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1. Listening and Paying Attention

Matthew 13:1-23

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... child might say, "Because you asked us to." But whether it's a case of it's-early-on-a-summer-morning-and-I'm-not-awake-yet or simply an unusual shyness for this bunch, the children remain silent. "Could it be that you came up here to listen to something?" I continue. Finally a few heads nod in agreement. Then I hold up a bag I've brought with me and ask the children what it contains. "Sunflower seeds!" several reply. "Well, suppose I wanted to plant these seeds to grow sunflowers," I suggest. "What would ...

2. Listen Up!

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... does a cow drink? (milk). What does a cow drink? (milk) Inquire slowly with emphases: What does a cow drink? (water) 99% of your congregation will say milk. Hopefully by the third cow question they should realize their mistake and answer water. We listen to respond not to hear. Has your mom or dad ever said to you, "You're not listening"? That happens to me too. Someone is trying to tell me something or ask me something and I think I already know the answer and I just blurt it out. I didn't take the time to ...

3. Listen

Mark 9:2-9

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... to us face-to-face, the way you and I talk, but when we read our Bible and learn about Jesus, that's listening to Him. When we pray, that's listening to Jesus. When we learn about Jesus from our mommies and daddies, or our pastor, that's another way of listening to Jesus. But sometimes, we just don't want to listen to Jesus, do we? It's like we've got ear plugs in that keep us from listening to Jesus' voice. What would Jesus say to us right now if He were talking to us face-to-face? I think He ...

4. Listen to the Top Man

John 1:15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... willing to take orders from Jesus since he believed that he was sent to give orders. You and I know that we must take our orders from Jesus also. He is the Son of God and has the highest ranking of anyone who ever lived. When Jesus speaks, we listen, and we listen closely because whatever he says is important. Being a Christian doesn't mean that we are in an army. We are not chosen to fight, but to love. But we must know how to love and we learn that from our Lord Jesus. When a sergeant hears a general ...

5. Listening is not Enough

James 1:19-27

Children's Sermon

... interesting to see if they could lose any weight just watching. Is there anyone in this group who thinks they lost weight while they were watching the other group doing some exercises? I don't think so. You see we learn a very valuable lesson when we understand that just listening is not enough. We have to do what we are taught as well. St. James teaches us that we must do what we hear or otherwise our Christian teaching is lost. If we just hear that we must be kind and love one another, but we don't do ...

6. Listen To Jesus

Matthew 17:1-13

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... partially right. It is somebody else’s money but more importantly it is not my money. Application: There are all kinds of voices out in the world and those voices are trying to tell us what to do, how to think, when to act, where to be, and who to listen to. In the bible there was an important moment in the life of the disciples. Jesus was standing around with some very important people, very wise people. Just then, from out of the clouds, God spoke. He said, this is my Son, whom I love ...

7. Watching and Listening

Luke 14:1-14

Children's Sermon

... more like them and less like God. When he went one day to eat at the home of a very important man, the people who did not like Jesus watched him very closely. They watched to see what he ate and how he ate it. They listened to what he said and they watched while he listened to other people. All the time they waited for him to make a mistake. But he never did. Jesus never made a mistake because he was here to show people how God wanted men to live and God doesn't make mistakes. The people learned ...

8. Listening to God's Warnings

Luke 16:27-28

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... you do? I know what you’d do. You’d jump back on the curb or put the bottle away. Those things are warnings. They mean look out, you’re going to get hurt and hurt badly. Well, sometimes God gives us warnings, real warnings, and we’re supposed to listen to what he says in these warnings or we’ll get hurt very badly. Do you know what I mean? For instance, God gave Moses a very special law that was written on two tablets of stone. Do you know what that was called? The Ten Commandments, that’s right ...

9. Stop, Look, and Listen

Hebrews 10:20

Children's Sermon

... see if any other cars are coming. If he sees no cars, he will drive across the road. Next, he may come to another sign which is round and has the letters "R. R." written on it. This means that there is a railroad ahead. He must stop, look, and listen here, too. The other sign that you and your father may see is a "slow down" kind of sign. It is a yield sign. It is yellow and shaped like a triangle. It means that if your father comes to another road and he sees this sign, he must slow ...

10. Listening To The Whistle

James 2:14-17

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... love our enemies if we never do it? What good does it do to know that we are not to steal or lie or cheat if we continue to do these things? The Spirit of God must enter into us and be seen and heard in the way we live. Listen again to the whistle ... and remember that if the outside force does not pass through, the whistle would be a useless instrument. Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home: When a child fails to do what is expected. When a small child has just received a new toy ...

11. Those Who Listened

Hebrews 12:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... to forgive them their sins if they believed in Jesus. The same thing is true for us today. We are very happy that we know about Jesus and all of the good things that he taught us and did for us. We are very happy that there were pioneers who listened to his truth and prepared the way for us. The next time you see an antique like my butter churn, I want you to think about the pioneers called the Israelites who lived before Jesus and who were faithful to God. They did not have it easy, but then no ...

12. Listen to the Witnesses

1 Corinthians 15:6

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A picture of Neil Armstrong or another astronaut walking on the moon. If you do not have a copy, it can be obtained at the library. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you remember watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon? You could not see it by sitting on your front porch, but if you have a television set and you are old enough to remember, then you probably watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. I am going to ask your mothers and fathers and all of the other people who are here this ...

13. Would You Please Listen To Me?

John 1:1-18

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: Your ordination papers Good morning, boys and girls. I brought a very special paper with me. This is the document that I received when I was ordained as a minister. It says on it . . . (Read the appropriate part.) This paper means that it is official. I am a minister. I enjoy being a minister. I believe this is where God wants me to be--serving as your minister. The other day, however, I ran across the original meaning of the word "minister." It originally meant, "a lowly person." How would you ...

