He could have killed him. In fact, he almost did. It was a terrible accident.Jack Keith was driving along the Pacific Coast Highway one morning during the Memorial Day weekend last year. He was admiring the waves of the Pacific Ocean momentarily when suddenly his...
For all practical purposes, it was an ordinary day in the life of a Grade 7 teacher. My classroom was full of 30 French Immersion students, all eagerly working to do their best. Then I heard the page: "Mr. Chaffart, you have a phone call in the office." Puzzled,...
“Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, ‘Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’”...
I couldn’t have been more than ten or eleven years old. It was a hot, Summer afternoon and I decided to cool off by taking a swim in the river that ran down the hill from our home. The water was cold and my dog jumped in to splash around with me. After a while I...
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." (Romans 1:16a KJV) Do you ever wonder how many spiritually lost people you pass each day? It was December 2018. I needed to run to the store to...
On Friday we saw how simply reaching out to students in love will serve to motivate them to want to do their best. This was incredibly rewarding as a teaching, but I would soon learn that loving my students had other rewards as well...As I told a week ago in Lessons...
"And he said, 'O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.' And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, 'Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.'" (Daniel 10:19 ESV)I was in town today walking back from the bank...