Words- by Richard Foster
I urge upon us words that are crisp and clear and imaginative. Mark Twain said that the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug! We need to love God all the way down to our nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
Oh, [...]
If there’s one thing that homeschooling is good at, it’s breaking down barriers.
Most obviously, the barrier between home and school vanishes in homeschooling.
What this really means, however, is that the barrier between life and learning vanishes for homeschoolers. Since you don’t learn in a different place from where you live, you have no way [...]
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.- A.W. Tozer
I have some REALLY OLD friends who are already grandparents or will soon be.
I got to thinking- I will probably be a grandparent one day. What if my adult kids come to me and ask me how to be a good parent?
Made me have an existential crisis.
So, I thought to myself, “Self, why not ask [...]
Do you ever wonder if public and private schoolers are always having to justify themselves?
“Oh. So, you send your kids to a ‘public school’, eh? Why?”
“‘Private school?’ What’s that? A school that, like, nobody talks about or something? Why would you do that?”
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To this day, I still get asked why [...]
I’m standing in front of thirty college freshman. My job for the day is to make a 2,300 year old book seem slightly interesting and relevant.
We’re studying Aristotle’s Ethics, you see, and I think it’s one of the greatest books ever written. But I can’t assume my students do.
Most people don’t.
Most people have never even [...]
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