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Genesis 12:1-8

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... it is your brain that turns that light into a picture. Your brain is by far the most important part of your body. Your brain is where you dream. It is where you dream at night--some of those dreams can be scary, can't they? And it is where you day dream during the day. Do you ever dream of what you will be some day? Do you dream of being an astronaut or a policeman or a teacher or a mommy or a daddy. Dreams are important. Dreams help us have a road map of where our lives will some day lead. Some of those ...

2. Straight Backs And Rekindled Dreams

Luke 13:10-17

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A lantern Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever been to a doctor? We go to the doctor when we are sick, don't we? Or sometimes, we go to the doctor to get a shot to keep us from getting sick. I understand that in ancient China doctors were paid when their patients were kept well, not when they were sick. In fact, because they believed it was the doctor's job to prevent disease, Chinese doctors often paid the patient if the patient lost his health. That's a novel idea. Further, if ...

3. The Wish

Hebrews 11:1

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... of mine who just happened to be a minister. We were talking about prayer and he suggested to me that prayer takes many forms. He said that God hears all of our desires, even the ones we don't usually think of as prayer, such as wishes, hopes, and dreams. "As he spoke, I suddenly remembered the year my dad was in Korea. I remembered how I had wished for a white rabbit every week -- and the tremendous love I felt when I opened the package from my dad and found the little toy rabbit. "Because of my childhood ...

4. Wings

Luke 17:20-21

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... I suggest to them, "In some ways the church is rather like Julia's leaf and its members are sometimes like Julia, wanting to fly, but not having enough faith in themselves to try. The church is a place where we can discover possibilities, dare to dream dreams, and find people who believe in us even when we don't believe in ourselves. The church is a place where we can be transformed from caterpillars into butterflies. "Herman had complete faith in Julia. He loved her and encouraged her to believe in herself ...

5. What It's Like

1 Thessalonians 4:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... in our house and there was no one downstairs. But when we go to sleep at night we know that we are safe because our mom and dad are there and keeping us safe. We just put our heads down on our fluffy pillows, shut our eyes, and have wonderful dreams about what we are going to do the next day. The same thing is true when we die. We can close our eyes, we know that Jesus is there to keep us safe, and we can ...

6. A Platform For Life

Romans 8:28-39

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... that one day he came home from school and found that his family had moved away and left him behind. He used to wake up crying because he felt so lonely and unloved. That is an awful dream to have. One thing I know is that boys and girls worry just like grown-ups do. Some of you worry about your friends liking you. Some of you worry about your size. Some of you worry about your parents. Our homes are very important to us and it hurts ...

7. Tale of Three Trees

Mark 8:31--9:1

Children's Sermon

Elaine M. Ward

... box and hold the greatest treasure in the world." The second said, "I want to be a strong sailing ship and carry the most powerful king in the world." The third said, "I want to grow tall and point to God who gives beautiful treasures and mighty seas." Their dreams grew as the days passed until one day men came with axes and took away the three trees. The first tree became a box to hold hay for the animals to eat. The second tree became a boat to hold fishermen and their smelly fish. The third tree was ...

8. Put On A Happy Face

Romans 3:21-31

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... he said? (Have them answer, "Bah, humbug!") Right. Well, one night Mr. Scrooge had some terrible visitors -- in his dreams. These visitors showed him all the things that had happened to him in the past -- how nasty he had been to people -- and all the ... terrible things that were going to happen in the future. These dreams really upset old Mr. Scrooge. In fact, they made him see how all of his nastiness and stinginess were hurting other people. And ...

9. Help!

Acts 16:9

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... us -- that you trust me. You trusted me not to embarrass you thoroughly nor ask something of you that was ridiculous or impossible. "When Paul was on his second missionary journey, he had a dream in which he saw a man on the shore of a country called Macedonia. The man was pleading with Paul, saying, 'Come, help us.' And Paul, trusting that his dream was important, went to Macedonia. This could not have been easy. He had to go by boat, and he wasn't sure who or what he would find when he arrived. He wasn't ...

10. Bartholomew · A Salesman with a Special Work

Luke 6:12-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... used to talk with another disciple and friend named Philip about traveling to strange lands and telling the people who lived there about Jesus. Of course Bartholomew knew that he was not ready at that time to do the special work, but he dreamed of the day when he would be. At night he would dream about telling people about the time that Jesus turned the water into wine and about the time that he made a blind man to see. There was no end to the number of stories that he could tell about Jesus and the people ...

11. Answers To Life's Three Critical Questions

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... by shy or outgoing, athletic or musically talented. They may have even bought you baby clothes that represented what you might be when you grow up, like this baby baseball uniform. Yes, your parents love you very much, so they began planning for you and dreaming about you even before you were born. In our Bible story today, we learn about a young man named Jeremiah. God chose Jeremiah to be His prophet. A prophet receives special messages from God, and tells those messages to other people. A prophet passes ...

12. Swords Into Plowshares

Isaiah 2:1-5

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... in France would probably say Paris. Hundreds of years ago, the prophet Isaiah was given a vision of the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. Do you know what a vision is? A vision is something a person sees in a dream. In this case, God showed Isaiah the holy Temple in Jerusalem in his dream. Isaiah had a vision of what Jerusalem would be like someday. It would be the most important place in all the earth and people would come from all over the world to worship there. There would be no more wars or armies ...

