03/08/2020
1 John 1:1-9
Richella Parham
“The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Himself included in that community as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.” -Dallas Willard
“‘In confession there takes place a breakthrough to community. Sin wants to be alone with people. It takes them away from the community. The more lonely people become, the more destructive the power of sin over them.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
“It is sooth that sin is cause of all this pain; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner [of] thing shall be well.” -Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
“We are not what we do, we are not what we have, we are not what others think of us. Coming home is claiming the truth. I am the beloved child of a loving creator.” -Henri J.M. Nouwen
“I am one in whom Christ dwells and delights.” -James Bryan Smith
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:
Wounded Healer by White/Vice
Great is Thy Faithfulness by Chisholm/Runyan
Let Them Praise the Name of the Lord by Harris/Crawford
Lord, I Need You by Reeves/Stanfill/Maher/Nockels/Carson
Have Mercy by McCracken/Cockrell
I Shall Not Want by Assad/Brown
Doxology: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross by Watts/Mason
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
