Sheepish
Children’s Sermon 26 April 2026 Good morning, guys. How are we doing? Are you looking forward to May? I am. I think that May might be the most beautiful month of the year in Minnesota. So I have a question for you. Who here has seen a sheep, maybe on a family farm? What do you think of sheep? Woolly, aren’t they? Often white, though they come in different colors. They’ve got that lanolin on their wool when you pet them. And they aren’t terribly bright, are they? But that’s more our fault than theirs. In Jesus’ day, sheep were very important. Peoples’ clothes were woven mostly from their wool. We would make cheese from their milk. Of course, back then sheep were ornerier too. They used to have more horns, like six of them. And they would keep most of their fat in their tails. It’s true. Look up “fat-tail sheep” when you get home. It helped them keep cool in the heat. Sheep needed a shepherd. A shepherd protected the sheep from wolves and bears and lions. A shepherd led the sheep to nice...
