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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
In 2013, Ethan Couch killed four people and seriously injured two others while driving drunk. In his defense, a psychologist testified that Couch was a victim of parents who never set limits for him and coined the word “affluenza” to describe what happens to a child who grows up without proper parental…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 2 views
The story of General George Washington is quite an amazing one. He was, hands down, the most important figure in the revolution and independence of this country. He stuck it out when things were bleak. In fact, there was a period of time when Washington was the Head General of a group of states which…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 6 views
See this much I know: Whatever you consider to be urgent, you focus on. Now, notice I didn’t say that whatever is urgent you focus on; Whatever you consider to be urgent, you focus on. To my knowledge, I’ve only flunked one class throughout my whole college career. No it wasn’t calculus or biochemistry.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 7 views
OK, I don’t want you to lose faith in me, but I have a confession that I have to make. When my daughter lived at home, I really struggled to establish a family devotional/teaching time. I would pray with Jenny at night, but when it came to having a family devotional time, I made many attempts, but was…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
Some of you may not know that my undergraduate and one of my graduate degrees was in the field of music. I had a lot of training in music education because them that can do and them that can’t teach. I was never a great performer, so I hoped to perpetuate my mediocrity by teaching others! I always admired…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 25 views
Samuel Zwemer was one of America’s early missionaries to the Arabs. In the 1890's he went to Bahrein and served among Muslims. As you can imagine the going was tough. Muslims are extremely difficult to reach. In forty years of ministry, in fact, Zwemer probably reached less than one dozen converts. And…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 8 views
It begins on Sunday night. Lights flash on as recruits are awakened by their instructor. Next to one ear, a machine gun filled with blanks is fired. A jet from a garden hose is flushing the other ear. An instructor shouts, “We have a mission to perform tonight. I want you to listen to every word.” The…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
I have a bike which is in the middle of the road price range. I didn’t buy it, actually, my brother-in-law, who is an avid biker bought it for me. It cost around $800.00. Now I know you immediately might think, “Well, I can go to Walmart and buy a bike for $49.95 any day of the week . . .” and you probably…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 105 views
In The Simple Life, Vernard Eller delights himself in some of the great parables of Søren Kierkegaard. One of his favorites is the parable of the lighted carriage and starlit night. We could also call it the crisis of Christian Hedonism. It goes like this: When the prosperous man on a dark but starlit…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 10 views
I have seen this so clearly in my own family . . . not in my leadership but in that of my father. I remember when my sister and I were both teenagers. We had a fairly active teen group in our church and there was this one family who worked with us a good bit. They really were wonderful people, but they…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 3 views
Ever heard of “SDL”. No! I’m not talking about a daytime version of Saturday night live, I’m talking about a style of teaching. It’s called Self-directed learning. It came on the scene when Maurice Gibbons published a book titled, “Walk-about: Searching for the Right Passage from Childhood to School.”…
Robert Phillips • Illustration • • 7 views
The New Age view has it that children commit anti-social acts not because of congenital spiritual imperfection, but because of either biological imperfections (i.e., bad genes, allergies, biochemical imbalances) or socio-familial forces (prime among which is the ubiquitous "dysfunctional family"). In…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 68 views
That’s what Sylvester Stallone said in 2006. While promoting his last (one can only hope) Rocky film, Stallone shocked Christian fans with the revelation that his faith in Jesus Christ not only impacted the writing of the first Rocky film, but his decision to created yet another sequel was inspired by…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 6 views
And I must remind us, fathers, that clarity in our job as parents is extremely important. In fact, I maintain that clarity, to a great extent, determines influence. In fact, in 2008, New Yorker Magazine ran a comprehensive article about kids and lying. It reported that: In a study of teenagers regarding…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it. - Frank A. Clark, Register and Tribune Syndicate Reader’s Digest, February 1975, page 90
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 8 views
A mother, visiting a department store took her son to the toy department. Spying a gigantic rocking horse he climbed up on it and rocked back and forth for almost an hour. “Come on, son,” the mother pleaded. “I have to get home to get father’s dinner.” The little lad refused to budge and all her efforts…
Timothy C. Seal • Illustration • • 3 views
“Overcoming the Circumstances of Life” “We talk about “circumstances over which we have no control.” None of us have control over our circumstances, but we are responsible for the way we pilot ourselves in the midst of things as they are. Two boats can sail in opposite directions in the same wind,…
Timothy C. Seal • Illustration • • 5 views
“Overcoming the Circumstances of Life” “We talk about “circumstances over which we have no control.” None of us have control over our circumstances, but we are responsible for the way we pilot ourselves in the midst of things as they are. Two boats can sail in opposite directions in the same wind,…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 8 views
We might remark here in passing that the child, like the criminal, learns what punishment to expect for any given misdeed. This amount of punishment he is often prepared to accept without holding a grudge. But if he is punished ten dollars’ worth for a one-dollar crime, he feels nine dollars’ worth of…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 7 views
“Permissiveness is like saying to a kid, ‘No, you’re not going to do it and that’s semi-final,’” he said. “It’s letting your child do whatever he likes on the premise that if he gets killed doing it, he won’t do it again. These days you can give your teenager a car. You can give him an allowance. You…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 3 views
Chinese Proverb: Give a pig and a boy all they want and you will have a good pig and a bad boy. Wish I’d Said That, Cleon Lyles, page 90
Kevin Scruggs • Illustration • • 12 views
We live in the ultimate quick-fix culture. Everyone wants to be thin, but few people eat healthy and exercise. Everyone wants financial stability, but many refuse to be bothered by a budget. Rather than trouble ourselves with discipline, we opt for diet fads or speculate in the stock market. When we…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 1 view
Jordan Quillen went to scout camp. Many boys didn’t like it. Jordan like it. His mother asked him why. “When you have strict parents like I do, it’s good to get away for awhile.” Sharon (Chessor) Quillen, Brushy church of Christ, 7-21-2008
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 25 views
In Richard Foster's book of discipline he divides discipline into three parts: Inward, Outward, and Corporate discipline. He places simplicity under the category of the Outward Disciplines. Here are his nine ways to order our world so that we can create simplicity in our life. First, buy things for their…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
So you would like to be your own boss. So would we all. “If T could be on my own I know I’d be harry” Dream on! There’s a story o f a bee who mot bit by that same bug of independence. He flew into somebody’s house by mistake once, and the folk who lived there saw him on the window pane. And, for the…