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The faith which our popular culture appearance of advertising material in or with externalises is demonic. does not constitute endorsement Keystone Oh, Lord, please give us the of the products or services advertised. One’s wisdom and vision to home educate usual discretion should be used in making selections. our children for Your Glory. May they not only live and work honourably as Christ-like role models The fear of the LORD is the in the midst of this crooked and beginning of wisdom, perverse generation but also a good understanding have all those fearlessly, tirelessly, lovingly offer who do His commandments. them Your Words of eternal life. — Psalm 111:10 Amen! Keystone Vol. VI No. 1 Page 2 January 2000 Ps Editorial . 1 11 :1 0 Contents The Good Book says there is no rest for the wicked. I know for a Feature Family fact that many of us home educating Murray & Sharon Drinnan........................p. 5 parents wonder from time to time why it is we never seem to get any rest? But of course the Book Review Scriptures are talking about a spiritual rest. The Lord Beyond Survival by Diana Waring............p. 6 commands us to physically rest one day in seven.... actually, looking again at that commandment in Exodus 20, the command is actually to work for six days. In Line with Scripture During our devotions recently we were struck by the Jeremiah 17:9............................................p. 7 tension between “faith” and “works”. Our works cannot save us, but we are saved specifically to do good Learning Disabilities works. James indicates that our works confirm and Do You Understand? validate the fact that we are saved. Now to whom do by Tom & Sherry Bushnell...........p. 8 our works confirm our salvation? The Lord needs no such thing....He knows. It is to ourselves primarily and also to the onlooking believers and unbelievers. “Let Bits of Books your light so shine among men that they may see your The Homeschooling Father good works and give glory to your Father Who is in by Michael Farris, Chapter 6...................p. 11 heaven” (Matthew 5:16). I can’t imagine my works causing others to glorify God....I guess that means I am Letters..............................................................p. 14 a babe of little experience with much yet to learn in this area of good works. We are told to be zealous for good Home Schoolers Did It works, and Ephesians 2:10 says God prepared Clevedon Country Home Schoolers..........p. 14 beforehand a lifetime of good works for us to do. We need to watch out for the emphasis many put on Home School Research salvation by “faith alone”, which while true is only a Who’s In Charge of step away from thinking the Christian life is also “faith Johnny’s Personality?................p. 15 alone” with no works. Home Educated Adults............................p. 16 Watch out for the Diana Waring tour: Lower North Island from February 7 through 20; South Island in Exploring God’s Creation March; North Shore in Auckland on 1 April. A Lighthearted Look at X.Peckii the Parasite..................p. 17 I wanted to wrap up the Year 2000 thing with some When Was Adam Created?......................p. 18 interesting facts about time you could teach the children and was amazed at all I found. The material on pages Tough Questions People 23 to 26 is only scratching the surface! I found it Throw Your Way fascinating. Check out this website for more + links: What Do You Do When the MoE <http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html> Sends Your Exemption Application Back?......................................................p. 19 The Roundup is on a disturbing topic the Ministry of Justice in considering. Please look into this a bit: if you would like to read my eight-page submission to glean Teaching Tips some issues I came up with, I can email it or send me a Helping Your Highly Gifted Child...........p. 21 few stamps and I’ll post a hard copy. The True Millennium is Well Hidden......p. 23 I printed a factual error in a TEACH Bulletin recently. CHomeS Roundup Truth is, Dr Aitken is NOT retiring from the ERO. Same-Sex “Marriage”..............................p. 26 Back in December Commissioner for Children Roger McClay called for a ban on spanking. This would be a VERY serious invasion of privacy and a direct challenge to many parents’ sense of duty to their We are supposed to teach “as Christian convictions. Fortunately the heat was temporarily removed by a government MP who said regular and well as in a registered they had no plans for that at present as it would simply turn too many good parents into criminals. Amen! school”. If that’s all we achieve, Praise the Lord! I’ll consider ourselves failures. -- Craig Mortimer, Moerewa Keystone Vol. VI No. 1 Page 3 January 2000 Christian Home Schoolers of NZ Presents: Keystone, the Journal of CHomeS, which you now hold in your hands! ChedNet, Christian Home EDucation NETwork Email Discussion Group. Discuss curricula from a Christian worldview, child development from Biblical rather than humanist presuppositions, discipline according to the Biblical pattern and for the Biblical reasons, time management, Christlike character development. 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