Seeing Life From the Highest Vantage Point
One of the little gems I’ve gleaned from listening to the Sufficiency of Scripture conference downloads is this: The more we adore the law and the more we love and know God’s commands…the more we recognize the depth of our own depravity…and the greater and more beloved our Savior becomes in our hearts. Ignorance of… read more »
Jeannette sent along a wonderful little link provided by our pastor, John Piper, that will give you to a handy tool for memorizing Scripture! You can do this method yourself and teach your older children to follow this as well! The link is HERE! If you read Pastor Piper’s note of encouragement, you will see… read more »
On Mondays we are going to start a Book Give Away tradition! My desire is to help build visionary libraries in the homes of God’s people…and this is one fun way to do it! This week’s give away is a hard cover copy of God’s Call to Young People: Sermons for the Rising Generation. Product… read more »
Our kids listen to the ESV Bible – New Testament… while they are falling asleep. Our 9 year old son decided to listen to James over and over. One day he told me he is memorizing James…by osmosis…so I asked him to recite some verses for me. WOW! He really is! I remember drilling James… read more »
The following is a review of Developing a Healthy Prayer Life by James W. Beeke and Joel R. Beeke, written by Jeannette Paulson. Jeannette lives in Apple Valley, MN, with her husband Harlan. They have eight children, they homeschool, and they love good books. Jeannette desires the name of God to be hallowed first… read more »
We are in the middle of a wonderful new book by Sally Michael called God’s Names. Did you know that there are over 700 names for God in the Bible? Sally highlights 25 of them in this story/application rich book for children…perfect for reading to little ones before they go to bed at night to… read more »
Psalm 50: 14 “Offer to God a sacrifice of Thanksgiving [make thanksgiving your sacrifice]…and call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.” Thanksgiving is a sacrifice when you look around and see the yuck. To be thankful in the pit…that takes faith. And faith is… read more »
When you are tempted to believe that the following are merely superficial, trite little ditties… I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. -Philippians 4:13 And looking at them Jesus said to them, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” -Matthew 19:26 Keep in mind Who said them. … read more »
I had the privilege of going out for breakfast with a friend yesterday morning…a very rare (once a year???) treat!I won’t go into all the details of the trouble I ran into before I left and on my way there…suffice it to say that I ended up one hour late…and was blessed to even get… read more »
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