Exegetical Aim: God's gentle with our lives and shortcomings.

Props: Sticks that are partially cracked and almost broken or weak, and one that is strong and difficult to break.

Lesson: How many of you like to play with sticks? (response) When I was young, I loved to play with sticks. Hold up the whole stick, and mimic the following. Sometimes I would pretend that I was Robin Hood and the stick was a bow. Sometimes I was a knight and the stick was a sword. Sometimes I was a baseball player and the stick was a bat. I used thesticks for a lot of different things. But sometimes I would find a stick that wasn’t quite right, hold up one of the partially broken sticks, and I would have to fix it to make it look right. Do you know how I would fix it? (response) Yes, I would bre…