Read the lessons at the Vanderbilt Library website: http://divinity.lib.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary/BLent/bLent2.htm
Photograph: Tensions ran high in Nashville, TN during the civil rights demonstrations. From the Kelly Miller Smith Papers, Vanderbilt University Special Collections.

(Adult Student Pew-work)

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16
Psalm 22:23-31
Romans 4:13-25
Mark 8:31-38 or Mark 9:2-9

What are your impressions of Abraham? Does his reaction to God’s covenant surprise you? How does this change/ strengthen your earlier impressions of him?	___________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________
What does it mean to be “faithful”? How are we to “be faithful” if even Abraham and Peter couldn’t?	__________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________
Both Abraham and Peter are unable to accept the radicalness of God’s proposals because of their own (mis)understandings. In view of this, what might God be proposing that we are unable to see right now? What gets in our way?	__________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________
How can Paul declare that Abraham is “faithful” in Romans. What does Paul see and understand?	__________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________
How was Peter a faithful disciple? How are you a faithful disciple?	__________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________
In your own life, what does it mean to “deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me?”	__________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________