Homeschool Fair and Curriculum Choices

On Tuesday evening, my husband and I set up our used homeschool and christian books at a local ministry site. It is a wonderful service to us homeschoolers who gather and might have a more difficult time having an outlet to sell our used material. I am sure if Jon had more time, we would [...]

Akiane and Her Paintings

Here is a site you have to check out. This young girl has one amazing gift. I just had to post her link!  It is just breathtaking.
http://www.artakiane.com/home.htm
I have been blessed by God. And if I’m blessed, there is only one reason, and one reason only, and that is to help others. - Akiane

What is “Preaching the Gospel to Yourself”?

I have been reading Jerry Bridge’s book called Disciple of Grace with our care group. I was excited to see the post on Girl Talk about the book and a nice snapshot to help answer what preaching the gospel to ourselves means. I have been taking a more conscious role in doing this this past month [...]

Financial Help

This weekend, my husband and I attended the Money Map Live seminar. It was great. Many things we knew already, by the grace of God, but there were many new things we learned. The day jump started our  year with vision and focus.  Check out Crown Financial Ministries’ website. It has many helps that you [...]

What Christmas is all about…Peanuts Style.

Linus explains what Christmas is all about to Charlie Brown and the rest of us.   

Seven Biblical Reasons to Tithe -from John Piper

During this season of giving, I came across this great article from John Piper on Seven Biblical Reasons to Tithe. He gives seven summary reasons—which he shows from Scripture.

Our hearts should be thinking of giving throughout the year. May this help us all focus on the giver of all good gifts, all that [...]

Our True Help

We all can be looking for help to questions we may have. How to help with a medical condition, what is the best way to clean this or that, or where to go to get the best thing to help my family etc. Whether your dealing with big or small life situations, there is a [...]

Feeling Overwhelmed?

My husband forwarded me this blog posting from Mark Altrogge called, “Hard Thoughts of God.” It was very sobering, convicting, and encouraging. I thought I would share the link with you.Come back and ask yourself these questions after you read his entry.What are you believing about God right now? Do you have hard thoughts of God? Or do you [...]

A Thankful Heart

This week has been fun at home preparing for our Thanksgiving Feast tomorrow. Both sets of grandparents are able to come to our house this year. The kids have had fun making name place tags. We have been studying the colonial times and fits in really well with this season. Our 4 year old [...]

Getting A New Heart - The Doctrine of Regeneration

This video post from Mark Driscoll is very helpful. Salvation is not just the gift of spending eternity with Christ in heaven, but additionally salvation means that this side of heaven we are given a new heart that desires and loves Jesus above all.

This video clip was taken from the sermon ‘The Rebel’s Guide to [...]