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My Top Seven KidMin Sermons
Here is a list of my favorite illustrated sermons for kids.
Sword of the Spirit – Hebrews 4:12
Purchase a real machete and some apples. Use the apples to represent temptation. Throw the apples in the air and slice them with the machete. Be careful to slice the apples away from the kids.
Control Your Tongue – James 3:8
Make a human-sized tongue costume. (Use red material, sew sides and rounded top with holes cut out of eyes. This slips over head.) Have the tongue walk into the room saying mean things to you. Use a whip to pretend to control your tongue, but it doesn’t work. Talk about how we need the Holy Spirit’s help to control our tongue.
Pride Glasses – 1 Timothy 2:8
Pick up a pair of Clark Kent style glasses. Talk about how Superman is able to hide his secret identity with a pair of glasses and even Lois Lane can’t figure it out. Is pride stopping you from worshipping? Are your afraid to sing or lift your hands during worship? If so, just put on your “pride glasses” and nobody will know who you are so you can do whatever you want.
The Father’s Love – John 3:17
Pick up a soft baseball bat at WalMart. Talk about how God is not the cop-in-the sky looking for people to punish. Walk around and gently hit some of the older boys on the head with the soft bat. Talk about what the Father’s love really is.
Assembling Together – Hebrews 10:25
Purchase two balsa wood model airplanes. Assemble one of the planes. Hold them up one at a time. This one is assembled. This one is not assembled. Try to fly both planes. What is the difference? All of the pieces are doing something in the one that is assembled together. Assembling together is more than just attending church. Assembling together means every one is doing what they were created to do.
First Fruits – Proverbs 3:9
Purchase a banana. Talk about how God wants your first fruits, not your leftovers. I talk about when I was a kid I would eat my allowance one bite at a time, when I would buy a comic, then a candy bar, then a soda pop. When I got to church I just had a few pennies left, so I would give God my leftovers. Eat the banana as you are talking till you just have the peel left and throw the peel into the offering bucket.
The Holy Ghost Will Take the Chicken Out of You – Acts 1:8
Purchase a rubber chicken for a prop. Ask the kids if they have ever been “chicken” or afraid to tell people about Jesus. Talk about how Peter was a chicken. He denied Christ three times, but then He stood up on the day of Pentecost and preached to thousands. The Holy Spirit helped Peter and He will help you tell others about Jesus too.
(This sermon is included in the Super Church 2.0 – Holy Spirit Curriculum.)
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There you have it. My seven favorite kids sermons. What are your favorite illustrated sermons for KidMin?
This Easter, I preached a message titled “Jesus and His Peeps,” using random props from around the church to illustrate my point. I used a rubber ducky as Jesus, and marshmallow Peeps as the disciples. They had a table full of jelly beans at the last supper, gathered to pray around a vase of flowers as the garden of Gethsemane, and I brought out a life-sized rooster to crow upon Peter’s denial. The kids LOVED it!
I like the Father’s Love and Controlling the Tongue. I’ll have to use these Mark. They are awesome. The machete one too about the Sword of the Spirit.