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.

Elementary School Pew-work

Listen hard to the Gospel. Afterward, fill in the blanks in this story:

³¹Jesus began telling his _________ what would happen to him. He said, "The nation's leaders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law of ______ will make the Son of Man suffer terribly. He will be rejected and killed, but ______ days later he will rise to life." ³²Then Jesus explained clearly what he meant. _______ took Jesus aside and told him to stop talking like that. ³³But when ________ turned and saw the disciples, he corrected Peter. He said to him, "Satan, get away from me! You are thinking like everyone else and not like God."
³⁴Jesus then told the crowd and the disciples to come closer, and he said:
If any of you want to be my followers, you must forget about yourself. You must take up your ______ and follow me. ³⁵If you want to save your life, you will destroy it. But if you give up your _______ for me and for the good news, you will save it. ³⁶What will you gain, if you own the whole world but destroy yourself? ³⁷What could you give to get back your _____?