06/16/2019
Revelation 6-7
Chris Breslin
“Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below.” -Grantland Rice
“So, why church? The short answer is because the Holy Spirit formed it to be a colony of heaven in the country of death.” -Eugene Peterson
“Where’s the outrage? It is God’s own, it is the wrath of God against all that stands against his redemptive purpose. It is not an emotion, it is God’s righteous activity in setting right what is wrong. It is God’s intervention on behalf of those who cannot help themselves.” -Fleming Rutledge
“A martyr is one who lives imaginatively as if death does not exist.” -William Cavanaugh
Scripture:
Behold the Lamb collage artwork by Chris Breslin (2019)
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Lamb of God (Agnus Dei) by Taizé
Pass Us Not, O Gentle Savior by Crosby/Doane/Gentle Wolves
Praise the Savior, Now and Ever by Fornatus/Moore
All Ye Refugees by McCracken
Heal Us by Cowper/Morton
We Will Feast in the House of Zion by McCracken
Doxology
Revelation Reading:
The Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology) by Richard Bauckham
Can I Get a Witness?: Reading Revelation through African American Culture by Brian Blount
The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment by Elisabeth Shüssler Fiorenza
Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation by Michael Gorman
Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation by J. Nelson Kraybill
Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia by Natasha & Anthony O’Hear
Revelation (Brazos Commentary) by Joseph Mangina
Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination by Eugene Peterson
From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective ed. David Rhoads
