The Heidi St. John Podcast

There are many reasons families choose to homeschool, but I believe the list is growing as our liberal government forces their agenda on our public schools. Today we're talking about socialization, teaching hard subjects, and patience - three main reasons people don't want to homeschool.

There are many reasons families choose to homeschool, but I believe the list is growing as our liberal government forces their agenda on our public schools. Today we’re talking about socialization, teaching hard subjects, and patience – three main reasons people don’t want to homeschool.

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US Directs Public School to Allow Transgender Access to Restrooms

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Homeschool Helps on The Busy Mom

Homeschooling for Rookies –  Are you beginning or considering homeschooling? Here are a few tips on curriculum, learning styles and getting started that will help you get moving on the right foot. You can do this!

Homeschooling, Why We Chose It – Listen to specific reasons why Heidi and Jay St. John and Durenda and Darryl Wilson believe it’s the best choice to homeschool their children.

Homeschooling Through High School – YES you can!  – Can you homeschool all the way through high school? The answer is a resounding “YES!” Listen in as we answer FAQ’s and offer encouragement to parents who are considering this wonderful option.

Recommended Resources

The Busy Homeschool Mom’s Guide to Daylight: Managing Your Days through the Homeschool Years by Heidi St. John

Do you need encouragement and fresh ideas for your homeschool day? Help is on the way!

Tick Tock, Tick Tock…

Can you hear it? Are you “burning daylight?” If you have ever experienced a series of days, weeks or even months when you felt like you just could NOT get on top of all you had to do, you are not alone. Juggling homeschooling and homemaking can be challenging—or so we’ve heard!

Whether you’re struggling with managing your day, or simply looking for encouragement and fresh ideas for tackling your list of things to do, you will enjoy hearing from the heart of busy homeschool mom of seven, wife and author, Heidi St. John.

You’ll laugh out loud, learn some of Heidi’s favorite tips on everything from home organization to meal preparation, and discover how you can homeschool in freedom and joy.

Are you ready to be encouraged? Then join Heidi in discovering that real moms sometimes serve cereal for dinner—and live to write about it!

Educating the Whole Hearted Child

by Clay and Sally Clarkson  Since 1994, Educating the WholeHearted Child has been a trusted guide for thousands of homeschooling families. This extensively revised and expanded third edition provides a solid biblical foundation for educating and nurturing your children’s hear...

The only way to succeed in this life at the end of the day is to walk humbly with God and ask Him for truth and wisdom. You are a redeemed child of God and can discern counterfeit Christianity when you see it. Dig in and ask God for wisdom!

These are tough cultural times, and they require tough moms, moms who will put on the armor of God and teach their kids how to stand against the enemy. Are you ready to be a tough mom?

These are tough cultural times, and they require tough moms,  moms who will put on the armor of God and teach their kids how to stand against the enemy.  Are you ready to be a tough mom?

Scriptures

1 Peter 2:11

2 Timothy 3:16-17

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One Tough Mom – Don’t let the culture keep you from being the mom has called you to be. Grow in your faith and walk it out in front of your kids. Train them up in HIS ways. Let them KNOW that our God is almighty, sovereign, powerful and REAL!! Be one tough mother.

Dare to be a Daniel: Talking to Your Kids About Standing for the Lord – This is startlingly new territory for parents: explaining why a man is being celebrated as a woman on the cover of a magazine is not something we’re used to talking about. Here’s the thing: If we don’t set a place for the truth of Scripture at the table of our children’s hearts, the world will set out a feast all it’s own.

A Spiritual Crisis and a Crossroad: How Should Christians Respond? – Looking around, it’s clear that many Christians have unbuckled the belt of truth under enormous pressure from the culture. Many pastors have begun exchanging the truth of God’s Word for the easy “truth” of the world in an effort to be “loving,” except that denying the truth of God is never loving. I have to wonder if those pastors who will not stand on the authority of Scripture care more about winning a popularity contest than they do about speaking the truth.

And so, we find ourselves in a full-blown spiritual crisis. So where do we go from here? What do we do?

Resources

Take Hold of the Faith You Long For: Let Go, Move Forward, Live Bold – by Sharon Jaynes  On the outside, many women are well-put-together Christians with trendy shoes, beautiful children, and wide, white smiles. On the inside, those same women are little girls cowering at the edge of the playground, hoping no one notices them, yet still wishing they could join in. They’ve professed faith and know the right things, but they struggle to truly take hold of the life more abundant; that Jesus offers. Instead they settle for a life that’s less than what God has promised them.

