Preface for Parents and Pastors Here’s a children’s sermon on Mark 2:1-12. It was the Gospel lesson assigned for the 7th Sunday after Epiphany. This year, however, Easter came pretty early. By the 7th Sunday after Epiphany we were already in Lent. So I’m filling in for future years. (If you’re stopping by the week […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 5:38-48
Here’s a children’s sermon on Matthew 5:38-48. As I write, we’re coming up on the 4th Sunday of Lent, but I already have a children’s sermon and a Monday meditation on the Gospel text for that day. So I’m filling in on the Gospel I didn’t write about last time it came around. In fact […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 6:27-38
Christ with Martha and Mary, by Henryk Siemiradzki (public domain) Here’s my children’s sermon on Luke 6:27-38 for the Seventh Sunday after Epiphany. (You can see my regular “Monday Meditation” on this text here.) It’s a chunk of “the Sermon on the Plain,” more famously known in Matthew’s version as “the Sermon on the Mount.” […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 7th Sunday after Epiphany, Luke 6:27-38
The Gospel for the 7th Sunday after Epiphany (Luke 6:27-38) continues Jesus’ “Sermon on the Plain.” It is the parallel to the “Sermon on the Mount” in Matthew but the two are different in content as well as in location. The one thing they have pretty much in common is that while a crowd, a multitude […]