07/01/2018
Isaiah 11:1-10 & Jeremiah 37:1-14
Chris Breslin
“A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.” –Abraham Heschel
“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” –Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
–The New Colossusby Emma Lazarus
Even in the nonbeing of death the bones can hear him, because the word given the prophet is the same word that gives being and life in the first place, that addresses precisely “things that are not” (1 Cor. 1:28). –Robert Jenson
“…hope is generated by experiencing death through the Spirit who is the ultimate source of hope.” –Luke Powery
Artwork:
The Peaceable Kingdomby Edward Hicks
The Valley of Dry Bonesby Colin McCahon
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Isaiah 11 by Oakes/Bowser/McCracken
All Creatures of Our God and King by Francis of Assisi/von Brachel
Father, Let Your Kingdom Come by The Porter’s Gate
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) by Redman/Myrin
Jesus, What A Beautiful Name by Riches
Come Alive by Daigle
Doxology
Pentecost/Holy Spirit Reading:
On the Holy Spiritby St. Basil the Great
Spiritual Theologyby Simon Chan
God, Sexuality, and the Selfby Sarah Coakley
Paul, the Spirit, and the People of Godby Gordon Fee
Presence, Power, & Promise: The Role of the Spirit of God in the Old Testamented. Firth & Wegner
Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Humanby Steven Guthrie
The Holy Spirit: Hand-raisers, Han, and the Holy Ghost(Homebrewed Christianity) by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Pneumatologyby Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Lifeby Jack Levison
Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spiritby Clark Pinnock
After the Spiritby Eugene Rogers
Thinking in Tonguesby James K.A. Smith
Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testamentby Christopher J. H Wright
The Spirit Poured Our on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theologyby Amos Yong
Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighborby Amos Yong
The Missiological Spirit: Christian Mission Theology in the Third Millennium GlobalContextby Amos Yong
Who is the Holy Spirit?: A Walk with the Apostlesby Amos Yong
