09/08/2019
Luke 14:25-33
Chris Breslin
“Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Pragmatism, legalism, and greed cannot comprehend the power of ephemeral beauty. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness; the opposite of beauty is legalism. Legalism is hard determinism that slowly strangles the soul. Legalism injures by giving pragmatic answers to our suffering. Legalism takes away life by forbidding the nard to be spilled onto our feet. Artists, like Mary, can intuitively give generatively and break open the oppression.” -Makoto Fujimura (The Beautiful Tears)
Lord let me suffer much
and then die
Let me walk through silence
and leave nothing behind not even fear
Make the world continue
let the ocean kiss the sand just as before
Let the grass stay green
so that the frogs can hide in it
so that someone can bury his face in it
and sob out his love
Make the day rise brightly
as if there were no more pain
And let my poem stand clear as a windowpane
bumped by a bumblebee’s head
-Anna Kamienska, A Prayer that Will Be Answered
Mentioned:
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Come, All Ye Pining by Steele/Murphy
Come, for the Feast is Spread by Burton/Gordon
How Firm a Foundation by Rippon/Funk
The Kingdom is Yours by Common Hymnal
Sing Alleluia by Stassen
Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone? by Shepherd/Digerness
Doxology
