03/31/2019
Matthew 25:10-13
Andre Franklin
(Bumper music:God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured on Hymns from the Gathering Church (2011))
Andre Franklin is the pastor and planter of Vinea Church. The Franklins (wife Terri and little girl Mia) are native Texans who moved to the East Durham community over a year ago. Andre loves to spend time with his family, travel , read, make specialty coffee, and try new foods.
“Jesus does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.” -Dallas Willard
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” -Wendell Berry
“…the liturgical traditions of the Church, all its cycles and services, exist, first of all, in order to help us recover the vision and the taste of that new life which we so easily lose and betray, so that we may repent and return to it. … It is through her liturgical life that the Church reveals to us something of that which “the ear has not heard, the eye has not seen, and what has not yet entered the heart of man, but which God has prepared for those who love Him.” And in the center of that liturgical life, as its heart and climax, as the sun whose rays penetrate everywhere, lies Easter.” -Alexander Schmemann
“That’s why Sabbath is an expression of faith. Faith that there is a Creator and he’s good. We are his creation. This is his world. We live under his roof, drink his water, eat his food, breathe his oxygen. So on the Sabbath, we don’t just take a day off from work; we take a day off from toil. We give him all our fear and anxiety and stress and worry. We let go. We stop ruling and subduing, and we just be. We “remember” our place in the universe. So that we never forget . . . There is a God, and I’m not him.” -John Mark Comer
“What we are watching for is a party, and that party is not just down the street making up its mind when to come to us; it’s already hiding in our basement, banging on our steam pipes, and laughing its way up to our cellar stairs. Its unknown day or hour of its finally bursting into the kitchen and roistering its way through the whole house is not dreadful, it is all part of the divine mark of grace. God is not our mother-in-law coming to check and see if her wedding present china has been chipped; He is a funny old uncle with a salami under one arm and a bottle of wine under the other. We do indeed need to watch for Him, but only because it would be such a pity to miss all the fun.” -Robert Farrar Capon
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning by Traditional Spiritual
From Everlasting to Everlasting by Eader
Canticle of the Turning by Cooney
Good Good Father by Brown/Barrett
Ubi Caritas by Taizé
Come Light Our Hearts by McCracken
Doxology
Go further into the Parables:
Kingdom, Grace, Judgment by Robert Farrar Capon
The Power of Parable by John Dominic Crossan
Parables of Jesus by Joachim Jeremias
Short Stories by Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine
Reading the Parables by Richard Lischer
Tell it Slant by Eugene Peterson
Stories with Intent by Klyne Snodgrass
Go further into the Lenten Season:
Walk the Stations in the Street(by Scott Erickson) in Lakewood Shopping Center during Lent.
The Repentance Project (Devotional)
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Readered Chris Breslin
God is on the Crossby Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Good Dirt (Lent, Holy Week & Eastertide)by Lisa Finn Borgo & Ben Barczi
The Cross and the Lynching Treeby James Cone
Living the Christian Yearby Bobby Gross
Cross-Shattered Christby Stanley Hauerwas
God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent & Eastered Greg Pennoyer
The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesusby Fleming Rutledge
The Seven Last Words from the Crossby Fleming Rutledge
Listening at Golgotha: Jesus’ Words from the Crossby Peter Storey
