Be careful what you teach others. They may remember it. Sitting in a College Sunday School Department at Coggin Avenue Baptist Church in Brownwood, Texas, I heard the Department Director, Wanda Cain, tell a warm, fuzzy story about a little Indian boy named TIGAPA. His parents named him that because the letters in his name stood for \u201cTrust in God and Push Along.\u201d Maybe because it matched my favorite Old Testament passage, Proverbs 3:5-6 or maybe because it was such a simple story, but last week I remembered it. My Howard Payne University Cheerleading Granddaughter sent me a text message as she was leaving Brownwood on a trip to the Christian Cheerleaders of America National Competition in North Carolina (during which they won the national championship in their division). I replied, \u201cOK, TIGAPA,\u201d then explained the meaning. I am amazed that I remembered such a simple story. Makes me wonder (and fear) what my former students remember me saying. So be careful what you teach, lest someone remember it more than fifty years later.<\/p>\n
Join me this week in praying for the following global concerns:
\n\u2022 Give thanks that Ashley & April Austin made it across the Canadian border with their two moving vans and are now on Vancouver Island to plant a church.
\n\u2022 Pray for a missionary in a high secure area who had a baby last week by emergency C-section but her uterus ruptured and she has other complications that will keep her in the hospital for another week. Baby is fine.
\n\u2022 Pray for those who minister among the Celtic language people for whom March is the \u201choliest\u201d month in that it holds the most saint\u2019s days out of the year! Pray for eyes and ears to be opened to the truth of the gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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