Read the lessons at the Vanderbilt Library website: http://divinity.lib.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary/cChristmas/cChristmas3.htm

Sermon Summary

Listen to the lessons for the following words, and tick them off when you hear them:

___ "the word of truth "
___ "In the beginning was the Word ”
___ "full of grace and truth "

Is today's Sermon based on one of the Lessons?

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Circle the Lesson that the Sermon is based on.

Jeremiah 31:7-14 or Sirach 24:1-12
Psalm 147:12-20 or Wisdom of Solomon 10:15-21
Ephesians 1:3-14
John 1:(1-9), 10-18

None of the Above

What is the main point of the Sermon?

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Write down one Scripture reference that the preacher makes

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Write down one figure of speech used by the preacher (Metaphors, Similes, hyperbole)

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Write down five interesting words and discuss them with an adult during coffee hour

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Word List

RECEIVED CHILDREN BELIEVED BECOME POWER FLESH BLOOD WILL WERE NAME JOHN GAVE BORN WHO THE NOT HIS HIM GOD BUT ALL OF IN

(John 1:12-13) But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, {13} who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

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Middle-School Pew-work ...Page 2

John 1:10-18 (CEV)


9 down) The ____ was in the world, but no one

knew him,

4 down) though God had made the _____ with his

Word.

6 across) He ____ into his own world,

10 down) but his own nation did not _______ him.

1 across) Yet some people accepted him and put

their _____ in him.

7 down) So he gave them the _____ to be the

children of God.

6 down) They were not God’s _________

11 down) by ______ or because of any human

desires.

14 down) God _______ was the one who made

them his children.

13 across) The Word became a _____ being and

lived here with us.


5 across) We saw his true _____,

23 down) the glory of the only ___ of the Father.

15 across) From him all the ________

20 down) and all the _____ of God have come down to us.

1 down) ____ spoke about him and shouted,

22 down) This is the one I ____ you would come!

19 across) He is _______ than I am,

3 down) because he was _____ before I was born.”

18 across) _______ of all that the Son is,

8 across) we have been given one _________ after another.

16 across) The Law was given by _____,

12 across) but Jesus Christ brought us ___________ kindness and truth.

17 down) No one has ever ____ God.

21 across) The only Son, who is truly God and is ________ to the Father,

24 across) has _____ us what God is like.