Good morning girls and boys. How are you today? Good, better, or best? (Let the answer.) 

(Engage in small talk with the kids.)

I love to see children here at church. Of course I love to see moms and dads and others too. But your coming to worship warms my heart.

I have a couple of questions to ask you this morning.

First of all, when are you loved? Are you loved just as you are, or are you loved because you did a job you were asked to do? When are you loved? For example:

Do your parents say to you, “Go …