Object: Detergent used for washing clothes or dishes and a jar of hot water.

Good morning, boys and girls. A few days ago a little boy asked me if I had ever heard of the Dead Sea. When I said yes, he wanted to know what had made it sick and how it died. That is a very interesting question. The Dead Sea is in the Holy Land and it is the lowest spot on earth. In the water there is a lot of salt, just as there is in the ocean, but the water in the Dead Sea has nowhere to go and the Sea just gets saltier and saltier until nothing at all can live in it. There is not one living plant or one living fish and if you put one in the Dead Sea it would soon die. That is why it is called the Dead Sea.

I have some water in this jar to tell you a story about God. It is not from the Dead Sea, but I thin…