Object: A small bag of potatoes and a twenty-pound bag of potatoes

Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to have a little experiment that I hope will prove something about the way that God loves and takes care of us. I need two volunteers to help me this morning. (Choose two, one of them a lot smaller than the other if possible. We want to give the larger sack of potatoes to the smaller child.) Now the only thing that you must do to help in this experiment is to each hold a sack of potatoes. (Hand out the sacks.) Now I want you to hold these sacks while I tell a story about Jesus.

A long time ago, Jesus ate dinner in the house of a very important person. While he was there, a woman who did not have a very good reputation showed up at the place where they were eating, and began…