05/12/2019
Luke 1:46-55
Chris Breslin
“My mother and grandmother taught me to ignore Mother’s Day (a commercial gimmick) from as long as I can remember. They loved to quote an old Episcopal minister who began the service by saying, this is not Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, this is the fourth Sunday of Easter!” -Fleming Rutledge
“Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.” -Dallas Willard
“…I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, “Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me.” -Madeleine L’Engle
My mother, my daughter, life-giving Eve,
Do not be ashamed, do not grieve.
The former things have passed away,
Our God has brought us to a New Day.
See, I am with Child,
Through whom all will be reconciled.
O Eve! My sister, my friend,
We will rejoice together Forever Life without end.
-Sr. Columba Guare
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Prepare the Way of the Lord by DaPonte
Canticle of the Turning by Cooney/Traditional
Those Who Trust by Chaffer
Come, Holy Spirit, Come by Hart/Ring
The Advocate by Baltensperger
The Magnification by Walton
Doxology
Easter Reading:
Reading Scripture in Light of the Resurrection (chapter in the Art of Reading Scripture) by Richard B Hays (and Ellen F. Davis)
Can These Bones Live?: A Theology in Outline by Robert Jenson
Miracles by C.S. Lewis
The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach by Michael Licona
Prototype by Jonathan Martin
Resurrection & Moral Order by Oliver O’Donovan
Living the Resurrection by Eugene Peterson
Practice Resurrection by Eugene Peterson
Resurrection and the Son of God by N.T. Wright (academic)
Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright (accessible)
