05/19/2019
Revelation 1:1-11
Chris Breslin
“The imagination is our way into the divine Imagination, permitting us to see wholly- as a whole and holy- what we perceive as scattered, as order what we perceive as random.” -Wendell Berry
“Apocalypse is shorthand for Jesus Christ.” -Douglas Harink
“Jesus is a perfect photo of the Unseen God…The result is that he’s tops any way you look at it.” – Cotton Patch Gospel paraphrase of Colossians 1
“If we learn no more from a Gospel or a sermon on the Gospel than to know our Lord Jesus Christ better, to be prouder of him, and to love him more, we learn enough and we learn a precious lesson. He is the king to whom we are to be loyal and he is the general we are to obey. The people that say to themselves as they walk: Christ is my king, Christ is my hero, I am at Christ’s orders, I am his to command – those people are children of light.” -Gerard Manley Hopkins
Scripture:
Behold the Lamb collage artwork by Chris Breslin (2019)
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Lamb of God by Assad
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling by Wesley/Zundel
Glory Be to God the Father by Bonar/Mundell
Jesus, What a Beautiful Name by Riches
Steadfast by McCracken/Jordan/Silverberg
Come to the Table (Isa 55) by Wilson
Doxology
Revelation Reading:
The Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology) by Richard Bauckham
Can I Get a Witness?: Reading Revelation through African American Culture by Brian Blount
The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment by Elisabeth Shüssler Fiorenza
Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation by Michael Gorman
Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation by J. Nelson Kraybill
Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia by Natasha & Anthony O’Hear
Revelation (Brazos Commentary) by Joseph Mangina
Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination by Eugene Peterson
From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective ed. David Rhoads
