Teach Your Kids the Bible and Christian History
“Just…” The pastor-turned-counselor took a deep breath. After all, what could he say? The situation was pretty bleak. “Keep fighting the good fight.” I wanted to hit him. Because I was fighting. With everything I had, I was fighting… to enforce appropriate consequences, to be patient, kind and loving… to call my teens back from the precipice that leads to everything rotten, decrepit… View Post
The past few weeks, we’ve been reading Brother Andrew: Behind Enemy Lines by Nancy Drummond (Christian Focus 4 Kids, 2014). Check out the review here. My boys have always been fond of salt dough. We recently decided to take the next step in sculpting by moving to polymer clay. The great thing about polymer is that it works much like salt dough… View Post
I’d like to thank Christian Focus Publications for giving me a copy of Return of the White Book: True Stories of God at Work in Southeast Asia by Rebecca Davis in return for my honest review, and also for providing a copy for this giveaway! Rebecca Davis has a gift for telling the stories of missionaries ministering to tribal people… View Post
I’d like to thank Christian Focus Publications for giving me a copy of Great Kings of the Bible by Deepak Reju in return for my honest review, and also for providing a copy to giveaway! It’s easy to glamorize the great kings of united Israel. We all love royalty, don’t we? And Saul, David, and Solomon (united Israel’s first three kings) were… View Post
I want to thank Hal and Melanie Young for sending me a copy of Raising Real Men in return for my honest review. I grew up in a house with two sisters and a strong adult female personality. Consider then, my shock when I married (seven months after our first date) and settled down to raise a new-to-me ten-year-old daughter… View Post
I want to thank both The Good Book Company and Cross Focused Reviews for a copy of Bake Through the Bible in exchange for my honest review. Susie Bentley-Taylor and Bekah Moore have put together a series of 20 Bible stories with accompanying recipes in their new book Bake Through the Bible (The Good Book Company, 2013). The book is… View Post
I want to thank Christian Focus Publications for providing me with a PDF copy of Tough Questions About the Bible by Joel R. Beeke in return for my honest opinion. My children frequently ask me questions about the Bible that surprise me. I’ve heard everything from “Why do we call Jonah a prophet and not a missionary?” (age 3) to… View Post