This Sunday, June 12, is Trinity Sunday.
This week’s sermon will be presented by Seminarian Wesley Johnson.
This week’s readings are:
My experience of the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
(LWW)
- T.V. Cartoon – 1979
- Didn’t read the books until I was adult
o First they were read to me by my wife Chris.
LWW is set during the London Blitz
- Children were sent to the countryside for safety.
Main Characters
- The Pevensie Children
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Peter
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Susan
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Edmund
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Lucy
- The White Witch, Jadis
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The incarnation of evil
- Aslan
o The Christ figure
Setting
- Narnia – a land that is always winter and never Christmas.
Lewis spoke of these books being a “supposing.”
- Suppose there were another world created by God.
- He uses this world to explore our own story of faith.
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Touches on themes of the Church Year
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Advent – waiting
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Christmas
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Good Friday
§ Easter
This book can be a neat way to talk to children about faith.
- Story ties to Scripture.
- Draws us into themes of the Small Catechism.
- Not a substitute for Scripture but a bridge to help
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Receive the bigger story of salvation.
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Think about salvation from a different angle.
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