Promise

The Promise, by Staedler-art

  

Children’s Sermon

27 April 2025

Hey, guys. Happy Easter! Has the holiday been good to you so far? I got a lot of chocolate eggs with caramel and a big chocolate egg with peanut butter.

Anyway, I’ve got a question for you. What’s a promise?

Do you ever make promises? Do you try to keep them?

You know, if everyone was honest all the time, and if we all did our best to keep our word to the best of our ability, then we probably wouldn’t need promises, would we? We could just let our “yes” be yes and our “no” be no.

Because a promise is all about trust, right? What really makes a promise powerful is the trust that we put into the person who’s making the promise.

If your parents make a promise, or your friends make a promise, or someone else whom you love and trust and who loves and trusts you makes a promise, do you think that they would keep it? I think so. I hope so. That’s kind of how love works.

You know, Church isn’t all that complicated—not really, not at heart. Here God gives to us promises. That’s what Baptism is; that’s what Communion is; that’s what the Gospel is. They’re God’s promises to us, because He loves us.

And what He promises to us is nothing less than everything He has and everything He is. He promises that He will always be our God and we will always be His people. And He promises that nothing can change that: not sin, not death, not the devil, nothing.

God’s love is so powerful that even if we were to kill Him, God would still love us. And that love would outlive death. That’s the whole message of Easter. That’s the whole message of Jesus. Because while you and I might break our promises once in a while, God never breaks His. He can’t. He’s too good. God is Goodness itself.

And when we trust His promises—when we trust God to be who He is—that’s faith. Faith is trust that God is good. He gives us His promise; we trust His promise; and then we go out to share His promise with everyone in the world, not only by what we say but by the way in which we live.

So have faith. God loves you. That’s a promise: the promise that every one of us was given in our Baptism. And God does not break promises.

Okay? Let’s pray.