The Sign of Jonah Children’s Sermon

Children’s Sermon on the Sign of Jonah

Needed: pictures of common types of signs

Scripture: Matthew 12:39-41 or Luke 11:29-30

Children’s Sermon: Show students the pictures of your signs and ask if they know what each one means. If they don’t know the meaning of one, explain it to them.

Then ask, Did you know that God gives us signs? What do people sometimes say is a sign from God? (Miracles, people getting special messages, coincidences, etc.)

(Read Matthew 12:39-41 or Luke 11:29-30.)

This says that what happened to the prophet Jonah was a sign from God to the people. What happened to Jonah? (He was swallowed by a big fish, and then three days later, the fish spit him out where he was supposed to preach.) 

Do you think when the people saw what happened to Jonah that they would think that was a miracle, a sign from God?

And it says that when Jesus came back from the dead, that was a miraculous sign from God.

Did you know that you can also be a sign from God? When you allow God to change your heart and make you more like Jesus, other people will see God working in your life and take it as a sign that God can work in their lives too. You’ll be like the sign that says, “God can do big things in your life!”

Closing Prayer: Father, we thank You for all the things You do in our lives and all the ways You change us to make us to be more like Jesus. We pray that You’ll change our hearts more and more and make us a sign to help other people believe in You. In Jesus’ name, amen.