The Green Ember by S.D. Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars We enjoyed this audiobook as a family. I had encouraged the children to try to read the ebook version on several occasions, but they didn’t get very far. I won a copy of the audiobook and started it on a long cartrip….
For years and years my favorite Bible verse has been the one in the header to my blog, 2 Samuel 14:14. The verse, in the ESV translation says, “We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he…
Jesus became human. Think about that for a minute. Jesus, eternal creator and sustainer of all things. Eternally begotten, all power, all glory, all love from the Father, became a human. Now, I’m Reformed in soteriology. And I fully believe man is Totally Depraved. I believe that the fall was an actual event in history…
I’ve been reading 1 Peter 1 for a few days, and will do so for a few days more. In September, I started to read some of the single chapter books of the Bible on repeat for a week at a time. Then, I decided to do 1 Peter, reading a chapter a week (or…
N-boy has been reading these “10 Boys Who … ” books. Recently, he read one who wrote about great theologians and writers. In the book he read about A W Tozer. He came down and asked if we had any or if he could read some. I don’t know. I asked a trusted friend at…
We heard two very powerful sermons on Sunday. Our pastors take great care with their preparations and the words they choose to select. In the morning our Associate Pastor has been preaching through The Lord’s Prayer. This week he was preaching on the fifth petition: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” Pastor…
So, I’ve been slacking a little bit with reading this book. Heather has posted on Chapter 5 & 6, here. I hadn’t posted on 6 yet. Neither of us posted on Chapter 7 last week. Then we decided to start doing two chapters a week. Huh. We’ll see how that works out for us. So,…
I apologize that I haven’t commented from last week, soccer season coupled with baseball season is killing me. I will make every attempt to comment on both weeks’ worth of posts as soon as I can. ‘);
One of the best things about AmblesideOnline is that we’re always reading amazing things. I marked quotes this week to add to my commonplace book from such diverse reading as Madam How and Lady Why; Poor Richard; and Trial and Triumph. I decided to select the passage from Trial and Triumph. It seems best to go…
This one isn’t entirely homeschool related, but enough that it fits into the discussion. I have tried over the past couple of years to read the Bible for personal devotions using Grant Horner’s Bible Reading program (described here by Tim Challies). And when I’m in it, I love it. It is a fantastic way to…