Object: An axe.

Good morning, boys and girls. I have with me this morning a tool that not many of you have used. It is a dangerous tool and you must be very careful when you use it. I am sure that you have seen your father or someone else use it when he had a certain kind of job to do that needed chopping. We call it an axe. How many of you know what you might chop with an axe? (Let them answer.) That's right, you can chop up firewood. You can also chop down a tree, make stakes for your tent, or, if you wanted to, you could build a log cabin as people used to do. There are a lot of ways to use an axe, but the most important use for an axe is to chop down and get rid of things that you want to get rid of around your home or work.

Jesus once talked about using an axe when he was…