SPECIAL DAY: CHILDREN'S SUNDAY

June 1, 2003 - LESSON: 2 Kings 5:1-15

SERMON TITLE: SHE DID WHAT SHE COULD

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  1. Story of the Candle giving light to light the big light in the lighthouse.

    1. Keeper took a little candle and went to the top of the lighthouse.

    2. The little candle asked, Where are we going?

    3. The keeper of the lighthouse said, We are going up to make a light that will keep the ships from running aground at night.

    4. The little candle said, But I am such a little light. How could I possibly warn the ships out at sea that there is danger ahead?

    5. The keeper of the lighthouse said: You are a little light, but I'll use you to light the large lamps upstairs. We have mirrors that reflect that light out to sea. So your job is very important and you'll be keeping the ships away at night just like the big lights do, because I use you to light them.

  2. Story of the young girl who taken captive and working in the home of her mistress -provided information which enabled healing for the mistress's husband.

    1. He had a terrible disease.

    2. She could not heal the disease.

    3. She could not make him feel better.

    4. What she did do was tell her mistress that there was someone who could help.

    5. This lead to her master's healing.

    6. She did all that she could do.

  3. What may we do?

    1. We can help one another.

      1. Boys who left a grocery shopping cart in the middle of the road.

      2. Why didn't they move it.

      3. The looked and laughed, thinking it was great fun.

      4. It was not fun but trouble.

      5. We can move, or get help to move, the shopping cart.

    2. We can be kind.

    3. We can be fair.

      1. We will not call anyone by bad names.

      2. We will respect each person and the good that is in them.

    4. We can tell the truth.

    5. We can respect one another and the world in which we live.

      1. Boys who like to ride their bicycles down the grassy bank.

      2. They do a lot of damage to the grass.

      3. It isn't that they do not care, I believe they do not know what it is too care.

    6. We can love one another.

      1. I am too small

      2. I am not strong enough.

      3. I do not know enough.

A boy and his father were walking along a road when they came across a large stone. The boy said to his father, Do you think if I use all my strength, I can move this rock?

His father answered, If you use all your strength, I am sure you can do it.

The boy began to push the rock. Exerting himself as much as he could, he pushed and pushed. The rock did not move. Discouraged, he said to his father, You were wrong, I can't do it.

The father placed his arm around the boy's shoulder and said, No, son, you didn't use all your strength--you didn't ask me to help. (1)

  1. Letting God help us.

    1. It doesn't matter big or small

    2. It doesn't matter tall or short.

    3. It doesn't matter, strong or weak.

    4. If we let God help us we can!

1. David J. Wolpe in Teaching Your Children About God, as cited in Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life, ed. Frederic Brussat and Mary Ann Brussat (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1996), 447.

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