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Choose from the following Children's Sermons:

• Live a Sunday Week, Luke 12:49-56, Isaiah 5:1-7
  anonymous

• Faithfulness,  all lessons, by Rev. Frank Schaefer

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Live a Sunday Week, Luke 12:49-56, Isaiah 5:1-7
anonymous

Today help children make the connection between our actions in worship and our actions in everyday lives. Followers of Christ carry their Sunday lives into their weekday ones. Here are some examples:

We pray before the meal of the Lord's Supper. / We can pray before we eat meals.

In worship we confess our sins, we tell God we are sorry. / We can tell others we are sorry.

In worship we sing praises to God. / We can sing our church songs every day.

In worship we listen to God's word. / We can read the Bible daily in family devotions.

In worship we give our offering, our gifts of money. / Every day we can share our gifts of talents and abilities with others.

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Faithfulness
a children's sermon based on all lessons
by Rev. Frank Schaefer

props: a ring or a wedding band

It's so good to see all of you, my little friends.  Today I would like to talk about a big word: "Faithfulness."  And I brought something that perhaps demonstrates faithfulness more than any other symbol.  (Show the wedding band) Do you know what it is?  Of course you do, it's a ring, a wedding band.

And how do you think a ring stands for faithfulness?  When a man loves a woman and wants to be with her for ever and ever, what does he do?  That's right, he gives her a ring.  That's called engagement.

With this ring he gives her, he promises to be faithful to her forever.  Being faithful is all about being there for someone and never to leave them.  By giving her a ring, this man is saying: I will love you forever, and I will stay with you forever.

Look at the shape of this ring.  What form does it have?   What's that called? A square?  No.  That's right, it's a circle.  Is there an end to a circle?  Do you see a point where this ring ends?  That's right, there is no end to a ring.  And that's why we use a ring to promise our loved ones that we will be faithful to them forever.  Just as the ring has no end, we are saying to them, our love for them will never end.

You know, God has promised to be faithful to us too.  God has given us the symbol of the the circle and the ring to remind us that His love for us will never end.  God is saying to us too: "I will love you forever.  There is no place you can go where I will not be with you.  There is nothing you can do, not even the worst sin, that can stop my love for you." That's an awesome promise, isn't it?

So, what do think?  If God loves us so much and promises to be   faithful to us, should we be faithful to him too?  That's right.  God wants us to be faithful to him as well.  Just like the ring of love has no end, God wants us to love him forever as he also loves us forever.  And that means that God wants us to learn more about him (reading bible / going to church or Sunday School), to talk with him (pray), to give offerings to him (tithes), and to share his love with others.

Let us pray: "Dear God, we thank you for giving us the symbol of the ring which shows us that some things never end, like your love for us.   Help us to be faithful to you, help us to always love you and do the things that are pleasing in your sight. Amen."