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...]

The following is a quote from the introduction to a wonderful book, Celebrate the Feasts of the Old Testament in Your Own Home or Church, by Martha Zimmerman. I thought it was very good… “Hey, Mom! You’re right! Habakkuk is in the Bible.” Sure that I was hearing things, I called back to our twelve-year-old [Read more...]

The makers of Veggie Tales are up to something new, called Jelly Telly.  It’s Internet-based TV for Christian kids. I watched their preview online. Some things I liked. Some things I didn’t. I’m thrilled that they understand the NEED to reach kids. One of my pet peeves is that so many parents turn the entire [Read more...]

Just as the sixth day of the week is the preparation for the seventh, the Sabbath, so also the sixth month of the year is the preparation for the seventh, the month of the fall feasts.  Well, we’ve just started Elul, the sixth month of the year.  Only a month to go! What feasts are [Read more...]

I read a fabulous post on another blog this week: How to Pray for Missionaries This writer shares a great plan for praying for missionaries every day of the week.  At our house, we tape pictures of the missionaries we know on the front of our refrigerator.  (We used to put them on a bulletin [Read more...]

While I was surfing the Internet this morning, I saw an ad for Scripture memory.  God’s Words to Live By is a company run by a homeschooling family.  They provide simple books and music CDs that you can use to memorize entire chapters of the Bible.  What a great tool!  I hope you’ll stop by [Read more...]

To review, “hallow” means “to set apart.”  Something can be set apart for a good use or an evil use.  For instance, we can set apart for God (the typical understanding we have of holiness) or our lives can be set apart for evil purposes (how the word is used in Isaiah 66:17). We are [Read more...]

What does the word “hallowed” mean?  Webster says that it means “sacred, reverenced” or “consecrated to a sacred use.”  When I was growing up, I somewhere learned the definition “set apart.” I’ve spent many hours the past two weeks studying this word.  I knew that hallowed had something in common with the words holy, sacred, [Read more...]

Good morning!  My heavenly Father woke me up early this morning, earlier than I had intended to get up.  I’m glad, because we’ve had a special time together and I was able to get a few extra things done as well.  Today is one son’s eighth birthday, and he’s so excited.  We’re off to shoot [Read more...]