13. He Was Afflicted

Matthew 2:1-12

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... with joy and worshipped the baby and gave him gifts. When they went home, they went another way because they were warned in a dream that King Herod had lied to them. He wanted to kill the baby. When Herod realized the wise men weren't coming back he ... ordered all little boys two years and younger to be killed. He was a really evil King! Joseph, Jesus' earthly father, was warned in a dream to take Jesus and his mother and go to Egypt so they would be safe. You see, boys and girls, King Herod was afraid. Like ...

14. The Name Jesus

Matthew 1:18-25

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... is nice to have a name, isn't it? When Jesus was born, somebody very special chose his name and sent a messenger to tell Joseph. Do you know who chose the name "Jesus" for the baby born in the manger? (Response.) God sent an angel to Joseph in a dream and told him to name the baby "Jesus." Do you know why God chose that name? (Responses.) The name "Jesus" in the Hebrew language is Joshua and it means "Savior." God said, "It is He who will save his people from their sins." We give a very special place to ...

15. Tall Enough

Psalm 121:1

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... me how old I was, I said, 'Eight!' even though I wasn't yet. Sometimes it seemed like saying I was eight would make it true sooner. "Then one day in February, many, many years ago, I woke up to my eighth birthday. It was wonderful actually to have a dream come true, especially since we had moved recently... "You see, we lived in a rented house, and when we moved, that refrigerator I was so sure I'd get tall enough to see the top of stayed behind. The refrigerator in the new place was TALLER than the old one ...

16. A Tale Of Two Trees

1 Corinthians 13:13

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... to itself, and the wind picked up the evergreen's sigh and carried it to the dogwood. "Living next to one another, the evergreen and the dogwood had become good friends. So, when the dogwood heard the evergreen's sad sigh, it decided to help its friend's dream come true. For the dogwood knew it would soon have to let go of its pretty red leaves. "Patiently the dogwood waited until the wind was just right, blowing toward the evergreen. Then, it let go of its leaves and the wind carried them into the branches ...

17. The Wishbone

Philippians 3:12, 13b-14

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... say, "Oh, I wish for this ...." Instead of just wishing and doing nothing, he worked hard and long to obtain his goal, even though the goal was one he could not fully reach in this life. The principle is true for all of us: the best way to make your dreams come true is to work hard and long; to press on and push forward and not to be held back by the past. Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home: When you have a wishbone to be broken. When a child keeps wishing for something, but does nothing ...

18. Wishing And Working

James 2:18-19

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

... come true. I would guess that all of you have wished for something at one time or another. It may have been wishing when you blew out the candles on your cake. Or perhaps it was making a wish list at Christmas time. Wishing is fun! It helps us to dream of what we can have or what life can be like. Today I want to tell you a story about a boy who was wishing for a new bike. He knew that his parents couldn't afford to buy him one, so he found a large jar in the basement ...

19. Partners with the Pastor

Philippians 1:5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... than one partnership.] Very good. We have several people who are willing to share a drink together and some work later. St. Paul had partners in his work and he talked about them in one of his letters. He was grateful for the way they shared his work and his dreams. St. Paul knew what it was like to live part of his life in prison and not have the freedom to move around and do all the things he wanted to do. Paul wanted to tell everybody about the good things Jesus had done and yet he could only tell ...

20. At Home With God

2 Corinthians 5:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... to be even better when we find the "home of the Lord." Let me show you a little bit of what I mean. I brought along this beautiful picture of a place where I think I would rather live than any place in the whole world. [Show them your vacation dream.] Isn't that the kind of a place that you would like to live? [Let them answer.] All of us think that we would like to live there. It is beautiful. Once in a while I get to go to a place like this. I think that I am so ...

21. A Place of Light

Revelation 21:23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... wonderful it is. But God has his own reasons for not taking a movie or showing us in this way. We are going to have to wait until the right time to find out. There was a man named John who thought a lot about heaven, and he prayed and dreamed about it a lot. He even wrote a book in the Bible that talked a lot about heaven and what it would be like. One of the things that he said is what I am going to tell you about right now. I brought along with me something that a ...

22. Something Special

Luke 1:38

Children's Sermon

... special news. And Elizabeth believed it too. But nobody else knew about it. And maybe if they had been told they would not have believed it either. We should give Mary a lot of credit for believing what God told her. She could have said, "That's impossible. I just dreamed it. I couldn't be having the Son of God for my baby!" We need to learn to be just like Mary. We need to see how God does special things in our lives too, and to thank God for doing them in us.

23. I'm Afraid

Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... Herod wanted the baby Jesus to die. Use your own judgment on how this information should be expressed. So he sent a bunch of soldiers out to get Jesus. Would you be scared if you knew someone was trying to take your baby? (response) Well, Joseph was told in a dream to run away. So he took Mary and the baby Jesus and they ran far away. A couple of years went by and they came back home. King Herod was dead and everything was OK. So you see it's O.K. to be scared but we always have to ...

24. Fighting Fear

Acts 9:1-19a

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... by the name of Ananias who had a problem with fear. He was a Christian who lived in a town called Damascus. He had not been a Christian very long, but then no one had in those early days. One day he had a vision. A vision is like a dream only you have it while you are awake. In his vision the Lord spoke to Ananias. The Lord said, "Go over to Straight Street and find the house of a man named Judas and ask there for Paul of Tarsus. He is praying to me right now, for I have ...

25. Waiting for Jesus

Romans 13:11b

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... you were last year when you were only eight or five or seven. That is the way it is with waiting for Jesus. Sometimes it seems like we talk about Jesus coming every year or even every Sunday and still he hasn't come. But just think how often you dream about being sixteen so that you can drive that car. While it seems like a long time away, I can promise you that it will happen. I can also promise you that one of these days Jesus will come, just like your driver's license, only you will be even ...

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