09/03/2017
Philippians 3:17-21
Chris Breslin
Testimony by Bryan Diver & Blake
“Slowly, I started to enter more fully into the world of my refugee friends. As the days and months blended into years, I experienced strange paradoxes. The more I failed to communicate the love of God to my friends, the more I experienced it for myself. The more overwhelmed I felt as I became involved in the myriad of problems facing my friends who experience poverty in America, the less pressure I felt to attain success or wealth or prestige. And the more my world started to expand at my periphery, the more it became clear that life was more beautiful and more terrible than I had been told.” –D.L. Mayfield
“The discomfort of jet lag is one of my favorite embodied metaphors of our spiritual reality. We live in liminal space. We are pulled between two time zones. On the one hand, by faith we are held secure in the love of God. We have received full redemption. On the other hand, though we have been made secure in Christ, we continue to experience uncertainty. We are sojourners, not yet home.” –Sandra McCracken
The Corner House at North Street Community
Duke Initiatives in Theology & the Arts
Am I rootless, or am I free? by Ndéla Faye (oped in the Guardian)
Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith by D.L. Mayfield
Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys by Richard Twiss
Our Two Spiritual Time Zones by Sandra McCracken (article in Christianity Today)
Father, Forgive Them For They Known Not What They Do (2/22/15 Oak Church sermon by Jeremy Begbie)
Called to a Place: Living as Blues Singers, Resident Aliens, & the Creative Minority (9/25/16 Oak Church sermon on Jeremiah 29:4-14)
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Take Us, O Lord by Wardell
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty by Neander
Praise the Savior, Now and Ever by Fortunatus/Moore
God’s Highway by McCracken/Cockrell
When I survey the Wondrous Cross by Watts/Mason
How Can I Keep From Singing? by Lowry
Doxology
This Week’s Memory Scripture: Philippians 3:20-21
Go further:
Epistle to the Philippians by Karl Barth
Paul’s Letter to the Philippians (NICNT) by Gordon Fee
Exploring a missional reading of Scripture: Philippians as a case study (article) by Dean Flemming
Celebration of Discipline, chapter “The Discipline of Celebration” by Richard Foster
Philippians (Two Horizons NT Commentary) by Stephen Fowl
Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, & Mission by Michael Gorman
Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
Theology and Joy by Jürgen Moltmann
Joy and Human Flourishing ed by Miroslav Volf and Justin Crisp
