Lectionary Links:Narrative Lectionary

4thSunday in Lent Year 3: March 26, 2017 Preaching Text: Luke 16:19-31 Betty Bunny Wants Everything by Michael B. Kaplan (Written for ages 5-9) Comment: In her commentary on this text, Helen Montgomery Debevoise speaks of Abraham’s response to the rich man: “People

3rd Sunday in Lent Year 3: March 19, 2017 Preaching Text: Luke 15:1-32 Evermore Dragon by Barbara Joosse (Written for ages 5-9) Comment: As she reflects on this text, professor Karoline Lewis suggests “[the] time searching, the time stuck in that anxious presence of not knowing

2nd Sunday in Lent Year 3: March 12, 2017 Preaching Text: Luke 13:1-9, 31-35 No, No, Gnome! by Ashlyn Anstee (Written for ages 4-8) Comment: When approaching this text with children, it’s valuable to talk about what happens when we make mistakes or fail to produce fruit. (When

1st Sunday in Lent Year 3: March 5, 2017 Preaching Text: Luke 10:25-42 My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother by Patricia Polacco (Written for ages 5-9) Comment: When reading the familiar story we so often label The Good Samaritan, it’s helpful to point out to children and those less

Transfiguration of the Lord Year 3: February 26, 2017 Preaching Text: Luke 9:28-45 They All Saw A Cat by Brendan Wenzel (Written for ages 4-8) Comment: In his commentary on this text, Mark G. Vitalis says Luke is “recounting history, providing explanations for why Jesus’

7th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year 3: February 19, 2017 Narrative Lectionary Preaching Text: Luke 7:36-50 Smelly Bill: Love Stinks by Daniel Postgate (Written for ages 5-9) Comment: In this text we encounter a woman who is looked down upon as unclean showing great love and

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year 3: February 12, 2017 Preaching Text: Luke 7:18-35 The Great AAA-OOO by Jonny Lambert (Written for ages 5-9) Comment: Picking up from the text last week, news of Jesus is spreading around the region and John wishes to know if Jesus is the one whose

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year 3: February 5, 2017 Preaching Text: Luke 7:1-17 The Branch by  Mireille Messier (Written for ages 5-9) Comment: In this reading we experience Jesus healing a slave who is near death and bringing a man who has died back to life. Through his

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year 3: January 29, 2017 Preaching Text: Luke 6:1-16 123 Versus ABC by Mike Boldt (Written for ages 5-9) Comment: O. Wesley Allen Jr. suggests congregations are most likely to connect to the issue concerning “faithful identity to a community’s