Day 140: Dependability

Daily Sheet: Day 140: Dependability

Family Book: “This is the Rope”

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Travel: Nevada

Song: “The Red Sea” – Ric Blair

Video: “Abide With Me” – Audrey Assad

Video: “My Sweet Refuge” – Roo Panes

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Day 134: Reverence

Daily Sheet: Day 134: Reverence

Family Book: “Come Sunday”

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Travel: Vanuatu; New Caledonia

Video: “Let Your Glory Fall” – Don Moen

Video: “Vapor” – Gungor (official lyric video)

Video: “Sing to Jesus” – Fernando Ortega

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Day 123: Efficiency

Daily Sheet: Day 123: Efficiency

Family Book: “Building an Igloo”

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Travel: Alaska

Video: “Scientists in Japan” – Sara Groves talks about the meaning behind the song

Video: “Scientists in Japan” – Sara Groves (official music video)

 

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Day 115: Care

Daily Sheet: Day 115: Care

Family Book: “The Call of the Swamp”

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Travel: Paraguay

Song: “Hands” – Roo Panes

Hold gently what you wish to grow old with.  Don’t close those hands.

Questions:

  • What do you think this book is about?
  • Do you think it was right for Boris to go back to the swamp?
  • Why did his parents respond the way they did?
  • Discuss the song “Hands” as it relates to this book.
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Day 114: Preparedness

Daily Sheet: Day 114: Preparedness

Family Book: “Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport”

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Travel: Russia

Additional Reading (from “I Heard Good News Today” – Cornelia Lehn):image.jpg

Hymn: Softly and Tenderly

Song: “People Get Ready” – Margaret Becker

 

 

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Day 101: Belief

Daily Sheet: Day 101: Belief

Family Book: “I Believe: The Nicene Creed”

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Travel: Congo

Map: Mary Kingsley’s Travels

Video: “Creed” – Rich Mullins (with introduction by Rich)

I hope I would leave a legacy of joy; a legacy of real compassion.  Because I think there is a great joy in real compassion.  I don’t think that you can know joy apart from caring deeply about people, caring enough about people that you actually do something.  But I have a feeling like if my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I will probably leave as a legacy is ambition.  But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live in the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sorts of things, that’s the only time I think that we really leave a great legacy.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.  My ambition to be a good guy is a fleshly ambition.  And when Christ calls us to take up our cross and follow him, a lot of us think that what that means is we’re supposed to lay down our vices, and we’re supposed to cling to virtues, but I think that unless Christ is Lord of our virtues, our virtues become dangerous to us and dangerous to the people around us.  I think that when Christ calls us to take up our cross, what He means is you must die not only to whatever vices are in your life, which he will eventually kill out, you must also die to whatever virtues are in your life.  Your life is not valuable because you are an articulate speaker, your life is not valuable because you are a generous person, your life is not valuable because of any of that.  If we empty ourselves of everything and allow God to be present, then it’s no longer us, it’s Him.  Then it becomes a spiritual thing.  And that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.  And that’s when I think Christianity really begins to make sense.

Video: “Creed” – Rich Mullins with Third Day (with Croatian subtitles)

 

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Day 99: Freedom

Daily Sheet: Day 99: Freedom

Family Book: “Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation”

Family Book: “You Are Special”

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Travel: Nebraska; Kansas

Video: “Set You Free” – Nomos

If you did, if you did, even if you did…  Been where you shouldn’t have been, Seen what you shouldn’t have seen, Dreamed what you shouldn’t have dreamed, that doesn’t mean you have to be locked up here forever.  I’m going to set you free.
And if you did, if you did, even if you did…  Done what you shouldn’t have done, Run when you shouldn’t have run, Lost when you shouldn’t have won, that doesn’t mean you have to be paying the price forever.  I’m going to set you free.
And if you did, if you did, only if you did…  Strayed from the beaten track, Maybe you never got back, Went in off the black, that doesn’t mean you have to be lying around here forever.  I’m going to set you free.
Ah if you did, if you did, even if you did…  Suffered from a broken heart, Got off to a poor start, Maybe you fell apart, that doesn’t mean you have to be paying the price forever.  I’m going to set you free.
And if you did, if you did, even if you did…  Known what you shouldn’t have known, Shown what you shouldn’t have shown, Thrown what you shouldn’t have thrown, that doesn’t mean you have to be lying around here forever.  I’m going to set you free.
Ah if you did, if you did, even if you did…  Been where you shouldn’t have been, Seen what you shouldn’t have seen, Dreamed what you shouldn’t have dreamed, that doesn’t mean you have to be locked up here forever.  I’m going to set you free.

