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.]

Elementary School Pew-work

Listen hard to the Gospel. Afterward, fill in the blanks in this story. You can help yourself by reading John 12:20-33:

J_______ said:
The time has come for the S____ of Man to be given his glory. 24I tell you for certain that a grain of w________ that falls on the ground will never be more than one grain unless it d______. But if it dies, it will produce lots of wheat. 25If you love your l______, you will lose it. If you give it up in this world, you will be given e____________ life. 26If you serve me, you must go with me. My s______________ will be with me wherever I am. If you serve me, my F__________ will honor you. 27Now I am deeply tr___________, and I don't know what to say. But I must not ask my Father to keep me from this time of s__________________. In fact, I came into the w________ to suffer. 28So Father, bring g________ to yourself.
A voice from h__________n then said, "I have already brought glory to myself, and I will do it again!"


Unscramble the words to make a sentence that Jesus said:

fI uoy ersve em, oyu smtu ogo thwo em

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