Emerald Isle Baptist Church

Children’s Sermon for October 26, 2025

“SORRY!!”

Theme: Forgiveness

Object: the “Sorry!” board game

Scripture: Matthew 18:21-35

Good Morning and welcome to worship!

I brought a popular board game with me this morning…SORRY! Have you ever played this game? My sisters and I grew up playing this at home and at friends’ houses. I haven’t played it in a long time, so I printed off the rules to refresh my memory. The object of the game is to get all three of your pawns to the home base of your assigned color. The cards in the middle tell you how many spaces to move forward or backward. While you advance your pawn around the board, you may bump someone else’s pawn back to their starting place. When that happens, you shout out, “SORRY” In turn, you may be the one bumped back to your start and the other players say “SORRY!” to you!

Do you ever get mad when you play SORRY!? I hope not! It’s just a game of chance depending on what the cards tell you to do. It’s fair to all the players. I like this game a lot. It’s fun AND it teaches us about forgiveness.

Do you ever have you say “sorry” in real life? When? (get responses)

Even as an adult, I have to say I’m sorry sometimes. I make mistakes or say something hurtful to someone. When that happens, I need to apologize, don’t I? The same is true when someone else hurts me in some way. I expect them to say “I’m sorry.” Sometimes that doesn’t happen.

Let me tell you a story about forgiveness in the Bible.

There was a man who owed his master a great deal of money. He couldn’t re-pay it, but the king said it was okay and told the man to forget about it! However, that man turned around to a friend who owed him just a little bit of money, and got so mad when his friend couldn’t repay him that he had the guy thrown into jail! When the master heard about this, he was angry that his servant had not treated his friend with the same forgiveness he was shown.

Jesus told this parable to remind us that God has forgiven us when we do wrong.  Even though we deserve to be punished for our sins, He wipes our slate clean! We should do the same for those who do wrong to us, shouldn’t we?

Let’s say a prayer together for forgiveness both ways!

Dear God, thank you for forgiving me when I do wrong. Help me to forgive others. We love you. Amen.

 Join the Youth Group “Break Through!”

Beginning September 21, all youth ages 6th through 12th grade will meet each sunday after the worship service for lunch, Bible study, games, crafts, projects, and more! See children/youth director Maxine smith for more details

Adult Sunday School Continues

Join us each Sunday morning at 8:45 for “answers in genesis.” This adult series has resumed.please see Mike Whitehead with questions about this class.

EIBC Cookbooks for Sale!

Written by members and friends of Emerald Isle Baptist Church in 2015, our cookbooks are chock full of delicious recipes, and we have lots to share. They make wonderful gifts for the new bride and groom, college students, and birthday gifts for anyone who loves to spend time in the kitchen! ! All proceeds go to local missions: $15 each. Check out a photo of the cookbook below…

“Reflections” Daily Devotional and Sunday School Materials

Pick up your copy of the September through December daily devotional at your convenience in Dorla’s office or the sanctuary vestibule…and take one to a friend!

Fall Bible Studies

Young Women’s Bible Study

All ladies are welcome to come experience a wonderful time of prayer, fellowship, and Bible based study on scriptures and subjects new each week.  Please call Toni Higgins at 919-749-5374 for more information or to request childcare.

New Women’s Bible Study

Join the Tuesday morning Bible study group as we begin “The Wonder of Advent: Delighting in the Hope, jJoy, Peace, and Love of Christmas” on Tuesday, November 4 at 8:30 AM. Member books are $25 each. Please contact Dorla Pake at 252-354-8795 for more information about this class.