy? How do I prioritize what I find? What is the difference between fact and opinion? These are the kind of questions a contemporary education must prepare the learner to answer. Read more
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Oct 17
it is the road
“This life…is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it; the process is not finished but it is going on. This is not the end but it is the road… — Martin Luther
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Aug 24
When Bad Ideas Win
Steve Jobs on corporate culture:
“If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions, and you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay.”
How many institutions, organizations, and causes lose good people due to frustration about bad ideas and pet projects being favored ahead of good ideas?
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Apr 7
what or who?
Our hope is not in the promise itself but in the one who makes it. The foundation is not what we believe; it’s who we trust.
