Temptation – Pausing on the Road to Jerusalem
Feb 15th, 2009 |
This study is built around the Common Lectionary Gospel readings for the five Sundays in Lent and Palm/Passion Sunday of 2007 (Year A). As a Lenten study, it ends with anticipating indeed aching for Easter Sunday. But Easter is another story and another study, albeit one that casts its light back over the preceding Lenten dim. Participants who worship with congregations that follow the Common Lectionary will find that these lessons amplify their Sunday hearing of these same passages and the sermons preached on them. For others, these passages, selected by the Lectionary to explore the great themes of Lent, will offer a broad and varied set of studies fit for the season. This year, most of the Lectionary Gospel readings are from Luke’s Gospel, enriched, as is often the case in Lent, by several from Johns Gospel.
The great Lenten themes found in this study include:
The great Lenten themes found in this study include:
- Temptation
- Atonement – Why the Cross?
- Theodicy – Why do good people suffer?
- The Breadth of Gods grace
- The place of wealth
- The significance of Palm Sunday