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These Stones Will Shout! ChildreN’s Sermons For The Six Sundays IN LENT and Easter

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Sample Communications Ten Commandments • Stones to Bread The Lord is My Rock • House on a Rock Rebuild the Temple • Stones Will Shout! Who Will Roll The Stone? KXA These Stones Will Shout! The Ten Commandments A Children’s Sermon for the First Week of Lent - Exodus 20 Hello, boys and girls! As we gather together during Lent, let’s look at how God uses stones in the Bible to teach us about his amazing love for us—even though we are still sinners.

What’s a stone? (Show a stone; wait for responses.) Well, a stone is really a bunch of earthy materials and minerals all crushed together (crush hands around stone) to form a piece of a rock (show stone again) used for a specific function. Stones can be used to build things, or perhaps to make jewelry. The stones in the Bible had purposes too! In fact, the Bible teaches something very suprising about stones. The Bible tells us that “these stones will shout!” What will these stones do? (Cup hands around mouth; encourage children to answer, “Shout!”) Very good!

The stones we’re going to talk about today are the two stone tablets the Ten Commandments were written on (show picture of tablets). Moses went up on Mount Sinai, and God wrote ten (show ten fingers) special laws with his finger (show index finger) on two (show two fingers) tablets of stone. When Moses came down to bring the Ten Commandments to the Israelites, he found them worshipping idols. Moses was angry and he threw the stone tablets on the ground. They broke in pieces! God’s people had broken his laws, and the stones broke, too. “These stones will ______!” (Encourage children: “Shout!”) Then Moses went backCreative up the mountain and God gave him another set of stones with the same Ten Commandments. Not only were these stones kept safe by Moses and the Israelites, but they tried to keep the rules written on them as well. God’s people still should work to keep those laws today because “These stones will _____!” (Encourage children: “Shout!”) Yes, those stones with God’s Ten Commandments shout and remind us to never worship any other god, and to make church have a special place in our lives, and to obey our parents, and to not hurt people or take their things. So when you are tempted to break one of God’s Commandments, think of those stone tablets and remember, “TheseSample stones will _____!” (Encourage children: “Shout!”) Are you listening? (Say it softly.) Listen to God’s words on those stones and know that the power of the Holy Spirit is in you helping you to say “No” to temptation and “Yes” to fol- lowing God’s laws.Communications They are there for your good, because he loved you enough to die for you!

By Karla Roeglin. Art by Chris Sharp. © Copyright 2014 by Creative Communications for the Parish. 1-800-325-9414. www.creativecommunications.com KXA Activities for the First Week of Lent The Ten Commandments Scramble Drawing Today’s lesson is all about God’s laws. Unscramble Draw a picture of Moses bringing the Ten Com- these words used in the Ten Commandments. mandments to the Israelites.

YOLH ______

OONHR ______

ASTEL ______

BASBTAH YDA ______

TCVOE ______Holy, Honor, Steal, Sabbath Day, Covet Day, Sabbath Steal, Honor, Holy,

Word Search Find the words from today’s story. Crossword Puzzle CreativeAcross Z H P E S O J T P N B S 1. ______brought the 10 Commandments to

A T R E M E M B E R A R the Israelites. 1 2 S M I O I E A D G A P M 3. The Israel- T I E I F P E L N W T E ites were C O M M A N D M E N T S worshipping B P D R E A M O I Z E S ______3 4 L N D E N O T S G A L E Sampleinstead of E K I Y E J B E H B I N worshipping W N N M Y L K S B A S T God. R E D A CommunicationsM I V E O B C I P T A B L E T S R Y G W X Q D Z R E H T A F X R Down 2. The 10 Commandments were written on Ten • Tablets • Witness • Remember • Father tablets of ______. Commandments • Moses • Stone • Neighbor 4. God gave the 10 Commandments on Mount ______. By Karla Roeglin. Art by Chris Sharp. © Copyright 2014 by Creative Communications for the Parish. 1-800-325-9414. www.creativecommunications.com KXA Coloring Sheet for the First Week of Lent The Ten Commandments

Moses brought God’s laws, the Ten Commandments, down from the mountain.

Color this picture of Moses and the tablets of stone.

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