Events to Note July 11..............................................Booster Golf Outing July 14–17.................Co-ed Running Camp | 8–10:30a July 14........ Warrior Band “Homecoming” parade | 3p July 15–17.......................Grades 7–12 Wrestling Camp July 20.....................Warrior Classic 5K/10K Run/Walk July 21–24....Grade Schl Volleyball & Football Camps August 4.......................... Boys Football Practices begin August 6.................Lakeside Registration Night | 5–8p August 11........................... Boys Soccer practices begin Registration Night | 5–8:30p August 18............................. Freshmen Orientation | 8a CC & VB practices begin Board of Regents | 6:30p August 19........1st Day of classes 8a/Opening Srvc 10a
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Principal’s Pen, continued from first page Don’t misunderstand me: there is nothing wrong with using our God-given gifts to work for the betterment of others in life. It is one way by which we believers glorify God. However, we are totally mistaken if we think that we can meet God’s righteous requirements on our own. That is sinful, deluded thinking. Only through Christ are our sins forgiven, and through him is our relationship with God restored. “God made [Christ] who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21). In Christ alone are our hope and our future. Mr. Jim Grasby is principal of Lakeside Lutheran; his column is featured every FedCon. Reach him at 920.648.2321 x 2204 or at jgrasby@llhs.org
The summer edition of the Lakeside Advantage magazine mailed recently. Does your household have children from K–8 but not receive a copy in the mail? We’d like to hear from you! Ask your church office for a copy this time, but please tell us you’d like your own! In this issue, grade school students are invited to submit an entry in a photo contest called “Lakeside=Fun.” Prizes for participating and tuition credit for the winners! See the mag for details, or go to llhs.org/ advantagecontest.html.
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July 2014
a publication of Lakeside Lutheran High School Volume 3 : Issue 11
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What do we do with no potential? Graduation speakers often exhort their hearers to “go out and change the world.” The speaker assumes that the graduates–after years of schooling–have the potential to improve the lives of themselves and others. We all believe that we have something to offer. Whether from vanity or out of a sense of duty, we feel that we have the potential make meaningful contributions in life.
Principal’s Pen
Spiritually, we are tempted to believe the same. Perhaps we desire to be right with God. We may hope to be closer to him. In any event, we often believe that we can better ourselves by who we are and what we do.
God clearly states that this is not the case. In Genesis, Moses states that “every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart [is] only evil all the time” (Genesis 6:5). Later in Scripture, David unequivocally declares, “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me” (Psalm 51:5). The New Testament similarly addresses the inborn sins of “sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.” The holy writer Paul sternly concludes, “I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-21). Spiritually, we bring nothing to the game. There is no potential in us for good. God alone changes this situation. He is holy and just. He demands nothing but perfection from sinful people like you and me. So, how are his righteous requirements met? Paul tells us that “at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly” (Romans 5:6). Christ’s holy, sinless life and his innocent suffering death pay the price that God the Father demanded for our sin. Furthermore, Jesus’ glorious resurrection clearly proves that this price is fully paid. See Principal’s Pen, last page