10/13/2019
Psalm 132
Chris Breslin
“You have formed us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in You.” -St. Augustine of Hippo
“The history of the ark was, for the Hebrews, a kind of theological handbook. It provided an account of the presence of God among the people” -Eugene Peterson
“Our sense of mission in all the particular places of the world results from our first belonging in our particular place, a community in which ties are not easily broken and service not easily forgotten.” -Jennifer Allen Craft
Mentioned:
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody) by Talking Heads
Holy, Holy, Holy by Heber/Dykes
You Carried Me by Reagan
Come Ye Sinners by Hart/DeConto
Our God is Present by White
Come to the Table (Isaiah 55) by Wilson
Doxology
Other Resources:
Where Mortals Dwell by Craig Bartholomew
The Temple and the Church’s Mission by G.K. Beale
Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community by Wendell Berry
The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith by Walter Brueggemann
The Worship Architect by Constance Cherry
Placemaking and the Arts by Jennifer Allen Craft
Scripture, Culture, & Agriculture by Ellen F. Davis
Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission by David Fitch
The New Parish by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens & Dwight Friesen
No Home Like Place by Leonard Hjalmarson
Seeing Jesus in East Harlem by José Humphreys
A Christian Theology of Place by John Inge
Sidewalks in the Kingdom by Eric O. Jacobsen
Race and Place by David Leong
Watershed Discipleship edited by Ched Myers
The Art of Neighboring by Jay Pathak & Dave Runyon
Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus by C. Christopher Smith
The Power of Proximity by Michelle Ferrigno Warren
The Case for the Psalms by N.T. Wright
