A Message from Head of School, Tom Argersinger
Dear Parents and Friends of CCS,
I hope your new year has begun in peace and gratitude in the Lord Jesus Christ.
There are indeed so many things to be grateful for as we enter the month of January 2026, not the least of which is a fresh reminder of the Incarnation of the Lord that essentially changed everything in our world.
It is true that if we look around in our families and our workplaces and in the world in general it doesn't seem like that much has changed. Sin still abounds, brokenness is seemingly everywhere, and suffering is normal in most people's lives.
And yet, the season of Christmas and Epiphany reminds us that Jesus came fully into our space and is therefore present in our joys and our suffering, in a way that is often difficult to explain in words.
It seems there are many in our community these days who are suffering from physical, emotional and spiritual maladies, some serious. Deep in our souls there is a still, small voice that says: “This is not the way it's supposed to be”.
And yes, that is true. The world was not set up that way, but sin entered the world, and the enemy has held sway in some sense ever since. But even the “prince of the power of the air”, the devil, cannot ultimately stand against the power, majesty and might of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
As Advent reminded us, Jesus will come again. And when he does, he will make all things right - without exception.
This is the truth that Christians throughout history have pressed into during the darkest of times, when there were things happening that were simply beyond their control.
It is a great grace that nothing that happens is beyond the control of our God.
We may debate His sovereign choices in our lives, but we need not debate His Sovereign Love and Goodness directed to us, His beloved Creation.
Let’s agree together to let the words of the opening of Genesis speak to us this week. May God through his holy spirit minister to our hearts as we read these sacred words:
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
3 Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was an evening, and there was a morning: one day.
(Gen. 1:1-5 CSB)
I honestly believe that the answers to most of our deepest and most pressing questions are answered in the Book of Genesis.
There is so much that could be said about this short passage, but for today let me emphasize just a few things.
Our God is a personally engaged Deity who acts in time and space, even though he transcends both of those things. (v.1) And John 1 tells us that indeed the second person of the Trinity, Jesus, was present and active as the agent of the creative process.
We cannot really conceive of what v.2 is actually describing, since we have no reference point.
How does one describe true, complete emptiness without reference to existing things ?? – yet they had not yet been created!
Even so, we can see that the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, was indeed active then…as if preparing for something momentous.
(v.3) Then, at just the right time, God SPOKE matter into being. Decisively, and with ultimate power and authority. And in no sense should God be second-guessed as we might do with an earthly leader. What He chose to do was undeniably correct – and not only that but it is morally and ethically good. It was true then, and it is still true in our lives today. God makes no errors.
Genesis is important to our lives in a very specific way: it portrays God in all of His glory as the God above all gods i.e. the only true God.
This is why idolatry in any form is ultimately foolish. Enthroning anything other than the God of the Bible, Yahweh, is folly and ultimately untenable.
As we face this new year, and all that it has already brought, both good and bad, let’s fix our eyes on the God we see in Genesis and throughout the Bible, the God of the entire universe, the Master, Creator, and Sustainer of all that ever has been and ever will be.
This Is our God.
And because He is who He says He is, we can trust Him without reservation with literally everything.
Our pain is very real, yet God promises to be present in that pain and to love us in the most perfect way possible.
Creator God, I pray over the CCS community that Your perfections would be ever more evident to each of us, and especially those of us in pain. Heal us, both in this world and the next.
Help us to love one another in a way that aligns best with Your word and Spirit, and may You receive maximum glory for it all.
For CCS and the Kingdom,
Tom