03/04/2018
John 5:1-15
Charlene Brown
Rev. Charlene Brown is the National Director of Black Campus Ministries for Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
–Langston Hughes, A Dream Deferred
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Why So Heavy? by Caswell/Wells
Arise, My Soul Arise by Wesley/Twit
Jesus, What a Beautiful Name by Riches
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing by Robinson/Wyeth
Steadfast by McCracken/Jordan/Silverberg
It is Well With My Soul by Spafford/Bliss
Doxology
Go further:
The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple by Richard Bauckham
The Death of the Messiah by Raymond Brown
The Gospel According to John (Part 11) by Raymond Brown
The Gospel of John: A Commentary by Frederick Dale Bruner
Entering into the Heart of Jesus: Meditations on the Indwelling Trinity of St. John’s Gospel by George Maloney
John: A Commentary by Marianne Meye Thompson
Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus Through the Gospel of John by John Vanier
Lent Reading:
God is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved) by Kate Bowler
Good Dirt (Lent, Holy Week & Eastertide) by Lisa Finn Borgo & Ben Barczi
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Reader ed Chris Breslin
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
Living the Christian Year by Bobby Gross
Cross-Shattered Christ by Stanley Hauerwas
God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent & Easter ed Greg Pennoyer
The Seven Last Words from the Cross by Fleming Rutledge
Listening at Golgotha: Jesus’ Words from the Cross by Peter Storey
