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A Tool for Wives Who Want to Glorify God This book is for you, for your daughters as they anticipate marriage, for a friend who is struggling in her marriage, and for young brides as they seek to fulfill their new roles as wives. In-depth series of almost 200 questions, suggested Bible study topics, and other projects to aid a woman in reaching the mature godly womanhood to which God has called her. For personal or group use. As Unto the Lord includes: • A short set of questions and relevant Scripture passages for daily review. These are designed to help wives prayerfully examine their attitudes and actions in the light of God’s Word. • An in-depth, expanded series of almost 200 questions, each followed by Scripture which explains what God commands of us as wives. These are patterned after The Westminster Larger Catechism’s teaching on the Fifth Commandment and are ideal for personal study when you know you’re straying from God’s design for wives; for study with ...

Checklist for Parents

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A series of 25 questions designed to help parents examine themselves in light of God’s Word. Organized under 6 areas of responsibility (love, prayer, instruction, protection, provision, and example), each question is followed by Scripture verses which explain what God requires of us as parents. Be brave! Use this checklist to help you: • Evaluate your obedience to God’s instructions for parents • Pinpoint areas of weakness, sin, negligence, or laziness, with the intention of growing toward greater maturity. • Memorize Scripture that will equip you for your job as parent. • Discuss your relationship with your children. • Explain your responsibility to your children. • Pray for direction in your role as parent. • Prepare your teenagers for their future job as parents. Sample question: "Did I, with my words and actions, train my child to obey God’s law and His delegated authorities, or did I, by my neglect or laziness, allow him to deve...

Day of Delight

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Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy This book offers dozens of creative ideas to help make the Lord’s Day a unique and joyous day of celebration for the whole family (even Mom!) It includes suggestions for: • Preparing for Sunday/Sabbath throughout the week • Making meal times special (while the cook still enjoys a day of rest!) • Creating a treasure chest of special toys and books for Sunday/Sabbaths only. • Lots of ideas for toys, games, activities, and projects that focus on Scripture, worship, reflection, fellowship, remembering God’s creation, and exercising our God-given creativity. (Good ideas for daily family worship times, too!) These ideas can help draw your family closer together, and make Sunday/Sabbath the best day of the week.

For Instruction in Righteousness

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A Topical Bible Reference Manual for Parents! Over 300 pages, coil-bound. A wealth of material for parents' Bible study, family worship, character training, unit studies, and Bible study for older children.This book can help you use the Bible every time you discipline your children and for preventing sin before it happens! It includes hundreds of verses on over 50 different areas of sin.Each chapter includes the following listings:General information and commandments about sinWhat the Bible says will, or should, happen to a person who sins in this way.Ideas for discipline that parallel these Biblical consequences.What the Bible likens a person to when he indulges in this sin, and ideas for practical objects lessons using these examples.How God blesses the person who resists temptations to this sort of sin.Parallel ideas for “rewards” and encouragement for children who show progress towards overcoming this sin.Stories and people in the Bible that illustrate obedience and disobedien...

For This Is Right

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A Practical Application of the Fifth Commandment for Young People This book of evaluation questions and Scripture explores the meaning and practical application of the Fifth Commandment, "Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee" (Exodus 20:12). This is a simple command, but it encompasses more than we often realize! It takes discipline and training for children to learn to honor and obey their parents as God requires. For This Is Right will give direction to this training process by keeping you and your children grounded in God’s Word. In the same format as As Unto the Lord and A Checklist for Parents, For This Is Right includes: • A short set of summary questions for daily review. These are designed to help children prayerfully examine their attitudes and actions with the goal of quickly pinpointing areas of sin for further thought, Bible study and repentance. A powerful tool for building a life-long comm...

Goldie Doll Patterns

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In the style of the traditional "topsy- turvy" doll, 12-inch- tall Goldie has two personalities! Turn her one way and she's a pretty young lady. Flip her over and she becomes a pig with a gold ring in her nose. Includes patterns and instructions. Use with the study guide "Beauty and the Pig." This doll involves more sewing than our Ruby doll, but construction methods are simple enough for the novice seamstress. For durability, we recommend machine-sewing the doll body, but clothes could be made by hand, if desired. Use "Goldie" as a playful reminder of godly beauty by displaying the doll with whichever personality best matches her owner's behavior throughout the day.

Hidden Treasures

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Digging into the Book of Proverbs with Your Family Get ready for a treasure hunt! Hidden Treasures contains 90 illustrated proverbs for you to identify. Read through each chapter of Proverbs with your family and find them! This book contains a wealth of material for your family worship times. Hidden Treasures Contains: 90 prize-winning illustrated Proverbs from Doorpost's Proverbs Illustrating contest (Over 500 drawings were entered!)Instructions for many different topical studies in ProverbsSuggestions for using the drawings in family worship while reading through ProverbsCharts for recording your findingsChapter-by-chapter notes and study suggestions for reading through Proverbs with your family.Special activity and object lesson ideasPlans to help you apply what you learnProverbs to memorizeResource list of other commentaries, books, and audio to help you dig even more out of Proverbs Proverbs was written to young people, to guide them in the right paths. Wisdom is the mos...

Mighty Acts of God

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A child's natural love for action and drama provides a wonderful opportunity for teaching spiritual truths. Simple dramatizing can help children pay better attention to Bible reading, and can help them remember and understand stories better. Through stories, a child can see God's unchanging character, as well as the consistent consequences of man's decisions throughout history.And--drama gives an energetic body something to do! This book is a collection of ideas to inspire some simple story-acting in your family. • Easy costumes (including an almost-instant tunic and cape) • Simple props • Fun meals to go along with some stories • Scripture references and suggestions for dramatizing over 40 different stories. These are simple ideas--no scripts, no rehearsals--just quick, spontaneous family playtimes that help teach Scripture's truths. Also includes ideas for acting out Bible stories with Legos, Play-Mobil, Fisher-Price "little people," building b...

Plants Grown Up

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Projects for Sons on the Road to Manhood Do you ever wonder if you're doing the right things to prepare your son for godly manhood? Plants Grown Up can help! This 500-page, spiral-bound book offers hundreds of different ideas for Bible study projects, reading material, and practical, everyday activities to help prepare your son for godly manhood (and to help him live a godly life as a young man). Plants Grown Up is designed for boys from the time they can memorize a Bible verse until the day they get married! One copy provides material to keep a house full of boys busy growing up all through their youth. Each chapter offers a variety of projects for you to choose from for each of your unique sons.Projects are listed in order of increasing difficulty so you can start work in each area with very young boys, and continue to disciple your sons with increasingly challenging assignments.Each project is labelled with the school subjects it relates to so home schoolers can incorporate...

Polished Cornerstones

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Projects for Daughters on the Path to Womanhood Raising daughters can be a challenging task! How will we ever teach them everything they need to know? Polished Cornerstones can help! This 497-page, spiral-bound book will help you focus on the skills and attitudes your daughters need to develop. Polished Cornerstones offers hundreds of different ideas for Bible study projects, reading material, and practical, everyday activities to help prepare your daughters for godly womanhood (and to help them live godly lives as young women).Polished Cornerstones is a tool that allows you to be flexible, picking and choosing from a variety of projects to meet each daughter's unique needs.Projects in each chapter are listed in order according to increased difficulty so that you can start; work in each area with very young girls, and continue to disciple your daughters with increasingly more challenging assignments.Each project is also labelled with the school subjects it relates to so that home...