I think a children’s sermon on Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23, the famous “parable of the sower” is a ton of fun. The image of God as this farmer… well I’ll show you what I mean in a minute. (You can find my regular Monday Meditation on this passage here.) For kids, the story’s the thing, more […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 10:40-42
Writing a children’s sermon on Matthew 10:40-42 (which comes up the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost in “Year A” of the Revised Common Lectionary) is kind of challenging. First, the text is really short. Just three verses! Second, it has no narrative action. Stories are far easier than non-narrative texts as a base for a children’s […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 9:35-10:8
On the Second Sunday after Pentecost in Year A, the Gospel reading has two options: one short, one long. I’m sticking with the short one, so this will be a children’s sermon on Matthew 9:35-10:8. (You can find my Monday Meditation on this text here.) I make that choice primarily because it is a tighter, […]
Pentecost: A Children’s Sermon on Acts 2:1-21
Here’s a children’s sermon on Acts 2:1-21, the key text in all three years of the lectionary. The story of the first Christian Pentecost is full of evocative details, just waiting for a storyteller to draw them out. If you want the children to hear only what is explicitly on the page, better than a Children’s […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 24:13-35 — The Walk to Emmaus
This children’s sermon on Luke 24:13-35 is a bit long, to be quite honest. But the story of Cleophas and the unnamed disciple meeting Jesus on the road to Emmaus, and again at table in the breaking of the bread, is so lovely I wanted to tell it all. And I suspect that if a […]
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