11/10/2019 Galatians 2:20 Chris Breslin   Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian, underground seminary-founder, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. He died in 1945 in a concentration camp in Flossenbürg.   Slides from November 10, 2019 Bonhoeffer episode of the Road to Now (RTN Theology #10 podcast) Entry Bonhoeffer Life Together DB at his most accessible and challenging. […]

11/03/2019 Luke 18:1-8 Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove   Ann Atwater was an American civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina. She became an effective activist and leader when advocating for justice and is best known as one of the co-chairs of a charrette in 1971 with klansman CP Ellis (on which the book and movie, Best of Enemies is based) to reduce school violence and ensure […]

10/27/2019 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin   “Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that it is […]

10/20/2019 Psalm 122 Christian DaPonte   Christian DaPonte is Oak Church’s Pastoral Intern for the 2019-20 academic year from Duke Divinity School. He was born in the USA’s northern neighbor in the great city of Vancouver, BC, his family moved across the continent to metro Atlanta where he was raised and calls his hometown. He went to Samford University in […]

10/13/2019 Psalm 132 Chris Breslin   “You have formed us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in You.” -St. Augustine of Hippo   “The history of the ark was, for the Hebrews, a kind of theological handbook. It provided an account of the presence of God among the people” -Eugene Peterson   “Our sense of […]

10/06/2019 Psalm 48 Chris Breslin   “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”   “Make a place to sit down. / Sit down. Be quiet. / You must depend upon   affection, reading, knowledge, / skill—more of each / than you have—inspiration,   work, growing older, patience, / for patience joins time / to eternity. -Wendell […]

09/29/2019 Luke 16:19-31 Chris Breslin   I say móre: the just man justices; Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is — Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men’s faces. -Gerard […]

09/22/2019 Luke 16:1-13 Chris Breslin   “[T]he unjust steward is nothing less than the Christ-figure in this parable, a dead ringer for Jesus himself. First of all, he dies and rises, like Jesus. Second, by his death and resurrection, he raises others, like Jesus. But third and most important of all, the unjust steward is the Christ-figure because he is […]

09/15/2019 Luke 15 Chris Breslin   “I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.” -Henri Nouwen   “Weary or bitter or bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.” -Marilynne Robinson   “The four structural elements in […]

09/08/2019 Luke 14:25-33 Chris Breslin   “Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer   “Pragmatism, legalism, and greed cannot comprehend the power of ephemeral beauty. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness; the opposite of beauty is legalism. Legalism is hard determinism that slowly strangles the soul. Legalism injures by giving pragmatic answers to our suffering. Legalism […]