10/23/2016
Revelation 21:1-7
Chris Breslin
(with DurhamCares’ Pilgrimage of Pain and Hope Participants: Stephanie Holmer, Sabrina Bowyer, Gary Davis, & Alexandria Harper)
…that you might approach the Jerusalem of the heart…
-Isaac the Least
And now I think Jerusalem abides untouched,
the temple yet intact, its every cornerstone
in place, its vault replete with vivid scent, its ark
alight with vigil lamps whose oil is never spent.
In psalm the pilgrim asks forgiveness, pleads that God
return the Spirit to the heart, and look, the Ghost
had never left, had never for an instant drawn
away, had only watched His presence made obscure
by soul’s own intermittent darkening. Just so,
the three companions of the Lord had blindly walked
the lesser part of three dim years before their eyes
beheld the Light that bathed the Son eternally.
Just so, the Light of Tabor spools extending past
the vision of the multitude, if nonetheless
apparent to the meek, the poor, the pure in heart.
Just so, the Holy City bides within the heart,
awaits the day the pilgrim will arrive, will quit
the road, turn in to greet his City’s boundless sweep, and see.
-“Hidden City” by Scott Cairns
“I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist, Jesus Christ is risen from the dead!” –Lesslie Newbigin
Scripture
This Sunday’s Songs
He’s Calling by Way
We Will Feast in the House of Zion by McCracken
Praise the Savior, Now and Ever by Fortunatus/Moore
Ancient of Days by Sadler/Harvill
My Hope is Built on Nothing Less by Mote/Bradbury
Rise Up by Wardell
Our Heavenly Father by Montgomery/Benedict
Further Reading on the Lord’s Prayer
Prayer by Karl Barth
The Theology of the Book of Revelation by Richard Bauckham
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)
A New Heavens and a New Earth by Richard Middleton
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
Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
