I’ve been collecting some links and other information regarding the Armor of God. As usual, I start out with a very grandiose idea and whittle it down to something simpler. At first I had planned to have each student make…
Results of the Basic Doctrines Assessment
Well — that was interesting. We took the Basic Doctrines Assessment and I have compiled the data. I sent a copy of the results to the YW President, YM President, SS President, and bishop for their reference. You gotta know,…
Seminary Basic Doctrines Assessment
I didn’t realize there was a form for assessing student understanding of Seminary lessons until I accidentally found it last year on the Seminary and Institutes website. I suppose that this file is mostly used by full time Seminary teachers,…
Acts 13-20
Monday of this week was a free day. I planned to celebrate birthdays with a party and watch movies, but my class president didn’t organize the food, so we ended up just watching Bible Video movies. Not great. I don’t…
This website just got awesomer
Okay. That’s a terrible title. But the site did get awesomer yesterday! For years I’ve been collecting and aggregating feeds of several blogs out there trying to send traffic to them. Smaller websites have fantastic ideas, but often they don’t…
Acts of the Apostles 1-12
We started out the book of Acts with some excitement — or something like it. Some terrible weather rolled in to the area, resulting in changes to the student’s exam and class schedules. We had to cut out several days…
10 Things I’ve Learned from Teaching Seminary
While researching Skyped seminary, I found this old post on Early Morning Seminary at Segullah. I got really tickled. It’s always a pleasure to hear other people’s experiences in Seminary. It made me think, after a year and a half…
John 10-21
You know, it feels like I’m better caught up on the blog than I really am…. I didn’t realize I was so far behind. Anyway, we are wrapping up with John this week. My class takes off all but one…
Improving the Quality of Devotional Talks
Youth devotionals — they can put the most patient of teachers over the edge. The forgetting, the faking, the false doctrine, the too-familiar gospel cliches all combine in a slow-moving train wreck that can make opening exercises in your class…
Catching up with John
Hello, friends. It’s been a long time :). I’m sure you can appreciate why, what with three holidays in a month, plus new pages for all the 2013 stuff, plus 4 family birthdays, plus teaching Seminary, plus two funerals, plus…