Preface for Pastors and Parents Here’s my children’s sermon on Luke 10:1-15. That’s the Gospel reading assigned by the Revised Common Lectionary for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, aka Proper 19(24) in Year C. The story contains two lovely parables. I was tempted to go my usual route, which would be to focus entirely on […]
A New Children’s Sermon on Mark 8:27-38 — Saving Your Soul?
Preface for Pastors and Parents This is a new children’s sermon on Mark 8:27-38. I did one before. (You can find it here) That seems possibly appropriate, since in Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary most of this text (verses 31-38) comes up twice: first on the 2nd Sunday of Lent, and then, in […]
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 Definition of Forgiveness — Matthew 18:21-35
Sunday’s Gospel from the Revised Common Lectionary (Matthew 18:21-35) continues the same scene as last week, and leaves us with a remarkable, simple, working definition of forgiveness. If you are a regular reader of these weekly meditations, you know that I often point out places where historically we Christians have misconstrued the teachings of the […]