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Sunday: Christmas Eve

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Luke 2:1-20

Dollar Store Item: Lego base, and a pile of Legos

The Take Away: Shepherds find the Christ Child in the manger.

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Luke 2:1-20

Dollar Store Item: Lego base and a pile of Legos

The Take Away: Shepherds find the Christ Child in the manger.

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Sunday: Fourth Sunday of Advent

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 1:18-25

Dollar Store Item: Lego base, and a pile of Legos

The Take Away: Joseph saw in a dream what God was up to, and got to say, “Yes” to the Christ Child.

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: John 1:1-18

Dollar Store Item: Lego base and a pile of Legos

The Take Away: We have a pile of Legos, and this is but the beginning… and God call us, with the Word made Felsh to make this world a better place! We get to help God.

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Sunday: Third Sunday of Advent

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 11:2-11

Dollar Store Item: Lego/Building Block Base, pack of building blocks/Legos

The Take Away: John the Baptist has questions about who Jesus is, and Jesus answers by saying, “What do you see?”

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Isaiah 55:1-13

Dollar Store Item: Building Block Base, pack of building blocks/Legos

The Take Away: We have questions, and God has joyful answers!!

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Sunday: Second Sunday of Advent

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 3:1-12

Dollar Store Item: Doo-Dee-Doo, traffic cone, loud speaker

The Take Away: John the Baptist announces the coming of Jesus, and we get to announce the coming of Jesus, through our actions and how we love the stranger!

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Ezekiel 37:1-14

Dollar Store Item: Doo-Dee-Doo, Traffic Cone, Loud-Speaker

The Take Away: God says to the bones, “Live,” and God says to us, “Live!!” God’s promise is good!

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Sunday: First Sunday of Advent

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Isaiah 2:1-5, Psalm 122, Romans 13:11-14, Matthew 24:36-44

Dollar Store Item: Building Block / Lego base plate

The Take Away: In all the stories about preparing for what is to come, we are reminded that through Jesus, our Ground Floor Grace, we have been prepared. The foundational Grace of being loved by God is what all the rest of the coming year is built upon.

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Daniel 3:1 [2-7] 8-30

Dollar Store Item: Buildng Block / Lego Base Plate

The Take Away: Our foundation, the Grace of God, helps us to put trust in the God that calls us to love.

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Sunday: Christ the King / Reign of Christ Sunday

Revised Common Lectionary – Year C

Text: Luke 23:33-43

Dollar Store Item: Empty Envelope

The Take Away: Christ’s love and God’s Grace takes all the sins we have done and gets rid of them.

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Jeremiah 29:1, 4-14

Dollar Store Item: None

The Take Away: Have someone hide in a very obvious place in the sanctuary. Look and you will find!!

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Sunday: 23rd Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year C

Text: Luke 21:5-19, 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Dollar Store Item: A clock – Getting Darker earlier… We are called to love not matter what today looks like.

The Take Away: God is with us before the hour change and after the hour change. Even if we don’t know what is going on around us, we are called to love our neighbors, and do the work of love!

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Isaiah 9:1-7

Dollar Store Item: A clock, watch, iPhone (Cellphone)…

The Take Away: Things change, but God’s love is alway secure. We hear the promise that stays the same before time changed, and after time changed.

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Sunday: 22nd Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year C

Text: Luke 20:27-38

Dollar Store Item: “Relic” of a Saint that you love. (For me, its a poem that was given to me by my grandmother.” or Fake Flower… in Christ we are REALLY alive!!

The Take Away: Those we love are alive in Christ!!

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Amos 1:1-2; 5:14-15, 21-24

Dollar Store Item: None – Using our hands for Hide and Seek. – Peek a Boo

The Take Away: We are called to seek the good!!

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Sunday: All Saints Sunday or 21st Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year C

Text: Luke 6:20-31

Dollar Store Item: Twine/String/Straws/Stirring Straws. Something from a beloved relative.

The Take Away: Remembering a Saint of the Congregation, in your home, in your life… because of their love. Or you draw straws to see which gathered is the Saint (they all get the long straw).

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Here is a link for the Luke 19:1-10 story, and athough it uses Reformation Sunday as a springboard, it still holds up if you aren’t doing All Saints Sunday.

October 30th, 2016 – Reformation Sunday / 24th Sunday after Pentecost

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: 1 Kings 19:1-18

Dollar Store Item: Handclappers, Congregation making the sound of thunder by clapping their hands on their knees.

The Take Away: You call feel the power of the silence, and that is where Elijah meets God. Sometimes, in the noise of the world, we need silence to hear.

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Sunday: Reformation Sunday or Twenthieth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year C

Text: John 8:31-36, Luke 18:9-14

Dollar Store Item: Backpack full of Rocks.

The Take Away: The Truth is we are loved because of who God is, and not what we have done. And when we live into that Good News, we are set free from shame and feeling unlovable.

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: 1 Kings 5:1-5; 8:1-13

Dollar Store Item: Deck of Cards

The Take Away: If this was God’s house, it could fall like a house of cards. God, however, makes God’s home with us. We are God’s house!!

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