Object: A sword.

Good morning, boys and girls. I suppose that all of you know that not everything that happens in the world is good. Sometimes people do some very bad things to themselves and to others. Today I am going to tell you about one of those things so that you will learn how strong some men and women believe in Jesus. Jesus is so important to many people that they are willing to die at earlier ages, so that people will not forget that Jesus is a loving God.

James was one of the disciples of Jesus, and the brother of another disciple called John. James and John had been teaching about Jesus for a couple of years to a lot of people. Many of the peOple who heard them speak believed that what they said was true, and they became followers of Jesus. There was nothing that made James s…