Our six year-old daughter loves to read. This certainly is a blessing, but it also has its challenges. Finding good, wholesome, engaging books that don’t compromise a biblical worldview is becoming increasingly difficult. We’ve learned we can’t rely on our local library to provide us with a good selection. We don’t want our children to […]
Yahoo Parenting recently published an article written by a disgruntled homeschooler who outlines her refusal to “inflict” the same kind of education on her own children. Lenz speaks of attending highschool, indicating that her homeschooling experience wasn’t very long. I was homeschooled, too, from birth through high school, and then went on to pursue biblical counseling through CCEF at […]
I know, I know. It sounds like we’re committing homeschool treason, but allow me to explain why we’re skipping spelling, grammar, and vocabulary this year, and what we’re doing instead. It goes all the way back to when I was our daughter’s age. My parents started homeschooling when homeschooling was still very new in our […]
“What about Deborah?” That’s the question many have asked in discussion about women and leadership. There is no question the Deborah performed her job well, or that God used her to deliver Israel – that’s exactly God’s point. There was not a single man with courage enough to take the responsibility and lead. To Israel’s great shame, God raised […]
It’s in the garden, amid the blooms and thistles, the soil and the stony ground, the dead seeds and lush vegetation where the story of sin and forgiveness, the Fall and Redemption, and life as one who has been engrafted into Christ can be told with real-life illustrations like no other. How fascinating it is […]
20 weeks of bed-rest gave me plenty of time to do something I really enjoy but find hard to make time for during “normal” seasons of my life – reading. I haven’t read this much since studying for my counselling certificates from CCEF over five years ago!Apart from the Bible (especially the Psalms), by far the most encouraging, uplifting, […]
I’m no prophet, but excepting Christ’s return, our children have a very bleak future ahead of them. They will grow up in the most godless state their country has ever been in; they will inherit a debt load that will enslave them to the government through astronomical taxes for their entire lives; there will be […]
If there’s one thing I’ve observed in 13 years of being homeschooled and now as a second-generation homeschooling mom, it’s that home educators seem particularly susceptible to turning their children into trophies of achievement. This is not an argument against homeschooling (I sing its praises all the time!), but rather, a reminder (mostly to myself) […]
It’s easy to get discouraged when faced with the continual decline of our society. I’m particularly guilty of being a Debbi-Downer when it comes to current affairs, especially when we, of all people, have every reason to hope. Christians do not fight for victory, they fight in victory because Christ has already won the battle for us! (Revelations 1:18) […]
The idea that a mother’s place is in the home is no longer a popular one – not even within the Church. That said, most God-fearing mothers who choose a career over staying at home are not necessarily motivated by selfish desires, but by a culture which seems to leave them with no choice. It […]