02/23/2020
Psalm 99 & Matthew 17:1-9
Chris Breslin
“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.” -Walter Brueggemann
“As ‘God-with-us,’ Christ served his fellow human beings by proclaiming God’s coming in word and deed; he alleviated the plight of the poor, sick, oppressed, and those ridden by guilt and covered in shame for having failed to love God and neighbor; and he liberated those caught in the snares of power, wealth, and self-righteousness. All this he did in the power of the Spirit and with utter dedication to God, nourished by practices of prayer and fasting. Some of his fellow compatriots were drawn in to his mission; they became friends with whom he shared meals and celebrated feasts in the company of the outcasts. In all this he, his disciples, and those he attracted had foretastes of the coming world, of truly flourishing life. On occasion, like on the Mount of Transfiguration, the new world flashed in its glory in the midst of the false life of the present world.” -Miroslav Volf & Matthew Croasmun, For the Life of the World
“People who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present.” -NT Wright
Season Resources:
Joy is for Epiphany, too by Miroslav Volf (Christian Century)
Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of God by Bobby Gross
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
The Transfiguration by Stevens
Father, Let Your Kingdom Come by the Porter’s Gate Worship Project
They Will Know We Are Christians by Scholtes
God With Us by Ingram/Jordan
Beautiful Things by Gungors
How Can I Keep From Singing? by Lowry
Doxology
