faith

Joshua Harris is no longer a Christian. Sad news for the homeschool community. Joshua Harris is the author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye and is the adult...

Jennifer was digging through piles of homeschool records and found my book, Finding the Faith to Homeschool High School. She went from panic to p...

20/20 Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Wouldn't it be nice to know exactly how everything should go, and see how it will all end? When you see your current challenges, it's difficult to know why you are going through certain struggles.  The same thing happened to the disciples at the triumphal entry.  They knew Jesus would die, and they knew the crowd was acting like Jesus was a King.  They couldn't understand how these two different...

Here's a PS on last week's post on outlasting the storms...God's promises are true EVEN WHEN THERE IS A SHIPWRECK. In Acts we read about Paul being shipwrecked.  He was in a ship and in danger too, and he STILL completed God's plan for his life.  Paul recognized that even though he did not expect the shipwreck, the Lord already knew it would happen.  Paul tried to explain the situation to the others in the ship;Acts...

Jesus and his disciples are sailing to their next destination, when disaster strikes.As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we're going to drown!" He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. "Where is your faith?" he asked his...

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold.~ Proverbs 3:13-14 (NIV)It's a hard time of year when school is quickly approaching and money is receding like the tide. I love this verse, because it equates spending money on wisdom to investing, much like investing in gold and silver. The yield of investing in wisdom is greater than the return...

When I was younger I memorized Philippians 4:6, which said in my version, "Be anxious about nothing."  I remember thinking, "Wow!  I have that one down pat!  I'm anxious about nothing all the time!"  For a long time I had that verse on a refrigerator magnet in my kitchen, and I would often giggle about how it was my life verse, because I felt constantly anxious over things.But you know, I don't think that's what God...

When I read our state's homeschool law, I often think about what it does NOT say.  It doesn't say we have to teach state history, for example, even though many people assume that it does.  So when I read this Bible verse this morning, I was again thinking about what it does NOT say.In Matthew 11:28, the Bible says, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."It doesn't...