L-R: Emily, Hope, and Faith posing
Faith and Emily playing tag -- neither of them was "it" right then
Me on the run playing tag...
Hope touching "base"
Lincoln last Friday
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Pictures of Our Babysitting
On Monday afternoon, we had all 3 of the B. kids, instead of just Lincoln because the girls were off school. Jason, Emily, Faith, Hope, and I went to the Letford Elementary School playground, and there we played tag. It was warm, but windy!
L-R: Emily, Hope, and Faith posing
Faith and Emily playing tag -- neither of them was "it" right then
Me on the run playing tag...
Hope touching "base"
Lincoln last Friday
L-R: Emily, Hope, and Faith posing
Faith and Emily playing tag -- neither of them was "it" right then
Me on the run playing tag...
Hope touching "base"
Lincoln last Friday
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Our Week
We had a pretty busy week this week with school, babysitting, and life.
We had a game-playing afternoon activity with some home schoolers at our house last Monday because it was too cold to have the regular PE time in the park. Also on Monday afternoon, we babysat Lincoln as we also did on Tuesday afternoon. On Tuesday morning we had another babysitting girl, Kara, here.
Friday Jeff drove Jason, Emily, himself, and me to a field trip at a sewer plant in Greeley, while Mother stayed home and babysat Lincoln. Friday night our other "babysitting" kids Lily and Sam M. came over. After they left I did a little "Saturday" cleaning.
Saturday we finished cleaning the house and Mother and I worked 1.5 hours cleaning the local Chamber of Commerce. After a relatively quiet afternoon, we had Bible Study with the Hinkle family. We finished our almost 2 year study of the Book of Mark.
After Bible Study we watched a very well-done, evidential documentary named: Unlocking the Mystery of Life. It was a blessing to us. It was fun for Jason and me especially (we are taking biology) to see things we've studied about, (such as: amino acids, proteins, cells, flagellum, etc.) put together in a big picture (literally) and explained. It is exciting how many scientists' eyes are being opened to the truth of Creation and the Creator!
Today we had church with a wonderful message on the sanctity of human life by Dr. Dave Gordeuk. We also enjoyed a walk in the sun-shiny, 60 degree, windy weather we had.
We had a game-playing afternoon activity with some home schoolers at our house last Monday because it was too cold to have the regular PE time in the park. Also on Monday afternoon, we babysat Lincoln as we also did on Tuesday afternoon. On Tuesday morning we had another babysitting girl, Kara, here.
Friday Jeff drove Jason, Emily, himself, and me to a field trip at a sewer plant in Greeley, while Mother stayed home and babysat Lincoln. Friday night our other "babysitting" kids Lily and Sam M. came over. After they left I did a little "Saturday" cleaning.
Saturday we finished cleaning the house and Mother and I worked 1.5 hours cleaning the local Chamber of Commerce. After a relatively quiet afternoon, we had Bible Study with the Hinkle family. We finished our almost 2 year study of the Book of Mark.
After Bible Study we watched a very well-done, evidential documentary named: Unlocking the Mystery of Life. It was a blessing to us. It was fun for Jason and me especially (we are taking biology) to see things we've studied about, (such as: amino acids, proteins, cells, flagellum, etc.) put together in a big picture (literally) and explained. It is exciting how many scientists' eyes are being opened to the truth of Creation and the Creator!
Today we had church with a wonderful message on the sanctity of human life by Dr. Dave Gordeuk. We also enjoyed a walk in the sun-shiny, 60 degree, windy weather we had.
Important Lessons from 1 Timothy
This week, upon having completed a year of catechism from our online church (Hobe Sound Bible Church) we began reading through and discussing 1 Timothy in family devotions and have gotten up to chapter 5. There are some very important lessons/teachings in this book of the Bible.
[from 1 Tim. 2:1-4] In the very first part of chapter 2, Paul urged Timothy and those under his influence to pray for all men everywhere, especially those in authority over them. (Now of course this applies to us today.) It also says (besides prayers, intercessions, and supplications) that THANKSGIVING should be made for rulers. --We find praying for our president and other leaders especially important right during this time.-- But thanksgiving? That's a little harder if you have totally different morals/beliefs then they do. Although there were several wicked leaders in Paul's day, he added this word. That's interesting.
