This week's lessons: Matthew 21:1-11, Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29, Isaiah 50:4-9a, Psalm 31:9-16, Philippians 2:5-11, Matthew 26:14-27:66 or Matthew 27:11-54
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
kinds of situations do people face which might cause them such
despair that they feel like dried, dead
bones?
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How
can you act to breath new life into your despairing brothers and
sisters?
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What
resurrections or turning points have you had in your
life?
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What
range of attitudes to members of our congregation show when someone
among us is released from the bonds of
death?
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Who
in our congregation might God be working through to bring you life,
hope, forgiveness or healing?
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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.
Bible Passage
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