The Magi, Rosary Basilica, Lourdes (CC BY Lawrence OP-NC-ND 2.0) This children’s sermon on Matthew 2:1-12 comes outside my usual sequence. It’s the story of the coming of the Magi, and in all three years of the lectionary it’s assigned for Epiphany, January 6. I’ve been writing children’s sermons for the regular Sunday Gospel readings, […]
A 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 […]
Pentecost: A Children’s Sermon on Acts 2:1-21
Here’s a children’s sermon on Acts 2:1-21, the key text in all three years of the lectionary. The story of the first Christian Pentecost is full of evocative details, just waiting for a storyteller to draw them out. If you want the children to hear only what is explicitly on the page, better than a Children’s […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 20:19-31
Preface for Parents and Pastors 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 […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Easter 2, John 20:19-31
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 […]