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 […]
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 […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 19:1-10 — Zacchaeus
Preface for Pastors and Parents Writing a children’s sermon on Luke 19:1-10 brings back a very particular memory. Back in seminary, in my very first (actually my only) preaching class this was the text everyone had to use for their very first sermon. He must have gotten so tired of hearing our brilliant insights into […]
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