If you find the DSCS helpful and would like to donate, thank you!
You can do so, easily, through PayPal:

Or you can use venmo if that is easier: @revjohn29

---

or You can buy me a cup of coffee –

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSKidSermons

---

Sunday: Fourth Sunday of Advent and Christmas Eve

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Luke 1:26-38 and Luke 2:1-14 [15-20]

Dollar Store Item: Dictionary, Favorite Gift, Silliness.

The Take Away: If Mary was “much perflexed,” that gives hope for you and me. Christmas Eve: Greatest Gift is all that God gives us, especially moving into the neighborhood.

Video:

---

Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: 4th Sunday of Advent and Christmas Eve

Text: Luke 2:1-14 [15-20]

Dollar Store Item: Favorite Gift that reminds you of the giver.

The Take Away: Greatest Gift is all that God gives us, especially moving into the neighborhood.

Video:

If you find the DSCS helpful and would like to donate, thank you!
You can do so, easily, through PayPal:

Or you can use venmo if that is easier: @revjohn29

---

or You can buy me a cup of coffee –

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSKidSermons

---

Sunday: Third Sunday of Advent

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: John 1:6-8, 19-28

Dollar Store Item: Prism, Rainbow Stickers, Rainbow coloring pages

The Take Away: Much like when we point out a rainbow in the sky, John points out the light of God, found with and in Jesus.

Video:

---

Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: Rebuilding of the Temple

Text: Ezra 1:1-4; 3:1-4, 10-13

Dollar Store Item: Noisemaker

The Take Away: We are called to walk with each other in joy and sadness.

Video:

If you find the DSCS helpful and would like to donate, thank you!
You can do so, easily, through PayPal:

Or you can use venmo if that is easier: @revjohn29

---

or You can buy me a cup of coffee –

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSKidSermons

---

Sunday: Second Sunday of Advent

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: Mark 1:1-8

Dollar Store Item: Things with Beginnings. First page in a book. Beginning of a race. The start of a lollipop. Birthay celebrations a beginning. “Good News” – Friends are coming to visit. Going on a vacation.

The Take Away: Beginning of the Good News… we get to continue telling the story!

Video:

---

Another DSCS from 2020:

December 6th, 2020 – 2nd Sunday of Advent

Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: 2nd Sunday of Advent

Text: Isaiah 40:1-11

Dollar Store Item: Welcome Mat

The Take Away: We prepare our hearts, and our churches to welcome God.

Video:

If you find the DSCS helpful and would like to donate, thank you!
You can do so, easily, through PayPal:

Or you can use venmo if that is easier: @revjohn29

---

or You can buy me a cup of coffee –

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSKidSermons

---

Sunday: First Sunday of Advent

Revised Common Lectionary – Year B

Text: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9, Mark 13:24-37

Dollar Store Item: Gift Box (Empty), Watch/Candles/Cell Phone/Advent Calendar, Binoculars/Telescope/Ring Camera

The Take Away: Gift box that is empty helps us talk about the Gift of Grace, God’s love, and what might we fill this gift box with. Watch, etc, will be used to talk about telling time, and where we are in the Advent season, and keeping watch and awake. Binoculars, Telescope, Ring Camera…. Keeping watch, and keeping alert.

Video:

---

Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: 1st Sunday of Advent

Text: Mark 13:24-37

Dollar Store Item: Watch/Candles/Cell Phone/Advent Calendar, Binoculars/Telescope/Ring Camera

The Take Away: Watch, etc, will be used to talk about telling time, and where we are in the Advent season, and keeping watch and awake. Binoculars, Telescope, Ring Camera…. Keeping watch, and keeping alert.

Video:

If you find the DSCS helpful and would like to donate, thank you!
You can do so, easily, through PayPal:

Or you can use venmo if that is easier: @revjohn29

---

or You can buy me a cup of coffee –

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSKidSermons

---

Sunday: Reign of Christ Sunday

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 25:31-46

Dollar Store Item: Pieces of Paper – Red/Green and Blue/Yellow. Eye Chart. Or set of play glasses/old glasses frame/ with no lenses.

The Take Away: Both people have seen Jesus, but both people don’t know they have. We need Jesus and the community to help us see Jesus more clearly.

Video:

---

Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: Josiah’s Reform

Text: 2 Kings 22:1-10 [14-20]; 23:1-3

Dollar Store Item: Sticky Hand, Retractable Reel, Yo/Yo

The Take Away: God pulls us back.

Video:

Greetings Saints!

I appreciate your support of this ministry. It means the world to me!

If you have thought about donating to the DSCS, today would be an amazing day to do that.

You can do so through paypal:

Thank you!

Or Venmo: @revjohn29

Or you can buy me a coffee here:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSKidSermons

Thank you for all of your love over the years I have been posting to the DSCS. I have so much fun doing this ministry and love the fact that I keep hearing from more and more of you.

One of my greatest joys is when I will have folks visit Zion Lutheran because of this site, or when you reach out and we have conversations online. It is Grace upon Grace for me! (I keep these comments and visits in my heart for the rainy day file… you know that file!)

Would you consider making a donation to the DSCS?

Please, would you prayerful consider a donation to the DSCS at this time?

John Stevens

If you find the DSCS helpful and would like to donate, thank you!
You can do so, easily, through PayPal:

Or you can use venmo if that is easier: @revjohn29

---

or You can buy me a cup of coffee –

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSKidSermons

---

Sunday: 25th Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 25:14-30

Dollar Store Item: Handful of Pennies, Vanishing Leprechaun Puzzle

Click to access leprechaun.pdf

The Take Away: We are given talents, and even though we might hide them, they are there. We are called to trust GOd and use them!!

Video:

---

Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: Isaiah’s Vineyard Song – Older DSCS

Text: Isaiah 5:1-7; 11:1-5

Dollar Store Item: Vehicle Bingo, Gemstone Excavation or something you have to watch… like a pot of water you can plug in.

The Take Away: In God’s promise, we find hope.

Video:

If you find the DSCS helpful and would like to donate, thank you!
You can do so, easily, through PayPal:

Or you can use venmo if that is easier: @revjohn29

---

or You can buy me a cup of coffee –

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSKidSermons

---

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!

Video:

---

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.

Video:

If you find the DSCS helpful and would like to donate, thank you!
You can do so, easily, through PayPal:

Or you can use venmo if that is easier: @revjohn29

---

or You can buy me a cup of coffee –

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSKidSermons

---

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

Video:

---

Narrative Lectionary

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!!”

Video:

If you find the DSCS helpful and would like to donate, thank you!
You can do so, easily, through PayPal:

Or you can use venmo if that is easier: @revjohn29

---

or You can buy me a cup of coffee –

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSKidSermons

---

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.

Video:

---

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.

Video: