This week's lessons: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 , Psalm 32 , Romans 5:12-19 , Matthew 4:1-11

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. Lent is our time of preparation for Easter: a time to examine our souls and consciences; a time to reform our lives; a time to prepare for the greatest feast of the year, that commemorates the greatest event of all creation. Over the weeks of Lent, the Gospel readings will take us with Christ along the road to redemption.

Today, the Gospel reviews for us Christ's temptation in the wilderness.

Review of Last Week

What was the sermon on? - Marriage: we build strong families through Christian mutual submission and Christian sumission to God.

What was the Gospel lesson? - the Transfiguration

Did anyone have any insights about...

• What are the mountaintop experiences in the story of your church?

• How was God speaking to you in those moments, and how does God still speak to you in the daily, even mundane, activities of church life?

• What things might distract us from hearing God speaking to us, calling us to this time apart?

• How have you witnessed the glory of God, or experienced it quietly, deep in your hearts, or, perhaps just as importantly, how have you missed that glory, as it quietly slipped by?

• What is the Lenten journey to which you are being summoned?

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.

Bible Passage

Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7
Psalm 32
Romans 5:12-19
Matthew 4:1-11

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

Adult Student's Pew-work

Middle-school Students' Pew-work

Elementary-School Students' Pew-work

Pre-Schooler's Pew-work