What Homeschool Opposition Looks Like Through Your Child’s Eyes

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  When you were blessed with a good childhood, as I was, things have a way of looking bright and cheery, in retrospect, that may have been challenging from my parents’ perspective. But there is one vault of memories we all remember the same: the opposition they faced in their decision to homeschool me. As
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Three Thoughts on Balancing Relationships & To-Do Lists – Part Two

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  Do you ever feel like you’re on a see-saw of choosing between relationships or productivity? As we lean on the Holy Spirit to teach us how to cherish our relationships, even as we complete housework, homeschooling, and other work commitments, here are three thoughts to bear in mind: Liberation From Guilt to Love This
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Three Thoughts on Balancing Relationships & To-Do Lists – Part One

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  Do you ever feel like you’re on a see-saw of choosing between relationships or chores? Work and people? As an unmarried woman in her mid-twenties, I never would have foreseen this as a problem. Yet, if there was one struggle I’ve battled more in navigating young adulthood, it would be this very one. Do
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Where His Heart Now Shudders: The Liberating Pen of John Newton – Part Two

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  The words…they seemed so hollow. What power would they have to lesson one less stripe of the lash that his ships – his slave ships – had condemned innocent men and women to? What life could it bring back from being snuffed out through abuse and hard labor in what, at the most, was
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Where His Heart Now Shudders: The Liberating Pen of John Newton – Part One

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  By the end of the 18th century, hundreds of thousands of Africans had been forcibly sold into slavery to North America and European nations. During this same period, God was raising up a remnant in England that would be mightily used to liberate their fellowman. Of this band, several fought the battle with their
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Cease From America’s Chain: The Liberating Pen of Hannah More – Part Two

  While her poem, “Slavery,” would serve as an alarm clock to the national conscience of a people who felt that slavery had been justified in the name of commerce, stability and even necessity, it would only prove to be one of many. Like most of the abolitionists in 1792, Hannah was naively giddy about
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Cease From America’s Chain: The Liberating Pen of Hannah More – Part One

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  By the end of the 18th century, hundreds of thousands of Africans had been forcibly sold into slavery to North America and European nations. During this same period, God was raising up a remnant in England that would be mightily used to liberate their fellowmen. Of this band, several fought the battle with their
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Can They Be True? – The Liberating Pen of Thomas Clarkson – Part Two

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  First rose up the images of their capture. A wail bore his imagination to the African tropics and the hut of a young, slender woman. Day four of seeking her children had come to an end, and the full realization that the slave hunters had stolen them from her forever overwhelmed her with cries
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