Preface for Pastors and Parents Writing a children’s sermon on Matthew 15:10-28 is challenging in multiple ways. (It’s the lectionary Gospel for Proper 15(20).) There is one ordinary difficulty that comes up with many lectionary selections: The passage is really two scenes quite different from one another: But then there is an unusual challenge: Jesus […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 6:51-58–The Bread of Life
As I write this children’s sermon on John 6:51-58 I am acutely aware that it is part of a series. In “Year B” the Revised Common Lectionary gives churches five weeks in a row traveling through John 6. (You can see my regular meditation on this passage here.) My first thought on every one of […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 10th Sunday after Pentecost/Proper 15(20), Luke 12:49-56
The lectionary skips a bit to give us Luke 12:49-56. Preachers who have taken a look are probably glad about that. The omitted part was Jesus discussion of the need to be the kind of servant who keeps watch for the master’s return. This time he weighed in on the scale of punishments for various […]