This week's lessons: Acts 3:12-19, Psalm 4, 1 John 3:1-7, Luke 24:36b-48
This
week's lessons: Acts
3:12-19, Psalm
4, 1
John 3:1-7, Luke
24:36b-48
Emmanuel Community Church
Inter-generational Lectionary Study;
Sundays from 10:0 to 10:45 in the Board Room
Opening
Opening prayer by leader, or invite another participant to pray, or use:
Almighty God, who has caused all Holy Scripture to be written for our learning, open our ears and hearts today to learn from your word and from one another, we ask in Jesus' Name. Amen
Set the calendar-clock to the right date. Lent is the season of preparation for the great feast of Easter. We spend 40 days in self-denial and solemn prayer, readying our hearts and minds to celebrate Christ's great Easter victory over Death and Sin.
Today, the Gospel reviews for us Jeremiah's prophecy of the New Covenant
Review of Last Week
What was the sermon on? -
What was the Gospel lesson?
Living in community:
Our Parish purpose
The power behind the growth of the early church
they were a family;
the power of God
they were rich in grace
they were the answer to prayer.
Did anyone have any insights about...
1.To what degree do you find your life governed mostly by fear or by peace? What role does your faith play in this interchange?
2.Where or with whom do you struggle with forgiveness? Could forgiveness help you achieve peace in your life or community?
3.When you look at your possessions, do you tend to find that you have just what you need or an excess of stuff? How can you improve your stewardship of money and resources this Easter season?
4.How often do you practice public or private confession? What effect does this practice have on your spiritual life?
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
“Pew-work” is like Home-work, except that it is done in the pews, instead of being done at home. Because it is focussed on the readings (as the sermon, presumably, also is) it can be done during the sermon to help the listener concentrate. Or, it can be done while waiting for everyone else to finish their communion. It isn't done during prayers, or hymns, or the readings, because
During Prayers, we pray
During Hymns, we sing
During the Readings, we listen
Middle-school Students' Pew-work
Elementary-School Students' Pew-work
Next Week: Acts 4:5-12, Psalm 23, 1 John 3:16-24, John 10:11-18