Children – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Reasonable Boundaries

Boundaries, Children, Parents, Rules, Safety

Proper boundaries and rules are appropriate for parents to implement to keep their children safe. These rules will become more fluid or nonessential as…

Reflection

Children, Hopeful, Humility, Parenting, scary

One of the most hopeful and scariest parts of parenting is knowing that your children will imitate what they see you do. When your…

Children Imitate Parents

Children, Christ-like, Faith in Action, Imitate, Parents

Developmental psychologists regularly publish and tell society a simple truth: children imitate the behavior of their parents. Just like the disciples learned by imitating…

A Father’s Sacrifice For His Family

Children, Children of God, Discipleship, Fatherhood, Fathers, Gospel

“Dad, your family needs you” Shang-Chi tells his father Xu Wenwu after defeating him in battle in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten…

Kid Nation

Children, Parenting, Parents, Worldview

In 2007, CBS created a reality show called Kid Nation. In this show children, ages 8–15, competed against each other for a gold star…

Dry Sponges

Children, Growing, Influence, Parenting

As a visual illustration, consider having a table with three large, dry sponges and three large pitchers of water. Two of the pitchers should…

A Balanced Approach

Children, Communication, Discipline, Parenting, Parents

“If you focus exclusively on either the rod or communication, you will be like a ship with all the cargo loaded on one side….

The Main Thing

Children, Father, First, God's Promises, Priorities, Provision, Seeking God, The Kingdom, Worry

When babies are born, they don’t spend any time worrying about where their clothes, food, and shelter are going to come from. They are…

Parenting Is a Process

Children, Discipline, God's Guidance, God's Perspective, Parenting, Parenting is a Process, Parents, Paul David Tripp, The Gospel Coalition

How might the discipline of God inform the way parents discipline children? In this short video clip, Paul David Tripp explains, and in doing…

Child’s Play

Child, Child-like, Child's Play, Children, Father, Humble Ourselves, Interruptions, Joy, Mother, Others

Children have the uncanny ability to express the most sincere and basic reactions to what we might perceive as an insincere and complicated world….

Take Your Child To Work Day

1 Peter 4:10, 1 Timothy 4:12, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18, 2 Timothy 2:15, Children, Children of God, Ephesians 2:20, Ephesians 4:11-13, God's Work, Serving, Serving Others

God invites his children to learn his desires and his ways by joining him as he works in this world. This may not be…

The Marriage Premium

1 Corinthians 7:1-16, Acceptance, Children, Cohabitation, Culture, Ephesians 5:22-33, Flourishing, Genesis 2:22-24, God's Design, Marriage, Proverbs 18:22, Proverbs 5:18-19, Stability, Study, Truth

Christianity Today spoke with a sociology professor, Bradford Wilcox, and his colleagues about a study titled, “The Cohabitation-Go-Round: Cohabitation and Family Instability Across the Globe.”…

Childlike Faith

1 Chronicles 16:23-31, Child-like, Children, Delight, Faith, Honest, Isaiah 29:13, Joyful, Mark 10:13-16, Matthew 18:1-14, Matthew 18:3, Matthew 19:4, Matthew 21:16, Prayer, Proverbs 22:6, Psalm 99, Romans 10:17, Thanksgiving, Worship

God wants us to come to Him in prayer, worship, and thanksgiving with childlike faith—simple, honest, with no fear of getting it wrong. He…