A Child’s Story of the Bible was given to us as a gift when the children first came to stay with us. I LOVE this book! We read from it just about every day and the kids love it too!!! I plan to buy each of my children one for their first baby shower!
Here is a great book with excellent pictures and details about how to gut, cut and cook deer.
This is a must have for your library.
The QBQ!!! I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is a fast read with short chapters that stress the importance of personal accountability. Although the book is focused on personal accountability at work it bleeds into EVERY area of life!
I think this a great book to use at your dinner table or during family time to ignite some great conversation about giving your all, even in the simplest of task. Do you want to equip your children with a great work ethic? This book drives it home! It is an easy to understand, straight to the point book that even children as young as 10-12 could understand but most definitely written for adults that want to make a difference in the world!
The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life
Being a wife and mom is a full time job, so trying to build a business or even just trying to bring a few extra dollars into the home can be a major stress. If you are trying to figure out how in the world you are going to add one more thing to your schedule, but you know you need to do something to help build your family economy there are a couple things to remember.
Don’t Compromise on Priorities
Know You Can NOT Do It All
Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives
This is also posted over at The Legacy of the Home.
The best way to learn how to be successful is to watch, listen and learn from those who have succeeded. If at all possible spending one on one time is best, but in most cases we need to read from and about them.
Choose carefully who you spend time with, whether that be in person or through books. Be sure that their world view is Biblical. Many successful people may have some great ideas that work, but all of their ideas may not be wise for you, so glean what you can and leave the rest.
I admit, I personally am not an avid reader, but I am trying to change that. One way to absorb good reading is through audio books, this is a great help to me.
I also LOVE good talk radio. Whether it be politics, current events, matters of faith or even car issues I LOVE talk radio! Dave Ramsey’s show is excellent to listen to.
The following are books I’ve read or are on my list to read. These books are to help transform your way you view business and money. Feel free to leave other recommendations in the comment section.
48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal
Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition:
Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business
Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
This is also posted at The Legacy of the Home.
Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens
Here is an excellent resource for parenting teens.
You can get it for under $3 (plus shipping) at Amazon.
This one is great if you are trying to win the heart of a younger child.
Last week our girls were at the Student World View Conference. The speakers were fantastic and the girls came home with so many nuggets of truth! After dealing with rebellion from our older two I do not take for granted that any of our children have a desire to grow spiritually, it is a beautiful thing!!! I know this desire only comes from our Heavenly Father, HE has given them eyes to see, and for that I am truly thankful!
It’s a pretty cool thing when your kids go on trip and they bring you home presents! :) Emma bought us a Micheal Card CD. He sang and spoke there. They REALLY liked him. Olivia brought home a stack of books. One book was, A Word in Season, by R.J. Rushdoony. This book is EXCELLENT! The following are a few passages that really stuck out to me; it’s all so simple, yet so rich.
Chapter 2 Self-Righteousness
“The self-righteous man sees everything wrong with God, the world, his family and nothing wrong with himself. The self-righteousness man has a revolutionary answer for all problems: everything around him must change, and he himself must stay the same. By definition, he himself is the ultimate standard and judge. The social order must be overturned, his parents despised, and all authority flouted, and he insist on remaining the same: he is very pleased with his own perfection.”
“The saved man seeks to conform himself to the Word of God; the self-righteous man seeks to conform God and the world to his word and will. “
“The world of self-righteousness is a world of anarchy.”
“The destiny of such people is to be washed out of history by God’s judgement.” (Proverbs 30:12)
Self-righteousness is something we all deal with in ourselves and in our children.
A friend and I were talking the other day about her son (and we all have encountered this). He rolled his eyes at her. He claimed he only “looked up”. The heart of the matter is that he was arguing with her and he rolled his eyes. HE was defining what a “roll” was. It’s the same thing as when you tell a child “do not touch this”, and they slowly, gently, bump it. They are defining the ‘touch’.
Here is the deal, YOU as the parent have to be clear to define what a ‘roll’ is, or a ‘touch’ is; just as God defines what is right and wrong. We cannot make up our own rules! We can not put our own twist on what is meant.
He laid out rules for a reason, but more important than the rules, is the heart attitude. He demands first place in our heart, and that we follow the rules (love/obey Him and love/serve others) from a pure heart. He hates pride! He hates self-righteousness. It’s not the roll of the eyes that causes the problem, it’s the heart attitude, we want our child’s heart, just as Christ wants our heart. Once the heart is there obedience comes more easily.
“The world of self-righteousness is a world of anarchy.” Oh so true! When we make up our own rules, stand on our own pride then we have chaos. The reason why there was strife between the mom and son was because with a prideful heart the son was defining the ‘roll of the eyes’. He did not have a heart of love, honor and obedience towards his mother. He was filled with self-righteousness, seeking to overthrow his mother’s authority. We have got to help our children make the connection between their everyday relationships and their relationship with Christ, just as we need to.
This book is definitely worth the read. The chapters are supper short and easy to understand. The book could even be used as a devotional. Give your kids some meat to chew on this year and let them read this…as you read it, talk about it together. It would make great after dinner conversation! Rushdoony does not mix words and gets right to the point!
