April 16, 2006: Happy Easter!
I don’t normally blog on Sundays. But I absolutely had to post to say Happy Easter. My Greek father-in-law would say every Easter morning, “Christos staneste” (not sure on the spelling. Sorry, Steve!). That is Greek for “Christ is risen.” Again, I just had to post to celebrate that Christ is indeed risen. I am so grateful for this. Our…
Scripture Mastory Memory Game
Today we played a memory game. A sweet seminary student made the cards. There are 54 cards. On the front are numbers. On the back are 25 scripture mastery verses and 25 scripture mastery key words. There are also four extra cards with the words Candy 1 (two each of this one) and Candy 2 (two of this one). I…
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