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A Children’s Sermon on Luke 14:25-33

September 2, 2022 by Gary Neal Hansen 10 Comments

CC BY Neptuul-SA 4.0 My, how nice it is to be back with you, writing a children’s sermon on Luke 14:25-33! I’ve been away for a few months due to a short-term pastoral assignment and a family move. Now we’re settled (sort of) and I’m back in action. If you had come to depend on […]

Filed Under: Bible, Ministry Tagged With: 13th Sunday after Pentecost', Children's Sermons, Proper 18(23), RCL Year C

A Children’s Sermon on John 12:1-8 — The Anointing at Bethany

April 9, 2022 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

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Here’s my children’s sermon on John 12:1-8, “The Anointing at Bethany.” I wrote it for the fifth Sunday on Lent, but it might work quite well as a Thanksgiving children’s sermon. (You can find my regular Monday Meditation on the same text here.)  The Lectionary is mostly in Luke for Year C, but for the […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Ministry Tagged With: Children's Sermons, Lent 5, RCL Year C, The Anointing at Bethany

Blessed Are the Peacemakers — A Sermon

April 8, 2022 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

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This week I preached on one of the Beatitudes: Blessed are the Peacemakers. I thought I’d share it with you. If you’ve come here looking for my children’s sermons these last two weeks, I’m sorry to say they were not to be found. It’s a very complicated season in my life, one of the larger […]

Filed Under: Bible, Reviews Tagged With: Blessed are the peacemakers, Sermons

A Children’s Sermon on Luke 15:11-31 — The Prodigal Son

March 25, 2022 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

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Prodigal Son as a Swineherd, Hans Sebald Beham, 1538 (public domain) For the 4th Sunday in Lent I bring you a children’s sermon on Luke 15:11-31. (You can find my regular “Monday Meditation” on this text here.) The lectionary reading is actually Luke 15:1-3, 11b-31, but I’m skipping the first three verses. They place the […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Ministry Tagged With: 4th Sunday of Lent, Children's Sermons, Parable of the Prodigal Son, RCL Year C

A Children’s Sermon on Luke 13:1-9

March 17, 2022 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

children's sermon on Luke 13:1-9

Silver Tree in the Vineyard, CC by Vemiya-SA 2.0 We are coming up to the third Sunday of Lent, so I bring you a children’s sermon on Luke 13:1-9. (You can find my regular Monday Meditation on the same text here.) Like last week, this passage has two very different parts. The first half is […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Ministry Tagged With: Children's Sermons, Lent 3, RCL Year C

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