Archive for the ‘Children’ Category

Doubting Thomas

Posted: April 26, 2011 in Children, Creeds
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Children’s Message for May 1, 2011 – Easter 2 Ref: John 20:19-31 Children, can any of you identify our five senses?  Listen for their answers; point to your eyes when they say sight, your ears for hearing, fingers for touch, nose for smell and mouth for taste.  God has given us these five senses to [...]

Children, wouldn’t it be great to sit next to the President of the United States? Or maybe your favorite singer or entertainer; or maybe even a famous sports legend. These are special seats because you can hear every word they say, you can look them in the eyes and you are so close that you [...]

The Transfiguration Based on Mt 17:1-9 At our church we use a rotation of four men (3 Laity and our Pastor) to deliver the weekly children’s message during worship. My turn is always on the first Sunday of the month. I usually don’t share my messages on this BLOG because I don’t always write them [...]

The following is a responsive thanksgiving prayer that children can relate to. P: For apples, aardvarks and Alaska C: We thank you, Ancient of Days  P: For blueberries, blue skies and birds of every color C: We thank you, Beautiful Savior P: For cranberries, cousins and cats C: We thank you, chief capstone P: For [...]

Love never fails. (NIV) Love never dies.  (MSG) Love will last forever.  (NLT) Love never ends.  (ESV) Love never failith.  (ASV) The love doth never fall. (YLT) It doesn’t matter how you say it; God is love and love does not fail. “Love” is a difficult word to define and you will get a different [...]

Fishers of men

Posted: February 4, 2010 in Children, Poetry
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A children’s message based on Luke 5:1-11. Feel free to put this into your own words if you give children’s messages and use the same lectionary readings as we do.  This is based on the gospel lesson for 2/7/2010. In today’s bible story, Jesus; a carpenter’s son who may have never fished a day in [...]

Christmas Children’s Program

Posted: September 8, 2009 in Advent, Children, Christmas
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Pastor Johnold Strey has written a new Children’s Christmas Worship program that is available at NPH.  You might want to check this out if you are looking for Christmas materials as his writings and worship pieces are always nicely done.  You can view samples of the service and listen to sound clips here: http://online.nph.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?servingyou/music/kits

On Trinity Sunday, I have chosen the song ”Father I Adore You” as a song choice.  Many congregations use this on Trinity Sunday.  There are other good contemporary song choices, such as “Glorify Thy Name”, but I chose ”Father I Adore You” because there is a portion of our congregation that normally does not sing, [...]

Children’s Messages

Posted: March 6, 2009 in Children
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I’ve been leading children’s messages on a monthly rotation with four other gentlemen in our congregation for almost four years now.  These messages are enjoyed by all, not just the children.  Why?  I’m sure that the Holy Spirit has a lot to do with this, but here’s some pointers based on lessons we’ve learned through [...]

    Lay Reader:      Good morning children.   God is here today.  He’s here right now.  He’s listening.  He’s here to meet us, he’s here to meet you; he’s bought you with his own Son’s life.  His spirit is here, we’re going to hear his word today.  God is going to be active.  He is moving [...]