Object: A story book.

Good morning, boys and girls. I have a book that I want to show you so that you can help me with a story that I want to share with you. How many of you read story books or listen to your parents read them. Do you know how a good story almost always starts? (Let them answer.) That's right, it begins, "Once upon a time ..." and it usually always ends, "They lived happily ever after." We all like stories about once upon a time, and we especially like stories with happy endings. That is the best part of good stories.

Peter knew some good stories and he liked to share them with people. But his stories were not make-believe. He told about things that happened to him while he lived and traveled with Jesus. Some of the stories were a little hard to beli…