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Bible today: “Jesus was about to go to Jerusalem, and he took his twelve followers aside as they were walking and told them (JNB Matthew 20: 1)

Weekly Topic: Education.

This week. What did you learn today? We all learn, from the first day of our life to the last day. We all grow and our experiences change the way we think, the way we feel and the way we are. Education means to create particular experiences which support learning and development. Education ranges from the way our parents treat us as an infant to the days where we attend school, college or some training sessions in our job ...

The bible tells us that God educates us. He wants us to get to know him and to learn from him. He is there every day - and he guides and educates us. What is the goal and the content of his education? How is he doing it? What experiences with God's educational ways can and should we share? Come and join us day by day exploring faith in Jesus ...!

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The farmer of the vineyard ... We start to study an important story today. Jesus told this story about a farmer in a vineyard to his disciples ... it is a story about grace. Let's read its beginning first: 1 God’s kingdom is like a farmer who went out early one morning (about 6am) to get some men to work in his vineyard. 2 He agreed with the men to pay them a denarius for a day’s work, and then sent them to his vineyard ... [more]

JN Factory - Christian Blog: Vision for Education 3 - Value beyond failures!... Saturday, Mar 13, 2010. God's education is different from what we learn in our schools and universities. In schools we learn many things - we should appreciate this education we can get today. We learn language and arts, science and crafts. But in God's education we learn grace and love, justice and honesty, trustworthiness and solidarity. A value which is beyond things we could earn God's education is different, it is deeper and wider than the education we get in our schools. In God's education we learn that we are valued with all we are and have. We cannot earn this value, it is given to us. How ever hard we work, we will not be more valuable to God. However lazy we are, we wi... [more]

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17 Jesus was about to go to Jerusalem, and he took his twelve followers aside as they were walking and told them: 18 “Look, we are on our way to Jerusalem, and there I, the Son of Man, will be handed over to the senior priests and the experts in the Jewish writings. They will sentence me to death, 19 and then hand me over to foreigners who will ridicule me, whip me, and nail me on a cross to die.”... (JNB Matthew 20: 17 ff)

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