Home School Freebies and Curriculum Swap

We are introducing this site to you as a part of Gleaning the Harvest’s Home School Curriculum-Supplies Swap. Please check out our page and see how you can participate in it. I personally have stacks of books that I can give to families who will use it – how about you!? I also know families who are in need of curriculum that may be sitting in boxes in closets, under beds, hidden on bookshelves…

Where are yours?

Home schooling is a very important aspect of Gleaning the Harvest. We are proud to be able to encourage parents to walk in the Word and teach their children apart from the ungodliness of the public school system.

An Old-Fashioned Education

An Old-Fashioned Education is a site that offers links to free curriculum resources as well as a curriculum that Maggie set up herself. Her Old Fashioned Education Curriculum was created using free texts which are available on the Internet. Most of the books were published
before 1923, so they are now in the public domain. Most of the original copyrights have expired, and these books may be used by anyone, any way they like. Most of those whose copyrights are still held allow you to download, print or copy their books free for personal use.

Most of what is listed on her site is free to you. The exceptions are: a few math and science books.

Her stipulation for using her curriculum is this:  “curriculum is free to use and share with others. It may not be bought or sold and no money may be charged for sharing it, not even shipping and handling. If you send it to your sister in Peru, then you must pay for the shipping yourself. This is to ensure that no one profits from my work.”

Here are the education subjects, from the sidebar:

• American History
• Anthologies
• Arithmetic
• Art Appreciation
• Bible & Religion
• Biography
• Canadian Interest
• Canadian Teacher’s Manuals
• Character & Etiquette
• Christian Classics
• Civics & Government
• Classic Literature
• Composition
• Creationism
• Drama & Public Speaking
• Economics
• Emergency Preparedness
• Fables, Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhymes
• Fiction for Boys
• Fiction for Girls
• Folk Songs & Hymns
• Geography & Social Studies
• Grammar & Spelling
• Greece & Rome
• Health
• Helps for Mom & Dad
• Historical Documents
• Historical Fiction
• Holidays
• Home Economics
• Latin & Foreign Languages
• Medicine & Nursing
• Music Appreciation
• Penmanship
• Philosophy
• Poetry
• Printing Tips
• Reading Basics
• Recreation
• Reference Books
• Science & Nature
• SciFi & Ghost Stories
• Shakespeare & Plutarch
• Spelling & Grammar
• Social Studies & Geography
• Virginia
• World History
• Women’s Studies

She also has a page defining her Full Curriculum.

Be sure to take a look at this site and its resources for your home school!

Be sure to see our page: Homeschooling for FREE, which has a list of sites where you will find FREE homeschooling resources.

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Trust the LORD for He Has Not Forsaken Those Who Seek Him

Psalm 9:10
“And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.”

There are so many things to praise the LORD for. Even in the midst of a world that is pro-murder, anti-child, anti-family, and anti-God. It may seem as though sin and evil are winning, but the final tally is always what counts.

Here are some things we as Believers need to be aware of and constantly in prayer to the LORD for:

The CRC (Convention on the Rights of a Child): An Affront to Parental Rights

Does Your Tongue Contain Lies?

Demographic Winter: Children ARE A Blessing

Aborted Baby Born Alive and Murdered

VOTM Pray Day Friday

This is the sign of our times. America is not a free, Christian nation. We have our hands soaked in blood, humanism, and mysticism, just like any other godless society. We have left out the importance, influence and providence of God, the family, and Bible instruction.

We, as a Body of Believers, fall far too short!

When God laid Gleaning the Harvest on our hearts, I did not really realize the impact it would have on our understanding of God’s plan for our own good and on our own faith. We are not taught in churches in this country – or the world, I suppose, that it is not just an honorable thing, but an honoring thing to support the widows and fatherless and widows. God has instructed us to do. It was not a suggestion. Obviously, the NT church was also having issues with this command from Deuteronomy also, because James felt it necessary to write to “the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad” about this very thing. It was being left out in ALL of the tribes teaching and living, all over.

James 1:27
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

He equated “To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction” with “keeping ourselves unspotted from the world”. Perhaps this is because, the widows and fatherless will always need us.

John 12:8

” 4Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,  5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? 6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. 8For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.”

Perhaps because we do have the means. Are you really worried about the economy? Are Americans *really* spending less? Are we really poor? I mean, are you suffering? Or is cutting back not getting a latte a day? Or staying home to save gas?

Acts 4:34-37

” 34Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,  35And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

36And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,  37Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.”

Acts shows us that the Church, the Body, were selling all they had that was not an essential to aid the poorer in the Body. they did it out of a spirit of love and unity for the Body.

Acts 4:32 “And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.”

Do we do that today? This command in Deuteronomy and James has changed our family even more. We always have given. We feel it is our responsibility to do so. We have been given to- Many, many times. But, this discovery of supporting the fatherless and widows in their affliction has changed even my view of giving and need.

I made a short list of “things” – indulgences, such as candy bars, coffees, cokes, nights out with the guys – or girlfriends, conferences that are not of importance to our spirituality or family, eating out 2, 3, 4 times a week or more, and the like – in Please Join Me In Prayer that we normally believe are necessities in our lives. Why? And what else is there that we have or do or need that is not a necessity?

As I read about gleanings and leaving them for the fatherless, widows, and strangers, I see that it is a part of our harvest. It is a part of our income. It is a part that we could always use, because, after all, who can’t use more money? But, and this is a big but, do we do that now?

Praise Him by Honoring Him

My point here today, in praising the LORD in spite of our failings as a “christian nation” is that He has set up all the provisions we need for our people to be cared for and for our own provision of security, purity and a holy life.I praise Him for that!! I praise Him because He is a just God. He has provided for us and made a way for those who need our giving.

We just have to choose to walk in it.

God’s provision of these families is a provision for all of us. See how that works? Single moms serving the LORD are a part of our Body. We are hurting our own Body by leaving them to or *sending* them to the world and its programs. How dare we tell them to go get a job?! God has a plan for women. He wrote it all out. It is in the same Bible that tells us that “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son….” We must choose to honor that.

This is not about supporting Gleaning the Harvest. This is about honoring God. This is about a world of Believers who have forgotten our First Love. This is about seeking the flesh and our own desires above God’s. We have got to honor God. We *must* choose Christ.  We must give up our own indulgences and management of our own time apart from God’s plan and seek Him in His WORD.

God commanded us to do this as a provision to these fatherless and widowed families and for us to remember that we were once in bondage, and God has delivered us. Have you been delivered? Are you in bondage? God has made a way for all things. “therefore I command thee to do this thing.” He even said it twice.

Deuteronomy 24:17-22

17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:18But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

19When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

22And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

May God be praised!! May we serve Him as we are instructed to in the WORD and not through pop culture Christianity! I am thankful that we finally left the world of pop culture Christianity and God opened our eyes to Him, and we can search the WORD to hear Him. We, as Believers need to rely on God and the WORD, not man.

God be praised, and God help us!

blessings,

This was originally posted as a Saturday Psalm & Praise