8/30/15
Chris Breslin
Ephesians 6:10-24
Ephesians Resources
The Broken Wall by Markus Barth
Colossians, Philemon & Ephesians (NICNT Commentary) by F.F. Bruce
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Ephesians, Colossians, & Philemon (Interpretation Commentary) by Ralph P. Martin
Practice Resurrection by Eugene Peterson
An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land by William Stringfellow
Ephesians (Belief Theological Commentary) by Allen Verhey & Joseph Harvard
Wearing God by Lauren Winner
Sermon Notes
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. Not everything that Screwtape says should be assumed to be true, even from his own angle. There is wishful thinking in hell as well as on earth.” –C.S. Lewis
“People are veritably besieged, on all sides, at every moment simultaneously by these claims and strivings of the various powers each seeking to dominate, usurp, or take a person’s time, attention, abilities, effort; each grasping at life itself; each demanding idolatrous service and loyalty. In such a tumult it becomes very difficult for a human being even to identify the idols that would possess him or her…” –William Stringfellow
“If to change clothes can be to change one’s sense of self; if to change clothes is to change one’s way of being in the world; if to clothe yourself in a particular kind of garment is to let that garment shape you into its own shape- then what is it to put on Christ?” –Lauren Winner
In contrast to “the whiles of the devil” none of these six items is a way to do anything. They do not add up to a plan or program. None of them can be done on our own, autonomously. They are gifts and can be maintained as gifts only in acts of giving. They can exist only by becoming incarnate in human beings with other human beings in acts of living-being. None is impersonal.” –Eugene Peterson
“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” –Karl Barth
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?” “You’re very clever, young man, very clever, ” said the old lady. “But it turtles all the way down!” –from Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time
Slow Train Coming by Bob Dylan