(2:2) "That ...prayers... be made... for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence." In other words we need to pray that the laws being made will not make it so we have to disobey the law to serve God. So that we can serve God without going against governing authorities. "...in godliness" - serving God "and reverence," obeying laws.
We are to especially pray that they would get saved. (2:4) So we pray - along with other Christians- for our new president (his soul, his family, his choices, his influence, his cabinet); the representatives, senators, and all the other "rulers" (many of whom have turned their backs on God). We have prayed Proverbs 21:1 for our presidents (past and new) which says: "The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes" and have prayed that our president would have reverential fear of God in him.
The majority of chapter 3 is [sadly] commonly overlooked when people choose church leaders. Because of this people are led astray and are confused. Some even turn away from the faith because of the black mark people make against God's name and the hypocrisy that is present.
Chapter 3 ends with a wonderfully true and blessed saying. "In this verse Paul reckons up six principal heads of evangelical truth, which are to be asserted and defended by him; ushering them in with this preface, 'Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness.' " [from William Burkitt's Notes]
The question of why we pray at meals is answered in chapter 4:4-5. And why is that? [First] to thank the Lord for provision for our needs; [second] to ask Him to protect us from any harm that could come from the food; [third] that He would bless the food to the nourishment of our bodies.
Very important teachings are given in 4:12, 13, 15, and 16. First that those who are "young" should be examples of righteousness (in various ways) despite their youth. [4:13 with my notes in parentheses] " give attention to reading (scripture), to exhortation (encouragement to righteous living - whether by preaching or by testimonies), to doctrine (the truth that the Church is built on)."
Well, that's all for now, since we haven't read the rest of 1 Timothy yet. Thanks for reading.
[from 1 Tim. 2:1-4] In the very first part of chapter 2, Paul urged Timothy and those under his influence to pray for all men everywhere, especially those in authority over them. (Now of course this applies to us today.) It also says (besides prayers, intercessions, and supplications) that THANKSGIVING should be made for rulers. --We find praying for our president and other leaders especially important right during this time.-- But thanksgiving? That's a little harder if you have totally different morals/beliefs then they do. Although there were several wicked leaders in Paul's day, he added this word. That's interesting.
(2:2) "That ...prayers... be made... for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence." In other words we need to pray that the laws being made will not make it so we have to disobey the law to serve God. So that we can serve God without going against governing authorities. "...in godliness" - serving God "and reverence," obeying laws.
We are to especially pray that they would get saved. (2:4) So we pray - along with other Christians- for our new president (his soul, his family, his choices, his influence, his cabinet); the representatives, senators, and all the other "rulers" (many of whom have turned their backs on God). We have prayed Proverbs 21:1 for our presidents (past and new) which says: "The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes" and have prayed that our president would have reverential fear of God in him.
The majority of chapter 3 is [sadly] commonly overlooked when people choose church leaders. Because of this people are led astray and are confused. Some even turn away from the faith because of the black mark people make against God's name and the hypocrisy that is present.
Chapter 3 ends with a wonderfully true and blessed saying. "In this verse Paul reckons up six principal heads of evangelical truth, which are to be asserted and defended by him; ushering them in with this preface, 'Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness.' " [from William Burkitt's Notes]
The question of why we pray at meals is answered in chapter 4:4-5. And why is that? [First] to thank the Lord for provision for our needs; [second] to ask Him to protect us from any harm that could come from the food; [third] that He would bless the food to the nourishment of our bodies.
Very important teachings are given in 4:12, 13, 15, and 16. First that those who are "young" should be examples of righteousness (in various ways) despite their youth. [4:13 with my notes in parentheses] " give attention to reading (scripture), to exhortation (encouragement to righteous living - whether by preaching or by testimonies), to doctrine (the truth that the Church is built on)."
Well, that's all for now, since we haven't read the rest of 1 Timothy yet. Thanks for reading.
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