Today's story from the gospel is Jesus teaching his disciples about a lot of different things. It's sort of like when your parents have to leave you alone for a bit and they leave a lot of instructions on how to behave.… Read the rest “Children’s Moment for Epiphany C7 – 23-Feb-25”
Today's story from the gospel is Jesus teaching his disciples about how God's way is different from ours. Jesus says that God is already working so that the poor, the hungry, the outcasts, and those who are hated because they are God's are the ones who are blessed.… Read the rest “Children’s Moment for Epiphany C6 – 16-Feb-25”
Today, in our story from the gospels, Jesus meets some fishermen, and he goes out to fish with them. After working all night, they still hadn't caught any fish at all. Now some fishermen will tell you that that isn't the point, but these guys had to catch fish to sell in order to make a living, so they were disappointed, tired, and probably a bit mad.… Read the rest “Children’s Moment for Epiphany C5 – 9-Feb-25”
When Jesus went back to his hometown in our gospel story for today, he tried to explain to them that God's love is for everyone. I guess a lot of them thought that it was just for them and they were upset to hear that God's love was not only for other folks but that those folks might receive it better than they would.… Read the rest “Children’s Moment for Epiphany C4 – 2-Feb-25”
One of the things we do in Church is to read small parts of the Bible out loud. It probably wouldn't surprise you a bit that they did that in Jesus' time too. In fact, our gospel story for today is about a time when Jesus was asked to read scripture in the place he grew up in.… Read the rest “Children’s Moment for Epiphany C3 – 26-Jan-25”
In our gospel story for today Jesus is at a party and, like some parties, this one ran out of things to drink. The person who was having the party was embarrassed. Some of the guests were embarrassed.… Read the rest “Children’s Moment for Epiphany C2 – 19-Jan-25”
In our gospel story for today people were asking John if he was the Messiah, the one who God would send to do amazing things and show God's love and power to people. John said he wasn't the Messiah.… Read the rest “Children’s Moment for Baptism of the Lord C – 12-Jan-25”
Our gospel reading for today is from John. Now John writes in a way that can be difficult to understand. He talks about light and about being born from above and sometimes it can be hard to figure out what he means.… Read the rest “Children’s Moment for Christmas 2C – 5-Jan-25”
In our gospel lesson for today, Jesus stays at the temple while his parents start to go back home. When they figure out that he's not with someone else in their traveling group, they get very worried and rush back to find him.… Read the rest “Children’s Momen for Christmas 1C – 29-Dec-24”
Have you ever noticed how some people are treated differently because of the clothes they have ... or don't have? In the gospel story for today, Mary talks about how honored she is to be the one chosen to give birth to and raise the messiah.… Read the rest “Children’s Moment for Advent 4C – 22-Dec-24”