Message Attributions
12/31/2006
Commentaries by Stott, Barclay, the Expositor's Bible, and a sermon by Timothy Radcliffe, OP.
12/03/2006
Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7 (NIV)
07/09/2006
This past weeks sermon owes a great deal to the writings and thinking of my friend Brian McLaren. I commend several of his books to you--A New Kind of Christian, More Ready than You Realize and Church on the Other Side.
I found the Greek word study on 'doubt' in my files. I can't remember where I first came across it. If anyone recognizes the source let me know!
The Mother Teresa quotes were taken from letters she wrote to her spiritual director over the course of her ministry. They are very moving and reflect the heart of someone who deeply loved Jesus. Remember doubt presumes faith!
07/02/2006
Robert Barron is the one who came up with the idea of Jesus relying on us to be "vehicles of his self-expression." He is also the first person I've heard make a comparison of the theonomous and autonomous life. I think both ideas are rich and beautiful.
I actually have a pen and ink drawing of Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot) in my home. He was a dark but brilliant playwright. He truly showed what life in a meaningless universe looks like. I do think that Jesus is relying on us to 'counter-narrate' the world.
I strongly recommend an article by Robert Jenson titled "How the World Lost It's Story." Some of his ideas appear in this sermon as well.
06/25/2006
R. Barron, William Barclay, Rev. Dr. Paul Zahl.
05/28/2006
"I was introduced to the idea of Jesus the Advocate by Tim Keller. The exegesis of today's text was taken from a teaching of his that I heard in the early 90's. If you'd like to read up on the life of William Wilberforce I recommend Garth Lean's, God's Politician."- Ian
02/26/2006
The artwork that Andrea used in her sermon can be viewed in a Powerpoint show available here.
12/04/05
The Journey of the Magi, by T.E. Eliot
'A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For the journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.'
And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices:
A hard time we had of it.
At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.
Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;
With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,
And three trees on the low sky,
And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,
Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,
And feet kicking the empty wine-skins,
But there was no information, and so we continued
And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory
All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death,
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death
9/18/05
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
Missa Papae Marcelli
Kyre (3.58)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
CD: EMI Redline Classics: Faure: Requiem
7/10/2005
Jim Carrey's film The Truman Show
Tim Keller
Barclay's Commentary on the Gospel of John
Bridging the Great Divide, by Robert Barron
7/03/2005
The Strangest Way by Robert Barron
IVP Commentary on the Gospel of John
Bridging the Great Divide-Musings of a Post-Liberal, Post Conservative Evangelical Catholic by Robert Barron
Tim Keller
5/22/2005
Portions of this message were adapted from notes I took from a bible study lead by Tim Keller given in the early 1990s. I think I still have the tape somewhere for those who'd like to hear. The Trial by Kafka is a worthy read, albeit very dark. I don't recommend you take it on if you're prone to despair.
2/27/2005
This week's sermon was inspired by a devotional given by Sarah Bourgeois at our weekly Trinity staff meeting. Sarah's remarks were so moving and timely that I borrowed one or two.
I quoted Frederick Buechner a number of times. He is a lovely and elegant writer. The quotes were from A Room Called Remember. Other books of his are well worth reading. I recommend Telling Secrets, A Clown in the Belfry, Whistling in the Dark, Godric, and The Longing for Home.
1/16/2005
The Lost Message of Jesus, by Steve Chalke
1/9/2005
One of the books that I referenced and quoted from in this sermon is a little
classic written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer titled Life Together. Another work worth
reading on this might be Community and Growth by Jean Vanier.
1/2/2005
Making Sense Out of Suffering, by Peter Kreeft.
12/19/2004
The exegesis of the John 17 text in this sermon was largely drawn from a sermon
I heard given by Tim Keller in the early 90's. I also drew ideas from two books
that have greatly impacted my spiritual journey. The Strangest Way and And
Now I See by Fr. Robert Barron. I especially recommend the former.
12/12/2004
A New Kind of Grieving, by Bill Hybels
The Grief Recovery Book, by John James and Frank Cherry