Exegetical Aim: The Kingdom of God surrounds us (v. 9) and our names are written in heaven (v. 20).
Props: An XXL white t-shirt and permanent markers. Hide the t-shirt.
Lesson: I have a question for you this morning: Name something that we are all very close to all day long. (ground) Even closer than the ground. (home, trees, parents are possible answers) Those are all good answers, but they're not what I am thinking of. All day long we are closer to this than we are to anything else. Can you guess what it is? (response) It is so close to us, it touches our skin. (clothes)…
CSS Publishing Company, Children's Sermons A to Z, by Brett Blair