03/17/2019
Matthew 20:1-16
Chris Breslin
(Bumper music:God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured on Hymns from the Gathering Church (2011))
“All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless, and brutal.” -Flannery O’Connor
“…God is only crazy, not stupid. Like God, he (the householder) has arranged for their recompense to be based only on the weird goodness he is most famous for, not on the just deserts they infamously imaged for themselves: every last envelope, they find, has six twenties in it; no more for those who worked all day, and no less for those who didn’t.” -Robert Farrar Capon
Jesus “whacks us over the head with the bad news that there is only Good News.” -Robert Farrar Capon
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
I Want Jesus to Walk with Me by Traditional
I Have Decided to Follow Jesus by Singh
May the Mind of Christ My Savior by Wilkinson/Gordon
Establish the Work of Our Hands by Porter’s Gate Worship Project
Steadfast by McCracken/Jordan/Silverberg/Nouwen
Laborers by Walton
Doxology
Go further into the Parables:
Kingdom, Grace, Judgment by Robert Farrar Capon
The Power of Parable by John Dominic Crossan
Parables of Jesus by Joachim Jeremias
Short Stories by Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine
Reading the Parables by Richard Lischer
Tell it Slant by Eugene Peterson
Stories with Intent by Klyne Snodgrass
Go further into the Lenten Season:
Walk the Stations in the Street(by Scott Erickson) in Lakewood Shopping Center during Lent.
The Repentance Project (Devotional)
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Readered Chris Breslin
God is on the Crossby Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Good Dirt (Lent, Holy Week & Eastertide)by Lisa Finn Borgo & Ben Barczi
The Cross and the Lynching Treeby James Cone
Living the Christian Yearby Bobby Gross
Cross-Shattered Christby Stanley Hauerwas
God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent & Eastered Greg Pennoyer
The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesusby Fleming Rutledge
The Seven Last Words from the Crossby Fleming Rutledge
Listening at Golgotha: Jesus’ Words from the Crossby Peter Storey
