A Message from Head of School, Tom Argersinger
Dear Parents and Friends of CCS,
I hope this edition of Parent News finds you walking and working in the peace and power of our Lord Jesus Christ.
One of the amazing pleasures and privileges of being a part of a gospel centered school is being able to stay connected with our alumni. So many of them are following the LORD, and working out their calling before Him in profound ways.
You can check out our Alumni Spotlight here to get to know a very important part of the ministry of CCS.
We continue to pray God’s best for all of our alums, and trust that God is raising up yet another generation of gospel centered people to take His Kingdom into the world, for His greater glory.
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This week I’ve been reminded that there is literal power in the gospel of Christ – and that changes everything.
Romans 1:14-17 CSB
14 I (the Apostle Paul) am obligated both to Greeks and barbarians, both to the wise and the foolish.
15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek (Gentile or non-Jew – essentially, everyone else in the world).
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.
So many of us who are reading these words are suffering in circumstances that seem unresolvable. SO often we do not experience victory on a daily basis– we certainly don’t feel like we’re “winning”.
Bad forecast numbers at work, an unpaid utility bill, family friction and strife, missteps in parenting, a real life “ghosting” of God Himself – in a myriad of ways we simply do not measure up even to our own expectations (if we’re honest with ourselves, that is).
This situation is not a new historical phenomenon. The people Paul was writing to were clearly not ‘winning’ against the powerful Roman Empire and its heavy hand of rule.
My guess is that they were about as fed up with the whole situation as we often are with our own. We want to see change, and see it now.
Yet God is not Google. He is not an app that we can customize. He is my ‘friend’ in a beautifully profound way, but He is not my buddy. He doesn’t owe me a single thing – and I owe Him everything.
In a very real sense I am irretrievably messed up, and I cannot fix myself. So I am STUCK. But not so fast…
Paul is obligated by God to preach, to share the gospel of Christ with everyone, regardless of their socio-economic standing, their color, their heritage or their back story.
What they were able to bring to the table was decidedly not the issue – what God brought to the table was the whole issue.
And so the gospel, the great salvation that God offers us at great cost to Himself yet without cost to us, becomes the highway that leads us to powerfully live the Kingdom of God as we move in faith toward this crazy, chaotic and discouraging world.
God is revealed through His word as perfectly and inherently righteous – without fault, always just – and offers to us the opportunity to receive His righteousness as our own. With this, we are positioned to live forever with Him as His children, both in this world and the next, as we respond with faith, believing that Jesus really is God, and that He chose to be the Saviour of the world.
In short, He promises us victory in eternity, as well as victory now. Not in our normal competitive sense of victory, but in a Kingdom sense: victory over our own ungodly and fleshly desires, over our prejudices and hatreds, over the idols that have filled our homes and lives – over everything that is not Him, and does not further His Kingdom through us.
This is the amazing victory we are given. It is truly miraculous.
So whatever your day has been like, and whatever your trouble continues to be, remember that God’s gospel is the power of God for your salvation, and acts as a sustaining supernatural force to help when all seems lost.
“I have told you these things so that Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.” John 16:33 CSB
God may deliver you from your battle, i.e., just remove the suffering. Or He may leave you in it, knowing as your loving Father that this is best for you and for those around you.
Either way, He has won the victory over the enemy of our souls, and has turned toward us and given us His winner’s wreath.
If you have given your life to Christ, live this week as who you truly are: a greatly loved child of the Most High God.
And let’s walk step by step (or limp by limp) with Him – in victory.
For CCS and the Kingdom,
Tom