My new Bible

A couple of days ago I purchased a new Bible.

Why? You may well ask, when I have numerous around the house already and even have 3 versions of the Bible on my Iphone. My eyesight is not as good as it use to be and I now have a Bible in Giant print that I can read even without glasses! Yeah! (For all of you who wear glasses for reading, you will know what I mean.) Reading this Bible for the first time without glasses was like when I first had my Cataract Operations and I could see the leaves on the trees in the distance for the very first time. It is like I'm looking at the Bible for the very first time! Anyway, I have just read Matthew Chapter 18 "The Temple Tax" v.24-27. It's just amazing! Jesus tells Peter to go fishing in the lake by throwing out a line and within the first catch's mouth he will find the Tax money (a four -drachma coin). Wow, I have never heard or read this story before! My eyes are being opened for the second time.

Internet's web to get wider and wider

Here is an interesting extract from the Sydney Morning herald dated 23rd April, 2009:

While the internet has dramatically changed lives around the world, its full impact will only be realised when far more people and information go online, its founders said on Wednesday.

"The web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past," said Tim Berners-Lee, one of the inventors of the World Wide Web, at a seminar on its future....

Just 23% of the globe's population currently uses the internet, according to the United Nation's International Telecommunications Union. By contrast, just 5% of Africans surf the web, reported in March.....But that level is expected to rise, said internet co-founder Vinton Cerf.....

The number of websites has since ballooned from just 500 as recently as 1994 to over 80 million currently, with growing numbers of sites consisting of user-generated content like blogs.

…..So what does this mean for Teacher Librarians?

Even more information available at our fingertips?

I believe that this will mean an “explosion” of information available and even more need than ever before for students to learn skills that teach them how to locate and decipher the dependability and reliability of a web source. A little different to when I was a child and the Librarian would show us how to use a microfiche, how to use the index in an Encyclopaedia and how to find a good book to read.

It is an exciting time for us all and we as: TL’s in training, are the future.

The world truly is an “Oyster – shell” with a pearl inside, waiting to be discovered.

Movie - The Grace Card

Have you ever wondered what real Grace is? Grace involves forgiveness in its' complete entirety. This movie highlights Grace and how it is applied in real lives. I particularly enjoyed the Grace card (note) that was handed down from a Grandfather to his Grandson and from this Man to the Murderer of his son. It begins like this: "I promise to pray for you everyday, ask your forgiveness and grant you the same, and be friends with you always."

We have an opportunity everyday to rebuild relationships and heal wounds by receiving God's Grace.

Courageous

I have just finished watching an amazing movie entitled "Courageous". This movie is full of action and suspense but most of all it has a wonderful lesson to teach us all.
In particular, Fathers can learn so much from this movie. I love the commitment made by each of the fathers in the "Resolution" scene. Adam Mitchell, one of the leading characters shows true humility and growth in Christ.
Research is proving that children not only need a Mum but they need a Daddy. This movie highlights this fact. God's word shows every father how a father should love his children, how to teach his children to live a life of respect, integrity and humility, and to boldly pursue what God has put on their hearts.
As a father you are accountable to God, your child's soul matters to God!
Raise up fathers and take Courage! Say "I will be a responsible father".