This 12 minute video, hosted by the executive director Lori Lane,
focuses on the importance of an integrative approach to learning. It
covers the need for this form of education as well as some of the
specifics of Cordis Academy. If you would like further information
about Cordis Academy please contact us.
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Our Past & Present
Master’s
Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1991 and has grown to include over
15 locations in the U.S. as well as a new location in South Africa .
With over 1500 students, Master’s Academy’s goal is to instruct
students in the arts from a historical perspective and to train them to
“glorify God through excellence in the arts.”
Through the years, the growth and development of artistic
skills and interest in Master’s Academy students necessitated the start
of a more advanced scope of arts instruction at the high school level.
In 2001, Artios Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts began at
Master’s Academy of Gwinnett . The Artios program provides specialized
and college prep instruction in theater, media arts, visual arts and
music. Students are coached through portfolio and audition preparation
and are offered various opportunities in leadership, performance and
training through their involvement at Artios. Many of these experiences
have led to college scholarships both in and out of arts-related
fields.
Home schooling middle and high school students brings with
it a series of challenges and opportunities. Finding a program that
provides homeschool students with leadership opportunities, academic
classes and fine arts instruction in one location is something that has
not existed for the home schooling family. Those of us who have been
involved with Master’s Academy for any length of time have watched
parents struggle trying to find a program of instruction that
integrates the unique giftings of their child, offers college prep
academics, and yet retains the flexibility that drew many of us to a
homeschool lifestyle in the first place. The ability to daily disciple
our children’s hearts and adapt our teaching approaches and materials
in order to reach the hearts AND minds of our children is one of the
most precious aspects of home schooling. Teaching our students from a
“wholeheart” approach is a key element to the philosophy of Cordis
Academy.
“I
advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign
paramount. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study
of God’s word becomes corrupt.”
-Martin Luther
“Withdraw
from a child the only divine rule of life, and the result will be most
lamentable. An education purely secular is the handmaiden of godless
skeptics.”
-C.H. Spurgeon
“The
public school is confessedly and deliberately secular. I am bound,
therefore, to lay on the doorstep of our educational system the prime
responsibility for the decline of religion and the steady advance of
secularism, another name for atheism, in American society….Protestant
children in public schools are under an influence which the churches
cannot counteract. The public school presents the church with a
generation of youth whose minds have been cast in a secular world.”
-Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of “The Christian Century,” addressing 10,000 public school teachers in Kansas City , 1940
“What’s clear…from creation
onward is that God’s rule extends to everything. From our bank accounts
to our business dealings to our educational curriculum to our social
justice issues to our political choices in the voting booth –
everything must reflect the fact that God’s righteous rule extends to
all of life.”
-Charles Colson (The Body: Being Light in Darkness)
Cordis Academy Core Values
- Implementing a Biblical worldview
- Offering a creative, integrative and real life approach to learning.
- Offering academic and artistic excellence
- Living out a Christian life
- Assisting the home
- Being a wise steward of God’s resources
Doctrinal Statement
- We
believe that God is one in essence, but that He exists in three
distinct and equal persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and that
these three have precisely the same nature, attributes and perfections.
- We
believe that the Bible is the inspired, complete and only Word of God,
and that both inspiration and inerrancy extend to every part of the
writings as they came from God.
- We believe in God as absolute
and sole Creator of the universe and that creation was by divine fiat,
not by evolutionary process.
- We believe that human beings were
created by God in His image to enjoy His fellowship; that by their own
choice, they decided to rebel against their Creator; that every person
since that time has been born with a propensity to sin; that our
personal sins cause us to have need of justification and redemption;
and that sin is universal and without excuse.
- We believe that
God, by His sovereign choice and out of love for humanity, sent Christ
into the world to save sinners. We believe that we are justified before
God simply by placing our personal trust in Christ, and that we are
eternally secure in grace from that moment on. However, sin may
interrupt the joy of fellowship with God and may bring the loving
discipline of our heavenly Father. We believe that there is no way of
salvation other than through Jesus Christ.
- We believe that
Jesus Christ is both God and man; that His death paid a sufficient
price to redeem any person who would believe in Him as personal savior;
that He rose from the dead bodily; that He ascended to the right hand
of God the Father; and that He will return to the earth bodily and
visibly to set up His eternal kingdom.
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