The Good List
During the past six months it has felt like we have lost some of our freedoms. Though the cause is for health and safety reasons, it still feels like we are being deprived of things we love. I miss...
View ArticleA “Fourth Man” on the Journey–Lessons from Ernest Shackleton and other...
Schools are back in session, sort of. As I write this, I’m deep in the throes of online professional development to prepare for the remote fall classes in my elementary school and a new role in the...
View ArticleBook Review: Cuddle-Up Prayers
Cuddle Up Prayers By Michelle Medlock Adams, Art by Mernie Gallagher-Cole Is your child feeling sad? Are they happy? Or feeling thankful? Then it’s the perfect time to talk with God about how they...
View ArticlePicturing God, by Ruth Goring: A Book Review
I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up, I pictured God as a white-haired old man with a beard. To me, God was always male, unapproachable, and a little scary. If only I’d owned a beautiful...
View ArticleLinks to Help You Navigate the New School Year
Fall makes me nostalgic. It’s a time when I begin reminiscing, even for a moment, my ten years of home-educating our son and daughter. I enjoyed immensely the process of choosing curricula and filling...
View ArticleDo You Have A Plan on How to Raise Your Children?
Raising Strong Christian Children We plan for many things. We plan where we will go on vacation, what college we will attend, and how we will invest our income to secure our future. Understanding that...
View ArticleFree Cut and Paste Bible Verse Fun: Verses About Rest
I’m not good at resting. My To Do list always seems to be screaming at me, and part of me always feels like there is something I should be doing. But that’s not what Jesus says, and when it comes down...
View ArticleEncourage the Right Mindset
A friend mentioned that her little girl wants to keep everything she makes and being home all the time, that’s a lot to keep. Alas, with isolating children can cling more to items and start hoarding....
View ArticleJonah: The Fearful Prophet by Janice D. Green
■Author: Janice D. Green ■Pages: 36 ■Publisher: Honeycomb Adventures Press, LLC ■ASIN: B08BKX6SPG ■ISBN-13: 978-0983680888 ■SRP: $9.95 (softcover)/$3.19 (Kindle) ■Reviewed By: Cheryl Malandrinos...
View ArticleUsing Picture Books as Conversation Starters
As I prepared for the release of Different Like Me, I prayed God would use the book as a conversation starter. These precious moments are divinely led, but we can create space for conversations and...
View ArticleI Love You to the Stars
I Love You to the Stars—When Grandma Forgets, Love Remembers is my latest book that will release September 22, published by Kregel Publishing. It’s inspired by a true story and adapted for a...
View ArticleIntegrate Learning to Improve Reading Skills
Remember learning skills to help you find the main idea in a piece of writing? I was never good at that. What I got as the main idea was totally different from the teacher’s or her manual’s idea. Not...
View ArticleSharing Prayer Time with Children
Prayers are whispered, spoken out loud and/or said in our thoughts. We pray for healing, for forgiveness, for guidance. We share prayers of thanksgiving and joy. We pray during good times and during...
View ArticleWrite2Ignite Goes Virtual
If you write fiction for children, young adults, or even adults you are invited to join Write2Ignite for our first ever Virtual Master Class. On September 19, 2020, multi-published author Joyce Moyer...
View ArticleNew Releases: Jonah: The Fearful Prophet and The Creation
Somewhere between Bible board books for infants, Bible storybooks for preschoolers, beginning readers, and the time a child receives his or her first real Bible, there has to be a place for children’s...
View ArticleBook Review: The Hidden Village
The Hidden Village is a tender story about Manju and his discovery of an unknown village near his home in India. Pastor Dandak just gave Manju his very first Bible and showed him where to find the...
View ArticleFree Cut and Paste Bible Verse Fun: Verses About Knowing Jesus
Nothing in this world or the next is as important as knowing Jesus, but we must not ever confuse knowing about Jesus to knowing Him. Neither can we confuse teaching the children in our lives about Him...
View ArticleRaising Children to Celebrate God’s Intentional Diversity
I surrendered my life to Christ three months after I turned thirty, two years after studying the Bible and becoming a part of a church family. Yet, I still struggled with genuine relationship-building...
View ArticleBook Review: Jane Austen for Kids
This book provides a great way to introduce children to biographies because of the fun elements included. Enjoying a regency tea party, making a sextant, playing with puns, let children experience some...
View ArticleKnow any Struggling Teens? Hope and an Exciting New Read
You’ve all heard the phrase, ‘When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” Today’s post is about a young woman who has turned life’s challenges into writing projects. Her latest, Den: If You Don’t Want...
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