“Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and Your dominion
endures throughout
all generations.
The Lord is faithful
in all His words
and kind
in all His works.”
Has not the LORD made them one? In flesh and spirit they are His. And why one? Because He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of the Lord
The groom, a young widower and farmer, had recently landed in
John Rolfe, along with the governor, discipled Pocahontas, read to her from the Bible, and taught her to read and memorize scripture. She professed faith in Christ and was baptized, renouncing her former paganism – a demonic worship that included child sacrifice.
Their wedding, blessed by her father, brought peace between the settlers and Indians, called “the Peace of Pocahontas.”
Both bride and groom were used by God to establish a colony based on Christianity. Virginia Governor, John Smith, said that, “God made Pocahontas” and credited her with saving the settlement. “[S]he next, under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion.”
John Rolfe would save the colony economically by developing the major cash crop, tobacco. Through difficulty starting a new colony he refused to be discouraged calling
Theirs is one of
3 comments:
they got bored of staying at home and doing workbooks
boys need something more engaging
the fathers are absent, and the boys sense that,
that's what I think
You're right, VC, as long as homeschooling is a mother's movement. Mom's give up and think they can't do it, not without a lot of support from Dad.
Boys need men. They are not designed to be under just Mom, especially as teenagers. They do well having physical challanges.
The first poster has it right, I believe. In studying the "old Jesixh ways", strong emphasis was put on FATHERS to TEACH their children, and particularly the concept of "elbow learning", wherein a young man would spend large amounts of time alongside his Dad, learning by observation, involvement, deliberate instruction, and a sort of "osmosis" how to be a man, gain a life-long skill with which to support his own family, how to tend a family and estate, social and economic skills..... often, by the time a lad reached sixteen or so he was fully ready to manage on his own, but even then most would continue in life and business right alongside Dad until they got their own Brides, when he would leave his parents.
These days, after being surrendered to the government schools, the highest hope is to go off to college to learn, uhm, well, something, maybe. Always taught by professionals who are highly paid for the "service", most become nameless cogs in some complex "machine" of production. Little in way of real challenge, little to nothing to "subdue" or "take dominion" over. And the entire system has devolved to the lowest common denominator, which is a very weak and effeminate one. No wonder boys are fleeing what passes for "education" in droves. Few could articulate why, but I believe they sense, deep down, that something is radically wrong. It is plain most KNOW they want little from such a system.
Your own sons, persuing as they are a specific discipline or field, learning, growing, being challenged, facing directly the consequences of their own decisions, leaning to get "a multitude of counsel" from various sources... I love that they are visiting other beemen, learning from them, seeing how THEY do it, drawing from their years of experience... and at the same time researching, exploring, thinking creatively..... there is no formal course of study that could ever give that to any man. And that sort of thing is precisely what is missing from the typical school setting, and much of the home-school phenomenon as well. Knowledge is one thing, experience and equipping are very much another.
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