After a two year hiatus I’m once again offering my online class on classic lectio divina for Advent. Woot! Advent Advent is the four week long ramp up to Christmas. The Church, long long ago, had the insight that we shouldn’t just jump into our celebration of the birth of Jesus, God in the Flesh. […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 3:14-21
The Pharos of Alexandria (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Preface for Pastors (and Parents) A children’s sermon on John 3:14-21 has to cover a few different bases. Ether that, or it needs to just ignore the days in the Church year that this passage comes up in the lectionary. It comes up a lot, in […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 14:17-25 — World Communion Sunday
Preface for Pastors and Parents This children’s sermon on Mark 14:17-25 is another “bonus” — that is, it goes beyond my primary goal of writing a children’s sermon for every Gospel reading assigned in the Revised Common Lectionary. I’m sending it out just now because, as I write, this Sunday is “World Communion Sunday.” Many […]
A New Children’s Sermon on Mark 8:27-38 — Saving Your Soul?
Preface for Pastors and Parents This is a new children’s sermon on Mark 8:27-38. I did one before. (You can find it here) That seems possibly appropriate, since in Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary most of this text (verses 31-38) comes up twice: first on the 2nd Sunday of Lent, and then, in […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 14:12-16 — Getting Ready for the Passover
Preface for Pastors and Parents This children’s sermon on Mark 14:12-16 is another bonus one. This passage is included in the long Passion narrative assigned by the Revised Common Lectionary for Palm Sunday (aka Passion Sunday). But, as with several other parts of that big story, this sort of stands on its own. I think […]
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