Archive for the 'Family' Category

Foul language and maturity

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Like many my age, I began to hear swear words around 6th or 7th grade. It would be cool to cuss in a sentence even if the word didn’t actually fit. Over the next couple of years I incorporated more swearing into my vocabulary part way to fit in and part way to be cool. [...]

Freedom in Christ

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Break me from these prison walls
Free me from these chains,
The world around me closing in,
Following all to the end.
What does this life have to offer?
Where do I go for help?
When will I find deliverance?
Who will come for my rescue?
I am dead here – motionless,
I have no hope within.
There is no beat from my heart,
There is [...]

Lice and Sin

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

One way to look at sin is like lice. If you have ever had a child come home with lice you know what I mean. It seems the public schools have a lice season every few years and you hear about half empty classrooms and whole families who are dealing with the little pest.
Our daughter [...]

How to Open a Book

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

As we homeschool we have the opportunity to see all of our kids work. Here is one of the examples of the witty items our daughter had written.  I had a good laugh reading this because she took a basic concept and almost made it seem not so basic.
 
How to Open a Book
 

            The process of [...]

Out of the mouths of babes

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

 Here is a cool story about tonight’s devotions with the family. We have been going through the book Training Hearts Teaching Minds (based on the Shorter Catechism.) We are on the question -What are the decrees of God?
 So after going through the days short devotion and a couple of verses I asked the kids “What [...]