How To Make Your Sunday School (or any Organization) Grow

How can you make your organization grow?

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Almost 100 years ago (c. 1920) Arthur Flake (with excellent taste in tweed) became the first director of what is today called LifeWay.

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The gates of Hell and the Gospel!

…upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

-Matthew 16:18

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God rocks! Sometimes we lose sight of the fact that we will be successful at our task, not by our own effort, but for the Father, by the Son, through the Spirit! 

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Are We Keeping the Sabbath?

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy…

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…Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

-Exod 20:8-11

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Bow Ties Are Cool

I am a big fan of the (new) Doctor Who series. I think Matt Smith is good enough, but to me, David Tennant is The Doctor.

One feature, however, I appreciate about the latest incarnation of Doctor Who, is the truism “bow ties are cool.”

I have been wearing bow ties for a lot longer than The Doctor, or at least the new Doctor Who, which began in 2005 (see timeline below). I’ve actually been wearing them a little over 15 years now. They are great, they don’t get caught in stuff, don’t blow around, don’t pick-up all the dirt, muck, and germs as boring ties… and, obviously, they are cool!

Here’s bow tie pictures going back a few years (note, I have hair in some of these 🙂 )

DBU Graduation 1999

Beth’s DBU Graduation 2000

Southwestern Graduation 2004

Southwestern Graduation 2008

Last Sunday 8-19-2012

The Doctor has not always been “bow tie,” I found this cool timeline for Doctor Who:

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4 guys with a story to tell: Mark, Luke, Matthew, and John

In today’s academic world, we are constantly reminded that we must do our own original work, if you don’t give credit where credit is due, that’s called plagiarism.

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This practice of protecting intellectual property, however, is a relatively modern concern. In fact, the Gospel writers used each others words quite freely.

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