You, Mr. President, cannot save America. Only God can do that. We—you, Mr. President, and those who vote for you—cannot make America great again. God raises...

Shortly after my husband died, I read a book on widowhood by Joyce Rogers. One sentence in her introduction caught me up short and brought me to a full stop....

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 using these specific st...

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 Homeschool blogs on writi...

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 full counsel of God. Th...

I wrote previously (April 2, 2019) that "keepers at home" can also be translated "workers at home." The word keeping carries the connotation of guarding. And...

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 a "lists page," mak...

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. (Though when I picture in ...

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 "dump page." Dump pages...

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, some things bear rep...

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 wonder if we could tak...

A masterfully written book, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy combines fictional characters with an historical event in Maine. A community of former blac...

For many of us who call ourselves Christians or followers of Jesus Christ, prayer is an afterthought. By that, I mean several different things: Prayer isn't ...

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 the weighty responsib...

A couple years ago a friend of mine in Alaska told me how she had challenged her church with a question that went something like this, "What makes your home ...

As women who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ, God calls us to the most important task of being a keeper (guardian) and worker at home. This is to be ou...

"A mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful....

The fifth life practicum older women are to teach younger women is to be "homemakers." That's how the NKJV translates the compound Greek word. There is some ...

We don't often realize it or think about it, but math is found throughout the Bible. From the very first chapter of Genesis to the very last chapter of Revel...