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A Children’s Sermon on Mark 7:24-37 — Loving People Different from You

August 30, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen 8 Comments

children's sermon on Mark 7:24-37

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 […]

Filed Under: Bible, Ministry Tagged With: Children's Sermons, Proper 18(23), RCL Year B

Church Discipline — A Meditation on Matthew 18:15-20

September 4, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

Church Discipline

This Sunday the Gospel text is Matthew 18:15-20, a classic text in discussions of church discipline, and the first of two weeks the Revised Common Lectionary will spend in Matthew 18.  Though I seem constitutionally incapable of writing a genuinely short meditation, I’ll try to confine myself to a few observations on this text, especially […]

Filed Under: Bible, Monday Meditation Tagged With: 14th Sunday after Pentecost, church discipline, Proper 18(23), RCL Year A

Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 13th Sunday after Pentecost/Proper 18(23), Luke 14:25-33

September 5, 2019 by Gary Neal Hansen 6 Comments

Luke 14:25-33

Pity the lectionary preacher this week. Luke 14:25-33 is some of Jesus’ hardest teaching. You can count on a whole lot of scrambling in pulpits across the country to say that Jesus just couldn’t have meant what he said. All those hermeneutical gyrations can make you worry your orbit is out of balance. (But really […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Monday Meditation Tagged With: 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Luke 14:25-33, Proper 18(23), RCL Year C

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