Story Warren Weekend, Vol. 13, Issue 45

Good morning,

Did you have pie for breakfast yesterday or today? Then you’re doing the holidays right.

Around the Web

Trevin Wax explores rightly ordered loves in the classic film The Sound of Music. “What makes the film powerful isn’t just its music or cinematography. It’s love—better yet, a constellation of loves, rightly ordered. Love is what matters most when resisting the corruption of compromise.”

The Redeemed Reader team brings us a review of the newest Advent iteration of The Biggest Story series from Kevin DeYoung and Crossway Publishing. “This advent guide, targeted at children from a preschool to early-elementary age range, includes one extra feature: each brief daily reading includes a flap the children can lift to reveal that day’s illustration and a scripture reference.”

Around the Warren

Review: The One We’re Waiting For. Aimee Davis brought us a review of this new Advent resource for families. “My favorite illustration goes with the story of Abram and God’s promise to give him more descendants than the stars in the sky. The dark blue sky with the twinkling stars and an astonished Abram kneeling create a beautiful rendering of this promise.”

On Wednesday, we brought you a table blessing. We know Thanksgiving is past, but this one is good for any time of year. “Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften us to our enemies. Bless us, if may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come.”

Something to do with your kids

This is an older post from Sally Lloyd-Jones’ site with a download for Advent. It runs alongside The Jesus Storybook Bible.

Something to watch

Watch these British teens attempt a Thanksgiving dinner!

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Kelly Keller is the managing editor of Story Warren. She has her BS in Elementary Education from Messiah University and has taught various ages, but her favorite was worldview and literature with high school students. The “gap” in her resume is actually a window of eighteen years of homeschooling, which she recommends as an effective, though demanding, way of expanding one’s home library.

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