LENT 2Questioning God

Lectionary AScriptures for LENT 2

Genesis 12:1-4aPsalm 121

Romans 4:1-5, 13-17John 3:1-17

Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your countryand your kindredand your father's house to the land that I will show you.

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him.

"Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."

I lift up my eyesto the hills— from where will my help come?

The Lord will keep your going outand your coming in from this time on and forevermore.

For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi.”

"Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.”

"Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God."

Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.

If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if

I tell you about heavenly things?

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,

so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

Cover: Henry Ossawa Tanner Nicodemus and JesusSlide 3: God Speaks to Abram—www.st.takia.orgSlide 4: Abraham’s Journey to Canaan, Pieter Lastman, English, 1614Slide 5: Photo from the blog: http://goingoverjordan.wordpress.comSlide6: Hills—photo credit: Stuck in Customs via photopin ccSlide 7: Going—photo credit: ashley rose, via photopin ccSlide 8: Faith—photo credit: sgs_1019 via photopin ccSlide 10: Nicodemus and Jesus—Alexander Bida, 1874Slide 11: Nicodemus and Christ—Crijn Hendricksz Volmarijn (circa 1601–1645)Slide 13: Crucifixion by Anton Raphael Mengs

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