The Things We Do for Love

Children’s Sermon

14 September 2025

Hey, guys. How was your summer? Are you glad to be back at school with your friends, learning new stuff? I asked one kid recently if he weren’t glad to be back, and he said, “Well, not really, but it is the law.”

So I have a question for you. How do you show someone that you love them? What sorts of things do you say, or do you do?

You know, the whole Bible is a collection of stories—a whole bunch of stories—about people gradually realizing just how much God loves us. There are stories about God rescuing people, setting people free, guiding us, healing us, always giving us a fresh start.

And all He really asks in return is that we love one another, that we love all His children the way that He loves us. But we didn’t always get the message. Humans can be pretty slow learners sometimes.

So God laid all His cards on the table. He didn’t send an angel or a prophet or a king, not this time. No, this time God came down Himself.

Books alone weren’t doing it. Stories weren’t doing it. He had to show us how much He loves us by becoming just like us, becoming one of us. And we believe that’s Jesus. Jesus is God, born as a person; born just like you and me. And He showed us how to be human.

He went around healing the sick and teaching the ignorant and rebuking evil and speaking truth to the powerful and always, always looking out for the little, the lost, and the least. In fact, He stuck His neck so very far out that He ended up getting killed, all for love of us.

But even that couldn’t stop Him. Three days later He was right back up, forgiving us, calling us home. And so when we as Christians want to know God, and how much God loves us, we look first and foremost to Jesus: to His life, His teachings, His Resurrection, even His friends.

For Jesus came not to condemn the world but so that the whole world might be saved through Him. And whenever we believe in Him, trust Him, follow Him, we know that God loves us—and that His love for us can never die.

Sound good? Okay. Let’s pray.