This week's lessons: Isaiah 58:1-9a, (9b-12), Psalm 112:1-9, (10), 1 Corinthians 2:1-12, (13-16), Matthew 5:13-20
This
week's lessons: Isaiah
58:1-9a, (9b-12), Psalm
112:1-9, (10), 1
Corinthians 2:1-12, (13-16), Matthew
5:13-20
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 us:
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. Epiphany is our time of showing Christ forth into the world. Christ was “shown forth” in the miraculous signs that surrounded his birth, not only to his own people, but to the entire world, as evidenced by the visit of the Magi. The other great signs of Christ's life were also signs to the whole world. Over the weeks of Epiphany, the Gospel readings will review for us many of those signs that reveal who Christ is.
Today, the Gospel reviews for us ...
Review of Last Week
What was the sermon on? -
What was the Gospel lesson? -
Did anyone have any insights about...
1.As you go through life and try to figure out just what God wants from you, do you follow rules you were given as a child, or rules that were explained to you as an adult convert, or do you follow something else?
2.What do the people of Emmanuel pews think that God expects of us?
3.If we, as 21st-century North American Christians, were diligently to “do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with our God”, what would the world look like?
4.What situations exist in our congregation that need to be addressed with justice, kindness, and humility -- small as well as large issues of justice that cry out for our attention?
5.Why do crowds in your community gather, and what do they long for?
Memory Verse:
21Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if
thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22But I
know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give
it thee.
23Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall
rise again.
24Martha saith unto him, I know that he
shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25Jesus
said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth
in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26And
whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou
this?
27She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that
thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the
world.
28And when she had so said, she went her way,
and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and
calleth for thee.
29As soon as she heard that, she
arose quickly, and came unto him.
Pew-work Hand-outs
“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