Preface for Pastors and Parents This children’s sermon on John 13:1-17 may be useful when Maundy Thursday rolls around, or in Year C when it comes up for the 5th Sunday of Easter. However I’m writing now for my friends at the Lakeview Mennonite Church. They needed a children’s sermon on John 13:1-17 for the […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 3:14-21
The Pharos of Alexandria (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Preface for Pastors (and Parents) A children’s sermon on John 3:14-21 has to cover a few different bases. Ether that, or it needs to just ignore the days in the Church year that this passage comes up in the lectionary. It comes up a lot, in […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 24:44-53 — The Ascension
Preface for Parents and Pastors This children’s sermon on Luke 24:44-53 is for the celebration of the day of Christ’s Ascension. The official day is the Thursday before the seventh Sunday of Easter — that’s 40 days after Easter, when the Gospels date the event. But I ask you, how many congregations have a special […]
A Children’s Sermon on Luke 2:22-40 — The Presentation
Rembrandt, Simeon and Anna in the Temple (public domain) Preface for Pastors and Parents For the First Sunday after Christmas Day in Year B of the lectionary (or if you happen to be celebrating the Feast of the Presentation) I offer you a children’s sermon on Luke 2:22-40. It’s a beautiful text. The only trouble […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 20:1-18 — Easter
Here’s a children’s sermon on John 20:1-18. It’s one of two options for the Gospel reading Easter morning in Years AB and C of the Revised Common Lectionary — though you can use it any time it fits the need of your worship service. Or read it to the kids as a bedtime story. Then […]