Sacrament Church

Sunday, March 10, 2024 Resources: John Goldingay, Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone, (Louisville: Presbyterian Publishing, 2010). C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ,  (New York: HarperCollins, 1952). William Barclay, The Gospel of John, Volume One, (Louisville: Presbyterian Publishing, 2001). Gregory of Nazianzus, “Poem 2.”

Sunday, March 3, 2024 Readings: Exodus 20:1-17 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 John 2:13-22 Chris E.W. Green, "On Using the Cleansing of the Temple to Justify Violence,”  Clarion, January 18, 2021,  https://www.clarion-journal.com/clarion_journal_of_spirit/2021/01/on-using-the-cleansing-of-the-temple-to-justify-violence-chris-green.html . Tom Wright, John for Everyone (Louisville: Westminster John...

Sunday, February 25, 2024 Suggested Resources: Walter Brueggemann, Genesis (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1982), Terence E. Fretheim, Abraham: Trials of Family and Faith (Minneapolis: 1517 Media, 2024). N.T. Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013). Wright, Mark for Everyone (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001). Rowan Williams, Meeting God in Mark: Re...

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Sunday, January 28, 2024 Readings: Deuteronomy 18:15-20 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Mark 1:21-28

Sunday, January 21, 2023 Resources: Eugene H. Peterson, Under the Predictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992).  Richard B. Hays, First Corinthians, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2011). Tom Wright, Mark for Everyone, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001). Craig S. Keener, The IVP Bible Backgrounds Commentary, New Testament, (Downers Grove:...

Sunday, January 14, 2024 Resources: Eugene H. Peterson, First and Second Samuel (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999). Richard B. Hays, First Corinthians, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2011). Tom Wright, John for Everyone: Part 1, Chapters 1-10, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002). Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Stride Toward Freedom, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1958).

Sunday, January 7, 2024 Resources: Walter Brueggemann,  Genesis, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1982). Eugene Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God, (New York: Crown, 2019). John H. Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2009). Ray S. Anderson, The Soul of M...

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Sunday, December24, 2023 Reading: 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 Romans 16:25-27 Luke 1:26-38 Suggested Resources: Eugene H. Peterson, First and Second Samuel (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999). Benjamin Myers, The Apostles Creed: A Guide to the Ancient Catechism (Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2018). Tom Wright, Luke for Everyone (Louisville: Westminister, 2001). Christopher Knowles, Our Gods Wear Spandex:...

Sunday, December 17, 2023 Resources: Jeremy Seifert, “the church forests of Ethiopia,” Aeon, March 4, 2020, https://aeon.co/videos/how-hundreds-of-small-gardens-of-eden-guard-against-total-deforestation-in-ethiopia . “Dayenu: It Would Have Been Enough,” My Jewish Learning, Accessed on December 11, 2023, https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/dayenu-it-would-have-been-enough/ . Scot McKnight, A F...

Sunday, December 10, 2023 Suggested Resources: Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018). Robert Alter, “Isaiah,” The Hebrew Bible: Volume 2, the Five Books of the Prophets, a Translation with Commentary (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019). Walter Brueggemann, Isaiah 40-66 (Louisville: Presbyterian Publishing Company, 1998). Tom Wri...

Sunday, December 3, 2023 Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018). Tom Wright, Mark for Everyone (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001). Gregory the Great, “Homilies I.”  Shane Claiborne quote:  https://twitter.com/ShaneClaiborne/status/1727910987192262946 Ian Simkins Quote:   https://x.com/iansimkins/status/1332335057600...

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Sunday, November 19, 2023 Suggested Resources: Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians (Louisville: John Knox, 2002). Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018).

Sunday, November 12, 2023 Suggested Resources: Robert Alter, “Deuteronomy,” The Hebrew Bible: Volume 1, the Five Books of Moses, a Translation with Commentary, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019). Carolyn J. Sharp, “Commentary on Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25,” Working Preacher, November 8, 2020, https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-32/commentary-on-joshu...

Sunday, November 5, 2023 Reading: Revelations 7:9-17 1 John 3:1-3 Matthew 5:1-12 Suggested Resources: Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, (Grand Rapids: InterVarsity, 2020). Eugene H. Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God, Audiobook, (New York: Penguin Random House, 2017)....

Sunday, October 29, 2023 Suggested Resources: Robert Alter, “Deuteronomy,” The Hebrew Bible: Volume 1, the Five Books of Moses, a Translation with Commentary, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019). Walter Brueggemann, Texts for Preaching, Year A: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV, (Louisville: Presbyterian Publishing Company, 1995). Cyril of Jerusalem, “Catechetical Lecture 16.26.” N...

Sunday, October 22, 2023 Suggested Resources: John Goldingay, Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010). Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Stanford, April 3, 1968, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/ive-been-mountaintop . Augustine, “The Trinity 2.17.28.”  Origen, “Commentary on the Song of Songs 3.15.”  Tom Wright, Paul for Every...

Sunday, October 16, 2023 Suggested Resources: John Goldingay, Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010). Terence E. Fretheim, Exodus, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010). Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone, The Prison Letters: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon, (London: Wipf and Stock, 2002). Lynn H. Cohick, Philippians, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan,...

Sunday, October 8, 2023 Suggested Resources: John Goldingay, Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010). Terence E. Fretheim, Exodus, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010). Peter J. Leithart, “Are the Ten Commandments Still Relevant?” Logos, February 5, 2020, https://www.logos.com/grow/are-the-ten-commandments-still-relevant/ . Tom Wright, Matthew for Everyone...

Sunday, October 1, 2023 Readings: Exodus 17:1-7 Philippians 2:1-13 Matthew 21:23-32 Suggested Resources: N.T. Wright, Paul: (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005). Lynn H. Cohick, Philippians, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013). Stanley Hauerwas, Matthew, (Baker: Grand Rapids: 2007). Robert Farrar Capon, Kingdom, Grace, Judgement: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus, (Grand Rapids...

Sunday, September 24, 2023 Suggested Resources: John Goldingay, Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone (Louisville: Westminster, 2010). Terence E. Fretheim, Exodus (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010). C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, (San Francisco: HarperOne, 1942). Stanley Hauerwas, Matthew, (Baker: Grand Rapids: 2007).

Sunday, September 17, 2023 Exodus 14:19-31 Romans 14:1-12 Matthew 18:21-35 John Goldingay, Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone (Louisville: Westminster, 2010). Terence E. Fretheim, Exodus (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010). C.S. Lewis, “The Great Divorce,” Complete Works of C.S. Lewis. Robert Farrar Capon, Kingdom, Grace, Judgement: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the...