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A Children’s Sermon for Ash Wednesday

March 1, 2022 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

children's sermon for Ash Wednesday

Today, by special request of a faithful reader, I offer you a children’s sermon for Ash Wednesday. (You can see a more historical and exegetical post on Ash Wednesday here.) If you are a regular here, you know I publish a children’s sermon each week based on the Gospel reading assigned in the Revised Common […]

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A Children’s Sermon on John 20:19-31 — Doubting Thomas

April 17, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

a children's sermon on John 20:19-31

I love the stories of Jesus’ resurrection appearances, and especially the two related to “doubting Thomas.” But writing a children’s sermon on John 20:19-31 could go a couple different ways. That’s because there are two separate but related resurrection appearances here: Jesus appears to the Apostles, without Thomas, on Easter evening. Jesus appears to them […]

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Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Easter 2, John 20:19-31

April 16, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

In all three years of the Revised Common Lectionary, on the 2nd Sunday of Easter the Gospel text is the same: John 20:19-31. You can catch my thoughts from this time last year through this link. Today’s situation is different (oh my, how different…) and so I’m sharing new thoughts. Similar, really, but current. John […]

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Monday Meditation: RCL Years ABC, 2nd Sunday of Easter, John 20:19-31

April 24, 2019 by Gary Neal Hansen 3 Comments

Luke 24:36b–48; John 20:19-31

If you are wondering why the lectionary has reverted to John on the Second Sunday of Easter, the answer is easy: In the Synoptic Gospels there are no resurrection appearances after Easter Sunday. Easter Sunday’s morning is Luke 24:1-12 — the empty tomb. The text for Easter Evening is Luke 24:13-49, the Emmaus Road text […]

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