The Texas State Board of Education recently passed a bill mandating the inclusion of Scripture in public school literature curricula. The selected Scriptures won’t appear in classrooms until 2030, yet many Christians rightly feel hesitant about this new bill. As a Christian mother in Texas who has homeschooled my children, you may wonder why I’m sharing…
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Making Sense of Modesty: 3 Common Myths About Biblical Modesty
“Let’s check your shorts to make sure you’re in dress code.” Something like this was said to me by a female staff member at my Christian high school. I was wearing a tank top and jean shorts and had to stand with my hands flat against my sides to ensure my shorts’ length exceeded that…
3 Things Reading Bad Theology Books Can’t Do
At my Christian high school, I was assigned to read a book by a false teacher. Not knowing the Bible well and lacking familiarity with sound doctrine, I was eager to read it. Years later, a college class assignment included writing a paper comparing and contrasting two people. I chose to compare Esther from the…
4 Truths I’m Preaching to Myself As A Christian Mom Who Homeschools Her Kids
This post contains affiliate links In honor of National School Choice Week in America, check out 4 truths I’m preaching to myself as a Christian mom who homeschools her kids. 1. My homeschooled children aren’t better off spiritually because they’re educated differently. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)….
I Didn’t Love 2016 (And It’s Okay if You Didn’t Either)
Seeing social media feeds flooded with people’s memories from 2016, I scrolled through my phone’s camera roll in search of my own. Interestingly, there were none to be found. While it contains memories of 2015, my first year of marriage, and 2017 and beyond, 2016 is nonexistent. Perhaps it’s a storage or some other technological…
How A Public High School Visit Pointed Me to Hope
I am a mom who homeschools, yet a recent Thursday morning found me not instructing my own children, but walking the halls of a local public high school. As a youth ministry leader, my husband recently began volunteering with Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). This organization utilizes middle school and high school sports as a…
3 Myths About Christian Happiness
Myth #1 – God Doesn’t Care About Your Happiness “God doesn’t care about your happiness; He cares about your holiness.” Like me, you may have heard this sternly preached a time or two. I assumed it to be true since it’s in opposition to the prosperity gospel, which falsely claims that God’s main priorities are…
School Choice: A Cause for Worship, Not War
Considering school choice, I made up my mind years ago about the type of education I wanted for my children. I’ve desired to homeschool since before I had kids. For years, I felt like I had to have a biblically compelling reason for my choice. There are multiple factors my husband and I considered regarding…
Maybe It’s Mercy
As I turned the corner on our street to leave our neighborhood, my mind took a walk down Memory Lane. I remember feeling humiliated as a child by the used cars my family owned. One was a blue Chevrolet that was older than I was. There was nothing aesthetically appealing about it, yet it worked…
4 Spiritual Observations from the Titan Tragedy
My husband and I recently watched the Netflix documentary, Titan: The Oceangate Submersible Disaster. I remember when the Titan took its deadly descent two years ago. As the world waited with titanic trepidation to see if its passengers would survive, I begged God to spare their lives, and grieved their tragic deaths. Before we hit play,…