14. Prayer And Bumblebees

2 Corinthians 4:18

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... all until I remembered why I was there. I had come to spend some time in prayer. And now it seemed as if God was using the bees to answer my prayer -- if only I would listen. "God wasn't taking any chances with me either. God sent two bees so I'd be sure to notice. But to get the message, I had to listen with my eyes. "Probably you're wondering what that message was. The bees reminded me that supported by God's love, anything is possible. Even bees can fly! "God speaks to us in many wonderful ways ...

15. A Hearing Problem

Luke 9:37-45

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... they are going to say something very important. Application: God rarely comes to earth and says, "Now, listen carefully," but he did that once. And when he said, "Listen carefully," he looked at us and pointed to his Son Jesus and said, "Listen, very carefully to him." We must do that throughout our lives. Your moms must listen to him; your dads must listen to him; I must listen to him and you must listen. Listen to Jesus very carefully. He always has something very important to tell us. Let's Pray: Jesus ...

16. Warning!

Luke 16:27-28

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... them. A siren is a very important thing, and it keeps us from having big wrecks and hurting other people. Of course, you must listen to the warning and pull over if you are driving. A warning is not any good if you don't pay attention to it. Some ... that we have gotten in the Bible from God about the way that we should behave, and what will happen to us if we do not listen to the teachings. He said that the reason these things were written was not to scare us, but to warn us so that something terrible would ...

17. Sleeping in Church

Acts 20:8-9

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... out of the window and down three stories where he hit the ground so hard that he died. It all happened that fast. Someone must have seen him fall and screamed, but it was too late. Eutychus was dead from falling out of a window where he had fallen asleep listening to Paul preach. Paul rushed out of the room and down the stairs where he found the dead child. But Paul did not panic. He told the people not to worry, because the boy would be all right. How could anyone believe that a dead boy would be all right ...

18. The Control Center

Isaiah 6:8

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... but if you do not accept what they say, or if you fail to remember what they said, nothing will happen in the way your parents want it to happen. If your friend does not really listen to you when you talk, nothing will change because of what you said. So we all need to listen when people speak to us, and we want others to listen to us when we speak. This is an essential part of learning to get along with other people. It is also an important lesson for your parents as well as for you. Possible Times To Use ...

19. A Song To Sing

Ephesians 5:18-20

Children's Sermon

... PLAY.) I still can't hear anything. Can you? (Let them respond.) Let's look at this tape and see what it is. (Take out the tape.) There's nothing on the label. This tape doesn't have any music on it! It's blank! I guess we can't listen to any music today. Oh well, let's talk about music instead. What kind of music do you like? (Let them respond.) There are lots of different kinds of music - classical, country-western, oldies, rock and rap. I think everyone likes some kind of music. They might not like to ...

20. The Lion Who Learned About God

Dan 6:21-23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... we must obey that have been written by men for our protection. There are rules that are made by mothers and fathers that we had better listen to if we like living where we are growing up. Then there are little pieces of advice that are given to us by our friends that ... how he knew which rule to choose when there were so many. Daniel said that it was easy because the first rule that he had to listen to was the one that God made and that every other rule had to agree with God's rule or it wasn't a good rule ...

21. Be Steadfast In God

Romans 14:1--15:13

Children's Sermon

... word with me? "Steadfast." We must be steadfast, too. Day after day, year after year, the Bible tells the same story of the wonderful things that God did and still continues to do. When we are sad, joyful, afraid, excited, or however we feel, we should read the Bible and listen to God's teaching. Even now while we are waiting for Jesus to come and be born in our world again, the place that we go to look for him is the Bible. The Bible gives us hope. So remember this: The Bible teaches us to be as steady and ...

22. ATTENTION!

Zechariah 10:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... it. God is coming into our world with a message of peace and love and hope. But God has to get our attention so that we will listen to Him. God doesn’t use cymbals or any other loud noise. Once, a long time ago, He used a special star to get the attention of ... play the cymbal like the priests did in the Temple. If you heard that kind of signal you would stop whatever you were doing and listen to the message. God’s signal for His message comes to you with all of the noise that a tiny baby in a crib makes when ...

23. Jesus’ Job

Mark 4:1-20

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... weren’t any airplanes when Jesus was a young man and no tall buildings as we have now. To do his job, Jesus walked a lot. He walked from one small town to another. While he walked, he also talked. He had twelve friends who listened to him. Sometimes they didn’t know what he meant when he talked to them, so they asked him questions. He listened to their questions and did his best to answer them. If you had lived then, would you have talked to Jesus and asked him questions? Do you think he would have ...

24. On Using Problems

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... when your eyes were closed was when the ball ran into trouble; when it bounced off of something and had to change its course. So also in life. Often the only time others can tell what is happening to you on the inside, where no one can see, is to listen to you when you run into trouble. If you cry every time things do not go your way, the sound says, "This person is selfish." If you speak of revenge and getting even when someone causes you trouble, that says, "This person has not learned how to forgive." I ...

25. Earphones

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... ) (Turn on the radio.) An interesting thing happens when I plug in the earphones. (Show.) The sound no longer comes from the speaker in the radio, but just from the earphones. (Let one or two children listen to confirm your statement.) Why would you use earphones when you can listen to a radio over the speaker? ... (to not disturb others) This reminds us of two very important things about life. First, there are times when it is right to do something all by yourself. It is your own private activity and it ...

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