04/09/2017
Luke 19:28-44
Chris Breslin
“I would not be a Christian apart from those tears. Jesus’ wasteful tears.” –Steve Garber
“At Bethany, the Incarnate Word of God stood wordless.” –Richard Hays
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher.” –C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“When people gather together for a common purpose – whatever name we may give them and whatever function we may assign them – they soon become political groups.” –Emperor Trajan to Pliny the Younger (111 CE)
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
The Valley May Be Dark by Eader
Hail to the Lord’s Anointed by Montgomery/McCracken
Pass Us Not O Gentle Savior by Crosby/Doane
Jesus, What a Beautiful Name by Riches
All Glory, Laud, & Honor by Theodulph/Teschner
What the Lord Has Done in Me by Morgan
Doxology
Go further:
Tears for Fragile Emanations: A Lenten Reflection (Makoto Fujimura)
Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ by J. Todd Billings
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart by Christena Cleveland
Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda by Emmanuel Katangole
Lamentations and the Tears of the World by Kathleen O’Connor
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong Chan Rah
Every Riven Thing: Poems by Christian Wiman
Lent Reading:
God is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Reader ed Chris Breslin
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
