Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ musings

We serve a Risen Savior, who suffered and died for our sins, but rose
to life victorious over sin, death, and hell, that we who believe in
Him would also have eternal life.
Halleluia!

Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen:
Luke 24:5-6

May you all have a Blessed Resurrection Day!

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For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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Time to put those convention tips I’ve been writing to use! Our state Home School Convention starts tomorrow.

Today I attended an excellent writing class with Andrew Pudewa of
Institute for Excellence in Writing. If you aren’t familiar with Mr. Pudewa or IEW, you’ve got to check them out. He is a fantastic teacher and speaker.

The class had a focus on writing for the SAT Essay. The way to write an SAT Essay, to get a good score, goes against most of what is done in real world writing, which made it hard for me to do. Good thing I don’t plan to take the SAT.

We didn’t just learn to write wrong though. Mr. Pudewa shared much on writing right also. DD said it was too much to take in in one day and then actually start applying. But we had a great full day learning, and she has much she can take home and gradually put into practice.

Click to check out writing resources from
Institute for Excellence in Writing.

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, here’s a link to a great powerpoint presentation, by Bill Burtness, giving a foundational understanding of Governments - and their link to Education and Character.

If you don’t have the Powerpoint application, you can download a Powerpoint Viewer for free - for Windows or Mac.

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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“Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:7

In these rapidly changing times, we must remember, “There is nothing new under the sun.” All man’s advancements still leave him in the same place.

As technology advances we have more opportunity than ever to reach more people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to use the medium to transmit, not new information, but never changing Truth!

God’s Word never changes, never needs added too, is always constant and always sufficient - in every age, at every time, in every place - for that universal need of everyone.

Take a look at this short video at Steve Camp’s blog.

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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Posts have been unusually long in coming here lately. Why? 2 answers:

• Blogging is happening at my ‘from me’ blog. As we expand our health and nutrition studies, my mind is on food, so blogs are making it over there. 2 series are currently going. Friday Food has been resurrected - where I give you a Good for You-Naturally! recipe each week. And, Today’s Menu - where I post a Real Life Good for You-Naturally! Menu Plan from our home.
• 
• In addition to all the other things overfilling my plate, we are preparing to attend a Reformation Faire for our vacation this month.

We’ve been trying to push through to a good resting place in our studies. We just finished the book of John - and are now finishing our Journals, are moving slowly in HisStory in 20th century - finishing WWI, are exapanding our health and nutrition studies - along with food preparation, working on the character quality of Availability - learning about the UNavailable cowbird.

We thought we would have proper attire for the Faire for all but our 2 oldest boys, but found we need to make outfits for our 2 girls also. AND I’m still not sure I’m wanting to wear my Reformation period wedding dress to an outdoor event - so perhaps new attire for me is in order too. AND we are down to 2 weeks before we go. Gotta get those machines a humming.

So –until next time…

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Had to add another resource I found today, an Independence Day picture with quotes. It’s from Hobby Lobby, and you can download a free pdf of it and print it out.

Please read my other, full post, today too.

It’s been two weeks ago now, but those weeks were filled with dd’s wedding and my L.E.D. Seminar. So finally getting around to say, we had a great time at the Colorado Home Educators’ Conference. Our favorite speaker (which we knew would be before we went) was Voddie Baucham. I highly recommend ordering his sessions from this conference, especially "Government Education", and/or his book, Family Driven Faith or DVD, Children of Caesar. Also here’s the most extensive listing I know of for his online resources.

Other sessions I attended and enjoyed were by Doug Phillips and Kevin Swanson on family entrepeneuership.

I also, only becuase bored and tired of walking around, stopped into a math workshop. The speaker was speaking on how math resources need to teach concepts. He mentioned programs he thinks are good, which was the same list as current programs on my website.

We shopped a bit, getting some great family resources. I haven’t even begun to think of what our studies for the next sveral months will be, so don’t know if I was shopping for "school" or not. Just for life!

Anyhow, it was a great all around conference, though I misssed a few of the vendor’s we normally buy from that weren’t there this year, notably Children’s Books, from whom I usually make a sizable purchase. We took only our teens this year, so they could go to all the sessions. That was nice that we didn’t have the running back and forth and having to miss sessions, but we sure missed our little ones, and were glad to get home.

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Our God is GREAT! Do you know that?

I shared a couple days ago how God is bringing some renewing in my thoughts. (Don’t ever think that if something is "out there" presented in the public that it is absolutely complete, all there is, presented in perfection. That isn’t true of my teachings, NOR of anyone else’s - whether they let on to that or not. NO ONE has arrived. NO ONE has achieved the Wisdom of God! We are all growing and changing each and every day. OR we are already dead!)

OK, back on track. I am just SUPER EXCITED about the greater depth of understanding God is bringing to Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™! in ME, the founder of it! - still learning after all these years. I am hoping to be able to convey some of this at the Ultimate Homeschool Expo next week. And will for sure be adding it into Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~ The Seminar LIVE! 2008, in June.

One area is the teaching on the "Universal Principles" I give, that I knew there were more connections to be made, but wasn’t exactly sure HOW those connections were to be made. God has opened my eyes to see this even clearer - hopefully bringing even more Freedom & Simplicity™! I’m really hoping that He’ll open it up for me to share it with you next week. Please pray for me as I finalize what parts of the L.E.D. message I’ll share at the UHSE, that it would be just the things those that attend need to hear.

He’s also been clearing a few other paths.

Just had to let you know, there’s more exciting new things to come in Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™!

Yours for Freedom & Simplicity™
in Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
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