Peacemaker
Children’s Sermon Martinmas, 2025 Good morning, guys. Did you enjoy your Halloween? What did you go as? You know, there’s another holiday coming up this week. Anybody know what it is? Veterans’ Day, that’s right. Today I want to tell you a story about Veteran’s Day. Once upon a time, there was a man named Martin, and Martin was a soldier. He rode a horse, and he had a sword, and he wore a long red woollen cape, because that’s what soldiers wore back then. He served in the Roman Legions, stationed in what would later become France. Well, one day, Martin saw that a snowstorm was coming, so he went to take shelter in a nearby town. And at the gate of that town he saw a beggar who had very little clothing. Martin was afraid that this man would freeze overnight when the storm came. But Martin didn’t have any extra clothes to give away. So he took his army-issue sword, and used it to cut his army-issue cloak in half. One half he gave to the beggar, and the other half he used to wrap himself ...
