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A few years ago, we used the book Jotham's Journey during the Advent season to build up anticipation for Christmas. The children loved it, so the next year, we used the sequel, Bartholomew's Passage. That one seemed a bit more contrived to me, but it was still a lot of fun for the children and…
This is another favorite. This is a Dutch hymn written in 1597 to celebrate a great victory, 23 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth! Since the Pilgrims lived for a time in Holland, it's especially appropriate to include in our Thanksgiving hymnbook. We Gather Together Words & Music: Adrianus Valerius English Translation: Theodore Baker,…
Get Encouraged as the Holidays Approach Hal & Melanie are the final speakers for the Ultimate Homeschool Expo: Fall Event, November 11-13th! This seminar series is Christ-focused with talks that will inspire and motivate you to prioritize, organize, and create lasting memories with your family. With 35+ speakers and 50 seminars this set is…
We've got a lot of veterans in our family, myself included, so we like to recognize them on Veterans' Day. Someone asked a question recently about this particular veteran, so I thought I'd share the story today in honor of intrepid young men doing their duty all over the world! We talk about Admiral David Farragut…
I was just listening to the 1812 Overture on WCPE-FM, our local classical station (you can listen online - I've tuned in from Saudi Arabia before). It struck me that even if he doesn't like "classical" music per se, that's one piece most males connect to. Any orchestra with an artillery section is worth a…
The next few Sundays we'll be posting songs of thanksgiving. I love the old German hymns which have made it into our songbooks here -- this is one of my favorites for Thanksgiving or any time of year! Be sure and read the background story on NetHymnal (follow the link): Now Thank We All Our God…
The culture in our country is spinning quickly into a post-Christian one. We live where political correctness limits our liberties to a frightening degree. We live in a time when a young woman can post a request for a Christian roommate on her church bulletin board and find herself cited by her state Department of Civil…
Halloween is an English contraction of "All Hallow's Eve", or properly, the Eve of the Feast of All Saints ... which is, after all, November 1. In our house, it's not a day of jack-o-lanterns and goblins, but a day to remember true heroism -- a man who faced death and thereby opened the door…
Over on our Facebook page, we've been posting a "hymn of the week" every Sunday for some time now. I'm putting this one on the blog - maybe we'll move them over here so more people can find them. I was reminded of the second verse of this hymn when one of our sons had to…
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