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February 2, 2014
Connecting vision with strategy
A new book I am pleased to be a contributor. The pastor has cast a vision of excellence regarding Bible study, prayer, ministry, and outreach. The Sunday School Council has taken the vision to the next level of developing an overall strategy for the entire Sunday school. Now the next step is taken, and each […]
February 1, 2014
How people grow
I went to college with big dreams and expectations. When I was a high school senior, the Southern Methodist University golf coach invited me to Dallas to tour the school and recruit me to come play golf there in the fall. I remember the excitement of playing a U.S. Open course on that trip and […]
January 31, 2014
Why you don’t want a balanced diet
The conversation got me thinking about the whole notion of a balanced diet. I think it is a dangerous concept. We can take balanced to mean almost anything. We can put all kinds of garbage in our diet in the name of balance. The research is pretty clear. You don’t need bad carbs to balance […]
January 30, 2014
Why we fail to keep New Years Resolutions
Suppose you want to develop the habits of. . . Reading your Bible every day, and Practicing the piano every day, and Exercising every day. Suppose you want to break the habits of. . . Smoking, and Watching so much TV, and Eating so much junk food. In the first chapter, we talked about the […]
January 29, 2014
Does God care about fitness?
Not as much as He cares about your soul. He cares about eternity more than He cares about time. Physical training is not as important as spiritual training. Running is not as important as reading the Word. Working out is not as important as praying. But it is important. The Bible says so: “For physical […]
January 28, 2014
Teaching them to obey
I was watching the clock in Sunday School. In this case, I was just a member of the class. It was about five minutes to quitting time. The conversation was interesting—even spirited—but I wasn’t sure exactly where we were going. So I raised my hand. “In about five minutes, we’re all going to be walking […]
January 27, 2014
Seven benefits of fitness
Who cares that I am obese? That is how I felt. I said it publically, “I want to be a little fat. Then, you get to enjoy the cherry cheese cake and key lime pie.” Then I buried a guy ten years younger than me. More on that in another chapter. I started reading on […]
January 26, 2014
Why is my group not growing?
The single most important variable in predicting the growth of a Sunday School class is the teaching ability of the teacher. The second is the ability of the teacher to get along with people and be will liked. Popularity is not so bad. If these two things are in place, all the things I said […]
January 25, 2014
Habit breaking: If all else fails, try this
Why is it so hard to break a habit and start a new, better one? Why did the God of the universe who could have made us any way He wanted make us so that habits are so difficult to break? Why is Romans 7 such a universally familiar condition? It happens so regularly that […]
January 24, 2014
Normal is fat; be weird
Normal Americans eat a normal diet, the SAD (Standard American Diet). If you don’t eat the SAD diet, you are just weird. If you go Atkins—not as a diet but as a lifestyle, you are just weird. If you are vegetarian, that is really weird. It is just not normal. Normal people eat the SAD […]
