It’s Wednesday night and I’m finally sitting down to write my children’s sermon on Mark 13:1-8. It won’t come out till Friday. Argh! (Here’s a link to my regular Monday Meditation on this text from a while back.) I try to get these out to you on Monday but a full-time intensive online course this […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 10:2-16 — Jesus Loves Children
Somebody is going to accuse me of wimping out in my children’s sermon on Mark 10:2-16. I’m skipping all the hard stuff and dealing only with the easy part. (You can see my regular Monday Meditation on this passage, which is mostly on the divorce stuff, by clicking here.) I’m skipping Jesus’ public conversation with […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 7:24-37 — Loving People Different from You
Writing a children’s sermon on Mark 7:24-37 present both ordinary challenges and unusual ones. (You can find my regular Monday Meditation on this passage here.) On the ordinary side, a children’s sermon on Mark 7:24-37 has to decide what to do with two separate stories. I’m a firm believer that a children’s sermon needs to […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 7:1-23
Writing a children’s sermon on Mark 7:1-23 (or the shortened version assigned by the lectionary, Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23) presents me with some dilemmas. (You can find my regular meditation on this passage here.) Telling this story to a grown-up, say someone who had never read the Gospels or heard them in church, requires a […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 6:56-69
Well, with a children’s sermon on John 6:56-69 we come to the end of the lectionary’s five-week journey though this chapter. (You can read my regular meditation on this passage here.) Perhaps the hard thing about a children’s sermon on John 6:56-69 is just that fact: we’ve been talking about this chapter, with it’s many aspects […]
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