“Have you a soul as well as a body?” Mrs. Martin asks a room full of kindergartners one Tuesday morning.

“Yes; I have a soul that can never die,” they chant back.

“If God commands us not to murder, how should Christians respond to war?” a sixth grader asks, the memoir Sergeant York and the Great War open on her desk.

“The Bible says that God chose us before the foundation of the world, so how we can say we have free will to choose Christ?” a tenth-grade student asks Mr. Suthers in theology class one Friday afternoon.

One Covenant parent of a Pre-K student says that the most significant thing he has noticed is the questions his son has been asking since he started to attend Covenant in the fall. Children are naturally curious. So, what about when those questions aren’t just about what’s for dinner, but they have eternal consequences? We can’t expect our students’ “soul questions” to wait until Sunday when their inquisitive minds want to know on Thursday. Rather, if we surround them with teachers and curriculum rich with the fruit of God’s goodness, they will reach higher and dig deeper into love and knowledge of him and his creation.

“We can’t expect our students’ “soul questions” to wait until Sunday when their inquisitive minds want to know on Thursday.”

When our students ask us about the deeper meaning of life, let our answer be the glory of God. When they ask about our hope in the darkness of sin, let our answer be Christ and him crucified. Even when our students ask things like, “Why do I have to learn math?” Let our answer be, “Because we worship a God of beauty and order. By learning to think in this way, we know and love him better.” Indeed, as it says in Proverbs, “if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God” (Proverbs 2:3-5).