Try For A Good Life
Children's sermon
The Giant Book Of Children's Sermons
Matthew To Revelation
Object: bricks and raisins
Good morning, boys and girls. I brought along with me some things that I found to help me tell you something that I learned from the Bible.
The first thing I have with me is a brick. How many of you know what a brick is used for? (let them answer) That's right; it is used to build houses. When you build a house with bricks, do you have a wood house? (let them answer) Of course not. You build a house of bricks, and you have a brick house. Bricks don't change to wood shingles or boards. A house built with brick is a brick house.
I also brought some raisins. I like raisin bread. If the baker uses raisins in his dough and bakes it, then what kind of bread will the baker have when it is finished? (let them answer) Right, raisin bread. He won't have rye bread or whole wheat bread or just plain white bread when he finishes; he will have raisin bread. That means that whatever he puts into the bread is the kind of bread that he will have when it is baked.
The Bible tells us that the goodness of our lives and the world we live in is a little bit like the bricklayer making a house and the baker making bread. Your life will be just as good as the good things you put in it, or just as bad as the bad things that you put in it. Our world will be as good or as bad as the people are that live in it. If you want peace in the world, then you must have peace in your heart. If you want happy and joyful people in the world, then you must be happy and joyful. If you want people who are filled with love and like to share, then you must have love and be ready to share the things that are yours. Our world is made up of people like you and me, and the kind of world we get is the same as what we put into it.
You can't have raisin bread unless you put the raisins in the dough. You can't have a brick house unless you make it with bricks. You can have a good life if you are good. God made his world this way, and it is the best kind of world that I can think of.
You make our world a better world by loving, sharing, forgiving, and being joyful. You will also help other people in the world be good and joyful, too.
Good morning, boys and girls. I brought along with me some things that I found to help me tell you something that I learned from the Bible.
The first thing I have with me is a brick. How many of you know what a brick is used for? (let them answer) That's right; it is used to build houses. When you build a house with bricks, do you have a wood house? (let them answer) Of course not. You build a house of bricks, and you have a brick house. Bricks don't change to wood shingles or boards. A house built with brick is a brick house.
I also brought some raisins. I like raisin bread. If the baker uses raisins in his dough and bakes it, then what kind of bread will the baker have when it is finished? (let them answer) Right, raisin bread. He won't have rye bread or whole wheat bread or just plain white bread when he finishes; he will have raisin bread. That means that whatever he puts into the bread is the kind of bread that he will have when it is baked.
The Bible tells us that the goodness of our lives and the world we live in is a little bit like the bricklayer making a house and the baker making bread. Your life will be just as good as the good things you put in it, or just as bad as the bad things that you put in it. Our world will be as good or as bad as the people are that live in it. If you want peace in the world, then you must have peace in your heart. If you want happy and joyful people in the world, then you must be happy and joyful. If you want people who are filled with love and like to share, then you must have love and be ready to share the things that are yours. Our world is made up of people like you and me, and the kind of world we get is the same as what we put into it.
You can't have raisin bread unless you put the raisins in the dough. You can't have a brick house unless you make it with bricks. You can have a good life if you are good. God made his world this way, and it is the best kind of world that I can think of.
You make our world a better world by loving, sharing, forgiving, and being joyful. You will also help other people in the world be good and joyful, too.
