Magnify Jesus

By Hazel Montgomery

About the Book
Magnify Jesus is about how Jesus makes a difference in our lives. Through poetry, skits and stories, God’s love is shown, and life lessons are learned. A series of skits teaches lessons from the Bible through puppet characters to be performed for Sunday school age children. Through all situations and trials, God’s word is the one constantly relevant answer and Magnify Jesus shows the importance of having Christ in our lives.

About the Author
Hazel Montgomery completed a writing course from the Connecticut Institute of Children’s Literature. She has attended commercial art class in Bristol, TN and has a poem listed in the Who’s Who book in the Library of Congress. Montgomery’s hobbies include sewing for family and friends, even teaching it at the Girls Club. She was a Sunday school teacher for 36 years and the chairman of the visitation committee for 13. After attending a Vatan school of crafts in Bristol, VA for sculpture, she produced a bust of Robert Kennedy. Later, Montgomery donated this sculpture to the Kennedy Memorial Foundation. She also has a technician’s license in amateur radio.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company
• Release date: Aug 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9798888126929

Book preview

A Spiritual Mind

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A spiritual mind rejoices when others succeed,

When their attempts succeed in every deed.

Seeks to serve the Lord with all their hearts,

In this world of sin and never will depart.

Kingdom oriented in the things of God,

By listening, reading, and studying his word,

Accepting others in just as they are.

And they will know that you care.

Thankful for the opportunity to be God’s vessel,

To volunteer to the illegible text to get things settled.

Trusting and dependent more on the Lord daily,

Attending the house of the Lord, faithfully

Making pray time a priority in our lives.

In the nighttime and when we rise.

Praising God

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Praise God for all the things he has done,

For he promised to never leave us alone.

He has born our sins and pain,

On a more rugged cross, it was our gain.

Heaven awaits those washed in his blood, because of his blood we are made good.

When kneeling at the altar, praying and praising God,

A sense of God’s experience illegible taxed

And we contend with greed and strife.

All our admiration and gratefulness is do him,

And our faith in God’s mercy will never dim.

Life is worth living, because he is living in us,

Making him worthy of all our trust

Skits for Puppets

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Blackie is a skunk and Pinky is an elephant. These skits are for children ages five through seven. They are to teach a virtue each Sunday morning before Sunday school. After each skit, that teacher leads the children in the Lord’s prayer. Also, questions are to be asked of the children about what the puppets’ message was. 

Bugsy Learns a Lesson

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It was the end of the summer and the carrots in Mother Rabbit’s garden were ready to be harvested. She had Doc Rabbit, Squeaky Rabbit and Bugs rabbit dig up the carrots for her. Some of the carrots were to be put in the cellar to keep through the winter months and some where to be used to make Mother Rabbit’s favorite carrot pies.

Bugsy knew that Mother Rabbit was going to bake some carrot pies, he waited outside near the window in mother rabbits kitchen for more than an hour. The more he thought about how her delicious pie would taste with some ice cream on top, the more tempting it became to resist the temptation to make one whole pie for himself.

Nearby in an oak tree, a robin had a nest in the tree outside the kitchen window. The robin observed everything that was going on, that Bugsy kept hanging around in one spot and watching the window in the kitchen.

Doc and Squeaky had also observed Bugsy lurking behind the old oak tree for more than an hour. Something must be up they remarked one to another, Bugsy never stayed in one spot for longer than fifteen minutes.

Let’s stay around here for a while and see what Bugs is up to, exclaimed Squeaky.

Mother Rabbit was in no hurry to bake her carrot pies. She had to clean the windows, scrub the floors, iron the clothes, wash the dishes, and darn some socks for her children.

Bugsy began to think Mother Rabbit wasn’t going to bake the carrot pies. To him, it was the longest hour he had ever spent waiting on something.

He had pictured in his mind now good the carrot pie was going to taste, that it never crossed his mind that what he was doing was stealing.

Finally, Mother Rabbit finished baking three sumptuous pies and put them in the windowsill to cool off, so she could store them in the refrigerator. 

All of a sudden, she heard this wild frantic chirping of the robin in the tree outside windowsill.

Hurriedly, she ran to the window and saw Bugsy Rabbit slipping down the backyard with one of her pies.

Stop! Thief, she called after Bugsy.

Meanwhile, Doc and Squeaky were whispering about the incident, they had witnessed the whole thing. They were speculating on what Mother Rabbit would do about Bugsy stealing her carrot pie.

Mother Rabbit ran after Bugsy and caught him by the ears. She took off her apron and tied it around Bugsy’s waist. Bugsy had to walk past all his friends with an apron tied over his pants. The rabbits began