Preface for Pastors and Parents Here, just in time, is my brand new children’s sermon on Luke 10:38-42. As I say in my Monday Meditation on this text from some time back, the main way this passage has been interpreted for many centuries was about different ways of life–very different kinds of discipleship. Martha was […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 10:25-37 — The Good Samaritan
Iraqi Girl Smiles, CC by Christiaan Briggs-SA 3.0 Preface for Pastors. and Parents Perhaps the hardest thing about writing a children’s sermon on Luke 10:25-37, “The Good Samaritan,” is bringing out the inherently political quality of the story. (I’ve written on this text both as a Monday Meditation and in a series on the Heidelberg […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 — The Second Mission Trip
Jesus Sends Out the 70 Disciples (1873), Public Domain Preface for Pastors and Parents I’m back, after a few weeks away from writing, with a brand new children’s sermon on Luke 10:1-11, 16-20. We are in the long post-Pentecost season of the Church year, in what is often called “Ordinary Time.” That means our Gospel […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 14:23-29 — Four Gifts
Preface for Pastors and Parents Here is my children’s sermon on John 14:23-29. This is one of two Gospel readings in the lectionary for the 6th Sunday of Easter in Year C, but the other will wait for another time. John 14 gets used in various pieces at various times. And since John is never […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 13:31-35 — A New Commandment
Preface for Pastors and Parents Here’s a children’s sermon on John 13:31-35. It’s part of the passage that recounts the events of Maundy Thursday, so you might use it then. But it’s also the text assigned for the 5th Sunday of Easter in Year C of the Revised Common Lectionary. I think it is both […]
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