02/18/2018
John 2:1-11
Chris Breslin
Here’s an epiphany to have and hold,
A truth that you can taste upon the tongue,
No distant shrines and canopies of gold
Or ladders to be clambered rung by rung,
But here and now, amidst your daily living,
Where you can taste and touch and feel and see,
The spring of love, the fount of all forgiving,
Flows when you need it, rich, abundant, free.
Better than waters of some outer weeping,
That leave you still with all your hidden sin,
Here is a vintage richer for the keeping
That works its transformation from within.
‘What price?’ you ask me, as we raise the glass,
‘It cost our Saviour everything he has.’
-Malcolm Guite
“To give it rhyme, H20 becomes Merlot.” –Margaret Feinberg
“Water is ‘dailiness,’ but wine is for rejoicing.” –Jean Vanier
“Food is the daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness, ordained for the continual remembrance that the world will always be more delicious than it is useful.” –Robert Farrar Capon
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Water to Wine by Adkins
Take My Life, and Let it Be by Havergal/Herold
Come, for the Feast is Spread by Burton/Gordon
Beautiful Things by Gungors
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross by Watts/Mason
Come to the Table (Isaiah 55) by Wilson
Doxology
Go further:
The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple by Richard Bauckham
The Death of the Messiah by Raymond Brown
The Gospel According to John (Part 11) by Raymond Brown
The Gospel of John: A Commentary by Frederick Dale Bruner
Entering into the Heart of Jesus: Meditations on the Indwelling Trinity of St. John’s Gospel by George Maloney
John: A Commentary by Marianne Meye Thompson
Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus Through the Gospel of John by John Vanier
Lent Reading:
God is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved) by Kate Bowler
Good Dirt (Lent, Holy Week & Eastertide) by Lisa Finn Borgo & Ben Barczi
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Reader ed Chris Breslin
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
Living the Christian Year by Bobby Gross
Cross-Shattered Christ by Stanley Hauerwas
God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent & Easter ed Greg Pennoyer
The Seven Last Words from the Cross by Fleming Rutledge
Listening at Golgotha: Jesus’ Words from the Cross by Peter Storey
