Preface for Pastors and Parents A Children’s sermon on Luke 20:27-38 has to make some odd or obscure things plain. It also has to avoid getting into background details that are complicated enough to make kids eyes glaze over. I could get stuck in the weeds if I tried to explain “Levirate marriage.” That’s the […]

Preface for Pastors and Parents Writing a children’s sermon on Luke 19:1-10 brings back a very particular memory. Back in seminary, in my very first (actually my only) preaching class this was the text everyone had to use for their very first sermon. He must have gotten so tired of hearing our brilliant insights into […]

Preface for Pastors and Parents This is my children’s sermon on Luke 17:11-19, which is the Gospel reading for “Proper 23(28)” in Year C of the lectionary. It is a story that is at once simple and mysterious; plain and enigmatic. Ten people with leprosy approach Jesus. Jesus tells them to present themselves to the […]

Preface for Pastors and Parents A children’s sermon on Luke 17:5-10 could go at least three ways, since there are two separate bits of teaching.  It could focus on the short saying at the beginning about the power of faith “the size of a mustard seed.” Tempting, just because the saying is so tantalizing. Who […]