Inspiration

If you have ever been hurt by the way a church does money, this message is full of good news for you.

Our children's Sunday School classes were presenting their end of the year program for the congregation - telling about the life of Jesus.

When it came to the part about Jesus' miracles, one little boy said, "Yes, Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead!" The teacher urged him to tell us more.

He said, "Well, Jesus told them to open the tomb, and then He said, 'Lazarus, come out!' And it's a good thing he didn't just say 'Come out!' because there would have been a stampede of dead guys."

Needless to say our congregation enjoyed the presentation very much.

"Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."
- Lewis Grizzard

Courses for Life in a PC (Politically Correct) World

- SSC101 Spinal Strengthening and Conditioning 1: This course explores the techniques needed to have an opinion, state it, and stick to it. The concepts covered in this course are designed to strengthen the students backbone (or help develop one in some extreme cases).

- SSC102 Spinal Strengthening and Conditioning 2: This course is a continuation of SSC101 and deals with the converse side of the opinion issue: how to bend gracefully when life demands it.The concepts discussed in this course are designed to help avoid backbone stiffness, brittleness or breakage.

- MSC101 Mental Strengthening and Conditioning 1: This course introduces techniques that allow the student to make room in the brain for new information.

- MSC102 Mental Strengthening and Conditioning 2: This course, which continues the material begun in MSC101, is designed to teach the student how to choose wisely what is put into the brain and how to avoid the mental junk food that can weaken the brain.

- ESC101 Emotional Strengthening and Conditioning 1: This course introduces the concept that one does not need to become emotionally unstable when confronted by the unpleasant aspects of life.

- ESC102 Emotional Strengthening and Conditioning 2: This course continues the discussion begun in ESC101 and teaches specific techniques for maintaining emotional stability in a chaotic world.Topics covered include how to respond to insensitive or poorly thought-out comments (both spoken and written); how to graciously process negative emotions; and how to avoid the temptation to get even (this list is by no means all-inclusive; students will be encouraged to suggest topics for class sessions).

- SSD101 Social Skills Development 1: This course introduces the skills necessary to use the knowledge gained from previous courses (see list above) in interactions with others.(While the University wishes to make this course a graduation requirement for all students, the University's attorneys have advised the administrators that such a requirement would be highly impractical, as the number of people at large in the world who have not taken SSD101 far outnumber those who have taken it. Therefore, the course may actually put our graduates at a disadvantage but we still recommend you take it, if only for your own sake.)

- Traci Bonney