Here you go: a children’s sermon on Luke 1:39-55 for the 4th Sunday of Advent. (You can find my regular Monday Meditation on this text here. One of my better efforts, actually, so check it out.)  The lectionary has just the initial encounter of Mary with Elizabeth as the text for Sunday. Mary’s song  is […]

For the 3rd Sunday ol Advent I bring you a children’s sermon on Luke 3:7-18. That’s right: in Year C the heretofore backward Advent journey to Bethlehem takes a halting step forward on week three. (You can find my regular Monday Meditation on this text through this link.)  Last week we were with John the […]

For the second Sunday of Advent in Year C of the lectionary, I bring you a children’s sermon on Luke 3:1-6. (You can find my regular Monday Meditation on this passage through this link.) In these lectionary readings we’re still nowhere near Bethlehem. The challenge is explaining to kids why we prepare for the birth […]

CC by Liesel-SA 3.0 unported For the first Sunday of Advent, I bring you a children’s sermon on Luke 21:25-36. (If you are looking for my regular “Monday Meditation” on this passage, you can find it through this link.) The folks who put together the Revised Common Lectionary were not thinking about the preachers of […]