It’s kind of funny writing a children’s sermon on Mark 6:30-34, 53-56. It’s as if the lectionary gave us a sandwich with nothing but the bread. A couple weeks ago I referred to “sandwich stories” where Mark cuts one story in two and sticks another in the middle like the tuna fish between the slices […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 5:21-43
I think the best strategy for a children’s sermon on Mark 5:21-43 is to focus on the child in the story. The passage (as I said when I wrote a meditation on it) is a “sandwich” story: There’s one story on the outside with a second story in the middle.. The outside story, the bread […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 4:35-41
Writing a Children’s Sermon on Mark 4:35-41 is only hard because there is too much great stuff in the story. I want to talk about all of it, but I know that won’t work with kids. (A while back I wrote a longer meditation on the passage, which let me consider more details. You can […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 15:9-17
Writing a children’s sermon on John 15:9-17 is challenging in a familiar way. The text is part of a longer speech, and has no real narrative to it. (It’s the lectionary Gospel for the 6th Sunday of Easter, year B. I wrote a meditation on it here and I wrote on this week’s epistle reading […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 24:36-48
I’m back with a children’s sermon on Luke 24:36-48, for the 3rd Sunday of Easter. A year ago I was writing a children’s sermon each week here on the old blog, supplementing my “Monday Meditation” on the week’s lectionary Gospel. Well, what with pandemic malaise and a few other issues I slipped out of the […]
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