Salted
Children’s Sermon 8 February 2026 Hey, guys. Ready for St Valentine’s Day? Gotta get some of the candy in before Lent starts. So, question for you: Do you like salt? Salty foods, like french-fries or pizza or bacon? They say that kids especially enjoy eating salty stuff because your bodies need it in order to grow. I’m a long way from being a kid, but I still like it probably more than I should. See, the neat thing about salt, is that it’s supposed to enhance other flavors, to make sweet things sweeter and savory things more savory. You wouldn’t want to eat salt just by itself. Bleh. But if you put a little bit on other foods, then it helps those foods to taste better. Now, back in Jesus’ day, they didn’t have refrigerators or freezers, did they? Nope. If you caught a nice fish, or you had some good fresh meat, or maybe you wanted to make some milk into cheese, guess how you could keep all that from going bad. That’s right: salt. People needed it to preserve food, to preserve life. So ...
