Preface for Parents and Pastors This Sunday is “The Baptism of the Lord,” the first Sunday after Epiphany, so I bring you a children’s sermon on Mark 1:4-11. Some churches will be celebrating Epiphany, since that’s the bigger holy day, technically, and it didn’t fall on a Sunday. If that’s true for you, you can […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 3:13-17 — The Baptism of Jesus
Sunday is the “First Sunday after the Epiphany” so I bring you a children’s sermon on Matthew 3:13-17. (You can see my regular Monday Meditation on this passage here. There is also a sort of mini children’s sermon within that post — the one that started me writing them regularly. If your church is observing […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 3:15-17 21-22 — The Baptism of Jesus
This Sunday is “The Baptism of the Lord,” so I bring you a children’s sermon on Luke 3:15-17 21-22. As I wrote in my Monday Meditation on this text a while back, this is the story that the Orthodox celebrate at Epiphany. They call it “Theophany.” This is the key moment that reveals the nature […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Second Sunday after the Epiphany, John 1:29-42
On the Sunday after we celebrated “The Baptism of the Lord,” the lectionary gives us… the baptism of the Lord. Sort of. More precisely, we have John the Baptist recognizing Jesus as “the Lamb of God.” Plus other stuff. It’s all cool, and very different from the same material in the other Gospels. (And if […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Baptism of the Lord, Matthew 3:13-17
(Later note: There’s a sort of mini children’s sermon on Matthew 3:13-17 near the end of this meditation. This one unintentionally kicked off the project, since I got some encouragement from a reader to do more!) On the Sunday after Epiphany the Western Church celebrates the Baptism of the Lord. For the Eastern Church, Epiphany […]