Rebecca
Emails and landmarks
It hardly seems possible that it’s been 10 years already. Tragedy has a way of warping time. The events of those days seem both very...
Search
Rebecca
- Aug 10, 2021
- 1 min
Bible Study Method: Easy and Simple
I did a simple exercise this morning with Proverbs 8. I made four different lists. Making lists is one of my favorite Bible study...
28 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Jan 2, 2021
- 5 min
God FIRST
I’ll never forget reading a commentary on Deuteronomy 6:4, the opening verse of what the Jewish people call the great “Shema.” It reads...
97 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
A Daily Prayer for the New Year
What a difference it would make in the life of every believer in Christ Jesus if we would follow the single admonition of Paul in Romans...
104 views0 comments
Rebecca
- May 31, 2020
- 2 min
Prayer should define us
Prayer should define us. Last night I read the one-page opening chapter from the book What Every Child Should Know About Prayer by Nancy...
19 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Feb 3, 2020
- 4 min
Open Letter to the President
You, Mr. President, cannot save America. Only God can do that. We—you, Mr. President, and those who vote for you—cannot make America...
142 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Jan 13, 2020
- 2 min
An Anger Check
I was reading Psalm 106 this morning. Verses 32-33 caught my attention. Here is another insight God is giving us about anger. The two...
66 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Oct 25, 2019
- 3 min
Attend to the practical
Shortly after my husband died, I read a book on widowhood by Joyce Rogers. One sentence in her introduction caught me up short and...
142 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Oct 23, 2019
- 3 min
Entering with a bang (essays, part 5)
Whew! The main body of the essay is written! Are we done now? Nope. Not yet. So far, we have followed the process of writing an essay...
3 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Oct 16, 2019
- 3 min
From Outlines to Paragraphs (part 4)
Step 4 in the writing process is writing the main body of the essay. If you’ve followed Steps 1-3 in writing an essay (see previous...
11 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Sep 25, 2019
- 3 min
Read it daily...together
When we first started out, we used a printed Bible curriculum, but I wanted to teach my children the whole scope of the Bible and the...
23 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Sep 24, 2019
- 2 min
Guarding Through Formation
I wrote previously (April 2, 2019) that "keepers at home" can also be translated "workers at home." The word keeping carries the...
25 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Sep 23, 2019
- 3 min
Outlines: Essay Writing (part 3)
The 3rd step in writing an essay is making an outline. Once you have done a "dump page" and organized all the items on the "dump page" on...
10 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Sep 10, 2019
- 3 min
Keepers at home: Disciplining ourselves
I have to confess that as a child, and even (maybe especially!) in my high school years, I was messy. My bedroom was rarely clean....
94 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Sep 9, 2019
- 2 min
List page: essay writing (step 2)
Essay writing can actually become fun and fairly easy! Last week I wrote on Step 1 of writing an essay: choosing a topic and making a...
14 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Sep 6, 2019
- 2 min
One minute prayer
I felt certain I had already blogged on this, but I couldn't find it this morning. So if this is redundant, I apologize. But then again,...
58 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Sep 3, 2019
- 2 min
Dump Pages: take the hard out of writing (part 1)
As a new school year begins, let's talk about writing. Most students groan when you even mention writing. Essays?? That's the worst! I...
25 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Aug 31, 2019
- 3 min
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
A masterfully written book, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy combines fictional characters with an historical event in Maine. A...
18 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Aug 30, 2019
- 3 min
Out with the old, in with the new
For many of us who call ourselves Christians or followers of Jesus Christ, prayer is an afterthought. By that, I mean several different...
20 views0 comments
Rebecca
- Aug 29, 2019
- 3 min
Atmosphere of Peace: Music
I may get in trouble for this one, but I'm going to take the plunge anyway. As "keepers or guardians of our homes" (Titus 2:5), we bear...
44 views0 comments