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Pastor Dennis Harbach Email: pastordh@acegroup.cc Mr. Mark Kutz, Principal Email: stjohnpr@acegroup.cc |
Message from the Pastor
Save Big!
Several days ago I was eating lunch and the youngest of my children walked over with a question on his mind. What was tormenting this little five year old boy, you ask? He said, “Dad, why do you save big money at Menards?” Now it’s true. After our house was built I have frequented this store a number of times. But it isn’t a regular topic of conversation in our home. Few discussions occur about various home improvement stores. We do not debate comparative pricing. And I rarely go around the house singing the store jingle. But somewhere along the line this well worn phrase impressed itself into this youngster’s mind- and apparently it was making him think.
I am reminded of the importance of what God called his people to do. “Impress these on your children,” Moses wrote in Deuteronomy. He reminded parents and grandparents and other adults to impress the promises and blessings and commands of God upon the next generation. “Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road.” The Lord wanted those truths impressed upon his children so that they would not forget his blessings or their responsibilities.
As we come to close of another school year, I consider the privilege and responsibility of impressing God’s Word on young minds. The Lord really has given us an important task. More than anything else today children need to know of a God who made them, watches over them, forgives and just plain loves them. We need to tell that to our children again and again. In fact, we even need to remember it ourselves.
It is also a message to share. A few weeks ago I attended this year’s final Power Hour session at