A few days ago, I had the privilege of presenting a workshop for Cindy Rushton’s Ultimate Homeschool Expo. My goal was to share ideas for using the Bible to choose homeschooling methods and curriculum. A friend online said, Yes! Please talk about history! I love listening to your audio sessions, and have heard you’re working [Read more...]

The Bible contains many important instructions for parents who want to impart knowledge to their children. That’s homeschooling, right? In fact, the Bible tells us where all knowledge begins… “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.” (Proverbs 1:7, NIV). The “fear of the LORD” is the [Read more...]

Maybe it was because we were married young, or maybe it was because we hadn’t learned to trust God very well with our money… but for whatever reason, we had a rough start money-wise to our marriage. We made lots of mistakes, and some of those mistakes are still haunting us today. My husband and [Read more...]

Today I’d like to take a minute to answer some email questions I have received about Bible memorization. When your children memorize verses, do they memorize the reference as well?  Do you require them to?  And can they?  I mean later, do they remember the reference or just the actual verse? My children really don’t [Read more...]

We know that the Bible says we are to impress God’s commands on our children by talking about them when we sit, walk, lie down and get up (Deuteronomy 6:4-9). That’s all the time! We homeschoolers have an advantage here, simply because we have more time in each day to spend with our children. Sadly, [Read more...]

“The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down” (Proverbs 14:1, NIV). Just as God has made you His workmanship (Ephesians 2:10), you also have a special “craft project” going on in your home. You guessed it! Your children! A wise woman builds her house, carefully crafting [Read more...]

Our church’s ladies group has been studying the life of Hannah (1 Samuel 1-2). One thing we noted is that she prayed for little Samuel before he was even conceived. When God answered her request for a son, she kept her part of the bargain by saying, “So now I give him to the LORD.” [Read more...]

I’m finally back to continuing our series on what is known as “The Lord’s Prayer” in Matthew 6:9-13. The next phrase is, “Thy kingdom come.” Today is Election Day here in the United States. I’ve blogged a little bit about the election on my other blog, but as the Big Day is here, I am [Read more...]

This coming week, our family will be joining in on the traditional Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, which means “Rejoicing in the Torah.” As Wikipedia explains, this holiday celebrates the completion of another year of reading through the Torah. A Torah-reading schedule was instituted in the days of Ezra, after the return from the Babylonian [Read more...]

Here is a fun study on the biblical Day of Atonement! In our house, we took one week to do this study. Memory Verses – “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not [Read more...]