Child and Youth Care Worker Certification Institute

Certifies individual child/youth care work practitioners and accredits training and education programs. Includes information on goals, testing, and certification.

Children's Courtyard

Early childhood education, with locations in Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Houston areas. Give information on teacher training, employment, programs, and certifications.

ESC Region 12: Jobs

Job listings for schools in Region XII plus links to job listings at all other Educational Service Centers in Texas.

Get Certified! Texas

GetCertifiedTexas provides preparation for the Examination for the Texas Examinations of Educator Standards (TExES) using Study Guides, Classes, and practice questions.

Gifted Education Policies for Texas

An interactive, graphic guide to gifted and talented education issues for Texas, featuring in-depth information on state education statistics, legislation and policies, obstacles, schools, and opportunities.

Links for Texas Educators

Excellent list of links for sites related to Texas education, especially for K-12.

NYTimes.com - Juggling 3 School Goals, Texas Trips

Low taxes, good schools and equal access to public education for the rich and the poor are clashing in Texas, and one of them will likely give very soon. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.]

Police Futurists

The Society of Police Futurists International (PFI) is an organization of law enforcement practitioners, educators, researchers, private security specialists, technology experts and other professionals dedicated to improving criminal and social justice through the professionalization of policing.

Stepping Stone School

Offers programs for children 18 months to 5 years of age. Site includes FAQ, testimonials, a list of corporate partners, curriculum, enrollment form, and a list of locations in Austin, Round Rock, Leander, and College Station.

Student Success Initiatives

Learn from TEA how Texas is meeting the challenge to provide its children with comprehensive research-based instruction in reading and math.

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Bring your asbestos underwear.

Bart

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gpat...@bayou.com wrote:


>One way our salvation is described is that Jesus paid our ransom for
>our release from captivity.
>Some picture Jesus as a "sin bearer" something like the scape goat
>of Leviticus.

These two are related and both are true.

>And Jesus was far superior from any animal. He was sacrifice
>enough for all. (I don't really understand animal sacrifice as a form
>of worship. But, some do understand it.)

This is the most intrigiung one. Why did it take Jesus to be the
propitiatory for the sins of mankind? Why wern't animal sacrifices
enough? Afterall "blood was shed" which was essential for atonement
under the Law code. Why a homan sacrifice? Why not any human sacrifice?
Why Jesus?

>Some pictured Jesus as paying our debt to God. That is: sinful man
>owed God a debt, a debt that he could never pay. And Jesus paid our
>debts for us.

Interesting. Jesus as a benefactor. Why couldn't man pay this debt?
What was man lacking? Why couldn't one man out of the billions that
have ever lived pay off this debt with his life?

>Others picture Jesus as the one who stayed true to God and did what
>God wanted him to do, even when it cost him his life. So God gave him
>all those whom Jesus wanted to save and nothing can take any of them
>from Jesus.

But Jesus could have saved his life, right? Why did he freely give it?

>Then there is my favorite: The Victorious Christ. Death took Jesus as
>it had taken all before, but death could not hold Jesus. Jesus
>defeated death and conquered it. He conquered death and freed
>mankind from death.

But HOW and WHY did his victory over death free mankind from death?
Others had been resurrected in the past. Both Elisha and Elijah
resurrected persons- Jesus resurrected at least two persons before he
was resurrected. Would mankind have been freed from death if Jesus was
not resurrected?

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gilgames wrote:
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> There are several reasons for Christendom's reluctance to admit that at
> least some, if not all of the "NT" was originally written in Hebrew. As
> the original Hebrew Christians died off, the c