08/26/2018
Prayer & Work & Presence
Psalm 46
Chris Breslin
“Every step an arrival.” -Eugene Peterson
“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
-Mary Oliver
“The Psalms not only insist that we are called to live at the intersection of God’s space and our space, of heaven and earth, to be (in other words) Temple people. They call us to live at the intersection of sacred space, the Temple and the holy land that surrounds it, and the rest of human space, the world where idolatry and injustice still wreak their misery.” –N.T. Wright
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” -Wendell Berry
“[the seas’] waters roar and roil, mountains heave in its surge…a stream, its rivulets gladden God’s town.’ –Robert Alter’s translation of Psalm 46
“Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything.” –Psalm 46 from The Message
“Lord, Jesus: Have Mercy on Me.” -The Jesus Prayer
Neighbors: The High Five Revisited (Nashville Public Radio)
Scripture:
Matthew 3:2, Matthew 4:17, Mark 1:15
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Establish the Work of Our Hands by Porter’s Gate Worship Project
How Firm a Foundation by Rippon/Funk
Father, Let Your Kingdom Come by Porter’s Gate Worship Project
Jesus, What A Beautiful Name by Riches
Take Up Your Spade by Watkins
Wood and Nails by Porter’s Gate Worship Project
Doxology
Series Resources:
Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicalsby Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, & Enuma Okoro
Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Missionby David Fitch
Celebration of Discipline: the Path to Spiritual Growthby Richard Foster
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Lifeby Tish Harrison Warren
Slow Churchby C. Christopher Smith
The New Parishby Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens & Dwight Friesen
The Art of Neighboringby Jay Pathak & Dave Runyon
No Home Like Placeby Leonard Hjalmarson
Where Mortals Dwellby Craig Bartholomew
Race and Placeby David Leong
Seeing Jesus in East Harlemby José Humphreys
Making Neighborhoods Wholeby Wayne Gordon & John Perkins
Roadmap to Reconciliationby Brenda Salter McNeil
The Power of Proximityby Michelle Ferrigno Warren
Making Roomby Christine Pohl
Reconstructing the Gospelby Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
