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John 2:12-25

Drama

Craig M. Sweet

Reader 1: The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, Jesus drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. Jesus then told those who were sel...

2. Lent 4

Luke 15:11-32

Bulletin Aid

Craig M. Sweet

Reader 1: Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them." So Jesus told them this parable: "There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, People: 'Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.' Reader 1: "So the ...

3. Lent 5

John 12:20-36

Bulletin Aid

Craig M. Sweet

Reader 1: Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, People: "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." Reader 1: Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, Reader 2: "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a gr...

4. Maundy Thursday

John 13:1-17

Bulletin Aid

Craig M. Sweet

Reader 1: Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. Reader 2: And during supper Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that h...

5. Peter Rebuked

Mark 8:31--9:1

Bulletin Aid

Craig M. Sweet

Reader: Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, People: "Get behind me, Satan! For you are se...

6. Reading for Ash Wednesday

Matthew 6:19-24, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:1-4

Bulletin Aid

Craig M. Sweet

Reader 1: Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. Reader 2: But when you give alms, do not let yo...

7. Reading for Easter

Luke 24:1-12

Bulletin Aid

Craig M. Sweet

Reader 1: But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to t...

8. Reading for Lent 1

Matthew 4:1-11

Drama

Craig M. Sweet

Reader 1: Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Jesus fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards was famished. The tempter came and said to Jesus, Reader 2: "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread." Reader 1: But Jesus answered, People: "It is written, 'One does not live by bread alone, but by every word th...

9. Responsive Reading for Palm Sunday

Matthew 21:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Craig M. Sweet

Reader 1: When Jesus and the disciples drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethany, to the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples on ahead, saying to them, Reader 2: "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with it, untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord has need of them' and they will be sent imme...

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