The Transfiguration is about as mysterious a text as you’ll find in the Gospel. That makes preparing a children’s sermon on Matthew 17:1-9 pretty challenging. How do you help kids find something useful in a story that their parents probably find baffling? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this one. And of course you […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 5:21-37
Developing a children’s sermon on Matthew 5:21-37 is challenging on two fronts. First, this passage is not a story. Second, it contains several distinct and difficult teachings. Here he talks about four separate kinds of law. I think it is wise to take just one topic for a children’s sermon. That leaves the question of […]
A Children’s Sermon: Matthew 5:13-20
Matthew 5:13-20 In a children’s sermon on Matthew 5:13-20 the challenge is that in the text there actually are three distinct units. For a children’s sermon I think it is wisest to just pick one. (See my Monday Meditation on this same text through this link.) When telling a Bible story to children, I like […]
A Children’s Sermon: Matthew 5:1-12
A children’s sermon on Matthew 5:1-12, the Beatitudes, is challenging because Jesus makes so many different points — nine of them! I think one good way around the problem is to take just two of the beatitudes and talk about them in ways that they relate to a child’s world. I’d love to hear your […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 4:12-23
This children’s sermon on Matthew 4:12-23 is my retelling of the story of the calling of the first disciples. Stories in the Bible are often bare outlines of things that happened, leaving many details to our imaginations. One knows there must have been more conversation than made it onto the pages of the Gospels. What […]
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