Flashpoint 24-feb-2012

This weeks lectionary readings

Readings for the Coming Week

Second Sunday in Lent (February 24, 2013)

• First reading
  • Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 - Lords covenant with Abram
• Psalm
  • Psalm 27
• Second reading
  • Philippians 3:17-4:1
• Gospel
  • Luke 13:31-35 or 
  • Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a) - the transfiguration
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It looks like Luke 13_31-35 is the go

Luke 13:31-35

Good News Translation (GNT)

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

³¹ At that same time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “You must get out of here and go somewhere else, because Herod wants to kill you.”
³² Jesus answered them, “Go and tell that fox: ‘I am driving out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I shall finish my work.’ ³³ Yet I must be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day; it is not right for a prophet to be killed anywhere except in Jerusalem.
³⁴ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me! ³⁵ And so your Temple will be abandoned. I assure you that you will not see me until the time comes when you say, ‘God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

SCIENCE EXPERIMENT / CHILDRENS TALK
Pending a better suggestion we will do the guided balloon thing.
We have a taught string.  A straw on the string.  A balloon stuck to the straw.
Blow the balloon up & Let go.
It is directed and races along the string.
We contrast this with just letting the balloon go and it just flies randomly around and ends up any place.  Could be behind us or even comes back to where it started from.

And the parallel is ....
In the bible reading, Jesus is focussed on his task.
In the demo, the balloon is guided by the string just like Jesus was guided by his calling from God.