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 18:12-27 — Jesus and the High Priest
This children’s sermon on John 18:12-27 is another special one for my friends at Lakeview Mennonite Church. It is part of the long passion reading assigned for Good Friday in the Revised Common Lectionary. So you might use it then if your Good Friday service has room for a children’s sermon. Or your Sunday School […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 7:21-29
Preface for Pastors and Parents This children’s sermon on Matthew 7:21-29 can be used sometime when you are preaching or teaching on the Sermon on the Mount. The passage comes up as the lectionary Gospel only in years when Easter comes particularly late. In most trips through “Year A” it goes unread. That’s too bad, […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 14:13-21 — The Feeding of the 5000
Preface for Pastors and Parents I get all excited when I think about writing a children’s sermon on Matthew 14:13-21. “The Feeding of the Five Thousand” is a story I dearly love. So since I already have a children’s sermon on this coming Sunday’s Gospel, I’m working ahead: This one will come up next summer […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 25:31-46
Preface for Pastors and Parents A children’s sermon on Matthew 25:31-46? Tough challenge. It’s an amazing text, of course. But it’s potentially really scary. That threat of eternal torment by fire is over-the-top. It brings to mind a lit class long ago where we read James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young […]
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