Lent: The Awkward Season - Temptation
World
Discover
Embodied Participation
Belonging: The Table is Big Enough
Luke 5:27-32
Stairway to Haven (yes, we're buying one)
Psalm 46:1-3, Luke 7
New Paradigms of our Common Mission: Intro
Mark 2:18-22
Rejoicing Presence
Zephaniah 3 (14-20)
Practicing the Presence: Preparing Presence
Malachi 3:1-4, Luke 1, Luke 3:3-6
“Wherever the material and the spiritual coincided, there is the Christ. Jesus fully accepted that human-divine identity and walked it into history. Henceforth, the Christ “comes again” whenever we are able to see the spiritual and the material co-existing, in any moment, in any event, and in any person.” - Richard Rohr
Practicing the Presence: Jolting Presence
Jeremiah 33:14-16 & 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
Resources:
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community by Padraig O Tuama
Trinity’s Advent Resource Page
Sheer Poetry: The Aesthetic Nature of Human Existence
Ephesians 2:8-10
Allegiance, Bitumen, and Beauty
1 Corinthians 15:1-2 & Zechariah 9:16-17
Resources:
Salvation by Allegiance Alone by Matthew Bates
The Day the Revolution Began by N.T. Wright
Falling Upward by Richard Rohr
beauty and the gospel: beautifully dirty feet
Isaiah 52:7
Additional resources:
The King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight
Episode 35 on the Gravity Leadership Podcast, with Brad Jersak on Learning to Trust that God is Love
A More Christlike God by Brad Jersak
A Place to Start
A Spectacularly Beautiful Apocalyptic Denouement: Aesthetic Musings on Streets of Gold
Revelation 21
Beauty and Worship: Jesus Juked or a Wind-breath Inspired People
Exodus 31
This text is important for understanding the relationship that the Creator seeks with creative and skilled people. The Lord created a beautiful and good world. God called people, gifted them, and filled them with the Spirit to participate in bringing beauty into the world as God continues to do in every generation. -James Bruckner
Other Resources:
Desiring the Kingdom by James KA Smith
Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
Messenger, a poem by Mary Oliver
The Enduring Beauty of Mud Pies
Leviticus 23:33-44
Good Fruit and the time Jesus got hangry
Mark 11:12-14; 20-24
Beauty and Ecclesiology
A Beautiful World
Genesis 1
Books to check out:
Grounded by Diana Butler Bass
Selected Writings on the Earth Community by Thomas Berry
Woman Who Glows in the Dark by Elena Avila
From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving our World by Norman Wirzba