This week's lessons: Acts 2:1-21 or Numbers 11:24-30, Psalm 104:24-34, 35b, 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 or Acts 2:1-21, John 20:19-23 or John 7:37-39
This
week's lessons: Acts
2:1-21 or
Numbers
11:24-30, Psalm
104:24-34, 35b, 1
Corinthians 12:3b-13 or
Acts
2:1-21, John
20:19-23 or
John
7:37-39
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 us:
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. Pentecost is ....
Today, the Gospel reviews for us ....
Review of Last Week
What was the sermon on? -
What was the Gospel lesson? -
Did anyone have any insights about...
What topics
have you heard citizens speak about on “Speakers Corner”
-- or its equivalent such as “open mike” radio phone-in
shows?
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What makes
something an idol?
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What are the
idols and altars to false gods in our society?
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What are some
equivalents, in Calgary in 2008, to the Altar to the Unknown God?
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Pretend you
have a chance – perhaps at Speakers Corner – to talk to
some Calgarians who, perhaps, worship at one of those twenty-first
century equivalents of the Altar to the Unknown God. What would you
say?
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Memory Passage
“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