Preface for Pastors and Parents Here is a brand new children’s sermon on John 1:43-51. Three years ago I published a children’s sermon for what is, as I write, this Sunday’s lectionary Gospel reading. (You can find it here.) Actually I did children’s sermons on a lot of texts for this part of the Church […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 2:13-22
Preface for Parents and Pastors This children’s sermon on Mark 2:13-22 would have been for the 8ᵗʰ Sunday after Epiphany this year. However, like in many years, we were well into Lent by then, so the text didn’t come up. I’m trying to post children’s sermons for all the Sunday Gospels of Year B of […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 4:26-34 — The Mustard Seed
Preface for Parents and Pastors Here is my children’s sermon on Mark 4:26-34, just in time for “Proper 6(11)” of year B. That’s the fourth Sunday after Pentecost this year. It a kind of passage in Mark that I really love: Parables. I think it’s fair to say that Jesus loved them too: Mark tells […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 3:20-35
Preface for Parents and Pastors Here’s a children’s sermon on Mark 3:20-35, the Gospel assigned by the lectionary for “Proper 5(10).” This year that is the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost. (By the way, I always call these “children’s sermons,” but by clipping off the first paragraph or so they can magically become “bedtime stories.” If […]
A Children’s Sermon on Mark 2:23-3:6
Preface for Parents and Pastors This children’s sermon on Mark 2:23-3:6 is for the 2ⁿᵈ Sunday after Pentecost. This year that’s “Proper 4 (9).” This would have been the Gospel for the 9ᵗʰ Sunday after Epiphany, by that time we were already in Lent. Pity the poor texts of Proper 1(6) , Proper 2(7), and […]
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