Object: Symbol of Peter

Well, boys and girls, this morning we shall talk to you about one more friend of Jesus. Jesus had many friends, so many that the Bible doesn't even mention all of their names. Many of his friends we don't know but the one we are going to talk about this morning we know best of all. His name is Peter. How many of you have ever heard of this friend called Peter?

Peter was a lot of things in his lifetime. Let's see if we can think of some of them. First of all he was a good fisherman. He was a brother of Andrew, another of Jesus' apostles. He was a good follower of Jesus. As a matter of fact, when other people were only guessing Peter told Jesus when he asked him that "He was the Christ, the Son of the Living God." …