Read
the lessons at the Vanderbilt Library website:
http://divinity.lib.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary/BLent/bLent5.htm
Photograph
above shows Robert N. Murrell, R.B.J. Campbelle Jr., Robert Blakemore
and an unidentified attorney defending Fisk University student Diane
J. Nash, one of the students arrested in the Nashville, Tennessee
sit-ins in 1960. From the Kelly Miller Smith Papers, Vanderbilt
University Special Collections.]
Emmanuel Lutheran Church at Saint Luke's Anglican Church
Family Lectionary Study;
Alternate Sundays from 9:30 to 10:15 in the Gym
Opening Music
Review: "I have decided to Follow Jesus", “Were you there when they crucified My Lord”
Introduce: "Little by Little He's changing me"
Review of Previous Lessons
Discuss Pew-work. Give everyone a chance to show or talk about their insights.
What was the sermon on? -- (It was on the Old Testament lesson about the bronze snake, and the Gospel about Jesus being lifted up in the same way.)
What was the Gospel lesson? -- (Jesus being lifted up)
Did anyone have any insights about...
Asking for help when you need it?
Offering help to others in need?
Simple things that Jesus may be asking of you
Set the calendar-clock to the right date. Lent tells the story of Christ's temptation, rejection, and final suffering. We walk with Christ through the days of Lent by prayer and fasting. -- in this case the discovery of who Jesus is. Review our memory scripture:
And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came
from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. And
straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened,
and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: and there came a
voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased. And immediately the spirit driveth him into the
wilderness.
And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted
of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered
unto him.
Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into
Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
And saying,
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye,
and believe the gospel.
Bible Passage
Craft
Copy the decorative sketches made last week onto the cross we hammered together early in Lent, which is now smoothly sanded. Carve the decorations we've chosen into the cross, using our Dremmel tool.
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