A Time For Every Season....

The kids and I have been working on the Big Dig in our Bible class each morning (more like 3x per week to be honest). They love the content and its been great for me to have a plan written up to follow, I just pick it up and go. In true Precept form the kids have memorized the review questions I wrote up. Who wrote the book of Luke - Luke What other book did Luke write - Acts of the Apostles - a sequel to Luke What was Luke's profession - A Physician Who did Luke write the book for (audience) - the Gentiles What order is the book written - In Chronological order (important when putting together timelines!) Luke is the only gospel to be in chronological order. When was the Gospel of Luke written - AD 60 - the temple was destroyed by Rome in AD 70 How do we know what he write is true? Luke searched for eye witnesses and then investigated their stories to make sure they were true. The study is broken down into 4 simple sections: The Map – The Map is the overview of e...

John and I have always dreamed of living in the country - out where its quiet and my neighbors aren't blaring their Karaoke machine at 1 am! We want the kids to run around and climb trees, get dirty and explore God's creation. I want to raise chickens! I just hope we don't see too many tarantula's! So we've been saving and tried to put our house on the market last year - that was a disaster and the Lord made it obvious that He had other plans - better plans that involved patience and waiting on Him. His other plans are coming to fruition. One year later we're on a different path, instead of selling our home we refinanced and are going to become landlords. Our mortgage is very low,  which will allow us to hopefully make a decent profit on our current home each month. If its a total flop we can always sell now that the market has picked back up - but I think John's handyman skills and my accounting smarts will prove us down a really exciting path in th...

I've been meditating and praying over this great passage in Psalms. God is so amazing to bring His Word to life in me. You are the helper of the fatherless. LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart; You will cause Your ear to hear, To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, That the man of the earth may oppress no more. Psalms 10:14,17-18

Piper writes, "The most mature Christians I have ever met are the hungriest for God." It is a simple statement, yet very profound. The more deeply I walk with God, the more deeply I will hunger for Him. Piper goes on to state that the more deeply I hunger for God, the more ". homesick I will get for heaven... the more I will want all the fullness of God." I yearn to see Jesus, to have my children see Jesus in me. I just finished the 4 part Revelation Preceipt class and I long for Heaven. I long for heaven because I just can't get this life on earth the way its suppose to be lived. Daily I am faced with my own sin and selfishness and I just hate struggling with my own sin so much. I hate battling desires with the computer, the television, the desire for idleness, the lack of desire to put down the work and enjoy the children. None of those are bad things, but when used to escape from life, they are sin. I love my children and cooking and swimming but there ar...

"When God is the Supreme hunger of our hearts, he will be supreme in everything." I really struggle to live out Philippians 3:8 in my daily life - "I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ." The reality in my life is that I have suffered the loss of few things, I have a great husband, marriage and children. I am incredible blessed. I struggle in the daily mundane of suffering loss of - finances to help another or time to invest in a child. I struggle with selfishness and my hunger for God wains back and forth. I grabbed  John Piper's book as I deeply want to improve my prayer and fasting life so that I hunger and thirst for the living water that only Jesus can provide - nothing else should sustain me. There are changes coming in our family,  I don't know what they are, but I can feel the Lord's presence, prodding me to be prepared and ready for what will come.  In March  I set a timer on ...

Wow the end of the school year has come, I can't believe I have a second grader and a Kindergartener! The last month was super busy with trips and end of the school craziness. Drew had an amazing year. I can't believe all that he learned and squeezed into his brain. I remember looking at the sentence diagramming and multiplication sheets in his curriculum at thought there was no way - but after a lot of prayer and a few tears, he earned a nice break! I am so proud of Drew, the goal the last month was to "finish well" and he did. His last few grammar, history and math tests were all excellent. He even ended the year with all A's and an 87 in Language Arts which is his hardest subject.Drew is excited to spend the month of May digging for bugs, swimming, building with Lego's and circuits. Gabe finished his first semester of Kindergarten, we started early since he was very ready. Gabe finished all of book 1 in Explode the Code, Math U See Primer (to lessons ...