Father's Day Children's Sermon
 

Construction Zone
a children's sermon based on Mat 7:21-29
by Rev. Randy Quinn, edited by DPS for Father's Day
 
 

(I will wear a hard hat and carry a small tool box with me.  Included in the toolbox is a roll of duct tape – I’m hoping someone asks about it!  I’ll tell them it’s to fix whatever can’t be fixed with the other tools. J )

Have you ever seen any of these tools?  Have you ever seen your dad use any of these things around the house? Our moms and dads always take care of us and they keep things nice around the house, don't they? And it's often our fathers who do the repairs around the house, right?

When you build a house you need some tools – like a hammer, don’t you?  But building houses can be dangerous, too.  People can get hurt.  They can pound their thumb with a hammer (I’ve done that).  They can cut themselves with a saw (I’ve done that, too).

And things can fall on them, so lots of people who work on construction sites wear a hard hat. Do you think God needed to wear a hard hat when the world was being made?

I don’t think so, but I do know that making people was a dangerous thing for God to do.  People don’t always act the way God wants them to act.  People don’t always say the things that God wants them to say.

God loves us, but people don’t always show their love for God.

But God made us anyway.  And now that we’re made, we get to help finish the project.  We get to decide if we’ll do what God wants us to do or say the things God wants us to say.  We get to decide if we’ll show and share our love for God.

To do that, we need a different kind of a tool box.  We need a Bible and a church and some teachers and lots of prayer. And that's another thing our dad's do, isn't it? They teach us about God and about the Bible stories.

So, today, let us give thanks to God for making us, and let us give thanks to our fathers for being there for us, for making sure we're safe, comfortable, and for growing up in the faith!