12/7/14
Chris Breslin
Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13
Advent Resources
Cardiphonia Resources for Advent compiled by Bruce Benedict
God is in the Manger by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Gathering Church Advent Resources compiled by Chris Breslin
Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of God by Bobby Gross
Song of the Stars: A Christmas Story by Sally Lloyd-Jones
Unwrapping the Greatest Gift: A Family Celebration of Christmas by Ann Voskamp
Advent Calendar (poem)by Rowan Williams
God With Us edited by Gregory Wolfe
Psalms Resources
Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bibleby Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Praying the Psalms: Engaging Scripture and the Life of the Spiritby Walter Brueggemann
Getting Involved with God by Ellen Davis
Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis
Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer by Eugene Peterson
The Case for the Psalms: Why They are Essential by N.T. Wright
Sermon Quotations
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.” -G.K. Chesterton
Love and Truth meet in the street,
Right Living and Whole Living embrace and kiss!
Truth sprouts green from the ground,
Right Living pours down from the skies!
Oh yes! God gives Goodness and Beauty;
our land responds with Bounty and Blessing.
Right Living strides out before him,
and clears a path for his passage.
-Psalm 85:9-13 (the Message paraphrase)
