Preface for Pastors and Parents This children’s sermon on Luke 1:68-79 would be great in Advent if you are not following the lectionary. The lectionary does use the Song of Zechariah, both on the 2ⁿᵈ Sunday of Advent and on “Reign of Christ” Sunday (also known as “Christ the King”) at the very end of […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 1:46-55 — The Magnificat
Preface for Pastors & Parents This is a children’s sermon on Luke 1:46-55, “The Song of Mary,” also known as the “Magnificat” from the Latin of its first word. No, as I write, this text is not coming up in the lectionary for this Sunday. It’s never the regular Sunday Gospel, but it does come […]
My Advent Class on Classic Lectio Divina is BACK!
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 […]
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