Preface for Pastors and Parents I get all excited when I think about writing a children’s sermon on Matthew 14:13-21. “The Feeding of the Five Thousand” is a story I dearly love. So since I already have a children’s sermon on this coming Sunday’s Gospel, I’m working ahead: This one will come up next summer […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 17:11-19
Preface for Pastors and Parents This is my children’s sermon on Luke 17:11-19, which is the Gospel reading for “Proper 23(28)” in Year C of the lectionary. It is a story that is at once simple and mysterious; plain and enigmatic. Ten people with leprosy approach Jesus. Jesus tells them to present themselves to the […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 17:5-10
Preface for Pastors and Parents A children’s sermon on Luke 17:5-10 could go at least three ways, since there are two separate bits of teaching. It could focus on the short saying at the beginning about the power of faith “the size of a mustard seed.” Tempting, just because the saying is so tantalizing. Who […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 10:1-15
Preface for Pastors and Parents Here’s my children’s sermon on Luke 10:1-15. That’s the Gospel reading assigned by the Revised Common Lectionary for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, aka Proper 19(24) in Year C. The story contains two lovely parables. I was tempted to go my usual route, which would be to focus entirely on […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 12:32-40
Preface for Pastors and Parents This children’s sermon on Luke 12:32-40 is a partner to the one I wrote last week on Luke 12:13-21. In the lectionary cycle of Gospel readings, these texts appear on two successive Sundays. The lectionary just sort of skips over Luke 12:22-31, the charming passage about how we should not […]