Saturday, February 26, 2011
Mother Daughter Cooking
We were recently given a huge stack of books, among which was the American Girl Molly's Cookbook. I gave the cookbook to Emily to look at and she immediately started asking if we could make just about every recipe in it. So, we sat down and planned out a dinner that we would make together. She chose meatloaf, mashed potato volcanoes, peas, parsley biscuits, deviled eggs and applesauce cupcakes for dessert. I had so much fun teaching her how to cook and bake and she had a lot of fun helping out in the kitchen. I think that we've just started a tradition, as she wants to do it again and RJ is interested in helping with meals too!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
"Mere Christianity", by C.S. Lewis
From the book "Mere Christianity", by C.S. Lewis. Page 148-149, the second chapter on Faith:
"Christians have often disputed as to whether what leads the Christian home [Heaven] is good actions, or Faith in Christ...Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair at that point: and out of that faith in Him good actions must inevitably come. There are two parodies of the truth which different sets of Christians have, in the past, been accused by other Christians of believing: perhaps they may make the truth clearer. One set were accused of saying, 'Good actions are all that matters. The best good action is charity. The best kind of charity is giving money. The best thing to give money to is the Church. So hand us over $10,000 and we will see you through.; The answer to that nonsense of course, would be that good actions done for that motive , done with the idea that Heaven can be bought, would not be good actions at all, but only commercial speculations. The other set were accused of saying, 'Faith is all that matters. Consequently, if you have faith, it doesn't matter what you do. Sin away, my lad, and have a good time and Christ will see that it makes no difference in the end.' The answer to that nonsense is that, if what you call your 'faith' in Christ does not involve taking the slightest notice of what He says, then it is not Faith at all - not faith or trust in Him, but only intellectual acceptance of some theory about Him. The Bible really seems to clinch the matter when it puts the two things together into one amazing sentence. The first half is, 'Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling' - which looks as if everything depended on us and our good actions: but the second half goes on, 'For it is God who worketh in you' - which looks as if God did everything and we did nothing."
"Christians have often disputed as to whether what leads the Christian home [Heaven] is good actions, or Faith in Christ...Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair at that point: and out of that faith in Him good actions must inevitably come. There are two parodies of the truth which different sets of Christians have, in the past, been accused by other Christians of believing: perhaps they may make the truth clearer. One set were accused of saying, 'Good actions are all that matters. The best good action is charity. The best kind of charity is giving money. The best thing to give money to is the Church. So hand us over $10,000 and we will see you through.; The answer to that nonsense of course, would be that good actions done for that motive , done with the idea that Heaven can be bought, would not be good actions at all, but only commercial speculations. The other set were accused of saying, 'Faith is all that matters. Consequently, if you have faith, it doesn't matter what you do. Sin away, my lad, and have a good time and Christ will see that it makes no difference in the end.' The answer to that nonsense is that, if what you call your 'faith' in Christ does not involve taking the slightest notice of what He says, then it is not Faith at all - not faith or trust in Him, but only intellectual acceptance of some theory about Him. The Bible really seems to clinch the matter when it puts the two things together into one amazing sentence. The first half is, 'Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling' - which looks as if everything depended on us and our good actions: but the second half goes on, 'For it is God who worketh in you' - which looks as if God did everything and we did nothing."
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Five Strategies for Reading Revelation
1. Read it like a political cartoon: It is much deeper than a literal picture.
2. Don't stop reading until you hear singing: Revelation is cyclical.
3. Keep prophecy Biblical.
4. Keep one finger in the Old Testament: Use the Old Testament to help interpret what's being said in Revelation.
5. Think like a Roman: Put Revelation in the context of Roman times and thinking.
2. Don't stop reading until you hear singing: Revelation is cyclical.
3. Keep prophecy Biblical.
4. Keep one finger in the Old Testament: Use the Old Testament to help interpret what's being said in Revelation.
5. Think like a Roman: Put Revelation in the context of Roman times and thinking.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Homeschool Art Project: Heart-y Buddies
Today's art project is, of course, inspired by Valentine's Day! We cut out different size hearts from pink, red, and white paper. Then, we arranged our hearts into animal shapes. RJ and Emily also had a Valentine's word search and coloring page a picture incorporating Galatians 5:14 "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Here are our buddies!
Here are our buddies!
Happy Valentine's Day!!!
Friday, February 11, 2011
Homeschool Art Project: Mosaics
The concept of our art project this week came about somewhat serendipitously:
In RJ's science, we're doing a unit on how the Earth moves around the Sun. That, of course, leads to discussions on how we measure time - by the year, months, days, and by hours. While discussing sun dials from a library book about the Roman Empire, I came across a section on mosaics. Roman mosaics were made from stone, tile or glass pieces. We made ours out of construction paper remnants leftover from other projects that still had usability. I cut the papers up into pieces of random shape and size and the kids created these: (Click either image to see the rest of the photos)
In RJ's science, we're doing a unit on how the Earth moves around the Sun. That, of course, leads to discussions on how we measure time - by the year, months, days, and by hours. While discussing sun dials from a library book about the Roman Empire, I came across a section on mosaics. Roman mosaics were made from stone, tile or glass pieces. We made ours out of construction paper remnants leftover from other projects that still had usability. I cut the papers up into pieces of random shape and size and the kids created these: (Click either image to see the rest of the photos)
Ars gratia artis
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