06/10/2018
Psalm 51
Chris Breslin
Incurable and unbelieving
in any truth but the truth of grieving,
I saw a tree inside a tree
rise kaleidoscopically
as if the leaves had livelier ghosts.
I pressed my face as close
to the pane as I could get
to watch that fitful, fluent spirit
that seemed a single being undefined
or countless beings of one mind
haul its strange cohesion
beyond the limits of my vision
over the house heavenwards.
Of course I knew those leaves were birds.
Of course that old tree stood
exactly as it had and would
(but why should it seem fuller now?)
and though a man’s mind might endow
even a tree with some excess
of life to which a man seems witness,
that life is not the life of men.
And that is where the joy came in.
– Christian Wiman, From A Window
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” -Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues
“To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn’t already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the Golden Gate Bridge.” –Frederick Buechner
“When all other means have been exhausted, each in his own tongue whispers, ‘There isforgiveness with God.’” –Howard Thurman
Scripture:
Matthew 26:6–13; Mark 14:3–9; Luke 7:36–50; John 12:1–8
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Wounded Healer by White
Arise My Soul Arise by Wesley/Twit
River Where Mercy Flows by Miller
Heal Us Emmanuel by Cowper/Twit/Morton
All the Poor and Powerless by Leonard/Jordan
Wood and Nails by Watts/Wardell/Cunningham
Doxology
Pentecost/Holy Spirit Reading:
On the Holy Spiritby St. Basil the Great
Spiritual Theologyby Simon Chan
God, Sexuality, and the Selfby Sarah Coakley
Paul, the Spirit, and the People of Godby Gordon Fee
Presence, Power, & Promise: The Role of the Spirit of God in the Old Testamented. Firth & Wegner
Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Humanby Steven Guthrie
The Holy Spirit: Hand-raisers, Han, and the Holy Ghost(Homebrewed Christianity) by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Pneumatologyby Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Lifeby Jack Levison
Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spiritby Clark Pinnock
After the Spiritby Eugene Rogers
Thinking in Tonguesby James K.A. Smith
Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testamentby Christopher J. H Wright
The Spirit Poured Our on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theologyby Amos Yong
Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighborby Amos Yong
The Missiological Spirit: Christian Mission Theology in the Third Millennium GlobalContextby Amos Yong
Who is the Holy Spirit?: A Walk with the Apostlesby Amos Yong
