Jesus Blessing Little Children (Public Domain) (And kinda hokey) This week I’m writing a children’s sermon on Mark 9:30-37. That’s the Gospel assigned for “Proper 20 (25)” in “Year B” of the Revised Common Lectionary. (You can find my regular meditation on the same text here.) It’s a pretty straightforward story to work with. Yeah, you’ve […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 8:27-38 — Being Mad and Still Loving
Scream and Shout (cc by Mindaugas Danys 2.0) I found it more than usually challenging to find a good place to dig in for a children’s sermon on Mark 8:27-38. That’s the lectionary Gospel for Proper 19(24) in Year B, and you can find my regular meditation on it here. (By the way, Mark 8:31-38 […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 7:24-37 — Loving People Different from You
Waiting Under the Table (CC by darwin Bell 2.0) 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 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
Garden’s Life Bread sold in Guangdong, cc by TuxStrikesBack-SA 4.0 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: […]
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