January 14th, 2007 at 5:45 pm (Christy)
Hello. Here’s me (Christy) giving an impromptu audio review of the first few chapters to Tony. This book is very scholarly and thus takes more time to go through but I have been enjoying reading about the remnant of true believers that have always historically been. I don’t call myself “reformed” because I didn’t come out of the churches formed by Luther or Calvin. I think that we should be careful of the term unless you used to embrace the Roman Catholic doctrine at one time and now have converted to Lutheran or Presbyterian doctrines fully. Simply believing the 5 points of TULIP is not enough to make oneself ‘reformed’. It seems that some of my beliefs would be enough for some reformers to burn me at the stake! I would probably be labeled a heretic because I don’t line up exactly with many of their doctrines (such as paedo-baptism).
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January 13th, 2007 at 3:02 pm (Christy)
This book is written by Robin Sampson, author of “A Family Guide to the Biblical Holidays.” In it she describes the philosophy of training our children according to Biblical principles and getting beyond the Greek training we probably went through in our education. She gives a great history of education and describes how the Hebrews educated and trained their children. In her book she proposes that we train our children towards gaining God’s wisdom, all you have to do is read the book of Proverbs to see this is what God desires for each of us. This includes a great amount of time in the day spent studying God’s Word. Studies for other subjects are centered around a specific topic, then you try and plumb all the aspects you can of the topic as related to history, geography, spelling, etc. Another way to say it would be unit studies. This seems to be a great way of tying God’s Word into subjects and then teaching how to think and study. I know there are different ways of doing unit studies but Sampson does not use the “classical” method because of it’s Greek roots. It is a resource worthy of checking out and Google books has parts of the book for FREE online.
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January 10th, 2007 at 12:01 am (Christy)
Is called “The Reformers and Their Stepchildren”. It’s about the anabaptists, etc.
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January 9th, 2007 at 11:45 pm (Christy)
Hello everyone. This is Christy. Keep looking here for random updates from this side of the family.
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Robin Sampson said,
February 25, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Thanks for the mention. I’m glad you like the book.
Blessings,
Robin
theresa said,
January 28, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I love the Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach. It expanded my thinking on many topics - not just homeschooling,
Blessings,
Theresa