The museum deals in the primary theoretical and historical. But the grocery store, and the garage, and the kitchen table… they deal primarily in the practical, real-life sorts of things that every kid (and many adults) needs to learn.
Category: Stories
A quality (free) education.
Our culture says we learn the really important things by taking classes at schools that we pay for. I’m not sold. Instead, I’m now looking for opportunities for my kids to have the same kinds of hand-on learning I got as a teenager.
Power over death (be not afraid) and life (be raised).
Whatever darkness or fear consumes you, Jesus shines a light in that place, to turn our eyes heavenward to him, for he alone has the power to give us life.
Power over the body (be healed) and the soul (be at peace)
I remember walking slowly through the lobby of the Mayo Clinic, it was late in the evening and I was the only one there. But I had to see it. I had to see the place I had heard so much about. And I wondered—in a sort of desperation—would it be that place for me?
Power over your sin. (Be clean.)
The thing that controls us, that defiles us, that keeps us from entering in to the presence of God, that keeps us from whole relationships with our family and community, Jesus has power over it, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.