David Barton's article An Historical Perspective on a Muslim Being Sworn into Congress on the Koran

I just finished reading the article entitled An Historical Perspective on a Muslim Being Sworn into Congress on the Koran by David Barton. This is a PDF file and will take a couple of minutes to load on dialup. Read it. I like Barton's balanced approach to this problem. He views the swearing in as being problematic but does a great job of putting it perspective and provides excellent historical information in the bargain.

One of the points he makes is that the world has far more to fear from secularists being in power than muslims. He give statistics which show that secularists murdered more people in one century than all of the other sects did in the previous twenty centuries!

As I wrote about this in a different forum several weeks ago, I conjectured that this swearing in will ruffle many an evangelical's feathers. They'll go to and fro huffing and puffing about it not realizing that they gave up battle a long time ago. They really didn't fight it. And the way they did it was by agreeing to the general philosphy of pragmatism. Rather than arguing from scriptural precepts. They argued from natural law.

Do we see Elijah or the prophets giving pragmatic arguments? (Well if you consider that to not obey God's law will bring his curses on you, your nation, and family, it sounds pragmatic to me!) And don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that pragmatics aren't ever considered. Of course they are. But are they really a standard for ethics? No. Why? Because who ever holds the sword or the wallet gets to define what is pragmatic. Whoever can woo the public for five minutes defines it.

God's law rules the day weather we acknowledge it or not.

Read his Word. Learn it. Live it. Love Him. Share it.

This article by Barton is worthy of using during your family time, using it over a few evenings.

I would love to know what you think of it.

Lessons Learned From Years of Homeschooling

Lessons Leared from Years of Homeschooling is a blog sponsored by Chalcedon.edu. Some thought provoking thoughts on today's blog entitled "Standing on Your Own Two Feet." Many of us entered the homeschooling model because we thought it was the best way to prepare our children to meet the world's challenges. Then, after a while in the "room", we realized that God had called us to something very different than what we had envisioned.

The Christian Almanac by George Grant

The Christian Almanac This is the link to the Amazon website for the book I discussed in the former post.

I would love to hear about what ya'll are doing in you family worship times. Please provide as much detail as possible. What books do you use? What kinds of activities do you do? Do you sing? How often do you do it? What have been the challenges to your doing a family time? What resources would like to have which you haven't been able to find?

Please answer these or other questions about a family worship time.

Family Time

Our family has recently discovered George Grant's Christian Almanac. We are using it during our evening family time. The book is arranged by date with a this-day-in-history format. It also has a through-the-bible-in-a-year feature. We are enjoying it and learning a lot of history.

What are you doing for family time? If you only have adults in your home, do you still do family time? Does it look different?

As The Twig is Bent- A poem

As The Twig Is Bent
A.V. C.
2006

As the twig is bent
So grows the tree
'Tis said of the child .
O, How grows thy seed?

How will you ensure
Their moral fibers strong
That there be no question
In matters right and wrong?

Cords of Truth to anchor,
Tied by Steadfast Hand
Straightright yielding fruit
In crooked twisted land.

Not left to find its way,
But bent to glorify
This sure, chief end in store,
Their Maker to glorify.

Welcome!

To introduce: Homeschooling Dads is a blog in which several homeschooling dads will discuss things. We will discuss the things that are on our minds from politics to poetry, specifically with a hard lean toward biblical worldview. We are not professional theologians but more typical things like contractor, salesman, entrepreneur, postmaster, and parole officer. We are between the ages of forty and sixty. Some of us have all adult children, some with no adult children and some of us have a mixture of school-age children and adults. The largest of our families is fifteen children--the smallest three. There is not a chance that we will agree in everything which we discuss, but I expect that we will find a lot of commonality. I hope that we will challenge each other and readers too, always keeping in mind Christian charity. May the Lord bless this blog and be glorified in it!