9/11/16 Gen 1:26-28, 2:15, 3:17-19 & Rev 21:1-5, 22:26, 22:1-5 Chris Breslin   Scripture 1 Peter 5:7 John 20:19-31 Luke 24:13-32 Isaiah 60 1 Corinthians 3:9   Walking Work Prayer from MaryKate Morse’s Prayer Guidebook   This Sunday’s Songs Take Up Your Spade by Watkins Praise to the Lord, the Almighty by Neander We Will Feast in the House of […]

9/4/2016 2 Samuel 22:1-31 Chris Breslin   “The single most characteristic thing about David is God. David believed in God, thought about God, imagined God, addressed God, prayed to God. The largest part of David’s existence wasn’t David but God.” –Eugene Peterson   “Make no mistake, our God is a God of justice.” –Christena Cleveland (The Cross & the Molotov […]

8/28/16 2 Samuel 14:25-26; 15:7-14 Rev. Matt Orth   Matt Orth lives in NC with his wife, his two daughters, and a small army of dwarf goats and pygmy hedgehogs. He spends his time writing, reading, teaching, traveling, gardening, and inciting good people to laugh well. In addition to his creative endeavors, which includes everything from creating characters from nothing but […]

8/21/16 2 Samuel 11:1-17; 12:1-7 Chris Breslin   “…to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.” -Flannery O’Connor   Scripture Genesis 3:6-7 Psalm 51 Matthew 26:26-28 Luke 23:46   This Sunday’s Songs Remedy, DeJong May the Mind of Christ My Savior Live in Me, Wilkinson/Gordon My Hope is Built on […]

8/14/16 2 Samuel 9 Suvya Carroll & Greg Little “Francis, at the time or somewhere about the time when he disappeared into the prison or the dark cavern, underwent a reversal of a certain psychological kind…The man who went into the cave was not the man who came out again…He looked at the world as differently from other men as […]

8/7/14 2 Samuel 7:18-29 Chris Breslin   “Consider that the first time someone spoke of God in the third person and therefore no longer with but about God was that very moment when the question resounded, ‘Did God really say? (Gen 3:1).’ This fact ought to make us think.” –Helmut Thielicke (A Little Exercise for Young Theologians)   Scripture 2 […]

7/31/16 2 Samuel 3:17-39 Chris Breslin   “True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to ask for forgiveness.” -Andy Crouch (Playing God)   Cruciform love resists the temptation to make myself the focus of everything, even of my spirituality. Cruciform love refuses to exercise rights, powers, […]

7/24/16 2 Samuel 2:17-27 Chris Breslin   “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” –Leonard Bernstein   “When people sit down to talk about death, the pretense kind of falls away, and people talk very openly and authentically…and they say things in front of strangers which are really […]

7/17/16 1 Samuel 30 Stephanie Holmer   Scripture Psalm 22 Psalm 23 1 Samuel 22:2 MSG   This Sunday’s Songs House of God Forever, Foreman Everlasting God, Brown/Riley Come For the Feast is Spread, Burton/Gordon Blessed Assurance, Crosby/Knapp What Wondrous Love is This, Traditional More Than Anything, Leonard/Ingram/Jordan/Garrard River Where Mercy Flows, Miller   Further Reading on David The Art […]

1 Samuel 25:23-35 Chris Breslin   “Abigail on her knees, put David back on his knees.” –Eugene Peterson   “The accelerating momentum of the story is stopped and then reversed by Abigail. Abigail is marginal because she’s a woman in a male-dominated world. Abigail is marginal because she’s weaponless in a sword-rattling world. Mostly, Abigail is marginal because she’s beautiful […]