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- home educating in Hamilton, NZ

FF : Praying for the Oikos

Pray for your husband, your pastor’s wife, define boundaries with your children, how to choose a church - the circles of a stone in still water ripple outwards - and so does our sphere of influence.
http://www.reviveourhearts.com/challenge/ - sign up and be supported throughout the month
interesting page of pdf articles - http://www.reviveourhearts.com/topics/downloads/
http://www.reviveourhearts.com/topics/ - devotions, forgiveness, gratitude
Enjoy the reading - […]

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FF : Love can save us from this moral vacuum

What is the key to our living safely and respectfully in community?
Bless Garth George, journalist and column writer for NZ Herald. He has touched on the key issue here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=500818&objectid=10518356&pnum=0
“Love can save us from this moral vacuum”
“Things must be getting really grim when two newspaper commentators - Wellington veteran Rosemary McLeod and former Listener editor Finlay Macdonald […]

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MM : Look After Your Marriage

As a mother, wife, and woman, the best thing you can do is to nurture and care for your marriage, your prime relationship on this earth.
Without a secure relational base, the family frays around the edges.
Treat your honey as your best friend - watch your tone of voice, how you request things (to be done), how […]

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FF: Biblical Feasts and Holidays

Boker tov
http://kecirohomeschool.com/biblicalholidays.htm - click on the blue titles for more. See also the LHS link to learning Hebrew.
http://biblicalholidays.com/Acrobat/BHPreview2.0.pdf - pdf, excerpts
http://biblicalholidays.com/Excerpts/excerpts.htm - various articles. See also LHS links to individual feasts and holidays.
http://biblicalholidays.com/Excerpts/holiday_chart.htm - check also rest of this website for Hebrew references and articles.
http://www.cresourcei.org/chyear.html - church year - scroll down and click on blue links
Christmas
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Holidays/Christmas/Decorations_and_Props/Advent_Calendars/
Shalom

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FF : URGENT spelling lesson

Here’s your spelling lesson for today.  
Yes, this is filed under Fellowship or Friendship Friday. A tenuous link but since blogging and writing online is a kind of community, it gets put here.
All bloggers & writers, please note :

Plurals do not need apostrophes.
Apostrophes are usually used when a letter is missing.
eg. you’re = you are.   ‘You’re welcome to come […]

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Blogs : Holy Experiences

http://aholyexperience.com/2007/05/one-piece-life.html -
“the profane is just the sacred abused” (quote from Buchanan)
“In God…we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).
“God be in my head, and in my understanding,
God be in my eyes, And in my looking,
God be in my mouth, And in my speaking;
God be in my heart, And in my feeling;
God be at my […]

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FF : Biblical Fellowship

Some things on Biblical Fellowship I’ve read this week: 
True Biblical Fellowship
We learn in God’s word that fellowship is a HEART issue, something to be felt and expressed, and something very important to be a part of. It should occur apart from any program, schedule, or activity. It is to be a way of life for […]

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FF : Why Families Need to Dine Together

The benefits include: less drugs, more family unity, improving communication skills, healthier food, …
Check out the benefits of dining as a family around a table together. I’ve taken some quotes and ideas out of these linked articles.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/11/18/joining_together_for_the_family_meal/
Nov 2006 - Ugandan communalism. Ten-year research tried to determine why some children wound up with destructive behaviors such as […]

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FF : Home Educators’ YearBook

Home Educators Yearbook
Before the year ends, here’s one way to have a record of your Homeschool year :

Buy a small-medium photo album
Check there are plain cards slightly smaller than the sleeve in each sleeve. This keeps pages firm, esp if no photos.
Grab a camera and do some catch-up photo-taking. Capture people and places on film […]

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