Sermon 9-20-03 Children
UMC in Nebraska….SS class attended church together…notes to the pastor
Dear Reverend, I liked your sermon Sunday. Especially when it was finished.—Ralph, 10.Dear Reverend, I like to go to church on Sunday because I don’t have any choice.—Margaret, 10.Dear Reverend, Thank you for your sermon Sunday. I will write more when my mother explains to me what you said.—Justin, 9.Dear Reverend, I think more people would come to church if you would move it to Disneyland.—Loreen, 9.
Children are wonderful, do we give them what they need
It is a fundamental responsibility
Men are generally more careful of their horses and dogs than of their children. Wm Penn
There are some bad things going on in the world
Childrens Army
“An army recruitment unit arrived at my village and demanded two new recruits. Those who could not pay 3000 kyats had to join the army.” (Zaw Tun, 15, Burmese ex-army soldier)”I was so afraid of dying. But my friends warned me if the rebel commanders detected any fear in me, they would kill me. So I had to pretend to be brave.” (Charles, 12, Rwandan refugee)”When I get older, I will organize a gang and seek my father’s revenge.” (Asif, 12, Afghan refugee)”I just want to go home and be with my family.” (Christopher, 12, Uganda)”They abducted me but still they went ahead to kill my mother and father that night.” (Richard, 12, Rwandan refugee)“In counseling sessions they said they had only killed small children. They believed that made it a smaller sin.” (BBC Swahili Reporter, Valerie Msoka)
His name was Brian and he died alone in the dark, encased in suffocating coils of duct tape. He was 9. Today, three adults who were supposed to keep the boy safe will go on trial for allegedly causing his death. Brian Edgar’s parents, Christy Edgar and Neil Edgar Sr., were the leaders of a small Kansas City, Kan., church.
precious doe
what do they experience when they are killed??
Good stuff
Childrens department
Work with dfs
We are adopting children
We sponsor them at the orphanage
I want to do more than raise children
I want to provide children with character
I want them to live lives filled with compassion for others
They went to the missions trip in Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Favorite memory…..san jose rescue mission
taking the kids to restart…..
lets try it for a month
there is a world where children are raised
where they have everything they want but nothing that they need
I got the addidas shoes
My dad didn’t tell me that he loved me until I was 39 years old
Charles Francis Adams, 19th century political figure and diplomat, kept a diary. One day he entered: “Went fishing with my son today—a day wasted.” His son, Brook Adams, also kept a diary, which is still in existence. On that same day, Brook Adams made this entry: “Went fishing with my father—the most wonderful day of my life!”
Problems with adult behavior
When the 10-year-olds in Mrs. Imogene Frost’s class at the Brookside, N.J. Community Sunday School expressed their views of “What’s wrong with grownups?” they came up with these complaints:
1. Grownups make promises, then they forget all about them, or else they say it wasn’t really a promise, just a maybe. 2. Grownups don’t do the things they’re always telling the children to do—like pick up their things, or be neat, or always tell the truth. 3. Grownups never really listen to what children have to say. They always decide ahead of time what they’re going to answer. 4. Grownups make mistakes, but they won’t admit them. They always pretend that they weren’t mistakes at all—or that somebody else made them. 5. Grownups interrupt children all the time and think nothing of it. If a child interrupts a grownup, he gets a scolding or something worse. 6. Grownups never understand how much children want a certain thing—a certain color or shape or size. If it’s something they don’t admire—even if the children have spent their own money for it—they always say, “I can’t imagine what you want with that old thing!” 7. Sometimes grownups punish children unfairly. It isn’t right if you’ve done just some little thing wrong and grownups take away something that means an awful lot to you. Other times you can do something really bad and they say they’re going to punish you, but they don’t. You never know, and you ought to know. 8. Grownups are always talking about what they did and what they knew when they were 10 years old—but they never try to think what it’s like to be 10 years old right now.
Parenting is not for cowards, one Christian psychologist recommends the following steps to raising children in the difficult moments:1. Get involved early and bring the situation to an end.2. Be neutral—don’t empty the Emotional Bank Account. Kindness counts. 3. Be firm—be an example of self-control, not power.4. Label the behavior for the child—label behavior, not the child.—Elaine M. Gibson, “Management Techniques for Parenting Children With Difficult Traits,”
Age of conversion
Under 20 years of age - 138 Between 20 and 30 - 85 Between 30 and 40 - 22 Between 40 and 50 - 4 Between 50 and 60 - 3 Between 60 and 70 - 1 Over 70 - 0
What we think is important isn’t always that important.
Change your perspective
What are you loving? What should you be loving…..
