05/27/2018
Genesis 1:1-2 & Genesis 2:5-9
Chris Breslin
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur
“The poor don’t Sabbath because the rich don’t Sabbath.” –A.J. Swaboda (author of Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World)
“The glory of God is humanity fully alive.” -Ireneaus
Scripture:
Luke 3:21-22
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Come Down O Love Divine by de Siena/Woods
For the Beauty of the Earth by Pierpoint/Kocher
The Earth is Yours by Gungor
All Creatures of Our God and King by Francis of Assisi/von Brachel
Beautiful Things by Gungor
Come, Holy Spirit, Come by Beddome/King/Janes
Doxology
Pentecost/Holy Spirit Reading:
On the Holy Spirit by St. Basil the Great
Spiritual Theology by Simon Chan
God, Sexuality, and the Self by Sarah Coakley
Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God by Gordon Fee
Presence, Power, & Promise: The Role of the Spirit of God in the Old Testament ed. Firth & Wegner
Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Human by Steven Guthrie
The Holy Spirit: Hand-raisers, Han, and the Holy Ghost (Homebrewed Christianity) by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Pneumatology by Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Life by Jack Levison
Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit by Clark Pinnock
After the Spirit by Eugene Rogers
Thinking in Tongues by James K.A. Smith
Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament by Christopher J. H Wright
The Spirit Poured Our on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology by Amos Yong
Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighbor by Amos Yong
The Missiological Spirit: Christian Mission Theology in the Third Millennium GlobalContext by Amos Yong
Who is the Holy Spirit?: A Walk with the Apostles by Amos Yong
