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 […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 7:21-29
Preface for Pastors and Parents This children’s sermon on Matthew 7:21-29 can be used sometime when you are preaching or teaching on the Sermon on the Mount. The passage comes up as the lectionary Gospel only in years when Easter comes particularly late. In most trips through “Year A” it goes unread. That’s too bad, […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 20:27-38
Preface for Pastors and Parents A Children’s sermon on Luke 20:27-38 has to make some odd or obscure things plain. It also has to avoid getting into background details that are complicated enough to make kids eyes glaze over. I could get stuck in the weeds if I tried to explain “Levirate marriage.” That’s the […]
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