This week's lessons: Genesis 9:8-17, Psalm 25:1-10 , 1 Peter 3:18-22 , Mark 1:9-15
This
week's lessons: Genesis
9:8-17, Psalm
25:1-10 , 1
Peter 3:18-22 , Mark
1:9-15
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 the season of preparation for the great feast of Easter. We spend 40 days in self-denial and solemn prayer, readying our hearts and minds to celebrate Christ's great Easter victory over Death and Sin.
Today, the Gospel reviews for us the story of Christ's baptism, which we will remember from the first week of Epiphany, but adds to that context the story of Christ's 40-day fast in the wilderness.
Review of Last Week
What was the sermon on? - African Children's Choir
What was the Gospel lesson? - The Transfiguration
Did anyone have any insights about...
1.When have you experienced a moment of insight, when you both saw God's glory and heard God still speaking to you, calling you to the path of discipleship?
2.When have you responded inappropriately or shallowly to such an insight?
3.What old beliefs of yours need to be revisited and Transfigured?
4.What are those things in your life that hold you in bondage?
5. How are you transfigured/ transformed by your encounters with God?
“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