Preface for Pastors and Parents Writing a children’s sermon on Matthew 15:10-28 is challenging in multiple ways. (It’s the lectionary Gospel for Proper 15(20).) There is one ordinary difficulty that comes up with many lectionary selections: The passage is really two scenes quite different from one another: But then there is an unusual challenge: Jesus […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 19:1-16 — Jesus Before Pilate
Preface for Pastors and Parents I’m continuing to flesh out the story of the passion with this children’s sermon on John 19:1-16. I want you to have resources for Holy Week, whether you’re serving a church or reading to your kids. But I’m also prompted by a special request from friends at Lakeview Mennonite Church, […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 18:12-27 — Jesus and the High Priest
This children’s sermon on John 18:12-27 is another special one for my friends at Lakeview Mennonite Church. It is part of the long passion reading assigned for Good Friday in the Revised Common Lectionary. So you might use it then if your Good Friday service has room for a children’s sermon. Or your Sunday School […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 13:1-17 — Washing the Disciples’ Feet
Preface for Pastors and Parents This children’s sermon on John 13:1-17 may be useful when Maundy Thursday rolls around, or in Year C when it comes up for the 5th Sunday of Easter. However I’m writing now for my friends at the Lakeview Mennonite Church. They needed a children’s sermon on John 13:1-17 for the […]
Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale”
If you are anywhere near the Southern Tier of New York State the last weekend of January, I hope you’ll stop by the Phelps Mansion Museum (191 Court Street, Binghamton). You can get out of the cold and see some great entertainment: S.T.A.R. (that’s “Southern Tier Actors Read”) is presenting a partly-staged reading of Shakespeare’s […]
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