Sunday, December24, 2023

Reading:

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16

Romans 16:25-27

Luke 1:26-38

Suggested Resources:

Eugene H. Peterson, First and Second Samuel (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999).

Benjamin Myers, The Apostles Creed: A Guide to the Ancient Catechism (Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2018).

Tom Wright, Luke for Everyone (Louisville: Westminister, 2001).

Christopher Knowles, Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes (San Francisco: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2007).

Sunday, December 17, 2023

Resources:

Jeremy Seifert, “the church forests of Ethiopia,” Aeon, March 4, 2020, https://aeon.co/videos/how-hundreds-of-small-gardens-of-eden-guard-against-total-deforestation-in-ethiopia.

“Dayenu: It Would Have Been Enough,” My Jewish Learning, Accessed on December 11, 2023, https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/dayenu-it-would-have-been-enough/.

Scot McKnight, A Fellowship of Differents: Showing the World God’s Design for Life Together, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).

Fleming Rutledge, “The Hidden Pathway to Joy,” The Undoing Death: Sermons for Holy Week and Easter, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002).

Rhett Allain, "5 Things Every Human Should Know About Light,” Wired, February 11, 2015, https://www.wired.com/2015/02/5-things-every-human-know-light/.

Leeaundra Keany, "20 Things You Didn't Know About Light,” Discover, May 17, 2020,  http://discovermagazine.com/2010/mar/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-light.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015).

Andrew Wilson, “God Knew What He Was Doing When He Gave Jesus Two Family Trees,” Christianity Today, August 17, 2020, https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/september/andrew-wilson-jesus-genealogies-matthew-luke.html.

Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018).

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Suggested Resources:

Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018).

Robert Alter, “Isaiah,” The Hebrew Bible: Volume 2, the Five Books of the Prophets, a Translation with Commentary (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019).

Walter Brueggemann, Isaiah 40-66 (Louisville: Presbyterian Publishing Company, 1998).

Tom Wright, Mark for Everyone (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001).

Sunday, December 3, 2023

Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018).

Tom Wright, Mark for Everyone (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001).

Gregory the Great, “Homilies I.” 

Shane Claiborne quote: https://twitter.com/ShaneClaiborne/status/1727910987192262946

Ian Simkins Quote:  https://x.com/iansimkins/status/1332335057600647173?s=46&t=2k-idvaum331qpiRIW39Zw

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Sunday, November 19, 2023

Suggested Resources:

Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians (Louisville: John Knox, 2002).

Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018).

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Suggested Resources:

Robert Alter, “Deuteronomy,” The Hebrew Bible: Volume 1, the Five Books of Moses, a Translation with Commentary, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019).

Carolyn J. Sharp, “Commentary on Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25,” Working Preacher, November 8, 2020, https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-32/commentary-on-joshua-241-3-14-25.

N.T. Wright, Matthew for Everyone: Part Two, Chapters 16-28 (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002).

Brad Jersak, “Parable of the Ten Virgins - What's the Oil? Brad Jersak,” Clarion, March 7, 2015, https://www.clarion-journal.com/clarion_journal_of_spirit/2015/03/parable-of-the-ten-virgins-whats-the-oil-brad-jersak.html.

Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018).

Sunday, November 5, 2023

Reading:

Revelations 7:9-17

1 John 3:1-3

Matthew 5:1-12

Suggested Resources:

Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, (Grand Rapids: InterVarsity, 2020).

Eugene H. Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God, Audiobook, (New York: Penguin Random House, 2017).

Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002).

Stanley Hauerwas, Matthew, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007).

Rowan Williams, Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014).

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Suggested Resources:

Robert Alter, “Deuteronomy,” The Hebrew Bible: Volume 1, the Five Books of Moses, a Translation with Commentary, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019).

Walter Brueggemann, Texts for Preaching, Year A: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV, (Louisville: Presbyterian Publishing Company, 1995).

Cyril of Jerusalem, “Catechetical Lecture 16.26.”

N.T. Wright, Matthew for Everyone, Part 2 (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002), 93-95.

Craig S. Keener, Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009).

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Suggested Resources:

John Goldingay, Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010).

Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Stanford, April 3, 1968, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/ive-been-mountaintop.

Augustine, “The Trinity 2.17.28.” 

Origen, “Commentary on the Song of Songs 3.15.” 

Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002).

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. C.S. Lewis Signature Classic, (London: William Collins, 2012).

Wright, Matthew for Everyone, Part 2 (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002).

Frederick Dale Bruner, Matthew: A Commentary, Volume 2, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007).