Once upon an Eastertide, a little boy came home singing Pete Seeger’s — The Garden Song: “Inch by inch, row by row, please, bless these seeds I sow.” (You can click here to hear Pete Seeger sing it, along with the words!) At school the little boy, along with his class, had planted bean seeds in jelly…
Have any of you ever raised chickens? Or have you visited a farm or perhaps a zoo where you might have seen a mother hen sitting on a nest of eggs? Have you ever thought about what it must be like to be a baby chick inside one of those eggs? Let’s talk about that. …
Today is March 14 and it is the fourth Sunday of Lent. But is also just three days away from St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick is a very famous Irish saint. I bet you have heard of him. Today I want to tell you about another Irish saint who should be famous. Her name is…
Have you ever been to a library? There’s a special rule for how we use our voices there, right? (Do you remember the rule? How do we speak in a library?) That’s right – we use very quiet voices in the library because we don’t want to disturb anyone who might be reading. Now things…
One day, when my brother and I were kids, we were throwing a football back and forth inside, in our shared bedroom. I threw it too hard and my brother panicked and ducked, and the ball went right through our window. We stopped dead in our tracks and listened to see if our parents might…
What season is it? The season of winter, of course. It’s cold outside! It’s even snowed this past couple of weeks. I hope that wherever you live, you got enough snow to go outside and play in it. Build a little snowman. Do a little sledding. Catch some snowflakes on your tongue. The church also…
I bet a lot of you know who Spiderman is, right? He is this amazing character who is sometimes a normal person, and sometimes a superhero. During the day, he is named Peter Parker. He goes to school, and helps out with chores at home, and spends time with friends and family. But at night,…
The Bible has two parts. The first part is called the Old Testament. All of the books in the Old Testament were written down before Jesus was born. The stories of Jesus, the Gospels, are in the New Testament. Testament is a funny word, right? What does it mean? It means: I want to testify…
The first reading we heard this morning was from Deuteronomy. It’s one of my favorite books from the original testament, but it can be a little hard to understand. Moses is talking to the people who followed him out of Egypt, escaping slavery and the power of Pharaoh. They’ve been wandering for a while, and…
Good morning to my younger friends at Emmanuel! I hope you all have had a good week. I am so happy to be with you all this morning talking about our Gospel. In our Gospel Jesus is preaching in Galilee which is near the sea. And he tells people “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom…
