I have come to believe through both personal experience and observant listening that our tone of voice is the primary way we communicate...

Tonight the Day of Atonement begins, the 10th day of Tishri, the 7th month of the Jewish calendar, from sundown to sundown. The Day of...

Some things in life are foundational. That is, if we don't learn these foundational things, we will have difficulty and struggle with...

Last words to close family and friends are important; they linger in our minds and affect us deeply. On the night before Jesus died, He...

We've probably all heard the story about the wife, a few years after the wedding, wistfully saying to her husband as they're driving in...

Today is the 2nd day of Rosh HaShanah. It was only to be a one-day feast, celebrated on the day of the new moon, on the first day of the...

When my husband, Dan, was in high school, he went to a boys' camp in North Dakota. A couple who had a desire to disciple young people...

The enemy of our souls, who is also the enemy of all that's good, the enemy of God, and the enemy of the human race, works hardest, I...

After talking with a friend who is implementing some ideas from Charlotte Mason's style of education, I decided I would stick with one...

I understand that prayer is not just a matter of duty and lists, something that we can check off each day that we have done. I know this....

Prayer is, as I wrote before, is one of the best ways we can love others; and when we marry, we make a vow before God to love our spouse....

Reading the Bible is like rain gently falling on your heart and life: cleansing, nourishing, replenishing. In fact, God Himself likens...

If I could do my homeschooling years over again, there are several things I would hope to do differently. But this one thing probably...

I'm in waiting mode. We're in transition. And I'm here to tell you that waiting is HARD. Isaiah 40:11 says that those who wait on the...

Admonish the young women to . . . love their husbands. That's the very first thing Paul instructs Titus to instruct older women to...

My daughter Sharon has been the one to get my website up and running and to post these blogs for me. She asked how many weeks I'd be...

School is beginning in earnest for another year. Tirzah's college classes begin today. Fall is coming upon us once again. After 32...

Yesterday in my reading through the Gospels (more on that next week), I read about Christ's transfiguration in Luke 9. I read it through...

Many times when going through a difficult or stressful or confusing or grievous time, particularly as a young wife and mother, but even...

The Bible. As Christians we claim to believe it is the very words of God. Yet I wonder how many of us give it the priority that belief...