12/21/14
Chris Breslin
Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26
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
“I say I’m a pacifist because I am a violent son of a bitch. I’m a Texan. I can feel it in every bone I’ve got. And I hate the language of pacifism because it’s too passive. But by avowing it, I create expectations in others that hopefully will help me live faithfully to what is true. But that I have no confidence in my own ability to live it at all.” -Stanley Hauerwas
“Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation’s final law
Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek’d against his creed” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Peace is a deeper reality than violence.” -Stanley Hauerwas
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.” -Saint Francis of Assisi
