Kids Church Object Lessons Through Science

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Matthew 6:24  Children's Bible Talk / Object Lesson)
6:24 "No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

We put a piece of 50mm square x 1500mm long piece of wood down on the dais.
Then balanced a piece of 24mm thick 1200 x 1200 ply on it.  Like a see saw.
Invited the kids to come and stand on it and get it to balance.  Then tried to get them to move aorund while having it balanced.
Then got them all to move to one end of the see saw piece of wood.  Now we are not trying to keep it balanced.  Then asked some to walk around on it.  Do not worry about the balance.  Now it is easy to walk.
The Message - Get your priorities right.  Put God as your first priority.

FLASHPOINT Based on  Isaiah 49:8   Object Lesson / Children's talk
"Thus says the LORD: In a time of favor I have answered you, on a day of salvation I have helped you"
This would actually work better with 
Ephesians 6:10-20 -
Strength in God.  Preparation -> strength.  Armour -> protection.  Lots of prayer.


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- what's inside that counts-  See below
Make bubbles with air - Throw on a match - Nothing happens.
Make bubbles with Propane and throw a match on.
Message - God's spirit inside makes things happen.

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Mark1:9-15 - Jesus is Baptised by John.
This is a nice little obect lesson using chemistry to show that we can do a bit when we are good but it's the entry of Gods Holy Spirit into our lives that really makes thing happen.

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John 4:5-42  Woman at the well.
The basic message we had was that just as our body needs physical water so to our soul needs spiritual water to refresh it.
Science Experiment 1
Before the kids arrived, put some water and blue food colouring in a tray and let it soak up into a paper towel.  When the kids arrived did the one on the left.
The analogy is that the paper sucks up the water like our soul sucks up the living water Jesus talks about in the bible reading.

This is a pretty slow experiment so we then did the balloon experiment while this one did it's thing.
Science Experiment 1
Hold a balloon above a flame and it pops.
Put some water in the balloon and it does not pop. 
Being filled with spiriual water means are protected.

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 John 3:1-17  Born Again
 Make oxygen using alfoil and hydrogen peroxide in a jar.  Light a match.  Blow it out hold it in the top of the jar and the oxygen makes it relight.