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A Biblical, historical and practical examination of a neglected and blessed aspect of Christian practice: Christian women wearing a head covering. Written from the woman’s perspective, for women. With Biblical references from the New King James Version of the Scriptures. A Christian woman who read this stated, "The woman who has read this and is under the conviction to cover will find all the answers she is looking for and for any loop holes she may have thought she had to get out of covering tightly shut and plugged up.”

Are you feeling trapped in the seeming drudgery of cooking meal after meal? Here are victory thoughts and winning formulas to help you run ahead to make dinner—before it un-makes you. Includes kitchen efficiency tools and tips. Instead of feeling clobbered by meal-time, you'll climb on top of it all, a culinary conqueror. Mrs. Garcia in Albuquerque, NM wrote: “I have benefited greatly from your information. Mealtime has gotten better around my home.”

Train your child’s character: what happens when you aren’t looking? Turn your exasperating discipline challenges into successful encounters that make a difference for the next time. Instead of doing figure 8’s with their behaviors, your children will make progress in their understanding of why they themselves want to improve! A child is made truly noble by carefully training his character, not just by curbing his external behavior via discipline. Beyond Discipline looks at numerous immediately practical and effective strategies to accomplish that. These insightful protocols were ...

Wives, want a way to improve your marriage, without changing your circumstances one iota? Then this book is for you. Dig your roots down deep in some different thinking and you can be flowering in new directions in no time. Snuggled up next to your man, just as he is, like two dormant bulbs in the mystery of marriage, you’ll split a crust of earth, changing landscapes together. In this book you will see that marriage is the triumph of the right kind of thinking, not of having a perfect spouse. Grab this treasure trove of happy new insights and get ready to bloom. Nestle in for some “aha...

The story of Rembrandt, told from a Christian perspective, for Christian children. This Kindle eBook is wonderfully wholesome and entertaining. It will teach your children as much about the making of fine art as it does about Rembrandt's fascinating life. It will leave both the child and the adult reader inspired and enlightened. 15 illustrations. Truly a lovely little book, from first page to last.

A person’s very first financial maneuvers and strategies are critical to having money, instead of losing money. Whether your own serious “financial beginning” started yesterday or today, little steps make a huge difference later on. If the trajectory of an initial rocket-launch to the moon is off by just a foot, it will miss the moon by miles. So, too, with personal finances. The foundation is everything. Each step either builds a successful enduring base or tears it down. This book is loaded with financial wisdom that is practical, easy to understand, and simple to implement today. ...

A brief guide for eldercare, covering various aspects, from the emotional and physical challenges to practical tips and strategies for caregivers. Shades of a nightmare, redeemed by God! Overview Purpose and Challenges of Eldercare: A preliminary look at the rigorous and often overwhelming nature of the emotional and physical challenges faced by caregivers and the elderly, and the importance of faith and trust in God. Emotional and Psychological Impact: Caregivers often experience a unique kind of suffering, including self-denial and psychological demands, while managing the needs and ...

Are daily battles with one or more resistant children over academics wearing you out? Learn about nine specific root causes of all academic resistance and their cures. In addition, conquer that greatest of academic malaises — a general lack of motivation — that often undermines one’s teaching efforts. Armed with new, well-focused, concrete strategies, you’ll see progress again as early as tomorrow. This Kindle eBook is for moms and other teachers who are tired of wrestling with ambiguous cloudy ever-shifting academic resistance. If you want clarity, this book is for you! Includes a ...

This Kindle eBook shares how you as a focused mother can raise your conviction and sharpen your aim so that your children will turn out a cut above the pack. The outcome of a focused mother as opposed to a casual mother is huge and blessed. You can spot the difference in her children a mile off. Enjoy timeless insights galore in this little treasure trove of wisdom.

Want to get off of the treadmill? Discover how the Heavenly Father provided a full day of rejuvenating spiritual rest for man, and how it was lost in history. Scriptural and historical evidence for a much-needed and forgotten gift. Not having grown up observing the Sabbath, day, this was a revelation to us. The appendices include suggestions for keeping the Sabbath as a family, what various Christian denominations have said about the weekly Sabbath, and a chart of the week showing the unchanged order of the days and the true position of the Sabbath, as proved by the combined testimony of ...

