Tag: Holy Days

Biblical Feasts: Menu Plans

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We will update this as we finish up the menus… some of them may not have been published yet, so please be patient.

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Spring Feasts:

Biblical Feasts: Passover Menu & Activities 

Biblical Feasts: Feast of the Unleavened Bread (& First Fruits)Menu & Activities (2/28/26)

Biblical Feasts: Pentecost/Shavout Menu & Activities (4/11/26)

Fall Feasts:

Biblical Feasts: Feast of the Trumpets Menu & Activities (5/30/26)

Biblical Feasts: Day of Atonement Menu & Activities (5/16/26)

Biblical Feasts: A Sukkot Menu & Activities – Includes the menu for the 9th Day

Transform Your Celebrations: Biblical vs. Traditional

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Hey guys!

I don’t want to start any debates or anything but I know that I have had some feelings of conviction when it comes to certain holidays. I’ve celebrated them because that seemed like the ‘normal’ thing to do but I always had this little feeling that it wasn’t right. I didn’t realize until recently that there were a lot of other people who felt the same way.

I started doing a little more research about some of these ‘holidays’ and much of what I found didn’t sit well with me. This research led me to learn more about the Biblical Holy Days… or feasts. We’ve been incorporating more of these into our annual celebrations and leaving some of the old traditions behind. My heart feels better about these decisions even though some people don’t always agree with us. That’s Ok, we have to do what we feel led to do.

Holy Days vs Holidays

I encourage you to do some of your own research about upcoming holidays for this year as now is the time to start implementing changes and letting family or friends know about the changes you plan to make. It’s totally up to you and your family but I do encourage you to pray about these issues if you have felt convicted in any way.

Celebrating Biblical Feasts

I know we still have a lot more research to do and we are constantly learning but God will help us along this journey as long as we continue to seek His guidance through prayer.

We hope you all have a very blessed week!

This video popped up in my YouTube lists recently and I wanted to share it with you as it does touch on a few of these issues:

Embracing New Family Traditions in Homeschooling

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Thanksgiving is in a couple of weeks and that means Advent starts soon after… where oh where does time go?

If you’ve been around my blog for long then you probably know that I try to do Advent studies with our Homeschool in place of our regular homeschool activities… this year is no different. I really want my family to be able to FOCUS on the REAL REASON BEHIND THE SEASON… not just the HOLLYWOOD VERSION. This gives us time to enjoy our family and helps to eliminate some of the stress from trying to get it all done.

We’ve been making some gradual changes in our home that may or not be for you. We have cut back on the number of gifts that we give and we try to be more intentional on the gifts we give. Often we will purchase ‘experience’ gifts that we can enjoy together as a family.

Free Printables for Holiday Shopping plus some tips for buying for special needs kiddos!

We also have different activities that we do every year like our POLAR EXPRESS PARTY which gives the kids a chance to show off some of the skills we’ve been working on using real-life activities. Below are some of the books that I recently ordered for our Advent Activities… some of these may actually end up incorporated into our Polar Express Party but not sure exactly how yet. We have some links to FREE materials further down in the post.

Free Printable Shopping Guide – Makes Christmas Shopping So Much Easier!
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Sabbath Day Resources

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On our journey to learning more about the Biblical Feasts and Holy Days we can’t help but take some time to focus on the Sabbath Day. Many of us have heard of this one but some of us, myself included, haven’t ever really thought about how it should be observed. Well, let me tell you that I’ve been learning a lot and I’m trying to incorporate what I’ve learned into our lives but it has proven to be a bit more difficult than it should be.

The Sabbath is probably the hardest of all the 10 commandments to keep… I had never thought about it until lately but it’s true for most of us. God created the Sabbath day as a day of rest and too often we just look at it as a ‘day off’ or a ‘free day’ from our regular work but we will use it to ‘catch-up’ on projects that we need to get done… I’m so guilty of this!

Mark 2:27-28KJV

27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

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Starting Our Sabbath

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So I’ve been talking about the Biblical Feasts and the Sabbath but have I actually been trying to put these things into action?

Yes, we have. We don’t have a perfect routine yet but we are trying to make an intentional effort to include the Sabbath into our weeks as well as making plans to include the Biblical Feasts into our yearly plans… even though we aren’t quite sure how that will look yet.

As far as the Sabbath goes, we have been doing it on Sundays. I know there is a lot of debate about Saturday or Sunday but for now, Sunday is what works for us. I also know that the Sabbath should begin at sundown the day before but we didn’t do that either although I may try to start that.

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