Insights

Welcome back, Lions! It has been a great start to what promises to be a significant year for Logos Prep. We are walking in faith, believing in what God will do in the lives of the 605 students who are joining us on campus as well as in the home of every LP family. Our core value focus for this year is faith. Faith must look both forward and backward. Hebrews 11 begins with a beautiful definition of faith. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” This definition, in verse one, looks forward. Verse two looks backward. “For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.” This year, we will look backward at the testimony of what God has done and forward to what is yet unseen. In each Christian life, there is a faith by which we came to believe and a faith through which our beliefs and affections are sustained.

In 1 Samuel 17, we see a great example of faith in what is seen fueling faith for what is unseen. David is a young shepherd boy when he offers to fight the giant Goliath. Goliath had been mocking the One True God and frightening the king’s soldiers to the point of paralysis when the young shepherd boy offered himself. The king, Saul, questioned the young man. “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.” David replied, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” David went on to defeat the giant armed with a slingshot, some stones and faith owed to what he had already seen God do.

In the seventeen year history of Logos Prep, we’ve seen the Hand of God move mightily among us and we are confident that He will do it again. We are very thankful that each of you is here during this time in the school’s story! As we rest in who God is, let us be reminded who we are to be. We are, “families and students making an impact for Christ!” Together, we will make the school year 2023 -24 the best year yet!

Tammy McIlvoy
Head of School
Logos Preparatory Academy