10/26/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 61:1-3a Testimony by Stewart McNaull Related Quotes “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 “On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that […]

10/19/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 60:15-22, Revelation 21:1-5 Related Quotes “The end is where we start from.” –T.S. Eliot “The sin-ruined creation of Genesis is restored in the sacrifice-renewed creation of Revelation.” –Eugene Peterson “I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.” -Lesslie Newbigin “Cities are noisy with self-assertion, forgetful and defiant of God, […]

10/19/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 60:15-22, Revelation 21:1-5 Related Quotes “The end is where we start from.” –T.S. Eliot “The sin-ruined creation of Genesis is restored in the sacrifice-renewed creation of Revelation.” –Eugene Peterson “I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.” -Lesslie Newbigin “Cities are noisy with self-assertion, forgetful and defiant of God, […]

10/12/14 Chris Breslin Philippians 2:1-11 Related Quotes “There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.” -John Stott “God is not a God of power and weakness, but the God of power-in-weakness.” -Michael Gorman “He went solo and unaided into the whirlpool [of evil], so that […]

10/12/14 Chris Breslin Philippians 2:1-11 Related Quotes “There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.” -John Stott “God is not a God of power and weakness, but the God of power-in-weakness.” -Michael Gorman “He went solo and unaided into the whirlpool [of evil], so that […]

10/5/14 Chris Breslin Genesis 12:1-3; 1 Peter 2:9 Related Quotes “Through Abraham and his family, God will bless the whole world. Shimmering like a mirage in the deserts through which Abraham wandered was the vision of a new world, a rescued world, a world blessed by the Creator once more, a world of justice, where God and his people would […]

10/5/14 Chris Breslin Genesis 12:1-3; 1 Peter 2:9 Related Quotes “Through Abraham and his family, God will bless the whole world. Shimmering like a mirage in the deserts through which Abraham wandered was the vision of a new world, a rescued world, a world blessed by the Creator once more, a world of justice, where God and his people would […]

9/28/14 Chris Breslin Genesis 2:25-3:7; Romans 5:12-19 Further Reading: Sin: A History by Gary Anderson Confessions by Saint Augustine True Story: A Christianity Worth Believing In by James Choung Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller Original Sin by Alan Jacobs Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis The Fall and Sin: What We Have Become as Sinners […]

9/28/14 Chris Breslin Genesis 2:25-3:7; Romans 5:12-19 Further Reading: Sin: A History by Gary Anderson Confessions by Saint Augustine True Story: A Christianity Worth Believing In by James Choung Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller Original Sin by Alan Jacobs Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis The Fall and Sin: What We Have Become as Sinners […]

9/21/14 Genesis 1:1-2:9 Chris Breslin   Further reading: The Five Books of Moses trans. by Robert Alter The Bible and Ecology by Richard Bauckham It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God ed. by Ned Bustard Culture Making by Andy Crouch Playing God by Andy Crouch Visions of Vocation by Steven Garber Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones […]