The March 24 edition of Time Magazine lists 10 Ideas That Are Changing The World. Check out number 10.

More than money, more than politics, ideas are the secret power that this planet runs on. Here are a few you need to know about:

1. Common Wealth

2. The End of Customer Service

3. The Post-Movie-Star Era

4. Reverse Radicalism

5. Kitchen Chemistry

6. Geoengineering

7. Synthetic Authenticity

8. The New Austerity

9. Mandatory Health

10. Re-Judaizing Jesus

Sorry I’ve been absent from blogging. I have been in lala land; lots of napping and no writing. I had a root canal last week and had problems. I’m living on pain killers and gargling with NyQuil (it works short term waiting on the dentist over the weekend). Hope to be back to normal next week.

Thanks, Kathleen, for telling me about this article.

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This is great video explaining lapbooking.

Learn more about Lapbooking and Scrapbooking to Learn in our new Scrapbook to Learn Community

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Most homeschool mothers will tell you they learn more teaching their children than they ever learned in school. It is God’s way. He commanded us to teach our children, it isn’t surprising He built in a way for us to grow through the process.

It is our job to motivate our students. We need to find and push the student’s hot buttons. Instead of demanding we need tomake the lesson applicable to the student’s life just as Jesus did when he talked to fishermen about fish, shepherds about sheep, etc.

Assigning a number of pages to read in a textbook is not teaching. Dr. Bruce Wilkinson explains, in The Seven Laws of the Learner, “Talking in front of a class is not teaching. True Biblical teaching doesn’t take place unless students have learned. If they haven’t learned we haven’t taught. “

Only a very small percentage of children will learn if all you do is hand out assignments. Most children, 75% according to learning-style studies, need more. The Heart of Wisdom approach is specifically designed to be a parent-child interaction program. It is at first parent directed, then delight directed, beginning with the parent teaching the student until he or she is internally motivated to study lead by the Holy Spirit.

At first –Parent Directed–teaching the student until he or she is internally motivated to study lead by the Holy Spirit–Delight Directed.

According to Jere Brophy (1987), motivation to learn is a competence acquired “through general experience but stimulated most directly through modeling, communication of expectations, and direct instruction or socialization by significant others (especially parents and teachers).”

Learning together can be a very stimulating intellectual and spiritual experience. Much of the material in The Heart of Wisdom unit studies will be new to the teacher as well as to the student. Teacher-student exploration will promote yet another bond between parent and child.

Are you reading through the Bible with us? Today’s 4-Step Bible lesson is on Joshua.

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Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his death. “God raised him from the dead on the third day” (Acts 10:40).

“For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Matt 12:40).

Third Day Patterns

A Bible pattern is when a spiritual truth stated in one part of the Bible is repeated in a similar fashion in yet another portion of the Bible. Examine the third day patterns. The first two days don’t tell the whole story - the third day is the conclusion.

1. On the third day — “the earth brought forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit.” (Genesis 1:12)
2. On the third day — “Abraham looked up and saw the place [Mount Moriah] from afar.” There he intends to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering to God. Yet he assures his companions, “We will worship and return.” (Genesis 22:4-5)
3. On the third day — Pharaoh releases his chief cupbearer from death-row. (Genesis 40:20-21)
4. On the third day — Joseph releases his brothers from prison in Egypt. (Genesis 42:17-18)
5. On the third day — The Israelites request Pharaoh’s permission to make a three-day journey to offer sacrifice in the desert to God. (Exodus 3:18)
6. On the third day — Plague Nine, the Plague of Darkness, in Egypt ends, “though the Israelites enjoyed light in their dwellings.” (Exodus 10:22)
7. On the third day — God descends to Mount Sinai in fire with the sound of a shofar. He then reveals The Ten Words, Israel’s constitution of new life as a nation after their resurrection from the death of slavery in Egypt. (Exodus 19:16-19)
8. On the third day — Israelites are to purify themselves with water after being in contact with the dead. (Numbers 19:12)
9. On the third day — After coming to the river and preparing themselves, the Israelites cross the Jordan “to enter and possess the land that the LORD [their] God is giving to [them] as a possession.” (Joshua 1:11; 3:2)
10. On the third day — Joshua’s spies emerge from hiding from the Jerichoites, then return to their commander. (Joshua 2:16, 22)
11. On the third day — a famine during David’s reign ends. (2 Samuel 21:1).
12. On the third day — a famine called for by Elijah the prophet ends. (1 Kings 18:1)
13. On the third day — after asking God for release, King Hezekiah is healed of his fatal disease and offers thanks in the temple. (2 Kings 20:5)
14. On the third day — Jonah is expelled from the fish belly. (Jonah 1:17/2:1 Heb) (Matt 12:40; cf Matt 16:21; 17:23)
15. On the third day — After fasting, Esther puts on royal apparel and enters the palace of the Persian king in order to thwart a death-plot against her people, the Jews. (Esther 4:16; 5:1)

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The Heart of Wisdom Bible study consists of reading though the Bible in a year. 

Download 24 pages explaining our Bible Study approach (pdf)

I’m documenting what I do with my children in the new Bible study area. You can log in each day for the chronological Bible lesson. Here is an example:

Step 1

Everyday you make choices from the time you get out of bed until you go to sleep. Brainstorm and discuss choices you will make today. List at least 5 choices you will make today.

In today’s reading Moses describes the path of obedience and the path of disobedience. Listen to this passage for the destination of each path.

Imagine how Moses felt. He remained so loyal to his people even though they criticized him, rebelled against him, and lied about him. He knew that he would not enter Promised Land. Listen to his final words to the people. Do his words sound vengeful or spiteful?

Two important words are used more than once to Joshua; these words are meant for us today. Listen for the words “strong” and “courageous” in this passage.

Step 2

Read Deuteronomy 30-31

Step 3

Choose from one of the following activities:

• Complete the worksheet pages Joshua Becomes Israel’s New Leader.
• Record the entry into the Promised Land about 1400 B.C in your timeline book.
• Copy work: …when you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
• Copy work: “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it. It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
• Do research to learn about the Feast of Booths spoken of in Deuteronomy 31: 9 (also called the Feast of Tabernacles).

Step 4

Share what you learned with someone.

The Bible is the ‘map’ that shows us the direction or path. If we are not reading ( studying) this book how can we expect to find our way to the proper road?

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