Service Topic

March is a busy time at the Calvert home as we gear up for the annual Bible, Academics, and Fine Arts competition among Virginia church schools. With our two sons participating one particular year, practices were frequent, paintings and sermons had to be completed, and there was stress on every side.

The story is told of a struggling community who called an open town meeting to discuss their financial straits. Included in the group of a couple dozen people at the meeting was a stranger. No one knew him, and no one paid him any attention. In fact, once when he tried to speak up, he was interrupted as the townspeople continued to hash out possible solutions. Soon the stranger left.

The highest model of leadership is cloaked in the lowest forms of humility. Specifically, servant leadership was set and demonstrated by Christ Himself when He left Heaven’s glory and “took upon him the form of a servant” (Philippians 2:7).

One of the most often rehearsed quotes from the Apostle Paul can be found in the third chapter of the book of Philippians. After listing all the things he had been through—both good and bad—he reaffirms his intention to continue to pursue Christ by saying, “But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”