Hello my friends. Are you fans of graphic organizers? Since I have started teaching Special Education, I have become one, particularly of repeating the three-frame format regularly to encourage sequential thinking and organization in our youngest students. It helps them understand, make predictions and retell the stories they hear and read, and plan out those they create.
I say
create, and not write, because some of our students do not write, in a conventional way. When focusing on
beginning, middle and end;
first, next, finally;
list creation or anything else that a three-frame organizer can accommodate (and really, the possibilities are wide open, which you will see in the
post I wrote here demonstrating some options for the free Earth Day 3-frame graphic organizer).
Regardless of age, motor skills, or writing ability, this format allows space for drawing, stamping, pasting pictures, using stickers, and large invented spelling with the teacher's translation below!
I have created a bundle of over 20 3-frame graphic organizers for Back-to-School and Fall. The following are the pages contained within it:
I also wanted to let you know that TpT has just announced
a one-day surprise Site-wide sale for Wednesday August 19th! I have marked everything in
my store down by 20%, and with TpT's discount (use PROMO code MORE15), that's 28% savings! I am bundling more items for even more value to you!
Related:
Best wishes to you for the rest of your summer, and to those of you returning to school already!
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SAVED BY GRACE ALONE, ARE YOU SURE? BY STEVE FINNELL
ReplyDeleteThere are many believers in Christ who honestly think they were individually selected to be saved by grace alone. They insist that no obedience to God is necessary. If God saves by grace alone then nothing is required of the person being saved, they reason.
First there is no Scripture that states men are saved by "grace alone."
The proof text for saved by "grace alone" is Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, least anyone should boast.(NKJV)
1. It does not say saved by grace alone. The word alone is not used nor is it implied in Eph. 2:8-9.
2. It says saved by grace through faith. God's grace and man's faith are required.
3. God does not give men the gift faith so they may be saved. The gift mentioned here is salvation, not faith.
4. Men are not saved because of their good works or keeping the Law of Moses.
Grace is offered to all men. Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.(NKJV)
Faith comes by hearing the gospel. Faith is not a gift forced on unbelievers so they can be saved. Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.(NKJV)
Obedience is required to be saved. Romans 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord who has believed our report?"(NKJV) If men are saved by grace alone, then all men would believe the gospel and be saved.
Obeying the gospel is essential to be saved, and men have a choice. 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8....the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.(NKJV)
Why would Jesus take vengeance on those who do not obey the gospel if God selects each individual to be saved by grace alone, and then forces them to believe the gospel? Is that the God you worship?
Jesus told all men the gospel not just for a select few. Mark 16:16 "He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.(NKJV)
Obey the gospel by believing and being immersed in water, resulting in salvation, or reject the gospel and be condemned. All men have a choice.
Saved because of Grace. Ephesians 2:8. That is not a good work nor is it keeping the Law of Moses.
Saved because of believing in Jesus. John 3:15, Romans 10:9. That is not a good work nor is it keeping the Law of Moses.
Saved because of repentance and baptism. Acts 2:38, 1 Peter 3:21, Acts 3:19. Those are not good works nor are they keeping the Law of Moses.
Being obedient to the gospel of Jesus Christ is not a good work nor is it keeping the Law of Moses.
MEN ARE NOT SAVED BY GRACE ALONE.
MEN ARE NOT SAVED BY FAITH ALONE.
MEN ARE NOT SAVED BY BAPTISM ALONE.
MEN ARE NOT SAVED BY REPENTANCE ALONE.
MEN ARE SAVED BY OBEYING THE TOTAL GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
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