This children’s sermon on Matthew 2:13-23 is for a text the lectionary assigned to the first Sunday after Christmas. I missed the opportunity to write on it back then, but I’ve already written on the Sunday coming up as I write. (You can find the children’s sermons for the Second Sunday of Lent in Year […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 2:41-52
For the first Sunday after Christmas (this year the very day after Christmas) I bring you a children’s sermon on Luke 2:41-52. (You can find my regular Monday Meditation on this passage here.) As texts for children’s sermons go, I think of this as low-hanging fruit. It’s a story It’s about a kid—about Jesus, no less, […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 1st Sunday after Christmas, Luke 2:41-52
My oh my, do little kids change fast. This Sunday Jesus is twelve years old. It seems like only a week ago he was a babe in Mary’s arms. Wait a minute. That really was just a week ago. The lectionary has jumped ahead a bit. There are a couple other passages concerning Christ’s infancy […]