Lose the eye, enter the kingdom
family from liberty killed in flash flood
Robert Rogers
the dads message, hug them, hold them, love them
UMC in Nebraska….SS class attended church together…notes to the pastor
Dear Reverend, I liked your sermon Sunday. Especially when it was finished.—Ralph, 10.Dear Reverend, I like to go to church on Sunday because I don’t have any choice.—Margaret, 10.Dear Reverend, Thank you for your sermon Sunday. I will write more when my mother explains to me what you said.—Justin, 9.Dear Reverend, I think more people would come to church if you would move it to Disneyland.—Loreen, 9.
Children are wonderful, do we give them what they need
It is a fundamental responsibility
Men are generally more careful of their horses and dogs than of their children. Wm Penn
There are some bad things going on in the world
Childrens Army
“An army recruitment unit arrived at my village and demanded two new recruits. Those who could not pay 3000 kyats had to join the army.” (Zaw Tun, 15, Burmese ex-army soldier)”I was so afraid of dying. But my friends warned me if the rebel commanders detected any fear in me, they would kill me. So I had to pretend to be brave.” (Charles, 12, Rwandan refugee)”When I get older, I will organize a gang and seek my father’s revenge.” (Asif, 12, Afghan refugee)”I just want to go home and be with my family.” (Christopher, 12, Uganda)”They abducted me but still they went ahead to kill my mother and father that night.” (Richard, 12, Rwandan refugee)“In counseling sessions they said they had only killed small children. They believed that made it a smaller sin.” (BBC Swahili Reporter, Valerie Msoka)
His name was Brian and he died alone in the dark, encased in suffocating coils of duct tape. He was 9. Today, three adults who were supposed to keep the boy safe will go on trial for allegedly causing his death. Brian Edgar’s parents, Christy Edgar and Neil Edgar Sr., were the leaders of a small Kansas City, Kan., church.
precious doe
what do they experience when they are killed??
Good stuff
Childrens department
Work with dfs
We are adopting children
We sponsor them at the orphanage
I want to do more than raise children
I want to provide children with character
I want them to live lives filled with compassion for others
They went to the missions trip in Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Favorite memory…..san jose rescue mission
taking the kids to restart…..
lets try it for a month
there is a world where children are raised
where they have everything they want but nothing that they need
I got the addidas shoes
My dad didn’t tell me that he loved me until I was 39 years old
Charles Francis Adams, 19th century political figure and diplomat, kept a diary. One day he entered: “Went fishing with my son today—a day wasted.” His son, Brook Adams, also kept a diary, which is still in existence. On that same day, Brook Adams made this entry: “Went fishing with my father—the most wonderful day of my life!”
Problems with adult behavior
When the 10-year-olds in Mrs. Imogene Frost’s class at the Brookside, N.J. Community Sunday School expressed their views of “What’s wrong with grownups?” they came up with these complaints:
1. Grownups make promises, then they forget all about them, or else they say it wasn’t really a promise, just a maybe. 2. Grownups don’t do the things they’re always telling the children to do—like pick up their things, or be neat, or always tell the truth. 3. Grownups never really listen to what children have to say. They always decide ahead of time what they’re going to answer. 4. Grownups make mistakes, but they won’t admit them. They always pretend that they weren’t mistakes at all—or that somebody else made them. 5. Grownups interrupt children all the time and think nothing of it. If a child interrupts a grownup, he gets a scolding or something worse. 6. Grownups never understand how much children want a certain thing—a certain color or shape or size. If it’s something they don’t admire—even if the children have spent their own money for it—they always say, “I can’t imagine what you want with that old thing!” 7. Sometimes grownups punish children unfairly. It isn’t right if you’ve done just some little thing wrong and grownups take away something that means an awful lot to you. Other times you can do something really bad and they say they’re going to punish you, but they don’t. You never know, and you ought to know. 8. Grownups are always talking about what they did and what they knew when they were 10 years old—but they never try to think what it’s like to be 10 years old right now.
Parenting is not for cowards, one Christian psychologist recommends the following steps to raising children in the difficult moments:1. Get involved early and bring the situation to an end.2. Be neutral—don’t empty the Emotional Bank Account. Kindness counts. 3. Be firm—be an example of self-control, not power.4. Label the behavior for the child—label behavior, not the child.—Elaine M. Gibson, “Management Techniques for Parenting Children With Difficult Traits,”
Age of conversion
Under 20 years of age - 138 Between 20 and 30 - 85 Between 30 and 40 - 22 Between 40 and 50 - 4 Between 50 and 60 - 3 Between 60 and 70 - 1 Over 70 - 0
What we think is important isn’t always that important.
Change your perspective
What are you loving? What should you be loving…..
Lose the eye, enter the kingdom
family from liberty killed in flash flood
Robert Rogers
the dads message, hug them, hold them, love them
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