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Sunday: Christ the King Sunday

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: John 18:33-37

Dollar Store Item: Character whose voice you or the kids know.

Take Away We imagine what Jesus voice might sound like when we are called.

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Isaiah 9:1-7

Dollar Store Item: Something that reminds you of a nickname, and/or your baptism

The Take Away: We hear nicknames for Jesus. We are given nicknames by God, “Beloved,” or “Child of God.”

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Sunday: 25th Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: All of them.

Dollar Store Item: Monster and the End of the Book / Pants with No One Inside Them. Stories of being afraid.

Take Away We have times we are afraid. God stands with us, and people of God stand with us.

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Narrative Lectionary –

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

Dollar Store Item: None

The Take Away: We seek God and God makes it very easy (like REALLY easy) to be found.

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Sunday: All Saints Sunday

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: John 11:32-44

Dollar Store Item: Star Stickers, and blank slips of paper

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Narrative Lectionary – God Speaks to Elijah

Text: 1 Kings 19:1-18

Dollar Store Item: None, Noise Makers, Stomping of Feet

The Take Away: God is heard in the silence.

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Sunday: Reformation Sunday / Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: John 8:31-36, Romans 3:19-28 (Mark 12:28-34)

Dollar Store Item: Costume, Candy, Halloween reminder

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Narrative Lectionary – Solomon’s Temple

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

Dollar Store Item: Book with Footnotes, Costume

The Take Away: God has been working through David, Solomon and You!

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Sunday: Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Hebrews 7:23-28

Dollar Store Item: Guarantee card, Customer Service phone number, Fake Call App

The Take Away: To talk to God, we don’t need to go through someone else. We can talk directly to Jesus.

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Narrative Lectionary – God calls David

Text: 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 51:10-14

Dollar Store Item: Your call story, Dry Erase Board, Frixon Pen, Magnetic Erase board.

The Take Away: God looks at our heart, and also forgives what makes the heart heavy.

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Sunday: Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Mark 10:35-45

Dollar Store Item: Apron, Notepad, Broom, Tennis Racket

The Take Away: We are called to serve… as in help one another, as Jesus shows us by serving us.

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Narrative Lectionary – God calls Samuel.

Text: 1 Samuel 3:1-21

Dollar Store Item: Phone, Two Cups and String, Story of you being called. (This is a great time to use Jonathan Rundman’s Song, “Hey, Hey, Samuel.”)

The Take Away: God calls the young, the old… God calls you.

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Sunday: Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Hebrews 4:12-16, Mark 10:17-31

Dollar Store Item: Something you have tried, and that you can recommend with boldness.

The Take Away: We can come to God with all who we are, because God has come to us, and we are loved.

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Narrative Lectionary – God provides Manna

Text: Exodus 16:1-18

Dollar Store Item: Questionable gift… “What is this?”

The Take Away: God gives. God provides. God is good. We are called to trust the giver.

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Sunday: Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12

Dollar Store Item: Paper and Pencils, Crayons, Headphones, Doo Dee Doo, the Game of Telephone

The Take Away: God uses throughout the years many ways to speak to us. But Hebrews reminds us that God speaks to us through Jesus. When in doubt, we go back to the words of Jesus, and the love of Jesus.

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Narrative Lectionary – God’s name is revealed.

Text: Exodus 2:23-25; 3:1-15; 4:10-17

Dollar Store Item: Name tags. Something kids know, but might call different names, like a bottle of pop, soda, soda-pop or coke.

The Take Away: God tells us God’s name, because when we know someone’s name, we know we know them. And that is loving. And when we are told someone’s name, that is a gift.

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Sunday: Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Mark 9: 38-50

Dollar Store Item: Smiley Stickers

The Take Away: Jesus reminds us that those across the street can do and do do as important things for God and Jesus as do we. We are called to give them help and support them, in ministry for the world.

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Narrative Lectionary

Text: Genesis 27:1-4, 15-23; 28:10-17

Dollar Store Item: Smiley Stickers

The Take Away: God can bless us in the strangest places, and ways. Jacob, even though he does some strange things, is blessed by God. Imagine how God smiles upon you, as a beloved child.

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