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 ...

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

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

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 usi...

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 Homes...

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 ful...

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

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...

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. (Thoug...

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 "du...

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, ...

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 wo...

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

For many of us who call ourselves Christians or followers of Jesus Christ, prayer is an afterthought. By that, I mean several different 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 t...

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, "W...

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 ho...

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

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