Encouragement for homeschool parents
Hear from our executive director Kirk as he shares reflections on faith, character, and discipling children at home
Changing Politics Through Homeschooling
No doubt this title catches the attention of many on this day in which of one of the most important presidential elections in history is taking place. The truth? Every election is historic. Every election is important. But no one election is the key to the future of America. Why? Politics are downstream of religion. My family is extremely active…
Fill’er Up!
Few young people appreciate what it means to have a full service gas station. Long gone are the days when the filling station attendant(s) would come to your car window, and you would say, “$5 of regular or unleaded.” (I don’t even know if their reflexes are fast enough to stop at $5 today!) They would then raise your hood…
Homeschooling Hope: Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose The famed reformation preacher, Martin Luther, had occasional fights with deep fits of depression that ran counter to his normally cheerful disposition. During one such event, he came home to find his wife, Katharina, dressed…
Seasons and Sensibility
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; –Ecc. 3:1,2 (ESV) Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility follows three Dashwood sisters as they navigate life through a series of unexpected happenings, laced…
Prayer or Polarization
Americans naively believe that we are now more politically polarized today than ever. Due in some part to the failure of the public schools to accurately teach our nation’s history, we don’t know there have been greater seasons of uncertainty than the one in which we now live. A century and a half ago Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts gave…
Taking Us Out to Take Us In
I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give…
Beyond the Mask
Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. —Ecc. 7:10 The Christian film, Beyond the Mask, encouraged viewers to go beyond the appearance of things and get to the heart of the matter. This is not a new concept as God told Samuel the same thing just before…
God is Our Source
He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him. 21 Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it … –2 Kings 20:21, 22 The city of Jericho—not the one destroyed by Joshua—was self-described as a “pleasant” place but their water was bad, thus affecting everything else…
Measure Twice; Cut Once
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. –Genesis 1:1 The title is every carpenter’s old adage; When in doubt, take the extra moment and recheck your measurement before cutting the board. We can’t be like the man who regretted, “I cut this board three times and it is still too short!” Many parents are now choosing homeschooling…
Who Will We Trust?
With all the confusion that is going on in our nation and state over the Coronavirus, homeschooling is the direct beneficiary, offering parents a sense of solidity and control in the midst of tremendous instability and upheaval. We could very well be looking at one of the greatest seasons of growth for the homeschooling movement, but this doesn’t mean it…