Well, with a children’s sermon on John 6:56-69 we come to the end of the lectionary’s five-week journey though this chapter. (You can read my regular meditation on this passage here.) Perhaps the hard thing about a children’s sermon on John 6:56-69 is just that fact: we’ve been talking about this chapter, with it’s many aspects […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 6:51-58–The Bread of Life
As I write this children’s sermon on John 6:51-58 I am acutely aware that it is part of a series. In “Year B” the Revised Common Lectionary gives churches five weeks in a row traveling through John 6. (You can see my regular meditation on this passage here.) My first thought on every one of […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 6:35 & 41-51
The Last Supper, Juan de Juanez (public domain) Writing a children’s sermon on John 6:35 & 41-51 is challenging the way much of John’s Gospel is challenging. That’s the lectionary Gospel for “Proper 14(19)” in Year B. I wrote a meditation on it a while back that you can see here. It’s part of a […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 6:24-35 — Questions and Answers
My children’s sermon on John 6:24-35 is the second in a series. The lectionary spends five weeks in John chapter 6, where Jesus does things and says things about bread. Some of it is material bread. Some of it is metaphorical bread. But it’s all bread, all the time. (I have a regular meditation on […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 6:1-21
When I set out to write a children’s sermon on John 6:1-21, the first thing I have to do is get over myself. If you haven’t picked it up from reading my children’s sermons, and the meditations on the Gospel texts from the last three years, I often think the lectionary is kind of odd. […]
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