10/16/2016
Exodus 3:1-14
Sarah Neff
I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
of great price, the one field that had
the treasure in it. I realize now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
– “The Bright Field” by R.S. Thomas
“By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.” -Elie Wiesel
“There’s something in the sound of the word hallow;
A haunting sense of everything we’ve lost
Amidst the trite, the trivial, the shallow,
Where nothing lingers, nothing seems to last.”
– Hallowed Be Thy Name, Malcolm Guite
“Our ethics is a byproduct of our worship…when we say God’s name is holy, that tells us how we ought to live.” –Stanley Hauerwas & Will Willimon
Scripture
This Sunday’s Songs
Heaven Meets Earth by Jordan/Ingram
Holy, Holy, Holy by Heber/Dykes
Everlasting God by Brown/Riley
How Great Thou Art by Boberg/Hine
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) by Redman/Myrin
Come Ye Sinners by Hart/Ritter
Our Heavenly Father by Montgomery/Benedict
Further Reading on the Lord’s Prayer
Prayer by Karl Barth
Lord’s Prayer by Leonardo Boff
Matthew (The Christbook) by F. Dale Bruner
Becoming the Answers to Our Prayers by Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Lord’s Prayer: A Missional Reading by Nijay Gupta (at Missio Alliance)
Our Father by Alexander Schmemann
The Lord’s Prayer: Confessing the New Covenant by J. Warren Smith
On the Lord’s Prayer by Tertullian, Cyprian, & Origen
Our Heavenly Father by Helmut Thielicke
The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
Lord, Teach Us by Stanley Hauerwas & Will Willimon
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg by Telford Work
The Lord & His Prayer by N.T. Wright
