Purpose: Use this children’s sermon about the golden calf to teach kids how to be loyal to God. Scripture: Exodus 32 Needed: 13 coins Children’s Sermon Flip a coin in the air and explain how some people use a flip of a coin to help them make decisions. Then, pretend to let it make decisions for you. Examples could include … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on the Passover to teach kids about how God saved the Israelites and how He saves us. Scripture: Exodus 4:18-14:31 Needed: Items that you want to sort through to keep or get rid of, stickers or some way of marking what you want to keep Children’s Sermon Show children your collection of items. Explain that … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon about the manna God gave the Israelites to teach kids about Jesus, the bread of life, that He gives to all of us. Scripture: Exodus 15:22-16:36 Needed: enough bread for every child to have a piece Children’s Sermon Give each child a small piece of bread and tell them to hold it while you tell … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on the life of Moses to show kids how he points to Jesus. Scripture: Exodus 1:22-2:10 Needed: two things that are the same but different sizes, such as two screwdrivers or wrenches, two pots, two glasses, etc. Children’s Sermon Show the children the smaller of your two objects. Tell them a story about how you … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on Noah and his sons to teach kids how to be gracious toward others when they make a mistake. Scripture: Genesis 9:20-23, 1 Peter 4:8 Love Covers a Multitude of Sins Object Lesson Supplies Needed: a blanket Children’s Sermon: Love Covers Sin and Forgives Others Ask students, do you know anyone who ever did something … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on Noah’s Ark and the Flood to teach kids that God always gives us hope. Scripture: Genesis 9:12-16 Needed: Picture of a rainbow Children’s Sermon Ask students, How many of you have ever had a bad day? What kinds of things can happen to make it a bad day? When you have a bad day, … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on the call of Abram to teach kids how to follow God in their daily life. Scripture: Genesis 12:1-9 Needed: nothing Children’s Sermon Tell students that you’re going to play a game called Follow the Leader. Instruct them all to line up behind you and do exactly what you do as you lead them around … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on the book of Job to teach kids how to trust God through the good and bad times in life. Scripture: The Book Job Needed: picture of a road with mountains and valleys Children’s Sermon Ask students, How many of you are happy all the time? How many of you are sad all the time? … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on generosity to teach kids how to put peace first. Scripture: Genesis 13:5-17 Needed: two gift boxes and a hidden prize (One gift box might have a quarter in it while the other has a cookie or other type of snack. The hidden prize could be a box of cookies or snacks.) Children’s Sermon Ask … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on Abraham’s faith to teach kids how to have a right relationship with God. Scripture: Genesis 15:1-6 Needed: picture of an elderly man and woman Children’s Sermon Ask students, How many of you have grandmothers? When is your grandmother going to have her next baby? Grandmothers don’t usually have babies, do they? Their bodies are … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on Hagar to teach kids that God cares for everyone. Scripture: Genesis 16 Needed: an assortment of fancy or beautiful things with one that’s plain-looking (maybe a bouquet of flowers with one that isn’t as healthy or a collection of printed pencils with one plain one mixed in) Children’s Sermon Show your items and ask … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on the Tower of Babel to teach kids how to be humble and give glory to God. Scripture: Genesis 11:1-9 Needed: instruction cards printed in different languages (provided at the end of this children’s sermon) Children’s Sermon Hand out the instruction cards and tell students to form a line based on the number on their … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on Abraham and Isaac to teach kids how to put God first in their lives. Scripture: Genesis 22:1-19 Needed: an assortment of differently-sized building blocks or pieces of wood Children’s Sermon Show students your building materials and tell them that you want their help to build a tower. You’ll build it, but you want them … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson teach students about God’s protection. Needed: Bibles, wads of paper, index cards with the names of various animals written on them Lesson Tell students, Remember that in the Bible times and in other countries still today, it was against the law to believe in Jesus. It was against the law to be a Christian. … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about the Great Commission. Needed: Bibles, balloons Intro Game: Disciple Tag Choose one student to be It. When they tag someone, that person links hands with them and joins their team. They continue adding people to their team, linking hands with each one until all but one student is part of … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about how Israel chose their first king, and how God is the true King. Scripture: 1 Samuel 8 Needed: two King playing cards, one of which should be the King of Hearts Children’s Sermon Show kids your first King playing card (not the King of Hearts). Ask, What does a king … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Use this children’s sermon about the capture of the Ark of the Covenant to show kids that we can’t control God. Scripture: 1 Samuel 4:2-11 Needed: a picture of the Ark of the Covenant Children’s Sermon Ask children, How do you get God to do something for you? Let’s pretend that you want God to do something for you, and … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Use this children’s sermon about God calling Samuel to teach kids to listen for God’s voice in their own lives. Scripture: 1 Samuel 3 Needed: a pair of headphones Children’s Sermon Show children your headphones and ask, Why do people use headphones? One reason people use headphones is to hear something better. If it’s noisy around you, you can put … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Use this children’s sermon about God’s warning to Eli the priest to show kids the responsibility God has given to parents. Scripture: 1 Samuel 2:12-3:21 Needed: a paddle Children’s Sermon Show children your paddle and ask, Do any of you know what this is? It’s a paddle! Some parents use it to spank their children’s bottoms when they misbehave. (If … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Use this children’s sermon about Hannah and the birth of Samuel to teach kids how to give to God. Scripture: 1 Samuel 1 Needed: an offering plate Children’s Sermon Greet children and show them an offering plate. Say, We do some strange things as Christians. One thing we do is collect an offering. Every week, we give some of our … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on the last of the Ten Commandments to teach kids to be thankful for what they have instead of envious of what others have. Scripture: Exodus 20:17 Needed: a box of small cookies and a box of large cookies Children’s Sermon Show your box of small cookies and ask, Who wants a cookie? (Give one … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on the ninth of the Ten Commandments to show kids how much damage lying can do. Scripture: Exodus 20:16 Needed: a damaged item or something knocked down in your sanctuary, a volunteer to go along with your “story” Children’s Sermon The best idea would be to knock something over in your sanctuary before kids arrive. … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on the Bible to teach kids that we can believe the Bible is true. Scripture: any detailed passage Needed: a history book, a Bible Children’s Sermon Show kids your history book, and ask, How many of you like history? What do you like about history? If you don’t like history, why don’t you like it? … More Children’s Ministry Resources
Purpose: Use this children’s sermon on the Bible to teach kids Who wrote the Bible. Scripture: 2 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Timothy 3:16 Needed: a children’s storybook, a Bible Children’s Sermon Show kids your storybook, and ask, Can anyone tell me who wrote this storybook? Who’s the author? How do you think the author got the ideas to write this book? … More Children’s Ministry Resources