If you’re part of a homeschool family and you haven’t been asleep under a rock for the past decade or so, chances are you’ve heard of the Jonathan Park adventure series produced by Vision Forum. The focus of the Jonathan Park series is to equip parents and children to defend creation truths against evolutionary lies. Volume # 8 (Jonathan Park and the Copper Scroll) brings the excitement of Jonathan Park together with the Dead Sea Scrolls, a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I can’t wait to share in this latest Jonathan Park adventure with my children! Learn more at VisionForum.com.

I was excited to see that Vision Forum is offering the complete Family Bible Study Series by Kevin Swanson for 31% off.  My family and I use this series for our dinner time devotions and have been greatly blessed by them.  Each chapter includes:

• Convenient theme categorizations, as well as contextualization of the passage
• A basic exposition of the chapter, explaining its meaning in simple terms
• Critical application points for family life and children
• A summary of what the chapter teaches about worship
• Passage content questions and family discussion questions

This set includes the recently released Proverbs: God’s Book of Wisdom Book II.  The sale price is good through August 6th.  Visit VisionForum.com to learn more.

Over the Christmas holiday I was able to spend time with extended family.  As often happens, we started reminiscing of Christmases past and came to the subject of my maternal grandfather.  The thing that people remembered him most for at Christmas was that he liked to make  hot Tom & Jerry drinks spiked with brandy.  In the days that passed I thought more on this conversation and was saddened that the strongest memory my extended family has of my grandfather and how he celebrated the birth of Christ with his family has to do with how he shared and consumed alcohol rather than how he shared about Christ’s birth with his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.  Taking this and other things into consideration, it is fair to say that my grandfather did not strongly consider how his actions would impact his progeny.  While this saddens me, I do not despair.  By God’s grace I am in the process of expanding my vision and am planning for the future of my family, especially taking into consideration how my immediate family’s actions in our lifetime  will impact future generations of Tabatts.  I’ve been especially blessed by the How to Disciple Your Family:  A Plan for Generational Victory DVD set that my wife got me this Christmas.  I’m currently on disc 8 of 10 and it is just rocking my world.  Below is the list of topics covered in the series:

• Strategic Considerations for a Multi-Generational Vision
• Seven Secrets of Successful Multi-Generational Visionaries
• The Family Toledoth
• The Family Catechism
• 200-Year Plans that Succeed
• Training Brothers and Sisters to Be Best Friends and The Family Enterprise
• How to Draft a 200-Year Plan
• The Family Investiture, Part I
• The Family Investiture, Part II
• Armchair Discussions: Becoming a Christian Visionary, Developing a Leadership Mindset & Questions and Answers

I’m also blessed to have a core group of men who I meet with on a regular basis, who has agreed to work through this series with me.  I’m hopeful that our time together will be fruitful and the direction of our families will be forever changed for the better.  If you’d like more information about the How to Disciple Your Family series, click the image below.