Our Footsteps: The Beginning of a New Era

Monday, August 25, 2008

The Beginning of a New Era

Yesterday marked the end of an era. Today marked the beginning of a new one. Yesterday was the last day of my youngest son's five-and-a-half year vacation. Today was his first day of his seventeen-year formal education.

He was so excited to be entering kindergarten, riding the bus to school with his second-grade brother and third-grade cousin. It is the start of an exciting time, not only for him, but for mom and dad. We have seen for two years now, the benefit of a solid Christian education in the life of our oldest son. There is no substitute for the staff who genuinely care for my children and their eternal destiny. Many other schools around here, public and private, may offer more in the way of technology, languages or sports... but do they offer more of Christ? The blessing of being able to send our children to such a high quality school far outweighs what the other schools have to offer.

We give praise to our great Provider for allowing us to confidently send our kids to a place that agrees with us doctrinally and that understands what we are trying to accomplish in the lives of those whom He has given us charge over.

Forever grateful,
Mark

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1). I believe that there is one God. I believe God consists of three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2). I believe that God is holy, righteous, loving, and just.
3). I believe that mankind is separated from God by sin; that sin entered the world through Adam and death through sin.
4). I believe that, because of sin, man is condemned. Because of God’s utter hatred for sin, there is an eternal conscious punishment in hell for all those who do not come to God on His terms, dealing with their sin.
5). I believe that confessing our sins and confessing Jesus Christ as Lord is the only way to properly deal with the sin that has infected everyone. Jesus Christ paid our sin debt on the cross; reconciliation by substitution. There is nothing we can do to add to the finished work of Christ.
6). I believe in the security of the believer, that once he is truly born-again, there is nothing that would cause him to lose his salvation.
7). I believe that upon the death of a true believer in Christ, that he is ushered immediately into the presence of the Lord, where he will live in everlasting joy in Heaven, experiencing eternal fellowship with God.
8). I believe in believer’s baptism by immersion. I don’t believe baptism is necessary for salvation, but it is a beautiful outward profession of an inward possession.
9). I believe in a literal 6-day creation where God created the heavens and the earth and then rested on the seventh day.
10). I believe that the words written in the Bible are truth. I believe that the Bible is inerrant in its parts and in its whole. I believe that the 66 books that make up the canon of scripture make the Bible complete and that God inspired the words written therein. The things that were written down in the Bible are sufficient for every need we have. Not only is God’s Word sufficient, but it is far superior to any other method of handling the problems that man faces, since He has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness.