05/13/2018
1 John 5:9-13
Chris Breslin
“How is it possible that the gospel should be credible, that people should come to believe that the power which has the last word in human affairs is represented by a man hanging on a cross? I am suggesting that the only answer, the only hermeneutic of the gospel, is a congregation of men and women who believe it and live by it.” –Lesslie Newbigin
Is there a single person on whom I can press belief?
No sir.
All I can do is say, Here’s how it went. Here’s what I saw. I’ve been there and am going back. Make of it what you will. –from Peace Like a Riverby Leif Enger
“It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed—this, despite the gospel.” –Howard Thurman, Jesus of the Disinherited
Preaching as Testimonyby Anna Carter Florence
Scripture:
Mother’s Day Litany: Isaiah 66:12-14, Psalm 91:4, Matthew 23:37b
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
To Be Alone with You by Stevens
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling by Wesley
King of My Heart by McMillan
Steadfast by McCracken/Jordan/Silverberg
Rest by Maher/Cockrell
Why So Heavy, O My Soul? by Caswall/Wells
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 Outlineby Robert Jenson
Miraclesby C.S. Lewis
Prototypeby Jonathan Martin
Resurrection & Moral Orderby Oliver O’Donovan
Living the Resurrectionby Eugene Peterson
Practice Resurrectionby Eugene Peterson
Resurrection and the Son of Godby N.T. Wright (academic)
Surprised by Hopeby N.T. Wright (accessible)
