The Dirt on Learning
Yo, yo, and hello everyone! Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great New Year yesterday. I sure did. May God bless us all with a great 2007.
I read the second chapter in The Dirt on Learning yesterday. This chapter starts off the first part in Jesus' Parable of the Sower. This is the part where Jesus talks about the sower tossing his seeds out and some of them fall in rocky soil. This soil was once very fertile. But over time it had been walked on so much that it got hard. And it got harder and harder as time went on. So now it won't do anything. If you try and plant seeds in it, all it will do is lay there until birds come and eat it. Jesus uses this as an analogy for understanding. If we're teaching people and they don't understand what we're talking about and we don't explain it, then it's like planting seeds on rocky soil. Soon the devil will take away the memory of those words just like birds come and eat seeds on the rocky soil. Seeds that fall on rocky soil is reduced to mere bird feed. Let's don't let that happen to our teaching. We need to use easy to understand language. Sometimes we use "churchy words" that some people don't know what we're talking about. So, let's use language that better to understand or at least explain what those words mean. This is a really good book y'all! Please go out and get it. This book will help us better understand teaching.
Did any of you see the Boise State/ Oklahoma game last night? What a great game! I was for OU so I was disappointed they lost, but give Boise their due. They played great! Unbelievable game!
That's all for today. God bless you in Jesus' name!
Zack
ps. Please pray for my cousin-in-law Jay Bradley. He is in the US army. He's been to Iraq 2 times already and he is preparing to go back there later this month. He is currently in Fort Riley, KS training. He will be in charge of training the Iraqi army. Please pray for his safety and his troups' safety, and the Iraqi army's safety. Thank you! God bless!
I read the second chapter in The Dirt on Learning yesterday. This chapter starts off the first part in Jesus' Parable of the Sower. This is the part where Jesus talks about the sower tossing his seeds out and some of them fall in rocky soil. This soil was once very fertile. But over time it had been walked on so much that it got hard. And it got harder and harder as time went on. So now it won't do anything. If you try and plant seeds in it, all it will do is lay there until birds come and eat it. Jesus uses this as an analogy for understanding. If we're teaching people and they don't understand what we're talking about and we don't explain it, then it's like planting seeds on rocky soil. Soon the devil will take away the memory of those words just like birds come and eat seeds on the rocky soil. Seeds that fall on rocky soil is reduced to mere bird feed. Let's don't let that happen to our teaching. We need to use easy to understand language. Sometimes we use "churchy words" that some people don't know what we're talking about. So, let's use language that better to understand or at least explain what those words mean. This is a really good book y'all! Please go out and get it. This book will help us better understand teaching.
Did any of you see the Boise State/ Oklahoma game last night? What a great game! I was for OU so I was disappointed they lost, but give Boise their due. They played great! Unbelievable game!
That's all for today. God bless you in Jesus' name!
Zack
ps. Please pray for my cousin-in-law Jay Bradley. He is in the US army. He's been to Iraq 2 times already and he is preparing to go back there later this month. He is currently in Fort Riley, KS training. He will be in charge of training the Iraqi army. Please pray for his safety and his troups' safety, and the Iraqi army's safety. Thank you! God bless!
posted by Zack | 6:54 AM
1 Comments:
I am enjoying reading your blog - you have a special spirit and gift of understanding. Thank you for your prayers for Jay and all those in the field. Suzan
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