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I'm Jay Ferguson. This is a collection of my reflections on educating kids and teaching them to love Jesus. I write articles on Christain education on this page but you can also find articles on parenting, prayer, Christmas, and more.
Jay Ferguson » Christian Education
2M ago
I could spend the rest of my life studying Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, and specifically the Beatitudes, Christ’s statement of those who are blessed in His Father’s Kingdom. Christ sets forth a vision for Kingdom living, a completely different way to live and to view life than the one we’re living […]
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Jay Ferguson » Christian Education
2M ago
As you probably know, yesterday was both Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. One of my wry friends wondered whether he should smear chocolate instead of ashes on his wife’s forehead as a mashup to commemorate the two events. For his sake, I’m hoping he didn’t actually attempt it. When I […]
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Jay Ferguson » Christian Education
3M ago
This year, as we’ve been looking at spiritual warfare through our school theme, “Battle Tested,” one area that I haven’t yet talked about is perhaps the most devastating idea of all, yet one we often spend a lot of time trying hard not to think about: original sin. I was reading an article the other […]
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Jay Ferguson » Christian Education
3M ago
I currently teach in a program called the Van Lunen Fellowship, based out of Calvin University in Grand Rapids. The program is for executive leadership training, designed for new heads of school who have recently entered into the position, perhaps from being a teacher, or principal, or some other role, but who don’t have all […]
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Jay Ferguson » Christian Education
3M ago
This week, I traveled to a meeting with several of my head-of-school peers. In my quiet times with the Lord before my trip, I prayed that God would give me an opportunity to serve my colleagues around me, many of whom face difficult issues, work situations, and personal challenges in their respective schools. I prayed […]
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Jay Ferguson » Christian Education
4M ago
If we can say anything about 2024 as we enter the new year, it will be (as all years are) a year of joys, and a year of challenges. Given that it will also be an election year, it is likely to be one with its fair share of conflict. As Christians, we’re called to […]
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Jay Ferguson » Christian Education
4M ago
What was it like to be the role player, the one no one remembers in the Christmas story? How did it feel to have your dreams shattered? To grow up, love God, obey His Law, put in a good, hard day’s work, and begin to realize all your humble, yet very real dreams: your own […]
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Jay Ferguson » Christian Education
4M ago
…she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. &nb ..read more
Jay Ferguson » Christian Education
5M ago
“They also serve who only stand and wait.” John Milton Do you remember what it was like to wait for Christmas as a kid? How it seemed like an eternity, as if the clock were actually moving backwards? My mom always used to buy us those chocolate Advent calendars made somewhere in Germany (Adventschokolade!), the […]
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Jay Ferguson » Christian Education
5M ago
If there’s one descriptor that’s used often to describe God, it’s that He is “good.” We are invited in the psalms to “taste and see that the Lord is good.” (34:8). James tells us that “Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights.” (1:17). But, […]
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