March 8th, 2010
A show that my family and I have been watching lately is ABCs My Place. It is a story of an old house and the families that live in it over the years.
The story starts out in 2008 with the first family. It tells their story through the eyes of one of the children. You [...]
March 2nd, 2010
Last week I shared some advice that has been helpful to me as a Christian parent from Dr Sears book “Parenting and Childcare: A Guide for Christian Parents”.
Today I thought I would share some more advice on commitment to being a Christian parent. In the first chapter Dr Sears shares seven things that God expects from [...]
February 28th, 2010
Proverbs 12:4 says, “A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones”.
Dictionary.com describes disgraceful as “Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful”. It also uses words like “shameful, shocking and scandalous” in its description. It gives us a nice picture of what the verse is saying.
As we can imagine [...]
February 23rd, 2010
One of the parenting books I have found quite useful over the years is Dr William Sears book “Parenting and Childcare: A Guide for Christian Parents”. My wife purchased it just before our second child was born.
Two things in the book have really helped me over the years. The first one is about priorities and [...]
December 21st, 2009
Another homeschool year is over! As it has been a while I thought I would give a quick update on our homeschooling journey for 2009.
About a week or so ago my wife, kids and I finished out sixth year of homeschooling. For those who are new to The PASSION Blog, our oldest daughter started in [...]
November 16th, 2009
In Matthew 8:14-15 we see an interesting healing that involved the Apostle Peter’s mother-in-law. It says…
“When Jesus arrived at Peter’s house, Peter’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a high fever. But when Jesus touched her hand, the fever left her. Then she got up and prepared a meal for him”.
This healing was just after the [...]
October 22nd, 2009
One of the big questions we are asked about homeschooling is “What about socialisation?” Some people seem to be concerned that homeschoolers are locked away and don’t get to spend time with other people or others kids.
In todays post I thought I would share a few ways our kids are “socialised”.
Church – we go to [...]