In this liberating book, Sharon Jaynes reveals the most common reasons women get stuck with a mediocre, mundane faith. Then she shows women how to break free and move forward, leaving behind the feelings of inferiority, inadequacy, and insecurity that are holding them hostage. She uncovers untapped sources of confidence and courage, equipping women to move from knowing the truth to actually believing it–and living it out boldly in a life marked by true freedom.

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These are tough cultural times, and they require tough moms, moms who will put on the armor of God and teach their kids how to stand against the enemy. Are you ready to be a tough mom?

These are tough cultural times, and they require tough moms, moms who will put on the armor of God and teach their kids how to stand against the enemy. Are you ready to be a tough mom?

Scriptures

Habakkuk 3:1-3

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Dare to be a Daniel: Talking to Your Kids About Standing for the Lord – This is startlingly new territory for parents: explaining why a man is being celebrated as a woman on the cover of a magazine is not something we’re used to talking about. Here’s the thing: If we don’t set a place for the truth of Scripture at the table of our children’s hearts, the world will set out a feast all it’s own.

A Spiritual Crisis and a Crossroad: How Should Christians Respond? – Looking around, it’s clear that many Christians have unbuckled the belt of truth under enormous pressure from the culture. Many pastors have begun exchanging the truth of God’s Word for the easy “truth” of the world in an effort to be “loving,” except that denying the truth of God is never loving. I have to wonder if those pastors who will not stand on the authority of Scripture care more about winning a popularity contest than they do about speaking the truth.

And so, we find ourselves in a full-blown spiritual crisis. So where do we go from here? What do we do?

Resources

Scripture Writing Page

FEARLESS Retreat Info

 

 

President Obama has issued a directive for all public school districts in the nation, and now we have to figure out what to do with it, especially if you have kids in public school. But the Bible is clear, so let's talk about what it has to say on the issue!

There is a false narrative sweeping this country, destroying the privacy and safety of women and girls in the name of “equality.” President Obama has issued a directive for all public school districts in the nation, and now we have to figure out what to do with it, especially if you have kids in public school. So what should we do? Would God have us sacrifice the safety of our children in the name of compassion? I don’t think so. This so-called movement is not asking for equal rights—they are asking for special rights that violate the privacy of women and simple common sense.

Scriptures

Jeremiah 17:9

Romans 1

SIGN THE PETION ENCOURAGING ALL STATES AND MUNICIPALITIES TO PASS LAWS PROTECTING the privacy and dignity of WOMEN AND GIRLS HERE:

We, the undersigned, recognize that the dignity, safety, and privacy of women and girls must be respected and should not be compromised for the sake of a radical minority agenda. We encourage all states and municipalities to pass laws protecting women and girls and to stand strong against political bullying that falsely claims that allowing grown men into women’s bathrooms is an issue of equality.

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The Radical Cost of Following Jesus, Part 1 and Part 2

Dare to be a Daniel: Talking to Your Kids About Standing for the Lord – This is startlingly new territory for parents: explaining why a man is being celebrated as a woman on the cover of a magazine is not something we’re used to talking about. Here’s the thing: If we don’t set a place for the truth of Scripture at the table of our children’s hearts, the world will set out a feast all it’s own.

A Spiritual Crisis and a Crossroad: How Should Christians Respond? – Looking around, it’s clear that many Christians have unbuckled the belt of truth under enormous pressure from the culture. Many pastors have begun exchanging the truth of God’s Word for the easy “truth” of the world in an effort to be “loving,” except that denying the truth of God is never loving. I have to wonder if those pastors who will not stand on the authority of Scripture care more about winning a popularity contest than they do about speaking the truth.

And so, we find ourselves in a full-blown spiritual crisis. So where do we go from here? What do we do?

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Resources

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, by David Platt – What is Jesus worth to you?  It’s easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily…

But who do you know who lives like that? Do you?

In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple–then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of what is happening as a “successful” suburban church decides to get serious about the...

Meet Jesse Whitten in this two part series and hear his story of leaving a successful career in law enforcement to join Save the Storks in saving babies. You can make a difference!