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A Children’s Sermon on Mark 13:1-8 — The End of the World?

November 12, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

children's sermon on Mark 13:1-8

It’s Wednesday night and I’m finally sitting down to write my children’s sermon on Mark 13:1-8. It won’t come out till Friday. Argh! (Here’s a link to my regular Monday Meditation on this text from a while back.) I try to get these out to you on Monday but a full-time intensive online course this […]

Filed Under: Bible, Ministry, Uncategorized Tagged With: Children's Sermons, Proper 28(33), RCL Year B

A Children’s Sermon on Mark 12:38-44 — Who’s Watching?

November 3, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

children's sermon on Mark 12:38-44

As I sit down to write my children’s sermon on Mark 12:38-44, life is a bit of a scramble. So, I’m not wading in with my usual comments on the process or on issues in the text.  Maybe you find that a relief.  Maybe you’ll miss that stuff.  Either way, here we go with a […]

Filed Under: Bible, Ministry, Uncategorized Tagged With: Proper 27(32), RCL Year B

A Children’s Sermon on Mark 8:27-38 — Being Mad and Still Loving

September 7, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen 8 Comments

children's sermon on Mark 8:27-38

Scream and Shout (cc by Mindaugas Danys 2.0) I found it more than usually challenging to find a good place to dig in for a children’s sermon on Mark 8:27-38. That’s the lectionary Gospel for Proper 19(24) in Year B. (You can find my regular meditation on it here.) It consists of three interrelated scenes, […]

Filed Under: Bible, Ministry, Uncategorized Tagged With: Mark 8:27-38, Proper 19(24), RCL Year B

Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Easter 4, John 10:1-10

April 30, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen 1 Comment

John 10:1-10, John 10:11-18

In each year, on the fourth Sunday of Easter, the Revised Common Lectionary invites us to consider John 10. Why? They don’t say. They leave behind the resurrection appearances. Maybe they want us to look back at these earlier stories about Jesus and our relationship to him with the knowledge of his resurrection firmly in […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Monday Meditation, Uncategorized Tagged With: 4th Sunday of Easter, I Am sayings, I am the gate, John 10:1-10

Monday Meditation: RCL Year B, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

August 27, 2018 by Gary Neal Hansen 3 Comments

On the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary time we are back in Mark. The lectionary continues where it left off before our five week sojourn in John on the Bread of Life. As is so often the case, the Revised Common Lectionary leaves out some bits of the passage so it looks like three short readings […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Monday Meditation, Uncategorized Tagged With: hand washing, Mark 7:1-8 14-15 21-23, tradition

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