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Palm Sunday/ April Fool’s Day 1 Cor. 4:10 – 13 Preparation: Bring or wear part of a clown costume; even a red clown nose would suffice to help illustrate the sermon. What does a clown look like? Serious or silly? Do they wear normal clothes? How do they act? (Let children share their responses, and as you discuss how they look and act, you can add elements of the clown costume to yourself.) Do I look more like a clown now? If I walked around Continue reading Fool for Christ For the Fourth Sunday in Lent From “Sitting on the Rainbow” Artwork by Elsa Ingulsrud Scripture Reference: Numbers 21:4-9 and Ephesians 2:8 Preparation: Bring a cross to hold up so that the children can look up to it. How many of you can remember a time when you felt very sick? (Children can raise their hands or respond.) Have you ever felt so sick and weak that you couldn’t get out of bed? Or so sick that you could hardly move at all? When Continue reading Look Up
For the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost or Proper 13 From “Saving the Ants” Scripture Reference: Isa. 55:1-5 Have you ever been to a state fair or a big festival where there are booths selling food of every kind? Sometimes the people working in the booths will yell out to those passing in the street and try to get some more customers. “Hot dogs! Foot-long hot dogs! Come and get your hot dogs!” or “Ice-cold snow cones! Satisfy your thirst! Lemon, strawberry, grape! Get your Continue reading Come to the Waters From Saving the Ants by Ruth Gilmore For the Fourth Sunday of Easter Scripture Reference: John 10:1-10 “I am the gate for the sheep… Those who come in through me will be saved.” Preparation: (Optional) You can bring a picture of Jesus as the Shepherd or point out a picture in the church. Show your illustration after asking the children if they know who the Good Shepherd is. Pick your volunteer ‘wolf’ out ahead of time.
Who is the Good Shepherd? Can anyone Continue reading Shepherd and Door Title: A Gift for Faithful Lamb Text: Matt. 10: 40- 42 Cast: Faithful Lamb, Billy the Kid and Lamb Borgeeny Narrator: That short Gospel reading, has a BIG lesson in it. Do you remember what Jesus said? How does Jesus want us to show our love to him?….Today Billy the Kid, Faithful Lamb and a new sheep named Lamb Borgeeny are going to help us understand what Jesus said. (Enter Billy the Kid, carrying some grass. He arranges it carefully while
Continue reading A Gift for Faithful Lamb Summary: Mercy Me is worried about Sunday because she does not know what Pente costs. Milo and his French friend, Pierre, explain that a free gift was given at Pentecost; the preaching power of the Holy Spirit. Cast: Mercy and Milo (muppet-style puppets), Annmarie and Pierre (puppet with a French accent) ————————- Mercy: (Enters looking down and counting…) One, two, three, four, five… oh boy. I don’t think I have enough. Milo: Umm. Mercy Me? What are you doing? Mercy: I’m counting my money. I don’t Continue reading What Does Pentecost? Reformation Sunday; “Saved by Grace” Ephesians 2:8-9
If you were on a big ship in the middle of the ocean, and you fell overboard, what might the captain of that ship do when she or he saw that you had fallen into the sea? What would the captain do? Would she tell you to start swimming and point in the direction of land? (Let children consider this and answer.) Do you think the captain, seeing that you were drowning in the ocean, might say Continue reading Reformation Sunday Children’s Sermon Summary: An argument about perfection leads to the realization that no one is perfect enough to earn their way into heaven, but because God sent Jesus to redeem us, it is by God’s action that we receive eternal life. Cast: Kit Fox, a red fox puppet with a long tail; Gloria, a silly goose; Snelly, a large snail. Kit: (Appears as music ends; keeps singing song and dancing around.) Man those tunes really rock. This was a great idea having a courtyard concert. I love music. Continue reading Perfectly Saved |
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