Sometimes we can only marvel at the faithfulness and wisdom of the Lord. Countesthorpe Baptist Church hosted the second “Firm Foundations” conference on Saturday 6th April and we were stunned when tickets sold out in just three days. Two hundred adults and three hundred children joined us for Bible teaching and encouragement and another fifty …
Christian home education is controversial. It is controversial because it brushes aside popular thinking about the role of government in educating our children. It is controversial because, for the most part, it requires that the mother return to the sphere of the home and it is controversial because it assumes that “untrained” parents can take …
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Working While I Wait to See His Glory Top-up shopping often leaves me with food for thought. On the way to our nearest supermarket, I walk past a doctor’s surgery where the lives of first trimester babies, created in the image of God, are deliberately snuffed out in the name of a woman’s right …
New Year was God’s idea. We can be certain of this because he decreed that the earth revolve around the sun once every 365 days. Our calendar testifies to the movement of our planet. The movement of our planet testifies to the Creator of Heaven and Earth who set the universe in motion. New beginnings thrill …
There is a conference in the works…The college is booked. The children’s workers are booked. The audio man is booked. The final details are being worked out. Countesthorpe Baptist Church are planning a second “Firm Foundations” Christian home education conference for Saturday April 6th 2024 dv. We are so excited! Bookings will be open soon and I …
I have been thinking about home education and marriage. There are some challenges in marriage that only arise when couples begin to consider home education and one is the situation whereby a wife is desperate to home educate and the husband is 100% against the idea. Ultimately, the husband is the head of his …
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I rarely skip chapters when I am reading. The pedant in me likes to think I have read the whole book from cover to cover before I count it as finished. However, in my early years of home educating and researching the subject, I deliberately dimmed my reading switch to “skim” whenever the author started …
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When did they forget that children are a blessing, not a right?
I would not be living at any other time in history. As schools grow spiritually darker and the content children are taught becomes increasingly incoherent and ungodly, the Lord has provided a means by which UK parents can teach their children the gospel, “when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, …
Christian Home Educators: Please be Knit into a Local Church Read More »
It has been a while since I have written anything new for this blog and I have been cycling through old articles for a number of months. Thanks for bearing with me! I just thought it would be worth writing a bit of an update about what I have been doing and how our family …
