Behold & Become

Part two in the series on the Lord's Prayer, focusing on "thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."

Introduction to the Lord's Prayer series and exploration of the first phrase. Resources for this series: Lord, Teach Us - Willimon and Hauerwas Teach Us to Prayer - Gonzalez The Greatest Prayer - Crossan Praying the Lord's Prayer - Packer The Lord and His Prayer - Wright The Lord's Prayer - Hill Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes - Bailey The Face of Water - Ruden Praying the Lord's Prayer in a Pan...

Conclusion to the Nicene Creed series. Resources mentioned: Fleming Rutledge article on the Jesus kerygma and the Christ kerygma The Creed by Luke Timothy Johnson

Considering the third paragraph of the Nicene Creed about the Holy Spirit.

Continuing in the series on the Nicene Creed Contact me vial email with followup questions: rblack@SLS.church Good Friday sermon on theme of " For Us and For Our Salvation " Christmas sermon on theme of Incarnation

Part two of a series on the Nicene Creed.

Introductory episode to a series on the Nicene Creed. Resources mentioned: Lewis Ayres, Nicaea and its Legacy Luke Timothy Johnson, The Creed Alister McGrath, I Believe Ben Myers, The Apostles' Creed

Concluding episode in a series on the "big questions" of faith. Resources mentioned: Tom Long, What Happens When We Die?

Continuing series on the "the big questions." Resources cited: Robin Gill, Why Be Good? Timothy Sedgwick, What Does It Mean to Be Holy Whole?

Continuing series on "the big questions." Resources mentioned: Robin Gill, Why Does God Allow Suffering? Ian Markham, Why Suffering?

Continuing the series on the big questions of faith. Resources mentioned: Alister McGrath, Why are We Here?  

Considering the big questions of life and faith. Resources mentioned: Keith Ward, What Do We Mean By God? Rowan Williams, What is Christianity?

Considering the holy days that fall in May and June.

Conclusion to the series on Baptismal faith with a discussion about vocation. Resources mentioned: Stanley Hauerwas and Will Willimon, Resident Aliens

Continuing the series on the Baptismal Covenant by considering "the prayers." Resources mentioned: Ian Markham, Liturgical Life Principles Scott Gunn & Meloddy Wilson Shobe, Walk in Love

Continuing to explore the Baptismal Covenant. This week, considering how we continue in the breaking of the bread.

On the topic of the "apostles' fellowship" from the Baptismal Covenant. Resources mentioned: Urban Holmes, What Is Anglicanism? Michael Mattle, Ubuntu: I in You and You in Me Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Continuing to explore the Baptismal Covenant. This week, considering how we engage the apostles' teaching by reading Scripture. Resources mentioned: Urban Holmes, What is Anglicanism? Oxford Annotated Study Bible Common English Bible David Bentley Hart NT translation Daily Office app Robert Altar, The Hebrew Bible Jenny Lynn Estes, The Anglican Rosary

Considering Scripture as "the apostles' teaching." Resources mentioned: Will Willimon, Preachers Dare

Introductory episode to a series on Baptismal grace and vocation. Resources mentioned: John Barclay, Paul and Power of Grace

Concluding episode on understanding the salvation of the Cross. Resources mentioned: Christ the Key, Kathryn Tanner The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James Cone The Sign and the Sacrifice, Rowan Williams Matthias Grünewald, Isenheim Crucifixion

Continuing the series on atonement theories with an exploration of mimetic theory. Resources mentioned: Rene Girard Christus Victor Atonement and Girard’s Scapegoat Theory by Greg Boyd The Day the Revoluation Began, NT Wright The Crucifixion, Fleming Rutledge Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James Cone The Bible for Normal People podcast, Episode 152

Continuing the series on atonement theories with an exploration of the Moral Influence/Example model. References: St. Luke's Salisbury Peter Abelard Phillippians 2:5:11 The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis , edited by John Pokinghorne (chapters 8 & 9) The Cross and the Lynching Tree , by James Cone The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ , by Fleming Rutledge With the Grain o...

Continuing the series on atonement theories with an exploration of the substitutionary model.

Continuing the series on atonement theories with an exploration of the Christus Victor model.