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Seeing Is Believing - Children's Sermons from Sermons4Kids.com Seeing Is Believing Theme: We, like Thomas, sometimes have to see to believe. Second Sunday of Easter Object: A dollar bill and two paper clips.
Scripture: Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.' John 20:29 Do you find it easy to believe what someone tells you, even if what they tell you seems impossible? For example, suppose I said to you, 'I am going to take these two paper clips and and connect them without touching them with my hands.' Would that be easy for you to believe?
It doesn't make sense, does it? How can I possibly connect these two paper clips while not touching them with my hands? You might say, 'I'd have to see it to believe it.' Well, if I show you and you see it with your own eyes, you would have to say, 'I believe it,' wouldn't you? After all, seeing is believing.
OK, first I am going to take this dollar bill and fold it into thirds. Next, I will take one paper clip and clip the top section of the dollar to the middle section. Now I will take the other paper clip and clip the bottom section to the middle section. Finally, I will slowly pull on the two ends of the dollar bill.
Watch what happens. That is really cool, isn't it? The two paper clips are connected! Now that you have seen it, do you believe it?
Sometimes we must see something before we believe it, don't we? On the evening of the first Sunday after Jesus had been crucified, his disciples were together in a locked room. They were afraid that those who had crucified Jesus would also want to put them to death.
Suddenly, Jesus appeared there in the locked room with the disciples. It was hard to believe, but they saw him and Jesus showed them his wounds in his hands and his side, so they knew it was him. One of the disciples, whose name was Thomas, was not with the others when Jesus appeared to them. When they told Thomas that they had seen Jesus, he did not believe them. He had seen him crucified and buried, how could he be alive?
Thomas said, 'Unless I see the wound in his side and put my finger in the holes where the nails were in his hands, I will not believe it!' A week later, the disciples were in the locked room again and this time Thomas was with them. Again, Jesus came and stood among the disciples. Jesus, said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.' Thomas fell on his knees and answered Jesus, 'My Lord and my God!'
Jesus said to him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.' You and I have never seen Jesus with our own eyes. The question is, will we be a doubter, or will we be one of those who Jesus said were blessed because they believe, even though they have not seen? Dear Father, help us to believe in our heart the truths we find in your Holy Word, even though we have not seen them with our eyes. In Jesus' name we pray.
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Updated March 17, at 8:01pm Seeing is Believing – Analysis Sample – Incomplete Essay Seeing is Believing From a very tender age up until of late, I used to believe in so many things which I had not put to test yet. I was so positive with life, always believing in everything for the mere beauty of how sincere it looked. Sometimes I would simply believe everything because I was told, not considering the fact that anything emanating from a human being can either be the truth or the opposite of the truth-lies. It always caught me by surprise when I would be brought back into reality with the fact that all I had thought to be true was a mere factor of letting things flow in the right direction to please me-but not a reality of the same. Not only did I believe everything I heard but I would also believe that there are people in this world who are stronger than others in each and every single way. I believed that they were stronger in all aspect; emotionally, spiritually, physically and mentally. I believed that even when shaken, my father was the strongest man in the world.
I was little boy by then and I did not know that he also was human and that he had a weakness. From the time I was a small boy, I viewed my father as being a hero and a legend at the same time. He was big physically, rich and had the power to do anything. To me, there was no one on this earth like him. I feared him because he was a no nonsense man. He did not entertain any form of failure.
These are some of the qualities that made him respected and feared by everyone around him. Even my very own mother feared him in a way. I would notice her change of behavior in my father’s presence, for instance, my mum would address us different while my father was present. There was no mountain that my father could not move and this had built inside me so much so that I started to view him as a point of reference in everything that I did. He did everything perfectly as I thought. My father would not put up with any form of indiscipline neither would he tolerate any form of failure in school work.
He viewed failing exams as lack of respect for school work and would reprimand us whenever we failed our exams. I remember once I came second position after doing my examination, he gave me long lectures and even threatened to beat me up for failing. “Dad I came second out of forty two students” I remember saying once. “I will not entertain that kind of nonsense” he always said to me.