Celebration Bar Exam Review is a "for-profit" business that is owned and operated by Christians. Our Christianity is not a marketing tool, but we want the actions of our faith to impact others' lives and so we try to reflect our purpose by conducting business in a way that honors our Lord.
As part of that commitment, we pledge to treat our students fairly and with respect, and we strive to be a place of support and aid during the high-stakes anxiety and pressure that often accompany the bar exam. We don't always succeed, but we trust and pray that our lives will honestly demonstrate how much love and mercy we have personally received in our lives. We think grace is pretty cool, too!
For Christians, we hope that our business model will be comforting. For others, we pray that how we conduct the bar review may spark curiosity about a relationship with God that transcends doing "business as usual" and reflects an approach that is refreshing and meaningful.
Here's what some of our students wrote
to us about our apparently unusual way of "doing business":
"Thank you so much for your daily inspirational emails. They help more than you can even imagine." 2010 Bar Taker
"Never say what God won't do! He may send you Jackson after you fail the Bar. :-)" GA 2010 Passing Bar Taker
"I believe that my studying with Celebration Bar Review was sheer providence. You have a gift - a calling if you will - to teach bar exam courses. I could not have passed without you and your program! Thank you SO MUCH!!" 2010 Bar Taker
"Regardless of the outcome of the exam, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your guidance, support and nurturing. For me, taking the exam was more than the mechanics of the exam itself; it had become a wall of fear and failure I had to overcome. It represented an affirmation of the past negative experiences and disappointments I had come to know in life (albeit I really have not had many, but the few were pretty significant). You helped me tear that wall I created down and reduce it to nothing more than an illusion my mind created. From you, I learned more than an approach for preparing for an exam. I learned an approach for preparing for the rest of my life. The exam, although important, is now incidental to the bigger goal, which is to live more fully and appreciate more deeply. Thank you." 2010 Bar Taker
"Let me start by saying, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING! I believe I did very well on the exam but I am reserving the word "pass" until the day I actually find out I passed. You are amazing and I am so glad that God led me to you. You have a true gift of leading people through this experience." 2008 Bar Taker - who DID Pass!
I want you to know how much I appreciate you bringing God into your emails. It's really a wonderful twist on bar prep that helps daily. Thankfully, I am surrounded by friends I go to church with, so I have them praying for me and with me. It's fabulous to have that kind of support. However, I love that you provide for those who may not be surrounded by such grace. Thank you for providing a bar prep course that also reminds me of what's truly important. 2006 Bar Taker
Thank you so much for your email - it was truly inspirational. Through the entire process I felt reassured that I had your expertise and faith in my corner. enjoyed studying with you and thought that your materials were excellent. I thought a great deal of your gift of veracity and your directness. I had some withdrawal from the whole process. I had been so active in my studies and suddenly flatlined afterwards but like all things that too has passed. 2008 Bar Taker
"Thanks to you and Sara for the tremendous work you do, dealing with us neurotic bar takers. Why you would subject yourself to that pain and torture, I don't know, but I imagine it is what you are called to do. You are truly a light of God." 2005 Bar Taker
"Your Christian-based bar review is a wonderful blessing and testimony to God's work in the lives of those who pursue to be a Christian and a practicing attorney." 2005 Bar Taker
As a last word, Jackson, I would personally like to thank you for your efforts in putting together a fantastic bar review. I understand that your business is a commercial venture.... But I also know that an individual has a choice to make about how dedicated he wants to be to the things he does, in business or otherwise. Your dedication to the Celebration Bar Exam Review truly shines, and your customers are the real beneficiaries of such devotion. "Thanks" doesn't seem to be enough."
"Again
I want to thank you for all your encouragement and your ministry of caring.
May God continue to bless you in all that you do. I would like to share Proverbs
16: 1-3 with you:
"To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord
comes the reply of the tongue. All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but
motives are weighed by the Lord. Commit to the Lord whatever you do, And your
plans will succeed." I know in my heart that God is pleased with you and
the motives for your ministry. Continue to honor Him with your life and your
work.
Thanks for being there."
"...Finally I would like to mention that, totally
unexpected to me, this course was also a very precious spiritual journey. I
have no idea what church Sara and Jackson belong to, although I trust it is
a great church, this never was an issue nor put forward. I guess if you do
not show any interest on that side of the preparation you never get to talk
about it. Through this course I learned how to pray more, praise more and
let the trust in Christ grow in me. I prayed during the exam, as I had
learned to pray while studying and it
certainly helped me a lot to put this bar hysteria in me and around me into
perspective. I learned some life lessons here, which were frankly more
valuable than passing the bar.
Thank you so much Jackson and Sara."
Anne-Laure J. Passed 2004