26-Jul-26 (Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52)

Have you ever watched bread being made? [Wait for answers]
One of the neat things about making bread is when you add yeast to the dough, there is a reaction the spreads throughout the dough and it "rises," it grows. There's another neat thing that you can do with some dough: You can use a piece of dough that has yeast in it to make dough that doesn't have yeast rise too. Jesus says that that is a lot like faith.
It doesn't matter whether you think you've got just a little faith or a lot. Faith grows within you and helps you to grow up into the person God wants you to be. When you share your faith with others, that faith can help faith to grow within them as well until your both are more like God wants you to be.
Let's talk to God about that.

God, we pray that you would help us to let faith grow up inside us.
We thank you for Jesus, who showed us how to let faith grow in us. Help us to be more like him and remember to share our faith with others we meet so they can grow as well.
We pray in Jesus' name.
AMEN.