03/29/2020
Isaiah 58:5-10
Chris Breslin
“The self-denial involved in the period of Lent isn’t about just giving up chocolates or beer; it’s about trying to give up a certain set of pictures of God which are burned into our own selfish wants.” -Rowan Williams
“People should feast so they do not forget the grace and blessing of the world. People should fast so that they do not degrade or hoard the good gifts of God. In short, we feast to glorify God and we fast so we do not glorify ourselves.” -Norman Wirzba
The Fast That God Desires (Sojourners) by Beth Watkins
More resources for the sermon and season:
Crafted into Christlikeness (2020 Oak Church Lenten Devotional Guide)
Mythical Me: Finding Freedom from Constant Comparison by Richella Parham (RTN Theology #15 podcast)
Where Goodness Still Grows: Reclaiming Virtue in an Age of Hypocrisy by Amy Peterson (RTN Theology #20podcast)
A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor
The Dangers of Christian Practice: On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin by Lauren Winner
Hammer is the Prayer by Christian Wiman
Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
A Guidebook to Prayer by MaryKate Morse
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Morning Song by Anderson
Land of the Living by Pasley
Psalm 126 by Wardell
Go further into the Lenten Season:
Stations in the Street (by Scott Erickson) (Oak Church Lent 2019) Lakewood Shopping Center
The Repentance Project (Devotional)
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Reader ed Chris Breslin
God is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Good Dirt (Lent, Holy Week & Eastertide) by Lisa Finn Borgo & Ben Barczi
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 Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus by Fleming Rutledge
The Seven Last Words from the Cross by Fleming Rutledge
Listening at Golgotha: Jesus’ Words from the Cross by Peter Storey
