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“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 Life is filled with a multitude of experiences and our lives are filled with various responses to these experiences: joy and sorrow, laughter and weeping, fear and boldness. The experiences in all of our lives weaves a variegated tapestry that, like looking at a real ...

Over the next months, we’ll be taking a detailed look at the audio, Under Drake’s Flag. I thought it would be fun way to kick off the series by learning more about Sir Francis Drake and the time period in which he lived. Journey back in time with me. Vocabulary Amoeba, bacterial, circumnavigate, dysentery, Elizabethan era, flagship, hygiene, pirate, Promised ...

What is the most valuable gift you have to offer your kids? Is it a home where each of your children has his or her bedroom?  Is it giving a cell phone to your 9-year-old daughter who hasn’t stopped begging you for one since her friend got one?  Is it taking your family on an extravagant vacation?  Is it buying ...

Expectations.  We rise and fall to the expectations or lack thereof, that’s put upon us.  This is especially true for children. I think it’s safe to say that we get what we expect out of our children.  If we don’t expect and demand our kids to be respectful and reverent, to honor their parents as God commands, then what happens?  ...

It’s not always easy for children to wrap their young minds around a God that they cannot seemingly experience with their senses. After all, everything that they learn about the world is done through seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, and smelling! So how can we make God as real to our children as a bright red apple sitting on the counter ...

I still have fond memories of my great-grandpa, Warren, reciting endless amounts of poetry to my siblings and I.  Sitting around a warm fire on a cold dreary night, he could entertain us for hours with his recitations.  He gave credit to his mother, who was a school teacher, for making he and his siblings practice reciting while they cleaned ...

“Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31:6 “Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; ...

Many homeschool moms have discovered that implementing a daily quiet hour is necessary to their sanity. But the quiet hour isn’t just for the school year, and it’s not just for homeschoolers, either. It can also be a powerful tool for all families during the summer. Not home during the week? Try having a family quiet hour on the weekends ...

In one of my favorite 80’s movies, One Crazy Summer, John Cusack plays the role of a character named  Hoops McCann.  The movie opens up with Hoops and his friend, George, graduating from high school.  With no plans for the summer, George invites Hoops to go with him and his sister to the island of Nantucket to spend the summer. ...

One of America’s greatest inventors and botanists, George Washington Carver, has an amazing story.    There are a lot of life lessons we can all learn from the way in which Carver lived.  He once said, “When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”  And that is exactly what ...