Think Pink

Children’s Sermon

30 March 2025

All right, guys. What’s your favorite color?

What makes it your favorite? Does it make you feel a certain way?

Colors have meanings, don’t they? They have moods; like red for love, or for anger; blue for calm; yellow for a sunny disposition; green for growth.

How about my stole this morning, what color would you say that this is? Pink, really? You think I’d wear pink to church? Well, okay, technically, it’s supposed to be “rose.” But really, you’re right: it’s pink.

How does the color pink make you feel?

So, this is one of only two Sundays in the whole Church year when “rose” can be an optional color for the day. Some churches deck out the whole place in pink, altar and all. And the reason why is that it’s supposed to remind us to rejoice, to be joyful.

Pink is a happy color, don’t you think? It’s the color of donuts.

Today we read a letter from St Paul, who wrote that Jesus taught us not to look at people from a human point of view, but to try to see others in the way that God sees them.

Because whenever Jesus lives in someone’s heart, there is a new creation! God is doing something new in that person, in every person. Each life is like a whole new world.

If we save a life, it’s like saving a world. If we take a life, it’s like taking a world. And everyone that we will ever meet has more to them than we can ever know.

And that’s something wondrous. That’s something worth celebrating. In Jesus, every one of us is God’s brand-new creation. And there’s no telling what we might become.

Remember that the next time you see a grown man wearing pink.

Sound good? Let’s pray.