This week's lessons: Mark 11:1-11 or John 12:12-16, Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29;
Isaiah 50:4-9a, Psalm 31:9-16, Philippians 2:5-11, Mark 14:1-15:47 or Mark 15:1-39, (40-47)
This
week's lessons: Mark
11:1-11 or John
12:12-16, Psalm
118:1-2, 19-29;
Isaiah
50:4-9a, Psalm
31:9-16, Philippians
2:5-11, Mark
14:1-15:47 or Mark
15:1-39, (40-47)
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 use:
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.
Review of Last Week
What was the sermon on? - Man is restless till he find his rest in thee, the Bogata smallpox martyrs; sequoias
What was the Gospel lesson? - Christ's prayer, “Glorify thy name” (also read O.T. and Psalm; skipped Hebrews)
Did anyone have any insights about...
1.What are the personal, private ways that you experience God's new covenant?
2.What are the ways that you experience God's new covenant particularly as a member of and participant in the life of the Church?
3.In what ways has the church been faithful to this covenant, and in what ways have we failed?
4.What are some ways that the world would be transformed if all the Church loved God with all our heart, our soul, our strength, our mind, and our neighbor as ourselves?
“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
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Bible Study on Easter Sunday: Sunrise service, Church breakfast, and
Communion!
Easter:
Acts
10:34-43 or Isaiah
25:6-9, Psalm
118:1-2, 14-24, 1
Corinthians 15:1-11 or Acts
10:34-43, John
20:1-18 or Mark
16:1-8
2nd Sunday of Easter: Acts
4:32-35, Psalm
133, 1
John 1:1-2:2, John
20:19-31