If you want to know more about what is taking place in our public school system today, check out the documentary, Waiting For Superman. I highly recommend it! I believe it will open your eyes and push you to reflect on your own educational history, as well as, challenge you to think about our public school system and what role you want to play in it. Below is a video conversation from the director, Davis Guggenheim.
What I like about this documentary is that it highlights that our nation's education system has problems that are vast, complex, urgent, and difficult to solve. The bottom line is that the system is broken and not every student in our country is receiving an excellent education. What our public school system needs TODAY are great teachers, prepared students, excellent schools, and increased literacy.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Merry Christmas!
As Ilalia and I prepare to experience our first Christmas with Tyson, I wanted to share with you a simple but profound message we heard in a sermon last weekend. I have heard the Christmas story recounted many times over, but I had never stopped to look at it from the following perspective.
Jesus is God in the flesh. He humbled himself to be born in Bethlehem as a baby, God taking on flesh. God became a baby. Born through the normal birth process, wrapped in strips of cloth and placed in a manger. God, the one who spoke the universe into existence, couldn't even speak an intelligent word. God, the one who holds the stars in their places, couldn't even change his own diaper. God, the one who controls the Heavens, couldn't even control his own movements. God in a body; not just any body, but the body of a human baby.
God chose to enter this world in simple humility.
Imagine you were God and you were coming into this world:
- Would you choose a backwater area like Israel, or the gold and glitter of Rome, the most famous city in the world of its day in time?
- Would you choose a little, out of the way town like Bethlehem, or the capital city of Jerusalem?
- Would you choose a nobody carpenter to be your father, or a king to be your father?
- Would you choose a young, country girl or a well-bred and educated princess to be your mother?
- Would you choose a manger in a stall, in a shed behind an inn, or a lavishly equipped palace nursery?
- Would you announce it to a group of outcast sheppards on an obscure hillside outside of Bethlehem, or with a worldwide trumpet blast?
I will leave you with a sample of one of our favorite modern Christmas songs, "I Celebrate The Day", by Relient K (click on the link for the full song). We wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and we pray that you will recognize and celebrate the true reason for the season, the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Jesus is God in the flesh. He humbled himself to be born in Bethlehem as a baby, God taking on flesh. God became a baby. Born through the normal birth process, wrapped in strips of cloth and placed in a manger. God, the one who spoke the universe into existence, couldn't even speak an intelligent word. God, the one who holds the stars in their places, couldn't even change his own diaper. God, the one who controls the Heavens, couldn't even control his own movements. God in a body; not just any body, but the body of a human baby.
God chose to enter this world in simple humility.
Imagine you were God and you were coming into this world:
- Would you choose a backwater area like Israel, or the gold and glitter of Rome, the most famous city in the world of its day in time?
- Would you choose a little, out of the way town like Bethlehem, or the capital city of Jerusalem?
- Would you choose a nobody carpenter to be your father, or a king to be your father?
- Would you choose a young, country girl or a well-bred and educated princess to be your mother?
- Would you choose a manger in a stall, in a shed behind an inn, or a lavishly equipped palace nursery?
- Would you announce it to a group of outcast sheppards on an obscure hillside outside of Bethlehem, or with a worldwide trumpet blast?
I will leave you with a sample of one of our favorite modern Christmas songs, "I Celebrate The Day", by Relient K (click on the link for the full song). We wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and we pray that you will recognize and celebrate the true reason for the season, the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Ironmen Summit Revisited
Below is a short video that our friend Reuben put together to document our gathering up in the Northwest this summer. We all had a great time! It's pretty amazing to see how the group keeps getting larger and how Travis' shorts keep getting shorter... :) Thanks for the video Reuben!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Our Blog Debut!
Tyson Shea Coburn was born on April 11, 2009 at 7:40 pm. He weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces and was 20.25 inches in length. Tyson is a little over 3 weeks old now and is doing great. He certainly is a precious gift and we feel blessed to have him in our lives. Again, thank you to all for your love, support, and prayers.
I thought it would be fitting for this, our first-ever blog post, to venture into the video-making world as well and produce our first-ever video (this may explain the delay in our first blog posting)! We compiled a few photos and video from the last 3+ weeks of Tyson's life and hope you enjoy. For those who haven't met Tyson yet, he sends his love, and looks forward to meeting you someday soon!
Also, to view more photos of Tyson, I've set up an account with Flickr to store and share photos online. I understand you can do all sorts of fun and creative things on Flickr, but for now, we've just uploaded our current pics of Tyson for you to browse and enjoy...
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