Welcome, friend

Grab your cup of tea (still hot, I hope!) and come for a ramble with me! We’ll stretch our minds and our legs at the same time, and return home with our hearts a little lighter, and our determination a little stronger. Ready? Let’s go!

Ruby’s Rambles Blog

Sometimes we follow a trail, and sometimes we blaze a trail
for the person coming behind us.
– Unknown

Ruby’s Rambles – Kids Bible Studies and Homeschool Resources

Why Kids Bible Studies?

You want a faith that is firm, strong, healthy and life-giving. And you want that for your children, too.

You’ve been asking the hard questions of faith. You may even be deconstructing, tearing down the unhealthy and toxic traditions you were taught, but your intent has never been to give up on faith.

You desperately want a stable foundation. You long to know God as He truly is – not as people told you He was. You want to know what God wants from you – not the list of rules and guidelines and fear-inducing cliches someone told you to follow.

I know this because you and I are a lot alike.

Ruby's Rambles Kids Bible Studies and homeschool resources how to study God's Word

And you and I need tools. Tools for deconstructing, for reconstructing, and tools to give our children. Not tools to hand to our children when this messy season is over, but tools IN the messy season. Tools to dig into Scripture together. And as individuals. Our kids need to know how to study the Word for themselves. They need to know how to hear from God for themselves, and not rely on what someone else says, or on what they’ve been taught – even by us.

I want to make space for all of us to meet Jesus. I want to make it EASY for us to come to Jesus. Not make it harder. For you. For me. And for our kids.

I crave truth above everything else. I can face a lot of crummy situations if I know the truth about it. What I can’t deal with is something false, something that is fake, something that is pretending to be something else.

And this is the main reason why I despise it when someone takes a verse out of context, and creates an untrue doctrine that they perpetuate with people around them. Especially if that person is in leadership/ministry.

The problem is, many people (even in ministry/pastoral positions) haven’t been taught HOW to study the Bible. Some of these people have been told that the KJV is the only reliable translation, and out of their determination to hold onto faith, they have blindly followed that advice – without the education to properly study archaic English and without the tools to discover where the translation failed miserably – nor the cultural implications of the text. And therefore have misunderstood much of what they have read.

I can’t fix it all. But what I CAN do is share the tools I have.