Great website that is a blessing!

There is a website that is www.nationalprayerbank.com it is a huge blessing. The site is basically a website dedicated to prayer where folks can post prayer request online and also pray for others that have posted prayer requests online. Check the website out it is a tremendous blessing, a friend of my told me about it over Thanksgiving. Hope it can be a help to you all like it has me.

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Thanksgiving Eating

In our day of health food, exercise craze, etc., we find it easy to minimize the Bible’s connection of abundant food with his blessing. When we eat well, many of us feel guilty rather than thankful.

Solomon enjoyed Thanksgiving every day:

I Kings 4:22-23
Solomon’s daily provisions were thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl.
We seem to prefer the last item this time of year!

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Blogging for Kids

I’ve been thinking about ways to use the internet with my kids to further their knowledge and interest in the world around them, and I ran across this article at The Tempered Radical about teachers using blogging as a tool in their classrooms.

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Handling Social Media with Our Kids

I know some parents aren’t very computer or internet savvy, and they are a bit mystified as to how to keep their kids safe and yet allow them to use the resources available on the internet. There a list of tips for parents outlined here.

Set Appropriate Boundaries and Provide Intentional Oversight for Social Media.

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Free Internet Content Filtering From OpenDNS

I just started using this service:

http://www.opendns.com/

They offer among other things a web content filtering service at no expense to the household user. I like it because of 1.) the cost (free), and 2.) because you can filter at the router level, which is becoming more and more important with the influx of wireless devices that can come into a home. You are able to adjust the content filtering at several levels:

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Q&A with a Single Parent Homeschooler

Kysha is a recently divorced mom who is now tackling the task of being a single-parent homeschooler. She answers some common questions about how she manages it on her blog, Love’s School.

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Valley of Vision question

Question about the introductory prayer from Valley of Vision

This phrase:

... in the daytime stars can be seen from deepest wells, and the deeper the wells the brighter thy stars shine …

Does anyone have a thought about whether the statement is true?

Thanks

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Failure

I would appreciate input about failure. Did you ever feel God leading you into something that ended up in failure? How did that affect your faith? Did that failure lead to success in time or did you just have to deal with it? What have you learned from failure?

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Christoper Klicka of the HSLDA fought a good fight

“A longtime champion of homeschooling rights around the globe, Home School Legal Defense Association Senior Counsel and Director of State and International Relations Christopher J. Klicka was called home by his Lord on October 12, 2009, at age 48, following a 15-year battle with multiple sclerosis. An attorney, spokesman, lobbyist, and homeschooling husband and father, Chris is survived by his wife, Tracy, their seven children (ages 11–21), and his parents, Ardath and George Klicka.”

Read the rest here.

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