Choose from the following Children's
Sermons:
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Construction
Zone
a children's sermon based on Mat 7:21-29
by Rev. Randy Quinn
(I will wear a hard
hat and carry a small tool box with me. Included in the toolbox is a
roll of duct tape – I’m hoping someone asks about it! I’ll tell them
it’s to fix whatever can’t be fixed with the other tools.
J )
Have you ever seen one
of these? What’s it for?
When you build a house
you need some tools – like a hammer, don’t you? But building houses
can be dangerous, too. People can get hurt. They can pound their
thumb with a hammer (I’ve done that). They can cut themselves with a
saw (I’ve done that, too).
And things can fall on
them, so lots of people who work on construction sites wear a hard
hat.
Do you think God needed
to wear a hard hat when the world was being made?
I don’t think so, but I
do know that making people was a dangerous thing for God to do.
People don’t always act the way God wants them to act. People don’t
always say the things that God wants them to say.
God loves us, but people
don’t always show their love for God.
But God made us anyway.
And now that we’re made, we get to help finish the project. We get to
decide if we’ll do what God wants us to do or say the things God wants
us to say. We get to decide if we’ll show and share our love for God.
To do that, we need a
different kind of a tool box. We need a Bible and a church and some
teachers and lots of prayer.
Let’s pray.
God, thank you for
making each of us. Help us to live our lives the way you want us to
live them so you will be happy with what you’ve made. Amen.
Don't
Be Foolish
a children's sermon based on Mat. 7:21-29
by Rev. Frank Schaefer
Who knows the
song about the wise and the foolish man? You know, I always
liked this song.
I
still remember singing about the wise and the foolish man in Sunday
school--do you remember the words?
The wise man built his house upon the rock
The rains came d
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n
and the floods came
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And
then we sing about the other contractor--the foolish man who
build his house on sand. We all know what happened to his house:
When the rains came down and the floods came up, what happened?
That's right, the foolish man's house came tumbling down! That
was my favorite part of the song whenever we sang it in Sunday School,
because we would always let ourselves fall down on the ground. I
remember it being a lot of fun--when I look back, I'm not so sure why!
What
Jesus is trying to tell us with this little story is that what really
matters in life is what we build it on. And what or who are we
supposed to build our lives on?
Is it . . . .
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how good we are in school? No
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how much money we have? No
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how good-looking we are? No
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what kind of clothes we wear? No
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how many houses and cars we own? No
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how many friends we have? No
Or is it . . .
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how much we pray and read the bible?
Yes
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how much we love God and our neighbors?
Yes
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how much we serve God and help others? Yes
again.
So after we sang
about the wise man and then the foolish man, we always ended with a
third verse:
So build your life on the Savior Jesus Christ
And the house you build, won't fall.
And that's what we all want to do, right?
So let us pray that we will be like the wise man and build our life on
Jesus: "Dear Lord Jesus, help us to build our lives on you, on
your wisdom, on your love, and on your strength. May the house
of our life be strong because we trust you. Amen."
Rainbow--God's Deal
with Noah
a children's sermon based on Gen. 6-8
by Rev. Frank Schaefer
Props: a piece of large paper (from an easel, etc) and some
crayons (wax pens)
Good to see all of you
this morning. Today, I thought we could talk about one of my
favorite things in the whole wide world: the rainbow. I
think they are so pretty.
Do you think we could
draw a rainbow with these crayons I brought? Who knows about the
colors of a rainbow? (get 4 or 5 volunteers to draw and others to help
determine where the colors go)
Well, I think this is a
very good representation of a rainbow. What do you think? (Hold
the drawing up so all can see it). Yes, just looking at this
drawing makes me happy already.
Who knows about the
beginning of the rainbow? Who can help me tell the story of
Noah?
Recount the story
of Noah, the ark, the flood, and the rainbow by asking the children
questions about the story as you tell it.
You know, God made a deal
with Noah and all people after him, never to destroy the earth by a
flood. And as a sign, God created the rainbow. And, as you know,
the rainbow will always appear after it rained.
You know, some rains and
some thunderstorms are pretty scary, but when they're over, the
rainbow appears and we remember God's promise. So every time you
are in a thunderstorm and you are frightened, remember that God has
made a deal with all people. And then you can look forward to seeing a
rainbow in the sky.
Somebody once said that a
rainbow is really God standing on his head and smiling after eating
skittles. I don't believe God is standing on his head, I'm not
sure whether God eats skittles, but I am pretty sure that God smiles
upon us and blesses us. Amen.
