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This collection of articles is curated to equip you with the knowledge and guidance you need to guide your family and church through the vital work of home education.

What are we thinking! – Part 2: An example of free-market thinking in education

By Mark Shepard, Planting Seeds to Renew America Contact Mark: 4organicEducation@gmail.com Part 1 exposed many of the problems with the state-controlled public education system in our nation today and proposed moving to a free-market education system. Understanding that every education model is built from a core set of ideas and will produce students that think consistently with that particular paradigm, the key question is: From what perspective do you want your child to think? Regardless of...

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What are we thinking! – Part 1: Education matters

By Mark Shepard, Planting Seeds to Renew America Contact Mark: 4organicEducation@gmail.com Schools are closed, children are home and parents are confronted with how best to help their children continue their education at home, where parents are more clearly seeing and evaluating the ideas that are shaping their child’s thinking and worldview. Indeed, every schooling option is a form of discipleship (training to think from a particular perspective) and everyday disciples are being made. What...

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Plant the Seeds of a Biblical Worldview and Watch it Grow: Biblical Worldview Rests on Foundational Biblical Principles

This article originally appeared in The Renewanation Review® magazine. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted here by permission of Renewanation. For more information regarding Renewanation, visit renewanation.org. To grow an apple tree, we plant a seed, not a cup of applesauce.  The seed contains a new tree; applesauce is the derivative product of the fruit of the mature tree. To grow a worldview, we plant the correct principles--the seed of the idea, not the product of the mature idea. We err in our...

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“Not Far Away” by Dr. Christian Overman

Not Far Away Not far away, in the center of town, stands a large church. The sermons are replete with Scripture, and the congregation has a reputation as “Bible-believing” people. This is why what I’m about to say is so hard to believe. The difficulty isn’t obvious to most, and many who attend the church don’t even realize there’s a problem. It has to do with the Sunday School. You see, the Sunday School teachers don’t teach the children and youth that the biblical truths taught in the...

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