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October 31 is Reformation Day.  Martin Luther’s first thesis of 95:   "When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said “repent,” (Matthew 4:17), he willed the entire life of the believer to be one of repentance. " I like to think of repentance as when you make a wrong turn with your GPS.   Rerouting or recalibration.   In a way it’s a course correction, but more to it than taking a U turn in your car.   Consider repentance as having four parts/stages. 1.   Acknowledge – mind . The first stage is confession – “admit the truth” (therefore “we confess him before men) or “to say the same” as God does about your attitude or behavior               I John 1:9. Confession has a promise.   Proverbs 28:13.  James 5:16             Confession means recognizing sin – ask to be aware of it. Jonathan Edwards, Resolution 68...

   I have cut and paste this here; I am not making money here, but this is vital, and scary.  We are already seeing these results with Fall 2022's freshmen class.  What will happen moving forward? How can we maintain college-level learning? Teaching from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Olivier Douliery / AFP via Getty Images.) There are plenty of time-honored ways to deal with a bad report card. “Forget” it in your locker, bury it deep in your book bag—tear it up and eat it if you’re really desperate. But no amount of deception would be enough to hide the lousy grades America’s schools got this week from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). The NAEP tests a representative sample of 4th and 8th-grade students on reading and math skills to determine how their learning compares to past students at that age. Scores were already slipping before the pandemic, but in the latest round—administered this spring—about a third of studen...