On the 7th and last Sunday of Easter season each year, the Revised Common Lectionary appoints a portion of John 17. It’s a little strange to me when the Gospel readings in Easter are on passages prior to the resurrection, but so it goes. My task this year is to write a children’s sermon on […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 15:9-17
Writing a children’s sermon on John 15:9-17 is challenging in a familiar way. The text is part of a longer speech, and has no real narrative to it. (It’s the lectionary Gospel for the 6th Sunday of Easter, year B. I wrote a meditation on it here and I wrote on this week’s epistle reading […]
What Faith Believes — 1 John 5:1-6
1 John 5:1-6 — What Faith Believes On the Sixth Sunday of Easter the Epistle reading continues our journey through the strange and wonderful world of the First Letter of John — specifically 1 John 5:1-6, with its fascinating exploration of what faith believes. (I wrote about this Sunday’s Gospel a while back and you […]
Vaccinated!
Getting my 2nd Moderna vaccine! Vaccinated! I didn’t get much writing done this week. Though I did get vaccinated! No blog posts — though I did write on this week’s Gospel three years ago. You can see it by clicking here. I may still get a post up. But it’s Thursday night and I have […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 10:11-18 — The Good Shepherd
The challenge of writing a children’s sermon on John 10:11-18 is that there is so much going on in such a tiny space. That’s the Gospel reading for the 4th Sunday in Easter for Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary. You’ll see what I mean about the number of things packed in here if […]
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