With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. (Isaiah 12:3)

My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)

Props: a fountain of water (you can find small fountains at most greenhouses or online) running; large pot made of pottery or clay; bottle of spring water; baptismal font or other large bowl of water with nearby towel; fishbowl; glasses of water that look the same (but one is salt-water, one spiked with unsweetened lemon juice, one from a river or creek nearby, one with some bitter herbs in it; one with sparkling water in it or from a local impeccably clean water source)

Open your sermon by holding a glass of water--have a few more glas…