03/26/17
Lamentations 3
Meg Hoffman
“Lament allows for the fullness of emotions to be expressed. Worship should not operate with divergent goals, moving the community toward either celebration of suffering. They are not part of a zero-sum equation. Suffering and celebration must continue to intersect in our communities. Diverse worship expressions arising out of a range of experiences provide the opportunity to intersect the wide range of expressions that reflect the fullness of God’s shalom.” -Soong-Chan Rah, Prophetic Lament
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
I Want Jesus to Walk with Me by Traditional Spiritual
How Long? Name by Wardell
Those Who Trust by Chaffer
Come Ye Sinners by Hart/Ritter
Great is Thy Faithfulness by Chisholm/Runyan
We Are Not Overcome by Heiskell/Wardell
Doxology
Go further:
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
