Your I.D., Please!

When I was seven months pregnant with twins, I had my purse stolen, along with it my wallet, day planner, and about $25. It was a huge inconvenience to call the credit companies and make sure charges were not billed to me. When I got my new cards, I immediately wrote on the back, “Ask [...]

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More To Come

 
Today’s sermon noted a few of the saints whose lives were changed by the truths of 1 Timothy 1. The list includes Jonathan Edwards and John Newton. Perhaps this passage has been especially meaningful to you, as well. Recently, I have felt that the blessings and growth of the past have leveled out, that the future cannot possibly [...]

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Oprah vs. O’Reilly

 
I don’t usually watch Oprah, but since O’Reilly was a guest, we taped it. (My husband always tapes programs so he can fast-forward the commercials and the slow parts—it’s a time-management thing). Seriously, this is the best thing I’ve seen on TV in a long time! See a clip and read the transcripts here.
Are you a [...]

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Jesus is Lord

I’ve been reading CT again. My husband ordered a subscription from a door-to-door child salesman. It was either that or the pepper-shaped salsa bowl.
The article “Theocracy, Anyone?” discusses the meaning of theocracy and how Christians should live in a pluralistic society. The point is that we do live in a theocracy whether our present government [...]

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To Narnia and Beyond

I’m currently teaching a literature unit study class based on the Chronicles of Narnia. We try to examine how the character of each child develops on the journey through Narnia and how the children learn to deal with temptation. Ryan Boomershine, an educator with a classical bent, writes at To Be a Pilgrim on teaching [...]

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The Law is Good

I like rules. I’ll go ahead and admit that I’ve never been a free spirit. I like rules, traditions, and conformity; in short, I make a really lousy rebel. I’ve never gotten a ticket for a traffic violation and I always finish my antibiotics. As a child, my conscience was seriously bothered when I discovered I had eaten a [...]

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Music Suggestions for Toddlers

Posted by Jamie 
As I write, my toddler is marching around the house to his favorite CD: Learning Basic Skills Through Music by Hap Palmer.The songs cover topics such as numbers, colors, the alphabet, body awareness. The rhythmic music compels little ones to move in circles, march, and explore their space.

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Wise Women

 
There’s a fantastic new link on the sidebar: Mentoring Biblical Womanhood. This link contains a series of lessons and handouts from the women of Mount Calvary Baptist Church, the church from which my husband was ordained.
Mount Calvary is an unusual place. When I first moved to Greenville, I couldn’t figure out why over 1,000 people [...]

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More on Classical Education

Ryan Boomershine, a school administrator in Scotts, Michigan has done a lot of research on classical education. Today some of his papers have been posted at SharperIron.org. You can read them here:
Summary and Justification for Classical Education

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Obedience to the Faith

Today’s sermon was about false teachers, not a happy topic, but unfortunately, a necessary topic. According to 1 Timothy, false teachers take our focus off the gospel and put it on something else. We could take this to mean that we should talk of nothing but the gospel, but that would miss the point. Since the gospel [...]

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Color Me Beautiful

What is more important, truth or beauty? One of our most solemn duties as parents is to pass down truth to our children and to present truth in a way that is beautiful, so beautiful that they will come to love it. Be aware of what is influencing your child’s mind…and his heart. It’s easy to filter out cursing, drugs, immodesty, but [...]

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Generational Faithfulness

How do you spell success when it comes to educating your children? Doug Wilson defines it as “generational faithfulness to God.” As a leader of the classical education movement in the United States, Wilson began Logos, a classical school in Moscow, Idaho, 25 years ago. 
The goal of Logos is not to necessary teach a battery of [...]

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The End of Education

  
Timothy’s Education
Can you imagine having a conversation with the apostle Paul? We all know impetuous Peters, and tender-hearted Johns, but no one presumes to compare himself to Paul! Paul can’t be put in a personality box–he’s zealous, stormy, tender, confident, humble…unpredictable. It’s almost as if Paul is an ideal instead of a real, living person; I [...]

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Beauty, Brightness, and Glory

From Religious Affections, by Jonathan Edwards, 1746 
It is unreasonable to think otherwise, than that the first foundation of a true love to God is that whereby He is in Himself lovely, or worthy to be loved, or the supreme loveliness of His nature. This is certainly what makes him chiefly amiable. What chiefly makes a man [...]

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Getting Started

After church on Sunday, a homeschool mom, Carol, told me about her 8-yr. old daughter’s request: “Mommy, I want to express myself through music.” Carol, like many other moms, didn’t know where to start. I suggested group recorder lessons. “That’s how I got started, I said.”
Starting with a recorder or a flutophone are both good [...]

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