Jessica

“To be tempted is to be confronted by your enemy—whether it’s the world, the flesh, or the devil—and if you try to fight in your own strength and power, you will be overcome. Jesus taught us the way to handle temptation: answer with Scripture, answer with prayer, and we will be delivered from evil by God’s hand, not our own.”
― Mystie Winckler, The Convivial Homeschool: Gospel Encouragement for Keeping Your Sanity While Living and Learning Alongside Your Kids

“Likewise, if no parenting adult is available, the human child will orient to whomever is near. Social, economic, and cultural trends in the past five or six decades have displaced the parent from his intended position as the orienting influence on the child. The peer group has moved into this orienting void, with deplorable results.”
― Gordon Neufeld, Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

“Truly, the temptation is an opportunity to rely on God and His grace for carrying on. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13”
― Mystie Winckler, The Convivial Homeschool: Gospel Encouragement for Keeping Your Sanity While Living and Learning Alongside Your Kids

“For the first time in history young people are turning for instruction, modeling, and guidance not to mothers, fathers, teachers, and other responsible adults but to people whom nature never intended to place in a parenting role—their own peers. They are not manageable, teachable, or maturing because they no longer take their cues from adults.”
― Gordon Neufeld, Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers