Hard to Dance With the Devil on Your Back: A Lenten Study For Adults

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In every culture and time, persons of faith, of all ages, have summonedtrials and tribulations to find the endurance and strength to dance. They havedanced with the weight of the world upon their shoulders, sustained by God andothers dancing near them. Hard to Dance Withthe Devil On Your Back is a seven-session Lenten study that looks atthe transcendent struggle in the lives of believers, while helping us to enter thecontinually crumbling world surrounding Jesus and the disciples in the dayspreceding Easter. Appropriate for both group and individualuse, the study provides one session for each week in Lent. Each session includes aScripture reference, a brief reading, questions for reflection or discussion, anda prayer. The title of this study will remind you of thehymn written by Sydney Carter in 1963 "Lord of the Dance" Sessions: The Dance: 2 Corinthians 4:8-9; 2 Corinthians 12:9A Parable: Luke 12:32; Matthew 19:2-5 The Wronged: Isaiah 53:3; 1 John13:34-35; Matthew 12:20 The Wrong: Matthew 9:9-13 TheDisciple Whom Jesus Loved: Judas: John 13:21-30; 1 John 4:18 WhenWorlds Collide: Jeremiah 18:1-6; Isaiah 49:16 Dancing with Holes inYour Moccasins: Matthew 5:14; Revelation 21:3