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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 Fifth Sunday in Lent From “Sitting on the Rainbow” Scripture Reference: Psalm 51 Preparation: Bring a small bottle of vegetable or olive oil, a damp cloth, and soap. Have you ever gotten oil on your hands and then tried to wash it off with water? Does the oil rinse off? (Let children respond.) No, it doesn’t come off with just water, does it? What else do you need to get oil off your hands? (Someone may offer the correct answer.) Right: you need Continue reading Coming Clean 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 Third Sunday in Lent From “Sitting on the Rainbow” Artwork by Elsa Ingulsrud Scripture Reference: Exod. 20:7 Does everyone here have a name? Names are important aren’t they? Everybody has a name. Let’s hear some of your names. (Let children respond.) How do you feel about your name? Do you like it? (Children may share.) You should feel good about your name. It is very precious. When you were just a tiny baby, you received your name. The best name for you that Continue reading Holy Name For the Second Sunday in Lent From “Sitting on the Rainbow” Artwork by Elsa Ingulsrud Scripture Reference: Mark 8:31-38 Preparation: You may bring along a photo of one of your best friends and be ready to tell the children about your friend. Raise your hand if you have a really good friend—a best friend—that you like to play with. Can you tell me about one of your friends? What do you like about that friend? (Let several children describe one of their friends.) I Continue reading Get Behind Me For the First Sunday in Lent From “Sitting on the Rainbow” Artwork by Elsa Ingulsrud Scripture Reference: Gen. 9:8-17 Preparation: Bring a picture of a rainbow or of Noah’s ark with the rainbow above it. You may also bring candy in rainbow colors to hand out at the end of the sermon. Raise your hands if you’ve ever seen a rainbow. Can you tell me what a rainbow looks like? (Choose a volunteer to describe a rainbow.) Rainbows are beautiful, aren’t they? What is the Continue reading Sitting on the Rainbow For the Seventh Sunday after Epiphany From “Sitting on the Rainbow” Scripture Reference: Mark 2:1-12 Preparation: Bring several bottles of medicine, including a bottle of cough syrup. If you couldn’t get to sleep because you were coughing so much and coughing so hard that your throat was getting sore, what might your mom or dad do to help you? (Let children respond.) They might give you cough syrup to calm down the cough so you could sleep. (Show cough syrup.) That’s what this medicine Continue reading Healing Everything For the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany From “Sitting on the Rainbow” Artwork by Elsa Ingulsrud Scripture Reference: 1 Cor. 9:24-27 Preparation: Bring or wear a pair of running shoes. I brought along a pair of running shoes to help remind me to get some exercise today. (Show your shoes.) How many of you exercise most days? What do you do for exercise? (Children may answer.) Exercise is good for you, isn’t it? (Here you may share an example of a fitness regimen. My example follows.) Continue reading In Training For the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany From “Sitting on the Rainbow” Artwork by Elsa Ingulsrud Scripture Reference: Isa. 40:29-31 Preparation (optional): Bring a picture of a soaring eagle to illustrate your sermon. How many of you have seen an eagle or a hawk soaring high in the sky? (Let children respond.) It’s amazing to watch, isn’t it? The beautiful bird will spread its wings wide and make big circles in the sky. An eagle can make flying look easy. It doesn’t have to beat its Continue reading Soaring Like an Eagle For the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany From “Sitting on the Rainbow” Image from Half a World Away exhibit Scripture Reference: 1 Cor. 8:1-3 Preparation: You may bring a hammer and nails or some other construction tools. The Bible reading from 1 Corinthians today talks about building up the church. If you were going to help build up the church, what sort of tools do you think you might need? (Discuss.) I brought some tools with me (show the tools), but the trouble is, Continue reading Love Builds the Church |
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