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Mission Trip–A Children’s Sermon on Mark 6:1-13

June 30, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen 36 Comments

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Narranca Elementary Local Mission Trip (cc by Existence Church 2.0) This week: a children’s sermon on Mark 6:1-13 — Jesus’ friends go on their first mission trip. Actually it’s just the last half of the passage. The lectionary selection has two separate but related stories: First Jesus has a frustrating day in ministry. (6:1-6a) Then Jesus […]

Filed Under: Bible, Ministry Tagged With: Children's Sermons, Mission Trip, Proper 9(14), RCL Year B

A Children’s Sermon on Mark 5:21-43

June 24, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen 22 Comments

children's sermon on Mark 5:21-435:

I think the best strategy for a children’s sermon on Mark 5:21-43 is to focus on the child in the story. The passage (as I said when I wrote a meditation on it) is a “sandwich” story: There’s one story on the outside with a second story in the middle..  The outside story, the bread […]

Filed Under: Bible, Ministry Tagged With: Children's Sermons, Proper 8(13), RCL Year B

A Children’s Sermon on Mark 4:35-41

June 17, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen 13 Comments

children's sermon on Mark 4:35-41

Writing a Children’s Sermon on Mark 4:35-41 is only hard because there is too much great stuff in the story. I want to talk about all of it, but I know that won’t work with kids. (A while back I wrote a longer meditation on the passage, which let me consider more details. You can […]

Filed Under: Bible, Ministry Tagged With: Children's Sermons, Mark 4:35-41, Proper 7(12), RCL Year B

A Children’s Sermon on John 15:26-16:15 — The Holy Spirit

May 20, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen 4 Comments

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This is a children’s sermon on John John 15:26-16:15, which includes the Gospel reading for Pentecost in Year B of the lectionary (John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15). In 2020 I did a children’s sermon on Acts 2:1-12, the most important Pentecost text. (If you want to see my grown-ups meditation on this text, here’s a link.) For […]

Filed Under: Bible, Ministry Tagged With: Children's Sermons, John 15:26-27, John 16:4b-15, Pentecost, Prayer for Illumination, RCL Year B

A Children’s Sermon on John 17:6-19

May 14, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen 6 Comments

a children's sermon on John 17:6-19

On the 7th and last Sunday of Easter season each year, the Revised Common Lectionary appoints a portion of John 17. It’s a little strange to me when the Gospel readings in Easter are on passages prior to the resurrection, but so it goes. My task this year is to write a children’s sermon on […]

Filed Under: Bible, Ministry Tagged With: 7th Sunday of Easter, Children's Sermons, John 17:6-19, RCL Year B

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