TEC’s Thought for the Week
Teaching Freely is Love in Action Our last TEC Thought for the Week is: Love others as you love yourself! Why is this our last TEC Thought for the Week? We have had much joy in bringing you our weekly TEC Thoughts over the years. And as we have grown in our TEC...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
Infecting the Whole Batch Do you ever hear people talk about education as if it were ‘neutral’ – that is, that teaching is independent of our beliefs? What do you think about that? Does it matter who teaches ‘2 + 2 = 4’? We can turn to an ‘ancient friend’ to help us...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
Can Planning Inhibit Grace? There are many aspects to life which are inherently good. But it seems that we have the knack of taking those gifts from the Creator and using them in a way that is not good. Planning can be one of those aspects to life, even in our school...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
Free to Teach Does your teaching feel like a chore, or an opportunity? Do you think that you are not working well unless you are very busy? Are the weekends the highlight of your week? Perhaps we all go through seasons when we answer ‘yes’ to one or all of these...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
About What Do We Boast? I love my grandchildren. I love talking about my grandchildren. It is not that I love my children less, nor my elderly mother, nor even my wife of over four decades. It is just that they are so – well, they are so grandchildren-like! They all...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
FATIGUE IN DOING GOOD There can be two common confusions about continuing to do good. One is uncertainty about what ‘doing good’ actually looks like. The other is that it is simply too hard to sustain. There are many other dynamics involved in doing good, but these...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
SELF-UNDERSTANDING AND SERVICE In some circles it would be accepted wisdom that our ‘self’ is the most important value in the world. You can probably think of advertisements that feed on that idea. In other places, even thinking about ‘self’ is considered heretical....
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GETTING STUCK INTO IT! Are you busy or well-occupied? Are you pursuing personal achievement goals, or responding to the good to which God has called you? Why might these questions be important? Perhaps it is because sometimes we make being ‘soooo busy’ a badge of...
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LIVING CREATIVELY What do you think of when someone mentions ‘being creative’, or ‘living creatively’? Does this mean that we are to aim for a flourishing life? Or perhaps it means being fulfilled? If it is either of these, what does ‘flourishing’ look like, or what...
TEC’s Thought of the Week
Nothing is a mess from God’s perspective. Standing on the intersection of today, yesterday, and tomorrow, looking back, looking around and looking forward we notice the varying shades of life and the transitions that take place. Yesterday life may have been like a...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
The imposter. I recently received an email from PayPal, or so I thought. It all looked legitimate, including the PayPal logo, email address and wording that encouraged me to carefully review the invoice that was due for payment and to report anything that looked like...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
A two-sided tapestry. I recall a beautiful tapestry my Aunty had created many years ago. The tapestry was a delightful country scene. It was a two-sided tapestry. The front side of the tapestry was a flawless pictorial design of beautiful, coloured threads woven...
TECs Thought for the Week
Hello Everyone The colour of the Gospel. Recently, a friend showed me a photo of himself as a little boy that was previously black and white which had been converted into colour. The photo had been through a colourisation process and the image was transformed....
TECs Thought of the Week
The God who sees. As a consequence of living in a fallen creation, there are times where we can feel unseen in the world, as though we are walking around in a cave of concealment where our life lamps seem like they’ve been trimmed, and no one really sees us. Sometimes...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
Hello Everyone God doesn’t need us, but He wants us. CS Lewis noted that “God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them.” Acts 17:24-25. When we contemplate God who is so magnificent, ultimately,...
TEC’s Thought of the Week
Hello Everyone Cancelled. We live in a post-Christian culture that has progressively sought to de-throne and remove God whilst constructing a new kingdom where humans elevate themselves as monarchs of the earth. The world is marching to a different drum as it seeks to...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
Hello Everyone It is written. Some of my godsons loved to play the role of warrior lords, wielding their mighty little swords on their imaginary battlefields, defeating, and slaying their enemies. Every time their swords struck something with a winning blow, the...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
Crowned. Psalm 103:2-4. Today as we approach the throne of the most high God, we recall a special coronation that took place where the King of Kings reinstated us as His royal sons and daughters. Undeserving, Jesus walked across the room, and He called us forth. He...
TEC’s Thought for the Week
Undone and redone. My Grandmother was a bit of a genius with sewing, knitting and embroidery (somehow, I didn’t get that gene). One of my most vivid memories was going into her room to find a pile of mangled, tangled wool on the floor after her cat had been living its...
TECs Thought for the Week
Hello Everyone One way: Jesus. As humans gather on the plains of life, there is a collective cry that wells up as an insatiable thirst for truth and meaning that leads to fulfilment. It has been echoing in the earth since the greatest liar visited the creational home...