From Pastor Todd

Encouragement for the New School Year

Here we are at the beginning of August. Summer is at its peak, and our thoughts turn to the start of the new school year.

As we anticipate classrooms filling up again, we want to encourage students and faculty in the importance of education, all while remembering that true wisdom comes from the hand of God—our ultimate Creator and Sustainer of life.

“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’” — Acts 17:26–28

Paul spoke these words to the men of Athens, a people proud of their religiosity and wisdom. He even pointed out an altar they had erected:

“TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.”

With those words, Paul declared that the God they worshiped without truly knowing Him is the very One he proclaims.

  1. God is sovereign over all creation.

  2. God has a purpose for humanity.

  3. We have access to Him through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, by all who seek Him.

  4. Our dependence on God shines through His design of the earth, sun, moon, and stars—and ultimately through Christ’s work on the cross, His victory over sin, and His resurrection, so we can live in Him.

All of this reminds us that the greatest part of education is coming into the knowledge of the One True Living God.

My prayers are with every educator and student as you embark on this school year.

Pastor Todd Lint