While we’re in the US for the summer, our kitchen is being remodeled. They have completed a lot of the work, so I took these pictures for Janell to see the progress.
We used to have old brown tile and white cabinets with green tiles on the walls. Not anymore. They’ve done a great job, and the kitchen looks much better. Click a picture to enlarge it.
Check out the video I made. (Popup flash)
Here I am again at the Tampa airport. I’m waiting for my flight to Mexico City. I’ll be there for a week and a half with a group of students from Highview Baptist Church. I’m looking forward to seeing our new kitchen, but I’m not really enjoying being away from the family again.
I wanted to write about security in airports. I was thinking about it the other day, and I think it’s a place that shows us the results of sin more than any other place (besides a cemetery) in daily life. Why else would we have to take off our shoes and be subject to searching if people weren’t sinful beings intent on hurting each other? The experience in Tampa International Airport isn’t that bad. Actually, today I met some of the friendliest security people I’ve ever seen. Good job, TIA!
I’m in West Palm Beach, getting ready to fly out of Miami on Saturday to Havana. I will be teaching a week-long class on discipleship to a great group of students. This is my fourth time there, and I am looking forward to seeing them again.
Needless to say, I’ll be out of contact for a few days, but I will be back next week, and I hope to have lots of great stories and pictures for you.
One of the hardest things about teaching is the evaluation process. Tests that are easily graded are the least effective in actually evaluating if the student has mastered the content. In other words, if a test has pure multiple choice questions, it is really easy to grade but doesn’t tell me if my student has understood the class content.
Because I’m always teaching for understanding, I have to design tests that are more like a conversation with the student. In other words, I have to make a test that is more difficult to grade. An essay test is more difficult to grade, but it tells me a lot about their understanding. I guess what I’m saying that in order to have a good evaluation of the student, I have to do a lot of work after the class by grading a ton of essay questions.
I have to write about the passing of Jerry Falwell yesterday. I was shocked and saddened when I saw the news.
I went to Liberty University, the school Falwell founded, and I have a few memories of the man.
Suburban on the sidewalk. Dr. Falwell used to like to pretend like he was going to run you over as he drove on campus in his Suburban.
Crowd surfing at basketball games. He would start at the floor level in the student section and we’d lift him to the top. He was in attendance often.
Friendly. I remember walking up the ravine one day to get to the top and see Dr. Falwell there. He stopped to talk to me and my friends and shake our hands. He was always very personable.
A visionary leader. His first sermon every year was about having vision, and it would always come from the story of Nehemiah rebuilding the walls. It was, in fact, his life. He was a visionary leader. Another lesson I learned from him was that when he was starting his church, he would knock on doors everyday until he had at least talked to 100 people. He would simply ask them for prayer requests and introduce himself. He was a hard worker.
One day, I was near the mansion praying early in the morning, and I saw him coming in to work after having worked out at the gym. Despite his weight issues, he did work out.
A legacy. Falwell’s passion was to raise up young champions for Christ. I believe he did that in his lifetime. I do not agree with everything that he believed or did, but he lives on in the ministries of those of us who learned from him and the other people he trusted to train us.
Those are a few of the things I remember about Dr. Jerry Falwell.
