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Sunday: Easter Sunday

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Mark 16:1-8; John 20:1-18

Dollar Store Item: Pack of Gum, Gardening Gloves and Tools, Blank Foam Blocks

The Take Away: Jesus is Risen; He is Risen, Indeed!!! Jesus gets confused as a Gardener in John; People get scared in the Gospel of Mark – Yet, Jesus still shows up. Package of Gum, when opened, is empty except for the covering… reminding us of how the first disciples, the women, found the tomb!!

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Sunday: Palm and Passion Sunday

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Mark 11:1-11, Mark 14:1–15:47 (oh and another Gospel that actually mentions Rocks… ugh).

Dollar Store Item: Bag of Rocks, your Finger, Hand Clappers

The Take Away: We need to cry out! We move from “Jesus is #1” to sending him to the cross.

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Sunday: 4th Sunday in Lent

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: John 3:14-21, Ephesians 2:1-10

Dollar Store Item: Something with, “Just add water…”

The Take Away: God’s love restores/heals/expands the entire world, and how we love.

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Mark 12:28-44

Dollar Store Item: Something that you, “Just add water…”.

The Take Away: We love, because God loved us. We love neighbor as we love ourselves… and we can love ourselves, when we remember that in Baptism God claims us as God’s children. And loves us, no matter what!!

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Sunday: 3rd Sunday in Lent

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Exodus 20:1-17, John 2:13-22

Dollar Store Item: Something “New and Improved.” Something showing you a better way of doing something. – Lift with your knees and not your back… Tissue, Stress Ball, Tennis Ball

The Take Away: The 10 Commandments give us a better way to live with each other. or How do we express anger or deal with emotions?

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Mark 12:1-12 [13-17]

Dollar Store Item: Bunch of things.

The Take Away: Everything belongs to God.

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Sunday: 2nd Sunday in Lent

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Mark 8:31-38, Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16

Dollar Store Item: Hard Puzzle, Book with big words, Lego Set, Something with LOTS of steps.

The Take Away: Sarah laughs, Peter can’t see why Jesus has to die! Things get hard. Jesus knows about doing hard things, and walks with us even when life gets really hard. We get to help people, as friends of Jesus.

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Mark 10:32-52

Dollar Store Item: Something I don’t like, or havent tried (like Kale), and I want to try to stop someone from eating it. Or I don’t like jumping jacks, or excercise, so I try to stop someone from doing it.

The Take Away: Jesus calls all to come to him, even when we try to stop them.

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Sunday: 1st Sunday in Lent

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Mark 1:9-15

Dollar Store Item: Picture or Banner of the word, “Alleluia”; Baptismal Font

The Take Away: We don’t say the word, “Alleluia” so we remember the word, “Alleluia,” and we hide the Alleluia in a place that we know where the Alleluia is to be found, because we really can’t lose it in the first place. Or… like Jesus, we are reminded of who loves us and claims us as Children, in the waters of Baptism.

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Mark 10:17-31

Dollar Store Item: Bag of Rocks, Bag of Pennies, Bag of Buttons

The Take Away: God’s got us!!

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Sunday: Ash Wednesday

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Theme of the Day / Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Dollar Store Item: Valentine’s Day Card, Baking Dish, Something that you use to show love, Ashes, Baptismal Font

The Take Away: We do lots of things to show love, and Ash Wednesday reminds us that even in the hardest and most human times, God shows us love by being with us when things are hard. God doesn’t say things won’t be hard, but that God will be with us in those times. —- Ashes on the forehead sit above the mark of the cross made in baptism (baptimsal font connection).

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Sunday: Transfiguration Sunday

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Mark 9:2-9

Dollar Store Item: Rope, or None

The Take Away: We wonder about what the disciples might have felt as they climb the mountain, and how God meets us even when we are afraid.

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Mark 8:27—9:8

Dollar Store Item: Rope, or None

The Take Away: We wonder about what the disciples might have felt as they climb the mountain, and how God meets us even when we are afraid.

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Sunday: Fifth Sunday after Epiphany

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Mark 1:29-39; Isaiah 40:21-31

Dollar Store Item: Reacher; Cheater Bar; Jar Helper.

The Take Away: God helps all of us, especially when we are at our lowest. And God uses us to offer care and love.

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Narrative Lectionary – Death of John the Baptist

Text: Mark 6:1-29

Dollar Store Item: Tissues; Hiking Stick; Gloves; Google Maps, or a Printed Map

The Take Away: Jesus sends us out, but with directions. Jesus will go with us!!

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