02/17/2019
Luke 6:17-26
Matthew Rehnborg
“The situation of the soul in contemplation is something like the situation of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Everything is yours, but on one infinitely important condition: that all is given.
There is nothing that you can claim, nothing that you can demand, nothing that you can take. And as soon as you try to take something as if it were your own—you lose your Eden. The angel with the flaming sword stands armed against all selfhood that is small and particular, against the ‘I’ that can say ‘I want…’ ‘I need’ ‘I demand….'” -Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
Sermon Resources:
Season Resources:
Joy is for Epiphany, tooby Miroslav Volf (Christian Century)
Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of Godby Bobby Gross
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Love is Even the Name by Walton
Higher Ground by Oatman/Gabriel
Praise the Savior, Now and Ever by Fortunatus/Moore
Feast or Fallow by McCracken
Have Mercy on Me by Porter’s Gate Worship
Words to Build a Life On by Crawford
Doxology
