For those who aren't home educating

Greetings from Me and My House,

This is a rare post for those who are not home educating or providing distinctively Christian private education for their children.

As parents you have a tremendous responsibility to not just train your child in religious matters, relegating God to a "spiritual" box, but to show Him forth in every area of life and learning. Your children will spend nearly 15,000 hours, from K-12 being taught knowledge apart from God. You must teach them to see God aright in everything they learn. All truth is God's truth, and He must be glorified in it. He must be shown as Source and Sustainer of all things, even, and especially in your situation, in academic things, where He has been conscienciously edited out of His own world.

This is not just countering "millions and billions of years ago" or "Heather has 2 Mommies", but showing that 1 x 1 x 1 = 1 because GOD!... That South America has jungles and exotic wildlife and North America has rolling plains for man's habitation - because God... The importance of every word that we write, speak, read, or hear - because God... That the Pilgrims came to America to not only have freedom in Christian religion, but to propogate it - because God..., and now America has no tolerance for distinctively Jesus-centered Christian religion outside the church walls - because God - has given us over to our own devises. That George Washington wrestled in prayer and the Word to determine the justness of fighting a war against unlawful authority, and then was preserved by the Providential hand of God as his coat and hat were riddled with bullets - because God... Of course I could go on and on, but I am not writing a Christian curriculum in one blog post, you must research and learn these purposes for yourselves. The answer is not just "because God", but a Biblical, individual reason and purpose for each thing.

This all goes back to my one key message, we as parents, must first renew our own minds, we must know these things ourselves; these things must be in our hearts. We must see God as the Source and Sustainer of all things. We are to get Wisdom, the most important thing, which is seeing all of life from God's perspective. We must relate all truth and knowledge back to Him and His purpose for it, which is to glorify Himself. The fear of the Lord is, and must be, the beginning of all knowledge.

And then we must, we are commanded to, diligently teach these things to our children. We must, we are commanded to, bring them up in the instruction and discipline of the Lord, seeing Him as Lord over all, not just all the big picture, but understanding Him as Lord over each and every detail. Oh, for all our children, may they not only know God, but glorify Him as God, in every detail of life, that their hearts not be darkened.

For His glory alone,
At Jesus' feet,
Lisa

My Offering

Greetings from Me and My House,

I came across a quote tonight in Jonathan Edwards' Religious Affections, in the Author's Preface. It expresses just what I am endeavouring to do here.

I many times share 2 Corinthians 1:24, "Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand," for that is truly my desire. But I like the way Edwards put this.

"My design is to contribute my mite, and use my best (however feeble) endeavours to this end" *"knowing clearly and distinctly what we ought to contend for."

SDG,
At Jesus' feet,
Lisa


* - Statement is not in original order, however it is in context. "This end" refers back to the previous sentence (quote after *) in the original.

New!

Greetings from Me and My House,

Just a short note - during a short break - to let you know I'm working on getting my books and audios formatted for electronic delivery.

You can now order Sorting it Out and Pulling it Together (book), and Choose ye this Day... - An Introduction to L.E.D. (audio w/ powerpoint presentation) and download them to your computer.

You can find either on our L.E.D. Resource page - http://me-and-my-house.org/resources-led.htm

Back to work :-)

At Jesus' feet,
Lisa

Why Home Education?

Greetings from Me and My House,

Have you noticed I've been busy with my family? No posts for a long time. And just some thoughts today. I've been ruminating as I go over teaching notes for seminars and such.

Some things just don't make logical, Biblical sense. A Christian's primary purpose is to glorify God, right? Hopefully I have no arguments from any Christian on that. So, why would any Christian turn their children over to an institution that is completely God-less, to have their children taught and trained to, not only not glorify Him, but to not even acknowledge His existance, in everything they learn; to be taught that God (if He/it exists) is not important (let alone of utmost importance) to all the things that they teach them there, most of the day, most of the year, all of their formative years. To put God (if He exists) in a little box that is left out of learning.

What is this? That Christians would allow others to shape their children's thinking to exclude God! He is the Source of everything. He should never be left out of any teaching. He must be included in everything we teach. He must be taught as Creator and Sustainer of everything - from Math, to History, to baby brothers. Any teaching that is not based on the "fear of the Lord" is neither wisdom, nor knowledge. He is the beginning of both. Without Him, right in the center of all, there can be no true learning.

I want to encourage you to press on. What we are doing is so important, especially in our post-modern, post-Christian society. Press on in teaching and training your grandchildren's teachers. We have a home educator friend that used to say that all the time, that they were educating their grandchildren's teachers. I like that. It gives us a Biblical multi-generational view. The Bible actually takes it another generation. We are to teach our children of God in everything they learn. We are to look with faith, down through the halls of the future and see our great-grandchildren being taught and trained to look at all of life and learning through God's perspective, to know His ways and workings in all they learn. To build a family legacy of education for the Kingdom of God.

SDG,
Lisa