This week's lessons: Genesis 12:1-4a , Psalm 121 , Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 , John 3:1-17 or Matthew 17:1-9
This
week's lessons: Genesis
12:1-4a , Psalm
121 , Romans
4:1-5, 13-17 , John
3:1-17 or Matthew
17:1-9
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? -
What was the Gospel lesson? - the temptation in the wilderness
Did anyone have any insights about...
List some specific ways that you
depend on God each day to provide for
you.
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What examples of selfishness do
you see in your routine
life?
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Who are you responsible for, who
will be harmed or blessed by the choices that you
make?
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What are ways that you and other
modern people put God to the
test?
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What temptations do you, as an
individual, face from day to day?
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Memory Verse:
2 Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulcre.
4 So they ran both together; and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre;
5 and he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying; yet went he not in.
6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen cloths lie;
7 and the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
8 Then went in also that other disciple which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
9 For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.
Genesis
12:1-4a
Psalm
121
Romans
4:1-5, 13-17
John
3:1-17 or Matthew
17:1-9
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
Next week's lessons: Exodus 17:1-7 , Psalm 95 , Romans 5:1-11 , John 4:5-42