Alpha Study Group Blog » Lent http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha First Presbyterian Church of Jonesboro, Georgia Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:32:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Meaning of Palm Sunday – Pausing on the Road to Jerusalem http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha/index.php/2009/03/the-meaning-of-palm-sunday-pausing-on-the-road-to-jerusalem/ http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha/index.php/2009/03/the-meaning-of-palm-sunday-pausing-on-the-road-to-jerusalem/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:00:34 +0000 admin http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha/?p=210 This study is built around the Common Lectionary Gospel readings for the five Sundays in Lent and Palm/Passion Sunday of 2007 (Year A). This year, most of the Lectionary Gospel readings are from Luke’s Gospel, enriched, as is often the case in Lent, by several from John’s Gospel.
This week we study:
  • The Meaning of Palm Sunday
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This week we study:
  • The Place of Wealth
]]> http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha/index.php/2009/02/207/feed/ 0 Breadth of God’s Grace – Pausing on the Road to Jerusalem http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha/index.php/2009/02/breadth-of-gods-grace-pausing-on-the-road-to-jerusalem/ http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha/index.php/2009/02/breadth-of-gods-grace-pausing-on-the-road-to-jerusalem/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:55:44 +0000 admin http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha/?p=204 This study is built around the Common Lectionary Gospel readings for the five Sundays in Lent and Palm/Passion Sunday of 2007 (Year A). This year, most of the Lectionary Gospel readings are from Luke’s Gospel, enriched, as is often the case in Lent, by several from John’s Gospel.
This week we study:
  • The Breadth of God’s grace
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This week we study:
  • Theodicy – Why do good people suffer?
]]> http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha/index.php/2009/02/theodicy-pausing-on-the-road-to-jerusalem/feed/ 0 Atonement – Pausing on the Road to Jerusalem http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha/index.php/2009/02/atonement-pausing-on-the-road-to-jerusalem/ http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha/index.php/2009/02/atonement-pausing-on-the-road-to-jerusalem/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:51:07 +0000 admin http://fpjonesboro.com/alpha/?p=200 This study is built around the Common Lectionary Gospel readings for the five Sundays in Lent and Palm/Passion Sunday of 2007 (Year A). This year, most of the Lectionary Gospel readings are from Luke’s Gospel, enriched, as is often the case in Lent, by several from John’s Gospel.
This week we study:
  • Atonement – Why the Cross?
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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:
  • 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

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