05/17/2020
Luke 15:11-32
Chris Breslin
“It’s the unlimited power to be there, to be faithful to and for a world that is deeply unstable and unjust and suspicious and uncooperative: the power to go on trying to get through at all costs, laboring and wrestling with the human heart…God is to be trusted as we would trust a loving parent, whose commitment to us is inexhaustible, whose purposes for us are unfailingly generous; someone whose life is the source of our life, and who guarantees that there is always home for us.” -Rowan Williams
“What we long for is an escape not from creaturehood but from the fraught, harrowing experience of being human in a broken world. What we’re hoping for is a place where a sovereign Lord can assure us, “You’re safe here.” -James K.A. Smith on Augustine on the story of the Prodigal Son
“It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.” – from Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead
More resources on Faith and the Apostles’ Creed:
The Apostles’ Creed for Today by Justo Gonzalez
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine ed. By Colin Gunton
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church by Alan Kreider
The Apostles’ Creed by Ben Myers
You Are What You Love by James K.A. Smith
Unapologetic: Why Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense by Francis Spufford
The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark
Ancient-Future Worship by Robert Webber
Tokens of Trust by Rowen Williams
My Bright Abyss: Meditations of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman
Simply Christian by N.T. Wright
Exploring & Proclaiming the Apostles’ Creed ed. by Roger Van Harn
Credo: Meditations on the Apostles’ Creed by Hans Urs Von Balthesar
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Morning Song by Anderson
Beautiful Things by Gungor
All Ye Refugees by McCracken
