Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts

Thursday 11 June 2015

Struggles of life

Roasted coffee beans Español: Granos de café t...
Roasted coffee beans Español: Granos de café tostado (natural). Bahasa Indonesia: Biji kopi alami yang telah disangrai. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
STRUGGLES OF OUR LIFE

Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn't know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed.

Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter.


The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup.
Turning to her, he asked.

 “Daughter, what do you see?”
 “Potatoes, eggs and coffee,”
 she hastily replied.
“Look closer”,
 he said,
 “and touch the potatoes.”
 She did and noted that they were soft.
 

He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.
Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.

“Father, what does this mean?”
she asked.
 

He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity - the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato went in strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.

“Which one are you?”
 he asked his daughter.
 “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
MORAL:

 In life, things happen around us and things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is how you choose to react to it and what you make out of it. Life is all about learning, adopting and converting all the struggles that we experience into something positive.

Thursday 21 March 2013

New Preaching Ideas website

March not only saw the new tumblr website of the Christadelphians > Tumblr Christadelphians
Preaching Ideas, by Luke Bamford of the Peterborough Ecclesia, United Kingdom is also now available on a renewed site >  Preaching Ideas

The old website www.preachingideas.org.uk will shortly be taken down and the new website
www.preachingideas.co.uk will take over on a commercial platform called Dendrite. Dendrite is designed for people involved in teaching and learning and allows them to share learning and teaching materials in their own private communities or with global communities.It delivers learners, teachers, leaders and parents’  outstanding learning and development solutions from around the world.
Dendrite can be brought to you by The Learning Partnership.com, an organisation dedicated to improving the birth to nineteen learning journey, the platform is designed to optimise this learning journey.

The Christadelphian ALS have set up, fund and administer a private community that only registered Christadelphian's can access, add and share preaching material and ideas. Once registered, users can if they so desire sign up to other communities and access the many different resources available for learning and teaching, these other communities are non Christadelphian and chargers may apply to some of the premium communities.

Material and ideas from the old site will not be transferred from the old site to the new site on which new material will be set as it comes along.

While the CALS mandate is to support and facilitate preaching in the UK, they are happy for
Christadelphian's around the world to register and use the site.

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Wednesday 3 February 2010

The mistake is the one from which we learn nothing


"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
- John Enoch Powell

Experience is the worst teacher;
it gives the test first before
presenting the lesson.
- Vernon Law

"It is good for me that I was afflicted,
That I may learn Your statutes."
Psalms 119:71

Lord let me understand your admonitions and treaty requirements and let me get lessons from the things I have done and which I have undergone.

Dutch version / Nederlandstalige versie > De fout is diegene van welke wij niets leren

Wednesday 20 January 2010

A learning process for each of us

To believe and to be a Christian is a learning process is. In a learning process there is always space to go wrong. If you cannot go wrong , you learn nothing! But by God, Jehovah, and by Jesus, Jeshua it goes about, our inclination, if we really want to learn. That is with an earthly father and an earthly teacher also. A good father expects no more  of its child then where it is regarding to which it is  able according to its age. A good school master does not become angry for the errors which a student makes as long as he has the inclination to learn.
Jesus is considered by scholars such as Weber ...
Jesus is considered by scholars such as Weber to be an example of a charismatic religious leader. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

God is a good father and Jesus is a good teacher. They give us all space to learn with falling and standing  up. As long as our inclination is well. And we receive that good inclination by the new treaty, Jesus New Covenant.


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