I enjoy winter. To me, cold weather means a fire in the fireplace, one of my greatest pleasures, and not mowing the grass, one of my greatest pains.

“The effort to think like a Christian is . . . an effort to take seriouslythe sovereignty of God over the world he created,the lordship of Christ over the world he died to redeem,and the power of the Holy Spirit over the world he sustains each and every moment.From this perspective the search for a mind that truly thinks like a Christian takes on ultimate significance,because the search for a Christian mind is not, in the end, a search for the mind but a search for God.”

As we work to honor God in educating our children, one of the perennial questions/conversations I hear is about choosing good books for children to read. There are hundreds of lists, many of them very similar. What is more important than lists, however, is cultivating the ability to determine a book's worth for yourself. More important still is passing on that discernment to our children. Monica Sharman has written down some useful guidelines for the daunting task of choosing good books. As you read with your children, ask them some questions about what makes a current book "good."