Are You Worth Imitating?

What is your family catechism? By that, I mean, what are you teaching your children about the Lord?

You see friends, we all teach our children about God, all the time.

You teach them values, morals, ethics, doctrine, and so on, and all these teach about God. Your children are always learning. Even in the fun stuff, you're teaching your children about God.

Now, you want to hear something frightening? Good, hear it is--Your values will be their values--Your morals will be their morals--Your ethics will be their ethics--And your doctrine will be their doctrine.

It's A Blessing Giveaway

For all the female readers of The Male Domain, my wife is having a giveaway on her blog,

A Wise Woman Builds Her Home from It's a Blessing Etsy store.

It's a Blessing is generously giving away their gorgeous "Flowers Fall Picture Scarf" and matching charming "Fall Flowers Blessing Bracelet"  (a $38 value!)

Go and enter now while you can!

2010 Year End Review

With the sun setting on 2010, my family has much to be thankful for, as I'm sure yours does as well. A few things my family went to, was a part of, or witnessed this year were:

• three of our children getting baptized
• meeting and getting to know many new friends, including the Brookshire's, Hoover's, Shock's, Bandy's and Bult's
• attended the Reformaiton Day Faire at Providence Church, and was able to spend time talking with Kevin Swanson, and my good friend, James McDonald
• wife and daughters attended several 'ladies teas' and received much encouragement
• my family was able to see Voddie Baucham speak at the ICHE convention, and my wife and daughters were able to personally meet Jasmine Baucham at a ladies tea as well
• camped out for the first time over Memorial Day weekend

Tools to Help in Your Leadership Role

I'll be the first to admit - leading a family spiritually isn't easy - and doing it alone is even harder. As a first generation Christian I know the challenges first hand that arise when you set out to break destructive cycles in your life. It can feel overwhelming at times- and truth be told, it is overwhelming at times- and only does having a proper perspective help me make it to the next day.

This is why I'm so glad that in today's day and age, we have the opportunity to invest in ourselves, and in the lives of those around us, with just the click of the mouse, the flip of the page, or the scroll of an ipod. There's no reason to be unequipped to lead your home; there's no reason to lack the resources necessary to lead your family courageously.

What About Socialization?

My family runs a blog aimed at encouraging homeschoolers called The Homeschool Corner, and thought you might enjoy this funny video my wife posted there this morning about the silly questions we homeschoolers have to answer about "socialization."

Hope you enjoy; click here to view!