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Matthew 5:13-16

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... on the string: Jesus said this about you, he said, "YOU are the salt of the earth." What do you think Jesus meant when he said, "You are the salt of the earth?" (response) You see the string is God. He holds the world. The world is like the ice cube. The world is cold and lonely and desperately needs someone to bring them to God. And the salt...who is the salt? (we are) That's right. The church is like the salt. It helps the world come to God. So that is your mission in life. You are to ...

2. A Lesson In Sharing

2 Corinthians 8:13-15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... help the people who need some of the things that you have to feel better. The next time they will remember that you shared what you had, and they will come back and give you the things that you need. When you do that, you will know how good my ice cube tray feels all of the time. It is a good sharer and people like the way this little tray acts. It teaches us a good lesson in sharing and one that God taught his people a long time ago. The next time that you see an ...

3. Learning to Be Patient

Matthew 15:23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... didn’t remember this lesson. Sometimes we have to wait. Let me ask you a question. How many of your are thirsty now? Real thirsty? Are your throats dry and your mouths parched? I thought so. Would you like to have a drink? How many of you could take an ice cube back to your seat and wait until it has completely melted before you drink it? You may have to wait for quite a while. Will you wait? If you do it will taste twice as good and you will learn to be patient, won’t you? I know you will ...

4. A Great High Priest

Hebrews 4:14-16

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... in it Boys and girls, everyone has seen an ice cube before. Has anyone seen an iceberg? If we traveled in the water near the North Pole we would see great icebergs, wouldn't we? They would be like great mountains of ice. They might be seen to move very slowly in the water. We might also see some other smaller chunks of ice floating in the water near the iceberg. If we watched closely, we might see something unusual. Sometimes the smaller pieces of ice might be floating in one direction, while the iceberg ...

5. Understanding the Trinity

John 16:12-15

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... persons, blessed Trinity." That's what Trinity means, God in three persons. But that is hard for us all to understand. Last week I used a glass of water to talk about the Holy Spirit. Remember, I had a cork in it? Today, I have an ice cube in it. What is an ice cube? That's right, it is frozen water. Do you know what a cloud is? It is condensed water, isn't it? It is water that the sun has lifted from the lakes and seas and turned into clouds. Under certain conditions, those clouds start releasing drops ...

6. Mystery on Ice

Illustration

Norman Strevett

A woman complained to the service manager of an appliance firm that the push-button ice maker and dispenser on the door of her new refrigerator was popping ice cubes on her kitchen floor-all by itself. A serviceman could find nothing wrong with the appliance, but the woman continued to complain that ice cubes were littering her kitchen. Finally, a supervisor arrived, determined to stand watch in the kitchen until the mystery was solved. He had been there about an hour when a German shepherd entered, stood ...

7. God is Love

1 John 4:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... coke or tea. Take a very good look at what I am talking about and tell me what it is. (Let them look at some ice cubes.) What do we call these things? (Let them answer.) That's right, ice. What do we know about ice? (Let them answer.) That's right, it is cold. All ice is cold. The one thing that we know about ice is that it is cold. We even call other things that are very cold, "ice" cold. The next thing that I brought with me bounces; it is played with in games where you use a bat and glove or a ...

8. Message to Sardis

Revelation 3:1-6

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... around us is sleeping soundly. Prop: In the church, one of the most dangerous places to be is alone. When we do not have others helping us move forward, we are like an ice cube in room-temperature water—bound for room temperature. That is why we must reach out and find at least one other person to help us stay awake. (Place an ice cube in slightly warm water at the start of the message, and point out that it is gone by the end of the message). Returning to the historic Christian faith brings great benefit ...

9. Worried About Her Child

Matthew 15:21-28

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: An Ice Cube Boys and girls, how do you move a mountain? I was reading about a mountain recently--a mountain of ice. What would we call a mountain of ice? (Let them answer.) We would call a mountain of ice an "iceberg," wouldn't we? That is what an iceberg is. I read about a piece of an iceberg that had broken off and had floated a few miles and was blocking a harbor. The fishermen who used that harbor were very disturbed. How could they do their fishing if ...

