Church & Home Leadership
What Do I Want Students to Know, Feel, Do?
What Do I Want Students to Know, Feel, Do?
Teaching that effects change.

When I teach a class, I want to affect the whole person, not just the mind but also the heart, and not just the heart and mind but also the will. So as I prepare, I ask myself three questions.

1. What do I want them to know?

It never hurts to remind myself ...

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Ask Questions Like the Master Teacher
Ask Questions Like the Master Teacher
8 types of questions Jesus used to produce change.

"Do you not yet understand?"
—Jesus (Matthew 8:21)

Whether in a public gathering, a confrontation with his enemies, or a private conversation with his closest friends, Jesus consistently used questions to produce change and growth. In the ...

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Three Goals to Help You Teach Better
Three Goals to Help You Teach Better
A teacher's mental preparation.

Some college classes have prerequisites. In the church, I think there are prerequisites for teaching; not just the technical qualifications needed, but the attitudes necessary. I find that I teach better when I keep the three following goals fixed in ...

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Great Leaders Are Great Teachers, Part Two
Eight more tips to teach more effectively.

As I've watched leaders communicate, what I have found is that they really teach effectively. Wrapping up our last lesson, below are the remaining eight tips that will help you to teach your people more effectively as their leader.

8. Teach from the heart. The ...

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Great Leaders Are Great Teachers, Part One
Leaders must be effective teachers.

Clayton Porter, my wife Margaret's father, died in February. He was a wonderful, wonderful person—a great dad, and a great family man. He was a teacher his whole life and he did what he could while he was on this earth to add value to people's ...

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Outrageous Hats and Sunday School
We can learn a lot from Henrietta Mears.

In the past 50 years, more than 3 billion people have heard the gospel through the ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, including millions who have seen the Jesus film. Bill and Vonette Bright followed a vision of God in 1951 to "win the campus ...

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