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Does Clothing Matter?
Last night I attended a meeting to inform us about sex trafficking in our country. There are several things I could write about from what...
Rebecca
Mar 222 min read
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Delighting to Bless
I’m memorizing Psalm 109 this month. It’s a rather dark psalm, one of the imprecatory psalms. Imprecatory psalms are the ones that call...
Rebecca
Jan 154 min read
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Emails and landmarks
It hardly seems possible that it’s been 10 years already. Tragedy has a way of warping time. The events of those days seem both very...
Rebecca
Mar 1, 20226 min read
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Bible Study Method: Easy and Simple
I did a simple exercise this morning with Proverbs 8. I made four different lists. Making lists is one of my favorite Bible study...
Rebecca
Aug 10, 20211 min read
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God FIRST
I’ll never forget reading a commentary on Deuteronomy 6:4, the opening verse of what the Jewish people call the great “Shema.” It reads...
Rebecca
Jan 2, 20215 min read
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A Daily Prayer for the New Year
What a difference it would make in the life of every believer in Christ Jesus if we would follow the single admonition of Paul in Romans...
Rebecca
Dec 31, 20202 min read
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Prayer should define us
Prayer should define us. Last night I read the one-page opening chapter from the book What Every Child Should Know About Prayer by Nancy...
Rebecca
May 31, 20202 min read
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Open Letter to the President
You, Mr. President, cannot save America. Only God can do that. We—you, Mr. President, and those who vote for you—cannot make America...
Rebecca
Feb 3, 20204 min read
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An Anger Check
I was reading Psalm 106 this morning. Verses 32-33 caught my attention. Here is another insight God is giving us about anger. The two...
Rebecca
Jan 13, 20202 min read
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Attend to the practical
Shortly after my husband died, I read a book on widowhood by Joyce Rogers. One sentence in her introduction caught me up short and...
Rebecca
Oct 25, 20193 min read
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Entering with a bang (essays, part 5)
Whew! The main body of the essay is written! Are we done now? Nope. Not yet. So far, we have followed the process of writing an essay...
Rebecca
Oct 23, 20193 min read
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From Outlines to Paragraphs (part 4)
Step 4 in the writing process is writing the main body of the essay. If you’ve followed Steps 1-3 in writing an essay (see previous...
Rebecca
Oct 16, 20193 min read
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Read it daily...together
When we first started out, we used a printed Bible curriculum, but I wanted to teach my children the whole scope of the Bible and the...
Rebecca
Sep 25, 20193 min read
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Guarding Through Formation
I wrote previously (April 2, 2019) that "keepers at home" can also be translated "workers at home." The word keeping carries the...
Rebecca
Sep 24, 20192 min read
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Outlines: Essay Writing (part 3)
The 3rd step in writing an essay is making an outline. Once you have done a "dump page" and organized all the items on the "dump page" on...
Rebecca
Sep 23, 20193 min read
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Keepers at home: Disciplining ourselves
I have to confess that as a child, and even (maybe especially!) in my high school years, I was messy. My bedroom was rarely clean....
Rebecca
Sep 10, 20193 min read
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List page: essay writing (step 2)
Essay writing can actually become fun and fairly easy! Last week I wrote on Step 1 of writing an essay: choosing a topic and making a...
Rebecca
Sep 9, 20192 min read
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One minute prayer
I felt certain I had already blogged on this, but I couldn't find it this morning. So if this is redundant, I apologize. But then again,...
Rebecca
Sep 6, 20192 min read
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Dump Pages: take the hard out of writing (part 1)
As a new school year begins, let's talk about writing. Most students groan when you even mention writing. Essays?? That's the worst! I...
Rebecca
Sep 3, 20192 min read
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
A masterfully written book, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy combines fictional characters with an historical event in Maine. A...
Rebecca
Aug 31, 20193 min read
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