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Sunday: 24th Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 25:1-13, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Dollar Store Item: Flashlight, Cellphone with light, Baptismal Candle, Or none

The Take Away: We are called to shine our light so all can see, and to encourage one another! Second Idea is to explain some liturgical happenings in the church!

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Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: Hosea (Throw-back to an older one)

Text: Hosea 11:1-9

Dollar Store Item: Pendulum/Yo-Yo/Rock on a string.

The Take Away: God struggles with the People of God’s actions. In the end, God decides on love, and compassion.

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Sunday: All Saints Sunday

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 5:1-12, 1 John 3:1-3

Dollar Store Item: Popscicle Sticks, Name Tags, Action Figure

The Take Away: We ALL are Saints and set apart. God has an action figure of us in Heaven’s Toy Store

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Sunday: Elijah at Mount Carmel

Text: 1 Kings 18:[17-19] 20-39

Dollar Store Item: Dice, Straws, or Nothing

The Take Away: We draw straws to pick someone, or we roll dice to see whose number comes up, or even play rock, paper, scissors to see who gets to go first. God asks that we make up our minds about God. Are we following God or not?

The best news of it all is that God has said in the waters of baptism, “I choose you! You are mine!!”

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Sunday: Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 22:34-46 or John 8:31-36

Dollar Store Item: Piece of 8.5 x 11 paper (copy paper or lined)

The Take Away: We love God by loving our neighbor. Or We search everywhere for God’s love, and find that it has been with us the entire time.

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Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: Kingdom Divided

Text: 1 Kings 12:1-17, 25-29

Dollar Store Item: Piece of paper, 8.5 by 11

The Take Away: In the midst of trying to figure out how we love, we are reminded that God loves us all.

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Sunday: Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 22:15-22

Dollar Store Item: Item with your (or a child’s) name on it.

The Take Away: Everything we have, including our life, comes from and belongs to God. We use all of it for God’s glory!

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Sunday: David anointed king.

Text: 2 Samuel 5:1-5; 6:1-5; Psalm 150

Dollar Store Item: Posterboard with “Sin Boldly!!” written on it.

The Take Away: God can and does forgive all our Sins!

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Sunday: Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Psalm 23, Philippians 4:1-9

Dollar Store Item: Stuffed Animal or something that brings you comfort.

The Take Away: Certain bible stories bring us a special amount of comfort and hope.

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Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: Ruth

Text: Ruth 1:1-17

Dollar Store Item: Blue Painters Tape

The Take Away: We belong because we have been called/invited.

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Sunday: Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Philippians 3:4b-14

Dollar Store Item: Roll of Toilet Paper

The Take Away: The list of all the things we have done right or the list of all we have done wrong doesn’t make God love us any more or any less.

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Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: Hear, O Israel

Text: Deuteronomy 5:1-21; 6:4-9

Dollar Store Item: A “New and Improved” item.

The Take Away: God gives us a better way to live with each other and with God: The Commandments.

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Sunday: Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 21:23-32

Dollar Store Item: Change (pennies, nickles, etc).

The Take Away: God changes our hearts, and changes our direction. Change is hard, and change is good… mostly. We ask God to help us change.

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Sunday: Moses and God’s Name

Text: Exodus 1:8-14 [15—2:10]; 3:1-15

Dollar Store Item: Sandles, Flipflops, Comfortable Shoes

The Take Away: All ground is Holy Ground, and we are called into mission with God.

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Sunday: Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 20:1-16

Dollar Store Item: Rope/Twine or Contruction Paper

The Take Away: Grace shows that we are loved the same!

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Sunday: Jacob wrestles God

Text: Genesis 32:[9-13] 22-30

Dollar Store Item: Construction Paper / Posterboard

The Take Away: We are claimed and renamed in Baptism.

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Sunday: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 18:21-35

Dollar Store Item: Spool of thread

The Take Away: We keep on keeping on.

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Sunday: Isaac Born to Sarah

Text: Genesis 18:1-15; 21:1-7

Dollar Store Item: Nothing –

The Take Away: We laugh out of fear, surprise, joy, and wonder.

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Sunday: Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 18:15-20

Dollar Store Item: Rubberband, BBQ Twine, or Nothing

The Take Away: Saying “I’m Sorry. Please forgive me,” are close to magic words of healing.

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Sunday: Garden of Eden

Text: Genesis 2:4b-25

Dollar Store Item: Potting Soil

The Take Away: God created Dirt-Thing… connecting us to the earth, and all of creation. And God saw that we needed one another, and needed community to take care of creation. To till the earth. To get dirty. To love life, and all that God made.

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