https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv3CXh7Ek60&t=15s

Gluten Free Bread

Rice Bread

for bread machine

1 cup water
1/3 cup milk (sometimes I use almond milk)
2 eggs   (can use 3 tsp egg replacer mixed with 4 TB water)
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
4 TB oil
2 TB sugar
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cup white rice flour
2/3 cup brown rice flour
1 1/2 tsp xanthan gum (you can also use guar gum instead)
2 tsp quick rise yeast

Mix the wet ingredients.  In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients.  Then combine them before putting in the bread machine pan.   Bake on Gluten Free cycle.

Reasonable Faith: The Scientific Case for Christianity

by Dr. Jay Wile

Great, short book written by a Ph.d. in nuclear chemistry. A Christian view of the science you learned in school in just 100 pages. Also, if Evidence that Demands A Verdict is too daunting, this highlights some of that book. The last chapter also explains why so many scientists are not Christians.

Find it here.

Summer Fitness With My Teenager - P90X

Tony Horton of P90X

Three of the reasons why I bought the P90X Home Exercise System:

1. It is 100 degrees outside and too hot to exercise out there.
2. The system is not too cheesy for a teenage boy to do with his mom.
3. I am 50 years old and need to get serious about staying healthy.

So we are doing it together!  

 I would not do this with anyone younger than 13 for at least 2 reasons:

1.  I don't think anyone younger is supposed to work out like this, it might be detrimental to their development.  Don't know for sure though.
2. More importantly, the conversation going on during the workout is not kid sensitive.

Who knows, maybe my homeschooler will be hitting the ball out of the park next baseball season!

Baby Animals on the Farm

At the end of last summer, Ribeye, one of our pet cows, 

escaped into our neighbor's field 

for no more than half an hour. 

Then low and behold 10 months later, 

we have this little guy following her around in our pasture. Isn't he cute?

A Prayer in a Song

Lord, help me walk another mile,

Just one more mile.

I'm tired of walking all alone...

Remove the chains of darkness,

Let me see, Lord, let me see,

Just where I fit into Your master plan.

I never thought I needed help before,

I thought that I could get by on my own.

Now I know I just can't take it anymore.

With a humble heart, on bended knee,

I beg you please, Help me.

Sometimes.... no, a lot of times... I feel like this. 

The Christian Life should be a walk in fellowship with Jesus.      Most of the  time I am trying to walk alone.  Then, He cuts off all of my own resources and leaves only Him.  Then, with a humble heart, on bended knee, I beg Him to please help me.

The "chains of darkness"  could be the "valley of death" in Psalm 23 which is a valley of darkness -- though I walk through the valley of darkness, I fear no evil, for You are with me.

Follow this link to hear the song.

Buried Alive: The Startling Untold Story About Neanderthal Man

This book is recommended by Diana Waring in her Ancient Civilizations and the Bible History Textbook as additional reading.  She said that it reads like a spy thriller and it really does! 

 

An orthodontist goes to France to x-ray neanderthal fossils at a museum where they are stored and found that what he saw for real didn't look like the pictures in his reference books. To what lengths will 

zealous evolutionists go to stop him from letting the cat out of the bag?

Here is a link to the author's webpage.