11/13/2016
Luke 4:1-15
Chris Breslin
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I, 59
Robert Johnson at 100, Still Dispelling Myths (NPR Music)
“If I hadn’t heard the Robert Johnson record when I did, there probably would have been hundreds of lines of mine that would have been shut down—that I wouldn’t have felt free enough or upraised enough to write.” –Bob Dylan
“It doesn’t always have a shape, Almost never does it have a name It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail But evil is alive and well.” –Jakob Dylan
Free to Worship Him Without Fear (The Living Church, Covenant)
“When you lose track of the Devil you lose track of Jesus and the kingdom of God.” –Richard Beck
“Jesus refuses to do good things in the wrong way.” –Eugene Peterson
“All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.” –Martin Luther
Scripture
This Sunday’s Songs
God of My Life, Be Near by Lyte/Gordon
How Firm a Foundation by Rippon/Funk
A Mighty Fortress is Our God by Luther
Steadfast by McCracken/Jordan/Silverberg
Rest by Maher/Cockrell
We Are Not Overcome by Heiskell/Wardell
Our Heavenly Father by Montgomery/Benedict
Further Reading on the Lord’s Prayer
Prayer by Karl Barth
Reviving Old Scratch by Richard Beck
Lord’s Prayer by Leonardo Boff
The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
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)
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
In the Name of Jesus by Henri Nouwen
The Jesus Way by Eugene Peterson
Our Father by Alexander Schmemann
The Lord’s Prayer: Confessing the New Covenant by J. Warren Smith
An Ethic for Christians & Other Aliens in a Strange Land by William Stringfellow
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