Most moms never had a course in college about how to teach or how to be a great mom. Motherhood, parenting and homeschooling has a steep learning curve. Tips help! Grab these ideas and you’ll exchange domestic floundering for longed-for capability. This book is a lifeline for busy moms. It contains scores of terrific ideas that will improve everything you do in the home. Most women get trained for all jobs they undertake in life, except for motherhood and managing a home. In these two endeavors, pinch-hitting rules the day. Get this book and it will put a major dent in that deficiency. ...

Small victory steps that lead to huge childhood successes, both academically and domestically, happen when you employ "to-do" charts that are designed precisely right. How you generate them and where you put them are everything. No expensive pre-made organizational charts that DON'T work for YOUR family, here. Just a simple piece of graph paper, in the hands of YOU...now a profoundly insightful tutor, given this "new precise know-how". Teeming with insights about optimizing charts that you may never have thought of. Good-bye chaos, hello order and grins!

Put the wow factor into your home by staging it. Give your home the best appearance possible. With very little money, simply by applying elbow grease, and some focused planning and time, you can optimize your living space to make a far better first impression than it now makes, both outside and inside. Home staging is the process of upgrading your home visually, either to positively influence a potential buyer or to add maximum visual luster to your home just for yourself, your neighbors, and your guests. The curb appeal of the outside of your home and the "first-glance" appeal inside your ...

A growing number of homeschoolers are falling into academic ditches, of one extreme or another. Find out what the two most common ditches are and how to stay out of them. Reading this will keep you from academic traps that have ensnared many to their sorrow, too late. Some parents are not schooling at all (supposedly un-schooling), while others are making academics their god (idolatry), and there's every sort of schooling in between. Find out what a perfect “Garden of Eden” education is supposed to look like, and how to get there. There were TWO trees in the garden—two sorts of ...

Do you have a gifted child? Over the centuries, gifted individuals are given to parents and teachers while they are yet children. Not all of them are full-blown geniuses in every area. However, in one way or another they evidence capacities that far outstrip the average. What we do with these children is important not just for them alone, but as we have seen, also for the contribution they will make to the whole of history. We can augment the capacity of our gifted children by learning how to take practical steps in five areas that this book describes, along with actual exercises in ...

The remarkable story of the life of Johann Sebastian Bach, told from a Christian perspective, for Christian children. This eBook is wholesome and entertaining. Your child will learn as much about the making of fine music as about Bach's fascinating life. Both the child and the adult reader will come away enlightened and inspired. Most all modern stories about Bach leave out any reference to God's own hand upon the man, and Bach’s personal struggles in front of that God. It is sadly a strange omission by our secular pop culture, as Bach purposefully wrote soli deo gloria ("to God alone be ...

35 tips and tricks for motivating elementary school children. Sometimes a little spur, a little motivation, will help a child over a rough patch of academics or an overwhelming chore. Choose to give them these no cost rewards instead of another materialistic “thing”. Detailed descriptions of clever, unusual rewards we think you’ll have a hard time finding anywhere else.

Turn learning into joy. Take the fastest route and shortest distance to mastery of new information. Jaw-dropping techniques to hot-wire the brain to retain and recall any subject matter with ease. Once you've acquired these brain triggers you'll use them to good advantage to remember information in a flash. Homeschoolers, in particular, will find that these tools give them increased academic success, at a rate they hadn't imagined.

What was God’s original design and purpose for women, and why? Is she the crown jewel of Creation or should she be a radical feminist? One view of a woman’s role can end up breaking her heart, if she tries living that way over a lifetime, because of issues not readily apparent up front. But a far different role can give her untold joys, for hidden reasons seen only in hindsight. Here are some unusual insights about the underpinnings of both views and where they lead, beginning with little known clues from our anatomy. The content of this one can deliver you from confusion about yourself...

Creative ideas for grandparents to use on their grandchildren. Adds more fun and influence than you ever thought imaginable. Your input in their young lives is terribly important. Learn how to wield that influence optimally. So armed with these tools, time with you will be irresistible! Includes senior in-law etiquette for how to best relate to your grown children (the parents of your grandchildren). How to tactfully show non-controlling love to your own adult children once they are married. Many "aha" thoughts here, which will save much wear and tear on these lifetime relationships.