Bible Lessons

One of my goals this year was to add in Bible to our school day.  I know, you would think this would be first priority in our first year of homeschooling, but it wasn't. We read the Bible at night as a family, and although I  really wanted to do a study with the kids, I never got around to it.  It was just another thing.

Matt kept encouraging me to do this, so this year, I made it my goal and we started with Bible the first day and have kept it going so far.

We are doing a study on the names of God...

I love this book! I've had it since last year and knew that I liked it, but like it even more now that we are in it.  God's names were something I've been interested in learning a bit about and this has been a great intro. It's really teaching the kids about God's character based on all of His many names.  This author has a new book out based on God's promises that I have ordered to do the second half of this year.

Another goal of mine has always been to memorize Scripture. I know the importance of this for fighting temptation and for meditating on His Word in any certain circumstance, but again, I just needed to get actually doing it.  

I came across the Fighter Verses Program on the Desiring God website, showed it to Matt, and we both thought it was a great way to get Scripture memorized.  Yes, we could easily have done this on our own, but that fact was, we weren't, so a program where it is already all laid out for me just works for us!  It is a 5 year program, comes with Scripture memory songs, and even an app for your iPod with quizzes and commentaries on the verses.

We are memorizing these as a family and are on our third week.  The kids love it and they love hearing Matt and I struggle to learn the verses.

We're excited about these things. Pray for us as we try to learn and hide Scripture in our hearts that we keep it up!