bread and water

It’s that time of year. Kids are going back to school. We have four sons and the oldest one graduated high school last May. My husband and I attended public school growing up. I remember thinking that people who homeschooled were weird. For some reason, when our oldest was a toddler we decided to try out homeschooling. We wanted to be with our children and teach them a biblical worldview.  We quickly multiplied and had our older three sons two and a half years apart. My husband traveled and preached a lot during those years and we wanted to be together as a family so we continued to homeschool the boys. We joined different coops that had some great aspects to them & we were able to make friends with like minded people. One coop even put on a huge production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Three of my sons were part of the chimney sweep dancers with canes and hats like the movie. It was so much fun.  Over the years I read aloud to the boys a lot. We memorized scripture, played ...

I recently listened to a podcast and the mega influencer who was being interviewed said that she believes there are many different paths for people to get to faith. A red flag went up in my mind because I know that not to be true. The Bible teaches that there is only one path, one way to heaven, and that is through Jesus.   If you say that nowadays you get looked at funny. Say what? Only ONE way? People are being encouraged to “Live your truth”, “You do you”, “Whatever makes you happy!”. All the while the Bible says,  “ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 NIV Notice He says THE way, not one of the many ways.  I grew up in a church that taught us the Roman’s Road to salvation and how to use scripture to lead people to Christ. If we don’t use the Bible, God’s Word, as our foundation for truth then we have nothing to stand on.  John 1:1 says,   “ In the beginning was the Word, and t...