10. Life From Water: The Ark

Genesis 6:11-22

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... terribly important thing happens. Instead of becoming more dense, suddenly it begins to become less dense. It rises to the surface and that's where it freezes. Can you imagine the consequences if ice were heavier than water? "Great," you say, "then when I wanted to drink a lemonade, my moustache wouldn't always be getting stuck in the ice cubes." Maybe so, but about the time you were ready for your second lemonade, the lakes would already have begun to freeze from the bottom up. Heat would never reach the ...

11. No Plastic Easter

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... Cryonics Society. Then he instructed his mother to make sure that once he was pronounced legally dead, his body would be neither buried nor cremated, but frozen. When he died, five members of the Cryonics society promptly took charge, helping a Long Island funeral director pack Steven's corpse in ice cubes for a two-hour drive to the funeral home. There it was drained of its body fluids, and infused with an "antifreeze solution to help preserve the body tissues." Then it was packed with dry ...

12. Tongue-tied By Three Zeros

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... Father, Son and Spirit? Well, here is an example that has helped many people. We have this glass of water. What if we heated the water? It would turn to steam. We could use it to power a locomotive. We could also freeze it to make ice cubes. So the same water can be liquid, steam or ice. God is one God who is creator of the world, but we also believe that God was in Jesus, and that God is with us every day through the Holy Spirit. The main thing is: God tries to find every way possible to let us ...

13. Dressing For The Marriage

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Mary Venema Swierenga

... marriage could use several garments of gentleness. Now, here's an absolutely necessary article of clothing for a marriage: patience. Each of you will discover, if you haven't already, that the other has the capacity to drive you crazy! Whether it's chewing ice cubes, or trying to ignore for a week, already, that stack of magazines that the other has set out on the table to read but hasn't gotten to yet, or switching channels constantly with the all-powerful remote control, or never allowing enough time ...

14. Are There Any Questions?

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

... the price include? Inside or outside cabin? How many ports of call along the way? Has the ship’s food service been approved by health inspectors? There are no guarantees that every detail will be delightful, that the sea will be calm, or that the ice cubes in the fruit juice when you come ashore in Cartegena will be pure. Montezuma’s revenge can be frightful, I have learned. And since we know in certainty that heaven is our home, the resurrection victory is in sight, death has been defeated, everlasting ...

15. Is God With You, Or Not?

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

... fire out of wood you gathered yourself. Now "roughing it" is finding a place to park your RV, a plug-in for your refrigerated drinks, your Beauty Rest mattress beds, and your electric stove in your twenty-five foot motor home. To others, roughing it is running out of ice cubes or cutting filet mignon with a dull knife. We like things easy so well we even equate it with divine favor. How often I've heard someone say, "Well, I know this is God's will. I know God is with me, for everything worked out so easily ...

16. Putting Out Fires

Romans 12:17a

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

Exegetical Aim: Do not repay evil for evil. Props: A glass bowl, a match or lighter, several pieces of paper, a new and empty gas container, water, a container of ice cubes. Lesson: How many of you have ever been in an argument? (response) I think we probably all have at one time or another. How many of you have ever been in a fight? (response) Yes. I see some of you have even been in a fight. Tell me, what are ...

17. America in the Mirror

2 Kings 17:5-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... believe that there is a striking parallel between what did happen to Israel, and what is happening to America. No, America has not yet fallen, but I believe she is tottering on the brink of destruction with foot on a banana peel, and the other on an ice cube. We need to examine how the Nation of Israel fell from the grace of God, because as a wise man once said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."[1] I believe this passage is literally a mirror of America. There are three great ...

18. God, Elvis, and O.J. Simpson

Psalm 139

Sermon

James Merritt

... of these molecules is called DNA. If you took just one strand of DNA it would stretch out to be 6 ft. long. If you took all of the DNA in the human body and put it in a box, it would fit in a box the size of an ice cube. But listen to this: If you took all of the DNA and stretched it out lengthwise, it would go from the earth to the sun and back 400 times. The Bible says that God has taken strands of molecules, strung them into atoms, and used them as the building blocks ...

19. Liking the New and Improving the Old

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... own and we could all become pretty sentimental and nostalgic just thinking about the past. But for me, that's all it is: good memories and nice sentiment, but I don't want to go back to the old ice box of my childhood. I like having a cold refrigerator with a freezer on the side, with an ice-maker that spills out cubes by just pressing a shiny piece of chrome on the door. I never want to return to the old oak box with a pan that runs over on the floor, just because you forgot to empty it. All of ...

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