Cover to Cover Challenge 2017 (Day 7)
Bible Reading Challenge . CEF (child evangelism fellowship) . Family . Home Schooling . Katie's RamblingsYesterday was a fun day at our house. We got some new Bibles. Jeremy and I have been wanting to get new Bibles for the kids for school use, for a while. But it wasn’t a necessary item, as we have lots of Bibles in our home. We have our school Bibles that the kids
Cover to Cover Challenge 2017 (day 5 and 6)
Bible Reading Challenge . Family . Home Schooling . Katie's RamblingsOn day five of our challenge Jer and the kids read Genesis 28-33. I was not feeling well and took a nap. So I had to make up the reading on my own. Tonight, the sixth night, we read Genesis 34-38. Jeremy fell asleep, so he will make up the reading before tomorrow night. These
Cover to Cover Challenge 2017 (day 3, let’s talk about covenants)
Bible Reading Challenge . Family . Home Schooling . Katie's RamblingsWe read through Genesis chapter 15-22 last night. Jackson Linton was here visiting and joined us in our reading time. All the kids did great again sitting and listening. Benny, being three, does move around a bit from person to person. He also is at the stage of noise making. So, often, we have soft
Cover to Cover Challenge (Day 2)
Bible Reading Challenge . Family . Home Schooling . Katie's RamblingsThis evening we gathered in the living room after dinner and read Genesis 8-15. It took us exactly 30 minutes to read it together. Everyone was alert and focused to the end. To help us prepare, we all stretched and did a few exercises to get our blood flowing. We discussed afterwards the many sons
Time for a Challenge (Cover to Cover in 2017)
Bible Reading Challenge . Family . Home Schooling . Katie's RamblingsIt is that time of year again. Time to take the challenge. Here at the Hirn house we are all going to do the cover to cover challenge again. We will be starting the cover to cover challenge. Starting tomorrow evening we will be reading through the Bible as a family, out loud each evening.
Is Christmas and Easter Pagan? Does it Matter?
Family . Holidays . Katie's RamblingsI love history and especially ancient history. So I read a lot of ancient documents and transcripts of them. I love it. Do I think there is evidence that Christmas and Easter are pagan or have pagan roots or traditions? Yes, I do. But can someone else come and find documents to argue against my