How to Learn

         The greatest coach of the 20th century, John Wooden, applied four basic laws of learning: explanation, demonstration, correction and repetition.
The Bible is like that: "All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right" (II Tim. 3:16.) NLT

Source: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Sept. 19, 1994

Marking Down

            This morning, I started teaching the fall semester’s senior Bible class at East Texas Christian Academy. This has become a ritual for me, and I generally enjoy it. However, I recognize there will be trials… kind of like the old story about the young man who arrived home one January day with an atrocious report card.

            His mother frowned when she looked at the card and asked her son, “Oh, dear, what’s the trouble?”

            “There isn’t any trouble, he replied. “You know how things are always marked down after the Holidays.”