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A Month of Sundays Striding Toward Spiritual Refreshment One Sunday at a Time By Paula Hartman,  Published by WestBow Press "A Month of Sundays provides food for the body as well as the soul. It offers thirty-one weeks of delicious Sabbath meals along with reflections on the need for true Sabbath rest. This book will leave you feeling spiritually refreshed, reconnected with your Creator, and at peace with yourself." Review left unfinished as book was lost in the fire.

"Devotions for Sacred Parenting, Gary Thomas, author of Sacred Parenting, delves deeper into the conversation and contemplates the soul-transforming journey of being a parent. Devotions for Sacred Parenting explores how parenting transforms you, the parent. It explores the spiritual dynamics of parenting and why caring for your children is such an effective discipline in shaping your soul and forming the character of Christ within you. With all new material, 52 devotions explore the spiritual dynamics of parenting. These life-related devotions are creative, fresh, and encouraging, inspiring mothers and fathers to look at parenting from a different perspective—as a holy and high calling from God, and as an opportunity to grow spiritually as you strive to raise godly children. Devotions for Sacred Parenting helps you understand how God is parenting you as you parent your children." Review left unfinished as book was lost in the fire.

As my first chicks are entering college, getting married, finishing college, two enjoying a gap year (one planning on military service) I find my self once again home schooling. Our smallest had her K-6 yrs in a private school. So all of this is new for her and I am finding out what her learning styles are. We are seeing what resources we have and discovering new ones. Lamp + Light is one of the new treasures that at the same time uses all my amazing vintage resources. http://lamplighthomeschool.com/ Charlotte Mason, Notebooking, living books and the new term "minimalist home schooling" meets ravelers notebooks, YouTube, audio books and the new animated SuperBook series. Good and Beautiful is a recommended companion resource for Lamp + Light history. You can try some things out on the sight and levels 1-5 are available for free. English now brings us Following Narnia Volume 1 : The Lion's Song Student Book (New Edition). "Institute for Excellenc

I was given the Apply The Word Study Bible to review. Summed up from the preface 1st it provides a reliable Bible Text. I was supplied with the KNJV. It is also available in KJV 2nd Extensive notes and articles explain the biblical background and context, these include commentary, maps, tables, and charts. 3rd the commentary and notes aim at practical points, with relational and applicable information that is relevant to the circumstances individuals face today. When one sits down to Bible Study, the goal should be to become more like Jesus through the study and application of the Word to our lives. That is the main aim of this study Bible. To learn, equip, and give the guidance for application. The editors of this study Bible acknowledge the gift we have in the accessibility of the Word of God today along with the need to respond to what we read obediently. This is very much what the word Shema (listen) in dueteronomy 6v 6-9 means, to listen with the intent to obey. Are we

REFRAMING THE SOUL : How Words Transform Our Faith By Gregory Spencer  I stumbled across this book on netgalley. The title intrigued me. Reframing means to place in a new frame or to express something differently. This book helps the reader to look at circumstances through a new window frame, to see others with empathy and to release the reader from 'victim mentality'. Not to ignore or just slap a pretty label on hard experiences, but to view those circumstances differently. "one of the noblest roles of a communicator is “to render the unspeakable speakable,” to point to qualities others have been unable to articulate." I love this quote. It conjures up great writers who dared, those who wrote of terrible, horrifying truths. From the holocaust recorders writing down names of the dead and what horrors their eyes witnessed to Maya Angelou's poetry and prose singing out from the darkness. "We are used to looking out through the windows to the world o

A generation ago, Quest for Love was published. It was a hit. Why? We needed hope that as young believers, we were on the right path. There is still a need those stories. Stories of inspirational lives waiting for G-d to write their romance into being. This book is that hope for this next generation. Hope that G-d still hears and listens to our hearts. Hope that in the midst of technological advances that we still have the best match maker. I adore Rhonda Stoppe. There are a bunch of books on my shelf that are written by some one I know in real life. But very few by some one who has spoken truth onto my life. 10-12 years ago, Rhonda sat with me in the woods and listened to me whine and showed me a track back to where I was intended to be. Rhonda holds a special place in my life, as it is not easy to speak truth into the wounded, and do it well. This same Rhonda from the picnic bench in the woods, is the same one writing these wonderful books. She doesn't change wh