My DOs and DON’Ts of children’s sermons

The tricky truth about children’s sermons is that it’s easier to come up with bad ones than good ones.

Yesterday, a Sunday morning Twitter exchange with a few pastors got
me thinking about my children’s sermon approach, and how it differs
from many of my colleagues. For example, when I saw this site
and the idea of teaching about the bentover woman in Luke 13 with a
bent spoon, I laughed out lout and closed my browser tab immediately.
 Later, when I had time to reflect, I found some redeeming qualities to
the suggestion, but the bent spoon as an object lesson still puts me
off (as if osteoporosis is anything like a bad ice cream scoop — that’s
insulting both to our adults with bad backs and to our children’s
intelligence!).  So, here’s a few of my children’s sermons DOs and
Don’ts:

DO: