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Read Aloud Stories for parents and children to read together. Engaging stories communicate Biblical Truth. A great addition to your home library. Many people consider young children unable to handle difficult Biblical doctrines. Our Savior had so much confidence that children were able to receive his teachings that He presented children as examples that adults should follow as they entered the Kingdom. Not only are tenderhearted children ready to receive the Word, they have a receptivity to it that should not be ignored by their parents and teachers. Andrea Schwartz has compiled three stories drawn from her family-life experiences to help parents teach children how the faith applies to every area of life. They confront the ugly reality of sin, the beauty of godly repentance, and the necessity of forgiveness. The stories are meant to be read by parents and children together. The interactions and discussions that will follow serve to draw families closer together. This little volume is a much needed antidote to the pietistic, sentimental attitudes of our day.

God's basic institution is the family, and the Biblical family lives and operates in terms of a calling greater than itself - the Kingdom of God. In an age when the family is disparaged, warred against, and treated as a mere convention, it becomes the duty of Christians to bring God's plan for the family to listening ears. That's what Andrea Schwartz has accomplished in this collection of essays on The Biblical Trustee Family.

Stemming from her long years in homeschooling. Andrea elevates the Kingdom mandate as the driving purpose behind God's creation of the family, and the family's central task: education. Her passion is to equip Christian families - especially homeschooling mothers - not only with the tools of learning, but the tools of dominion. 


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                                         Don’t learn it all the hard way.
Discover the powerful principles for effective homeschooling from someone who knows.

After nearly a quarter century of homeschooling her children, Andrea Schwartz has experienced both the accomplishments and challenges that come with being a homeschooling mom. And, she’s passionate about helping you learn her most valuable lessons. Discover the potential rewards of making the world your classroom and God’s Word the foundation of everything you teach. Now you can benefit directly from Andrea’s years of experience and obtain helpful insights to make your homeschooling adventure God-honoring, effective, and fun. Here’s some of what you’ll learn:

The Privilege of Learning
Walking the Talk
Parent-Directed Education
Taking the Plunge
How to Arm Your Children
What to Do with Daughters
The Advantages of Homeschooling
Setting the Standard
And Much More!

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Homeschooling expert, Andrea Schwartz, (Lessons Learned from Years of Homeschooling), in this her second book opens the door to The Homeschool Life, allowing parents to see the glorious potential in this life-changing, God-honoring adventure. She offers sage advice concerning key aspects of homeschooling, while never losing her central focus of applying the Word of God to all areas of life and thought. She provides practical insights for parents as they seek to provide a Christian education for their children.

This volume focuses on help for parents who want to instill a thoroughly biblical approach to learning, teach sound biblical character as they cover all academic subjects, and learn how to choose curriculum that will equip them to raise a generation eager and ready to be ambassadors for Jesus Christ.

Andrea’s practical, clear approach to homeschooling comes from twenty- six years in the trenches where she has learned that homeschooling parents are doing some of the most important work there is to do in the Kingdom of God and need all the help and encouragement they can get.

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This book is not another Christian-teenage-girl “survival guide.” So Much More shows how Christian girls can wage war with the world and win. The Botkin sisters focus on how young women can rise above their God-hating culture and change it for the better.

Today, countless young ladies face difficult problems and challenging questions. While many long for godly purpose in their lives, their bewilderment mounts when they observe broken homes, distant fathers, overwhelmed mothers, degrading college courses, and a lack of spiritual guidance — both at home and at church. As hope for security and stability fades, it is no wonder that many young ladies feel orphaned, unprotected, and without hope for their futures.

Within the pages of this book, discover practical, biblical solutions for the young woman who wants to do so much more than just “survive” in a savagely feministic, anti-Christian culture. Find the answers a girl is not likely to get from her church, her peers, or her culture.

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Have you struggled to reconcile God’s vision of virtuous womanhood with worldly myths that marginalize and mock the role of the homemaker? Do you wrestle with cultural messages that demean the homemaker’s calling and exalt instead the emotionally androgynous power-woman — the wife whose worth is measured only by the degree of her ambition, the shape of her body, or her money-making skills?

Such is the image of the “desperate housewife” that the modern media, culture, and feminism are promoting with great energy. In a delightfully fresh and honest way, this book addresses these issues head-on and provides fresh vision for the hopeful homemaker. Hear a former “Christian” feminist share how she went from a die-hard homemaker-in-training to a dedicated career woman and then back again — after God gripped her heart. See the hollow counterfeit of whitewashed feminism and “me-ology” destroyed. And consider the beautiful picture painted in Scripture of the truly fulfilled homemaker who glories in the hopeful calling God created for her.

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Winner of the 2000 ECPA Gold Medallion Award, The Art of God is a photographic celebration of the truth and character of God, as revealed by the world He has made and the Word He has spoken. 160 pages, 12"x10.5"x.75"

Online Book Review

Full of His Glory..., November 15, 2006
The most visually beautiful book I know of, THE ART OF GOD is in appearance a nature photography book of the most glorious sort, but upon closer look it is so much more. Ergenbright pairs brilliant awe-inspiring photography with artfully presented text and scripture verses that precisely match each photo and combine to make the heart leap, the soul rejoice. Though written in the spirit of worship, whether intended or not, the beauty, range, selection, and presentation of the book end up also being an apologetic making a visual case for a Creator that's both an intelligent and artistic designer. The photos are arranged purposefully, with the story flowing seamlessly thru the categories Elements, Design, Environments, and Ebb & Flow. The adjective "stunning" often is used to mean just really beautiful, but with this book it's beauty really does stun or take a bit of breath away. THE ART OF GOD is wonderful for a gift or to put on one's own coffee table for visitors to enjoy. Truly an aesthetic and spiritual masterpiece (and outrageous bargain too). "Encompassed Runner," Florida

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