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. I make that choice primarily because it is a tighter, more coherent story. The short version is about Jesus sending […]
Pentecost: A Children’s Sermon on Acts 2:1-21
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 Sermon on Acts 2:1-21, you might want to read the text to them. I think, however, it […]
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 […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 20:19-31 — Doubting Thomas
I love the stories of Jesus’ resurrection appearances, and especially the two related to “doubting Thomas.” But writing a children’s sermon on John 20:19-31 could go a couple different ways. That’s because there are two separate but related resurrection appearances here: Jesus appears to the Apostles, without Thomas, on Easter evening. Jesus appears to them […]
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