This Week:Isaiah 6:1-8, (9-13) Psalm 138 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Luke 5:1-11
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Family Lectionary Study;
Sundays from10:00 to 10:55 in the Prayer Room
Set the Church-year Calendar. This is the season of Epiphany. Epiphany means “Showing outward”. “The Epiphany”, which is celebrated on January 6, remembers the visit of foreign wise men who came to visit Jesus. Jesus was “shown outward” to the non-Jewish world, beginning the new era in which God has chosen ALL people of the earth, not just the Hebrews, to be His Chosen People. During Epiphany we will read about the miracles that Jesus worked, which “showed out” who Jesus is and what Jesus came to earth to do. Our own response must be to show Jesus outward to the community in which we live.
Review responses to last week's homework:
How are Isaiah the great prophet, Paul and Simon Peter the great apostles, models for each of us today?
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What does it mean to be “great” as a disciple of Jesus, and where does that lead us today, in the 21st century?
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What is the role of power in Isaiah’s encounter with God? How does that differ from the “power” of God that Paul or Simon Peter experience?
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If we too said “yes,” in spite of whatever “unworthiness” we may feel, what changes might happen in our lives and in the life of our church and in the community around us?
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Memory Scripture:
27But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
28Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
29And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.
30Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
31And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
32For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Note “I am but a boy” -- God is no respecter of age or status
Note the power and danger of words; compare the opening para of Corinthians
Next week:Jeremiah 17:5-10, Psalm 1, I Corinthians 15:12-20, Luke 6:17-26