03/12/2017
Lamentations 2:6-9, 14
Chris Breslin
There is no consolation in the thought of God,
he said, slamming another nail
in another house another havoc had half–taken.
Grace is not consciousness, nor is it beyond.
To hell with remembrance, to hell with heaven,
hammer is the prayer of the poor and the dying.
And the wind in some lordless random comes to rest,
and all the disquieted dust within,
peace came to the hinterlands of our minds,
too remote to know, but peace nonetheless.
-Christian Wiman, Hammer is the Prayer
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” –Elvis Costello?
“The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.” –John Piper
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Will We Ever Rise? (Broken People) by Fielding/Gungor/Arndt
God with Us by Ingram/Jordan
We Will Feast in the House of Zion by McCracken
More than Anything by Leonard/Ingram/Jordan/Garrard
I Surrender All by Deventer/Weeden
I Shall Not Want by Assad/Brown
Doxology
Go further:
A Call to Doubt and Faith, and Remembering God (Christian Wiman on On Being)
Fasting for the Lord (Richard Foster at Renovare)
Fasting for Beginners (Desiring God)
Rouault’s Miserere et Guerre at Duke Chapel (Spring 2017)
Seeing Through the Darkness: Georges Rouault’s Vision of Christ (Image Journal)
Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ by J. Todd Billings
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart by Christena Cleveland
Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda by Emmanuel Katangole
Lamentations and the Tears of the World by Kathleen O’Connor
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong Chan Rah
Every Riven Thing: Poems by Christian Wiman
Lent Reading:
God is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Reader ed Chris Breslin
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
