by debracelovsky | Jun 14, 2022 | One Year Bible, Prayer, Word
Question: How do you teach kids about Christians being killed for their faith? Yet another coincidence. Early June in the OYB means the Book of Acts. The second week of June means the martyrdom of Stephen. It’s my week in the Sunday School teaching rotation for...
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by debracelovsky | Jun 5, 2022 | Family Life, One Year Bible
Every summer when I was growing up in Northern California, we went to Family Camp in the mountains near Santa Cruz. This was a much anticipated event. Since it was the era of Big Hair, our packing meant lots of hairspray, as well. It was hot and dusty during the day,...
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by debracelovsky | May 30, 2022 | Liberty, One Year Bible
Twelve days ago, I was in Washington D.C. with students from our church’s homeschool co-op. It was a three-day intensive in our nation’s capital, walking an average of seven/eight miles a day in 90+ degree heat with crushing humidity. No one complained. On...
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by debracelovsky | May 21, 2022 | One Year Bible, Word
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. Hannah More, 18th c. English writer It was a beautiful spring morning as our group left Jerusalem and drove north up...
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by debracelovsky | Apr 21, 2022 | Travel, Word
There is on my desk a small metal picture frame given to me by a dear friend, with these words: Write the vision and make it plain. While the balance of the verse says, that he may run who reads it, the Hebrew meaning is actually, that he may read fluently and...
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