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The beginning of wisdom
This weekend my wife and I attended the Arizona Families for Home Education yearly convention. We had a great time and really enjoyed hearing good speekers like Kevin Swanson of Christian Home Educators of Colorado, David Quine of Cornerstone Curriculum, and Mike Smith of HSLDA.
The sessions that really spoke to me were presented by Kevin Swanson. One of the ideas that Kevin gave was studying the book of Proverbs with your kids. The forumla goes like this:
- Read only three proverbs at a time
- Explain what those proverbs mean
- Give examples of how the kids an apply those proverbs
My wife and I will be adding this to our family worship starting next week.
Spiritual Gifts
So I was driving home this evening and a blurb on the radio has something or other about this or that concerning inviting people to church. My interest was peeked so I tried my best to etch the web address into my mind hoping it would stick for the next 15 minutes of drive time.
It worked. Once home and well fed, I jumped on the net to explore whatever it was that I thought was important enough to remember the URL. Too bad I just remembered the web address and not the topic. Undaunted by the lack of memory, I explored www.lifeway.com. WHOA! I found some really cool stuff there.
They have a Spiritual Gifts Survey that is a free download that consists of 80 statements. Some items reflect concrete actions other items are descriptive traits, and other are statements of belief. I printed the survey out and administered it to my eight year old daughter. Twenty minutes later I knew the same things about my child that I knew twenty minutes before, BUT we had a bunch of fun spending time together. Later my wife and I took the survey and compared results. No surprise there were no surprises. Again it was time well spent together focused on bending our hearts to our Lord.