“An Investment Tip For You… Best Return Ever!”
* No, I am not a financial investment expert! I have no tip for you to make a million dollars in a few days as you invest in some IPO, penny stocks that will go wild… or tech stocks. But I have some experience in investing in people. And that is where I want to provide you a good tip with excellent returns guaranteed.
* The best investment we can make in this world that will produce amazing results/dividends is to invest time in mentoring, talking with, praying for, leading children, discipline children… our children, our grandchildren… (Money? Not so much!).
* It is amazing how so many people cannot see how important it is to raise children to become responsible adults. I have reached the point in my life where I see and speak to a teenager or young adult and I can tell with much accuracy what kind of parents they have… the lifestyle in the home where they grew up… the values that were important…
* As I have emphasized in a few blogs, the way we behave and conduct ourselves is based on the principles and values that have been engrained in us since we were very small children. As believers in Jesus Christ, we have the serious responsibility to form the character of our children and even help with our grandchildren. Forming the character of a child is very similar to planting a garden… you harvest what you have planted… If a child has values instilled in him/her that come from social media, TV, Internet… where worldly values prevail, then the probability is very high that he/she will become very worldly as an adolescent and later an adult.
* Your home is the number one influence in the life of your child. The average church has a child 1% of his time, the home has him 83% of his time and the school for the remaining 16%. This does not minimize the need for churches and schools, but it establishes the fact your home is 83% of your child's world and you have only one time around to make it of maximum benefit.
* Socrates once wrote: "Could I climb to the highest places in Athens, I would lift up my voice and proclaim; Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and take so little care of the children to whom you must someday relinquish it all?"
* This Sunday we have “Sunday School Rally Day.” What an opportunity to refocus our energies and time to bringing ourselves, our children and grandchildren to church and teach them, mentor them to walk with Jesus! Let me be very simple: Do you want your child or grandchild to inherit eternal life? Then do everything possible to pray for them; mentor them in the ways of the Lord; and teach them the Bible truths. By the way, the church/Sunday School is here to help, but God has given the primary responsibility to lead children to Jesus to the parents (Grandparents?)
* We as a church want to help, so please partner with us to lead those precious lives to the arms of the Savior.
* Here is a little article/poem I read the other day:
'Twas a sheep, not a lamb, that strayed away in the parable Jesus told. A grown-up sheep that had gone astray from the ninety and nine in the fold. Out on the hillside, out in the cold, 'twas a sheep the Good Shepherd sought; And back to the flock, safe into the fold, 'twas a sheep the Good Shepherd brought. And why for the sheep should we earnestly long and as earnestly hope and pray? Because there is danger, if they go wrong, they will lead the lambs astray. For the lambs will follow the sheep, you know, wherever the sheep may stray; When the sheep go wrong, it will not be long till the lambs are as wrong as they. And so with the sheep we earnestly plead, for the sake of the lambs today; If the sheep are lost, what terrible cost some of the lambs will have to pay!
* PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE… understand what is important in life! We offer Sunday School for all ages, young adult Bible Study, older adult Bible study… Get into the groove! Join us… it is good for you! THIS IS THE BEST INVESTMENT TIP I CAN GIVE YOU.
* God bless you and please be wise in your choices for life!
Your pastor, Rev. Don Sonntag
* No, I am not a financial investment expert! I have no tip for you to make a million dollars in a few days as you invest in some IPO, penny stocks that will go wild… or tech stocks. But I have some experience in investing in people. And that is where I want to provide you a good tip with excellent returns guaranteed.
* The best investment we can make in this world that will produce amazing results/dividends is to invest time in mentoring, talking with, praying for, leading children, discipline children… our children, our grandchildren… (Money? Not so much!).
* It is amazing how so many people cannot see how important it is to raise children to become responsible adults. I have reached the point in my life where I see and speak to a teenager or young adult and I can tell with much accuracy what kind of parents they have… the lifestyle in the home where they grew up… the values that were important…
* As I have emphasized in a few blogs, the way we behave and conduct ourselves is based on the principles and values that have been engrained in us since we were very small children. As believers in Jesus Christ, we have the serious responsibility to form the character of our children and even help with our grandchildren. Forming the character of a child is very similar to planting a garden… you harvest what you have planted… If a child has values instilled in him/her that come from social media, TV, Internet… where worldly values prevail, then the probability is very high that he/she will become very worldly as an adolescent and later an adult.
* Your home is the number one influence in the life of your child. The average church has a child 1% of his time, the home has him 83% of his time and the school for the remaining 16%. This does not minimize the need for churches and schools, but it establishes the fact your home is 83% of your child's world and you have only one time around to make it of maximum benefit.
* Socrates once wrote: "Could I climb to the highest places in Athens, I would lift up my voice and proclaim; Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and take so little care of the children to whom you must someday relinquish it all?"
* This Sunday we have “Sunday School Rally Day.” What an opportunity to refocus our energies and time to bringing ourselves, our children and grandchildren to church and teach them, mentor them to walk with Jesus! Let me be very simple: Do you want your child or grandchild to inherit eternal life? Then do everything possible to pray for them; mentor them in the ways of the Lord; and teach them the Bible truths. By the way, the church/Sunday School is here to help, but God has given the primary responsibility to lead children to Jesus to the parents (Grandparents?)
* We as a church want to help, so please partner with us to lead those precious lives to the arms of the Savior.
* Here is a little article/poem I read the other day:
'Twas a sheep, not a lamb, that strayed away in the parable Jesus told. A grown-up sheep that had gone astray from the ninety and nine in the fold. Out on the hillside, out in the cold, 'twas a sheep the Good Shepherd sought; And back to the flock, safe into the fold, 'twas a sheep the Good Shepherd brought. And why for the sheep should we earnestly long and as earnestly hope and pray? Because there is danger, if they go wrong, they will lead the lambs astray. For the lambs will follow the sheep, you know, wherever the sheep may stray; When the sheep go wrong, it will not be long till the lambs are as wrong as they. And so with the sheep we earnestly plead, for the sake of the lambs today; If the sheep are lost, what terrible cost some of the lambs will have to pay!
* PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE… understand what is important in life! We offer Sunday School for all ages, young adult Bible Study, older adult Bible study… Get into the groove! Join us… it is good for you! THIS IS THE BEST INVESTMENT TIP I CAN GIVE YOU.
* God bless you and please be wise in your choices for life!
Your pastor, Rev. Don Sonntag