Preface for Pastors & Parents This Children’s sermon on Mark 1:21-28 matches up with the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. I didn’t get to write it last week because my time was consumed by opening week rehearsals for a play at Cider Mill Stage in Endicott, New York. It went really well. (Thanks for asking!) Here’s […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 4:21-30
Jesus in the Nazareth Synagogue (public domain) Here comes my children’s sermon on Luke 4:21-30. We pick up with the last verse from last week’s Gospel reading. (You can find my regular Monday Meditation on this text here.) As I noted a week ago, this odd division by the lectioneers (is that what you call […]
A Children’s Sermon: Matthew 5:1-12
A children’s sermon on Matthew 5:1-12, the Beatitudes, is challenging because Jesus makes so many different points — nine of them! I think one good way around the problem is to take just two of the beatitudes and talk about them in ways that they relate to a child’s world. I’d love to hear your […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Matthew 5:1-12
Last week’s lectionary Gospel showed us Jesus calling his first disciples. This week we jump ahead a few verses to the Sermon on the Mount. (To see my children’s sermon on this same text, follow this link.) What did we skip over? A quick summary of Jesus’ ministry in and around Galilee: he did a […]