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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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Narrative Lectionary

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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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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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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Sunday: Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:9-21

Dollar Store Item: Rubberband, Party Favor, a bag of sugar, shovel, or something that can have two purposes.

The Take Away: Drawing near our enemies removes tensiion; We treat everyone as if they were Jesus; We are both Saint and Sinner, and Jesus loves us. (Pairing last week’s Gospel and this weeks).

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Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: Coming back September 10th

I am taking a break from Narrative for this summer, as it is hard for me to do this for the summer as so many are doing different things.

We will be back in September.

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Sunday: Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 16:13-20

Dollar Store Item: Posterboard with Pictures of Helping or things Jesus did. Like a robot test.

The Take Away: We show who Jesus is by our actions of love.

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Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: Coming back in September

I am taking a break from Narrative for this summer, as it is hard for me to do this for the summer as so many are doing different things.

We will be back in September.

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Sunday: Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

Revised Common Lectionary – Year A

Text: Matthew 15:[10-20] 21-28

Dollar Store Item: Nursery Rhyme

The Take Away: We are called to stand up for our brothers and sisters, and its ok to disagree with one another.

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Narrative Lectionary

Sunday: Coming back in September

I am taking a break from Narrative for this summer, as it is hard for me to do this for the summer as so many are doing different things.

We will be back in September.