Musings
These are the short articles from the weekly Mount Hope Lutheran School Newsletter. Topics include poems, paintings, great literary works, and the philosophy of classical education. You can browse through past articles here on the website, and you can subscribe to receive new ones in your inbox using the form on this page.
Learning Based on a Christian Worldview
A Christian worldview is not simply integrated into Mount Hope’s curriculum through a few lessons on Christian topics, but God’s Word informs the whole life of the school.
Classroom Management, Formed by God’s Word
God’s Word informs more than just lessons and lectures. It also informs the day-to-day, practical ways that teachers manage their classrooms and deal with their students.
A Student’s Vocation of Being Christian
Although job preparation can be valuable, it is not the main focus of a Christian education. Instead, a Christian education is an education in the vocation of being Christian.
On the Occasion of Mount Hope’s 60th Anniversary
Why suffer for this labor of love when we could simply send our children elsewhere? Because we want our children to have Jesus. That’s it, plain and simple. We want our children to have Jesus.
Feminine Virtue in the Classical World
Where might a young woman find examples—either good or bad—of feminine virtue in the classical world?
Hymns Are for Children
When a child learns a rich, beautiful Lutheran hymn, he learns something he can grow into, not something he will grow out of.
Teaching the Emotions
She didn’t lose anything by telling her emotions that they were wrong. Her experience wasn’t true to reality, and she knew it. The Word of Jesus is true to reality, and she held fast to that.
The Poem “Conscience” by George Herbert
And the receipt shall be / My Saviour’s blood: whenever at his board / I do but taste it, straight it cleanseth me, / And leaves thee not a word; / No, not a tooth or nail to scratch, / And at my actions carp, or catch.
Lord Jesus, Thou Art Going Forth (MHLS Choir)
The curse I choose that thou mightst lose sin’s curse and guilt forever. My gift of love from heaven above will give thee blessing ever.
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