We live in a sports-crazed culture, where weddings are planned around football games and adult men shed tears when their team wins the championship. So, can sports play a healthy role in the Christian life? Pastor and seminary professor David E. Prince believes it can. In fact, Prince says Christian families can use sports to teach their children not only ...

Medieval Apple Tart Recipe What would have Sir Francis Drake enjoyed for dessert?  Most likely something similar to this apple tart recipe.  Simple, but delicious, make this old-time recipe become a new favorite of your family’s! Ingredients 4 – 5 apples 6 figs, chopped 1/4 cup raisins 1 1/2 tsp.  powder douce 1/4 tsp. salt pinch saffron What is Powder Douce?  Many medieval recipes call ...

Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, in Devon, England around 1540 (we don’t know his actual birthday). He became a sailor at a young age and by 1567 he began voyaging the sea for his country, England. Just beginning his career as a privateer, Drake was attacked by a Spanish squadron and lost two ships. However, Drake showed grace under ...

Note: This week’s show contains content that parents might prefer listening to alone, without children. No one enters a marriage with the intention of having an affair, but plenty of husbands and wives naively find themselves in that situation – and likely after having said, “It won’t ever happen to me.” Counselor Dave Carder – who has counseled hundreds of ...

Why do so many Christian struggle in their prayer life? After all, we know God commanded us to pray. And we know that life goes better when we spend time with the Lord. Yet few of us are happy with our prayer life. Our guest on this week’s edition of Words of Wisdom is Bill Thrasher, a graduate professor of ...

Supplies Needed: 1 quart-sized glass jar 1 square cheesecloth or sprout jar (to over lid) 1 rubber band (if using cheesecloth) 1 teaspoon 1-4 oz. of sprout seeds (alfalfa, green lentils, mung beans, black-eyed peas, radish) 1 roll paper tolls Instructions: Pour 2 teaspoons of sprout seeds into the jar and add enough water to cover the seeds. Cover the ...

The temptation for many new home educators is to run out and buy as much curriculum as they can afford and immediately start their eight-hour homeschool day in a dedicated room filled with desks, bulletin boards, and fresh paint.  Before you fall prey to the old public school mentality, take a few moments to sit down with a cup of ...

Knowing your child’s interest can help you to stir up some enthusiasm. Learning is more interesting when it becomes relevant to real life or can be tied to something about which he is passionate (even if it’s just the “fascination of the week”). In The Christian Home School, Gregg Harris refers to this as “delight-directed” learning; Marilyn Howshall expands the ...

Paddington 2 writer and director Paul King calls himself a fan of Charlie Chaplin films, Pixar movies and the Wallace and Gromit clay animation series – all projects that feature innocent humor that can make the whole family laugh. Such clean humor was his goal for the 2014 hit Paddington (PG) and also for the new movie Paddington 2 (PG), ...

Heather Avis’ journey into parenthood didn’t go as planned. But in hindsight, she wouldn’t have it any other way. She and her husband struggled with infertility until God led them down the path of adoption. Yet even that had a surprise, when the couple felt led to adopt not one but two children with Down syndrome. Today, they are the ...