1. Silent Night: A Christmas Carol is Born by Maureen Brett Hooper
2. My Prairie Christmas by Brett Harvey
3. The Little Drummer Boy illustrated by Kristina Rodanas
4.Bartholomew's Blessing: A Christmas Story by Stephanie Tolan
5. Christmas Classical audio CD-- excellent!
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7745088455537169028#
THis is an 1 and 45 min documentary about the heinous crimes of the Catholic church....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7745088455537169028#
Get ready to cry your eyes out, as I did....WARNING!!! not for the faint-hearted
This will surely turn your stomach and want to reach out to the Catholic people in your life to teach them of their church and to have them pray about their devotion to this institution. Every Catholic needs to stomach this film and question their faith in this institution. The Catholic church forces their priests to be celibate so the ones who can not control their sexual desires can in turn rape and molest 100's of children because they can not take a wife. Doesn't Paul talk directly to this saying that if you can not control your desires then to get MARRIED!!! As you will learn, the Catholic church established this rule to make money...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7745088455537169028#
Get ready to cry your eyes out, as I did....WARNING!!! not for the faint-hearted
This will surely turn your stomach and want to reach out to the Catholic people in your life to teach them of their church and to have them pray about their devotion to this institution. Every Catholic needs to stomach this film and question their faith in this institution. The Catholic church forces their priests to be celibate so the ones who can not control their sexual desires can in turn rape and molest 100's of children because they can not take a wife. Doesn't Paul talk directly to this saying that if you can not control your desires then to get MARRIED!!! As you will learn, the Catholic church established this rule to make money...
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Girl Tea Time
We had the blessing of having new friends over. They have 4 girls in their family and another one on the way! We only had the privileged of having the 2 older girls over. While the girls had a tea party, Ian asked for some hot cocoa :)
Monday, October 12, 2009
Monday October 12th 2009 Events
Doe's! Snowball and Clover were delivered today. They are 5 month old twin Kinder goats. This is a small breed that produces the best milk (if desired). Right now, we are keeping them to clear the back section of our property. They are cute little kids and the other kids just love them! The kids follow the kids around...it is quite cute to watch and more confusing to write about. 
With the help of Ali, who really trained and supported him, Ian now rides his bike! Out of the blue, Ian asked to ride his bike and by the end of the day...he does!! He loves the bumps in the backyard :)
With the help of Ali, who really trained and supported him, Ian now rides his bike! Out of the blue, Ian asked to ride his bike and by the end of the day...he does!! He loves the bumps in the backyard :)
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
God Alone is the One Who Saves
The reason you believe in Christ isn't because you were smart enough to figure out that your only hope was Jesus. It isn't because you willed to believe in Jesus. It is because God chose to be merciful to you. God is sovereign over the souls of men. God chooses those who will be saved. Romans 9:16 is clear: Salvation doesn't depend upon the man who wills and who runs but rather salvation is the sovereign pleasure of God to be merciful to His elect. "It is by His doing that you are in Christ Jesus" 1 Cor 1:30. Jesus said, "No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him." John 6:44
Friday, July 17, 2009
Big Bear Camping July 10, 11, 12 2009
Three Little Bears sitting on Chairs Ahhhhh, the campfire!
Boo Bear's excited
We visited the Discovery Center at Big Bear and there they had an exhibit of ax throwing (Daddy got it on the first shot!), donkeys, furs and beading. Boo really loved the donkeys.
Ali beading with the girls.
Daddy wearing a coyote on his head...just where he likes them :)
He shot it with his best.
Boo putting on another pine cone.
Boo's shot of Mom and Dad.
Kids playing boats with the tree bark.......Toys R Us is so unnecessary!
The best! Playing hide and seek tag in the forest.
Go Ali, the log chair is safe!
Big A's turn to count.
Back at the Discovery Center, they had panning for gold!
Big I is hand picking it out.
Boo is licking his chops; he can taste the money!Monday, July 6, 2009
God Preserves His Saints
Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass. 1 Thessalonians 5:24
For I am convinced that neither death, not life, nor angels, nor principalities, not things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethen; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:29
For I am convinced that neither death, not life, nor angels, nor principalities, not things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethen; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:29
Collection of Verses Pointing to God's Sovereign Election
And you were dead in your transpasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Amoung them we too all formaly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved). Ephesians 2: 1-5
For by grace you have been saved through faith: and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God. Ephesians 2:8
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the councel of His will. Ephesians 1:11
Just as He chose us in Him before the foundations of the wolrd, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. Ephesians 1:4
He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. Ephesians 1:5
What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. Romans 9:22
Who will bring a charge against God's elect? Romans 8: 33
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethen; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:29
God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. Romans 4:17b
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God. Ephesians 1:1
But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. 2 Thessalonians 2:13
But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. 1 Thessalonians 5: 8-11
So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving each other. Colossians 3: 12
When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He (the Father) made you alive together with Him (Jesus), having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us, and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Colossians 2: 13
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:13
For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself. Acts 2:39
Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and sons of Israel; for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name's sake. Acts 9:15
God raised Him up on the 3rd day and granted that He become visible, not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God. Acts 10:40
When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48
Jesus answered them, "I told you and you do not believe; the works that I do in my Father's name, these testify of Me. But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them." Acts 10:25
For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory. 2 Timothy 2:10
For by grace you have been saved through faith: and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God. Ephesians 2:8
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the councel of His will. Ephesians 1:11
Just as He chose us in Him before the foundations of the wolrd, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. Ephesians 1:4
He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. Ephesians 1:5
What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. Romans 9:22
Who will bring a charge against God's elect? Romans 8: 33
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethen; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:29
God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. Romans 4:17b
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God. Ephesians 1:1
But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. 2 Thessalonians 2:13
But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. 1 Thessalonians 5: 8-11
So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving each other. Colossians 3: 12
When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He (the Father) made you alive together with Him (Jesus), having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us, and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Colossians 2: 13
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:13
For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself. Acts 2:39
Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and sons of Israel; for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name's sake. Acts 9:15
God raised Him up on the 3rd day and granted that He become visible, not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God. Acts 10:40
When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48
Jesus answered them, "I told you and you do not believe; the works that I do in my Father's name, these testify of Me. But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them." Acts 10:25
For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory. 2 Timothy 2:10
Who Is Jesus?
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-- all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven." Colossians 1:15-20
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Happy 233rd Birthday, United States of America!
We were blessed to be in a good ol' fashion neighborhood parade with some dear friends that finished with a firetruck showing up. It was great to cool down with that powerful hose! And then we were blessed to watch an AMAZING firework show at San Diego Harbor....the most beautiful and best I've ever seen.
We got a great parking spot right across the way from the San Diego harbor, so we flipped open the back and got cozy to watch the great show, all the while thinking about why we celebrate the 4th with fireworks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star_Spangled_Banner_instrumental.ogg
Some quotes Big A (and the rest of us) learned this year studying the American Revolution:
"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." John Adams
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry's Treason Speech
"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington
"We recognize no Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!" John Hancock
Some quotes Big A (and the rest of us) learned this year studying the American Revolution:
"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." John Adams
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry's Treason Speech
"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington
"We recognize no Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!" John Hancock
Georgia O'Keeffe Studies:Last Artist of the Year!
Big A enjoyed studying these close-ups of Georgia's flowers. This is the last artist we will be studying this school year and then we get to revisit them again next year!
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