Don't be a Chicken, be an Eagle!

Every week I'm confronted with the same question. "What am I going to teach these kids?"

Leading a Worship Service for the kids has got to be one of the most challenging things I've had to do in my whole life. I've discovered that kids learn best when their senses are stimulated. I've become the stimulator! It's brought me back into the world of balloons, skits, animal sounds and silly songs. I love it!



Last week's message was about all about an old fable:

"A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did,thinking he was a barnyard chicken.
"Years passed and the eagle grew old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. The old eagle looked up in awe. 'Who's that?' he asked.
"'That's the eagle, the king of the birds,' said his neighbor.
'He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth; we're chickens.'
"So the eagle lived and died as chicken, for that's what he
thought he was."

It's a story about fate, destiny, low self-esteem, low self-confidence and comfort zones. What we think determines the way we'll live.

I got to tell the kids that what how we think is very important! When we think good things, we're going to live lives that are pleasing to God. When we think of bad stuff it causes us to do bad things! Just like the eagle who was convinced it was a chicken, we can let our thoughts (the enemy) to lie to us about who we are and our potential.

We're not meant to be chickens who can't fly, we're made to be eagles! Even the word 'chicken' sounds silly but the word eeeeaaaagle sounds cool!

Don't be a CHICKEN! Be an EEEAAAGLE!

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." Philippians 4:8