Preface for Pastors and Parents This children’s sermon on Mark 14:3-9 is sort of a bonus. My main plan is to do children’s sermons on all the Gospel texts assigned in the Revised Common Lectionary. This text is part of the grand sweeping Passion story assigned for the beginning of Holy Week — Mark 14:1-15:47. […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 14:1-15:47 — The Passion
Preface for Pastors and Parents The last two times we’ve been through Year B of the lectionary I’ve hesitated to write a children’s sermon on Mark 14:1-15:47. That’s the entire passion story which is assigned as the Gospel reading on what most of us think of as “Palm Sunday.” (I’m writing this in a week […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 24:44-53 — The Ascension
Preface for Parents and Pastors This children’s sermon on Luke 24:44-53 is for the celebration of the day of Christ’s Ascension. The official day is the Thursday before the seventh Sunday of Easter — that’s 40 days after Easter, when the Gospels date the event. But I ask you, how many congregations have a special […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 16:1-8
Preface for Parents and Pastors Here’s a children’s sermon on Mark 16:1-8. That’s the Gospel text assigned by the lectionary for Easter Sunday (or the Easter Vigil) in Year B. So why am I sending this out just before the third Sunday of Easter? Because I didn’t get it written in time. Between a looming […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 11:1-11 — Palm Sunday
Preface for Pastors and Parents For Palm Sunday in Year B, I bring you a children’s sermon on Mark 11:1-11. That’s one of four options offered to churches in the Revised Common Lectionary, as I detailed in my Monday Meditation on this passage back in 2021. I always prefer focusing on Palm Sunday, rather than […]
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