Put Christ first.
This past Wednesday I had the opportunity to visit Polk Avenue Elementary for their leadership day. I had no idea what to expect. I thought some kids would sing. They did. I thought they would honor student leaders. They didn’t. It was much more than that.
Some years ago the Principal, Gail Quam, decided that to reach the kids they serve more effectively, she had to change the culture of the school. She introduced leadership curriculum developed by Franklin-Covey, based on Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People called “The Leader in Me.”
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Christ is the answer to destructive sin.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest living thing on this planet is a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, over 11,000 feet high, east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is named Methuselah, after the Biblical oldest man and it is thought to be about 4,771 years old.
How old is that? Well, just consider that by the best dating scholars can estimate, when God called Abraham, the Methuselah tree was alive. That’s a long time.
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Consider well your end, and your hope and its cost.
In the intersection of Harris Road and Hollister Road, above Crooked Lake, someone executed a spectacular donut right in the middle of the road. I mean it is thick and black and is much more than a mere 360.
It elicits a number of thoughts and a mixture of feelings.
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