Tag: discipline
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Discipline: A Post About Discipleship
Before reading, click on the first pic then #swipeleft⬅️ Ahem. Follow along. When Christ was finna head on out, He said, “Make disciples of all the nations and teach them to obey all the things I taught you” (Matthew 28:19-20, paraphrased). A disciple is first a learner, who through deep study and questioning and time…
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The Danger in Defiance & Disrespect, part 1
As someone one who has made it my mission to make muddy waters clear for students and teachers alike, I am forever looking for ways to make complicated conversations plain and theoretical themes practical. Why do the research if it can’t be used? Why schedule the PD but never come up with the practical protocol…
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Embrace the suck
The first time I read the phrase embrace the suck, I was actually reading an article about…parenting? War? Marriage? Work? Being black in America? I don’t even remember. I just remember the phrase catching my eye. It was one I’d never heard or read before, and it resonated deep in my chest. I had to…
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Rules Without Reasons Reap Rebellion
I am watching the conscious parenting trend and I find that just like all things, life is all about taking the good with the bad. The philosophy has merits that I absolutely rocks with and things that I find to be quite head scratching. One of the head scratchers is simply that I am supposed…
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You gotta learn your own triggers
Lesson learned: the devil has studied you your entire life and your parents before that, so he knows your triggers–the exact things that will get you off track and out of God’s word, that will make you sad, angry, hurt, afraid, and depressed. The things that will stop you in your tracks and have you…
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Everybody Can’t Teach – The Fivefold Operation
TEACHING is the art of DISCIPLING. There is a difference between preaching and teaching. You can be a great preacher and suck at teaching—and that’s ok. #stayinyourlane I can say to you unequivocally that while you can be taught the theories and skills (pedagogy) of teaching? What you cannot do is replicate the gift to…
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The devil is NOT that busy—least not witchu!
random but real: as Christians, we give the devil toooooooo much credit. He doesn’t have nearly as much power as we attribute to him. Jesus tole y’all He got up with ALL THE POWER—so why are you literally handing back power to death, hell, and the grave, bro? The devil just be looking up from…
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The Importance of Integrity
#TestimonyforToday: for the past few months, God has been dealing with concerning my level of Integrity. Integrity is the idea of doing the right thing for the sake of doing right-despite it being easier to do the wrong thing. After a huge breach of trust with someone whom I love dearly, I began to see…
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The littles ain’t been here before—but you have.
This kid just screamed in Target. He looked tired when I turned to look. His mom (white lady) snatched him up–BECAUSE she saw me looking. She probably thought I was judging her parenting. I wasn’t. I just heard a kid in distress and looked just in case something was going down wrong. It always amazes…
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