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Continue reading →: Homeschool 101: How to Make Reading Fun!Today’s homeschool help is for those teaching elementary age students. When my kids were in the early elementary years (say kindergarten through second grade), we loved going to the library each week for Story Time. Before leaving the library, we all chose ten books to bring home (that meant 40…
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Continue reading →: Homeschooling 101In celebration of the first week of September – and for many the first week of school – each day I’ll share homeschooling help for those with Preschoolers, Elementary Students, Middle Schoolers, and High Schoolers. My children were very close in age. This was a wonderful advantage homeschooling when they…
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Continue reading →: Where is JOY? Your JOY is my JOY!Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends! Philippians 4:1 NIV My grandson is four months old and experiencing so many things for the first time. His dog’s antics delight him. His parents singing…
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Continue reading →: Where is Joy? In our future!But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus…But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him…
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Continue reading →: Where is JOY? In the mindset of Jesus!Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of…
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Continue reading →: Where is JOY? In Remembering!It seems ironic that Paul’s letter from jail to the Philippians has the most occurrences of the words joy and rejoice. But on closer inspection, I see there were several reasons for his rejoicing – all having to do with him remembering! Remembering God’s Sovereignty! Paul welcomed every circumstance from…
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Continue reading →: Where is JOY? Grace and PeaceTo all God’s holy people in Christ Jesus…Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:1-2 NIV I often overlook Paul’s greetings and dive right into his messages. But here in the beginning of Philippians – the letter in which he writes of JOY…
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Continue reading →: Where is JOY?Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. (Psalm 51:12 NIV) There have been many times in my life when I’ve experienced great joy. Sometimes joy expressed itself in delight – Riding a roller coaster upside down for the first time, Seeing the…
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Continue reading →: What saturates your life?I knew nothing of the Bible when I became a believer. I didn’t know who Moses was or how David slew Goliath. But I did know God loved me, he accepted me on the basis of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, and Jesus’ glorious resurrection meant I was forgiven and…
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Continue reading →: Walking in Faith not Fear – It is for FreedomIt is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 NIV America is known as the ‘land of the free.’ The Constitution grants freedom to all despite differences in race, economic status,…
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