Video: “Deliverer” – Audrey Assad

You are not possessive, You respect all things
You are not invasive, You have no envy
You are not insistent, You do not force me
You are not controlling, You make me free indeed

You’re my deliverer, You’re my deliverer.  You won’t pass me by.

Your law is freedom and mercy is Your rule
Though You dwell within me, I can’t contain You

In the ruins of my heart, You preach to the poor
Turning over stones to show me there is more
More than all I ask, more than I’m looking for
In the ruins of my heart

Video: “Land of the Living” – Roo Panes

Where they go
That we shall cherish and that I wrestle
Don’t want to be like the dust that settles
This empire of nothing
I find that I’m king of all these empty homes
That are ruled by my own flaws
But you can’t be an old fire
If you are burning with a new flame

So remember that, you are never a forgotten name
Cause I know a land called the land of the living
It’s the world beyond those curtains where we learned to play
I hear the voices of my childhood singing it’s the world beyond those doorways
Where we use to play

Cause every moment
Is a chance to define what you want to become
You’re not a slave to things you’ve done
Be brave and be bold
Be childish and old it’s the same old story
Every life needs a hope of glory
But you can’t be an old fire
If you’re burning with a new flame

I was born to be free, you were born to free me

Cause I know a land called the land of the living
It’s the world beyond those curtains where we learned to play
I hear the voices of my childhood singing it’s the world beyond those doorways
Where we use to play
I know a land called the land of the living
It’s the world beyond those curtains where we learned to play
Oh we’ll go back, we’ll go back to the beginning
And we’ll pick up on the trails of forgotten ways

Song: “Finally” – Gungor

Call me back into the silence, into the sunlight.

Every breath a standing defiance of death and of clamor; Let darkness be scattered now.

I’ll be here waiting in silence, waiting for sunlight to make all the world shine bright.

All the stars fall in line and the seas bow their heads.  We remember our dead and we sing another day.

As the silence, it grows and the worlds fade away; All the sons empty their graves.

We will sing another day.

Questions:

  • Compare and contrast physical, emotional and spiritual freedom
  • Can you find examples in today’s lesson where faith in Christ has brought each of these types of freedom to someone?
  • Explain what you think is meant by the line, “I was born to be free; you were born to free me.”
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Day 96: Gentleness

Daily Sheet: Day 96: Gentleness

Family Book: “Handa’s Surprise”

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Travel: Comoros; Madagascar

Video: “Childhood Summer” – Sara Groves (official music video)

I miss innocence.  I miss the arms of my mother.  I miss feeling light like a childhood summer.  Childhood summer.

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Day 80: Bravery

Daily Sheet: Day 80: Bravery

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 “Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
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“Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909”
“Inch by Inch”

Travel: Guinea-Bissau

Questions:

  • What is the time interval between Lewis Hine’s photography the shirtwaist makers’ strike?
  • Lewis and Clara were both interested in helping make things change.  How did their methods differ?

*** Film Festival Note:  Watch it ahead of time.  It will require discussion.  

Video: “Sing for the Wind” – Roo Panes (Dance)

Hymn: “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” – Fernando Ortega

Video: Audrey Assad speaks about the story behind her song, “Even Unto Death”

Video: “Even Unto Death” – Audrey Assad

Song: “I Won’t Be Afraid Anymore” – Nomos (I can’t find it online for listening, but here is a link for the album — which is all good!)  “I Won’t Be Afraid Anymore” – Nomos

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