10/06/2019
Psalm 48
Chris Breslin
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
“Make a place to sit down. / Sit down. Be quiet. / You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge, / skill—more of each / than you have—inspiration,
work, growing older, patience, / for patience joins time / to eternity. -Wendell Berry, How to Be a Poet
“Somewhere is better than anywhere.” -Flannery O’Connor
“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 the human space, the world where idolatry and injustice still wreak their misery.” -N.T. Wright
Mentioned:
The History of Lakewood Baptist Church
Spirituality of the Psalms by Walter Brueggemann
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
In Christ There is No East or West by Staples/Tweedy
Higher Ground by Oatman/Gabriel
God With Us by Ingram/Jordan
The Earth is Yours by Gungor
We Will Feast in the House of Zion by McCracken
Hosanna by Scholtes/Garrels
Doxology
Other Resources:
Where Mortals Dwell by Craig Bartholomew
The Temple and the Church’s Mission by G.K. Beale
Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community by Wendell Berry
The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith by Walter Brueggemann
The Worship Architect by Constance Cherry
Placemaking and the Arts by Jennifer Allen Craft
Scripture, Culture, & Agriculture by Ellen F. Davis
Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission by David Fitch
The New Parish by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens & Dwight Friesen
No Home Like Place by Leonard Hjalmarson
Seeing Jesus in East Harlem by José Humphreys
A Christian Theology of Place by John Inge
Sidewalks in the Kingdom by Eric O. Jacobsen
Race and Place by David Leong
Watershed Discipleship edited by Ched Myers
The Art of Neighboring by Jay Pathak & Dave Runyon
Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus by C. Christopher Smith
The Power of Proximity by Michelle Ferrigno Warren
The Case for the Psalms by N.T. Wright
