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Sunday sermons from the pastoral team at Resurrection Philadelphia
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Luke 15:1-10Nearly all areas of life in which we could become spiritually competent (hearing God and receiving divine guidance among them) confront us with the same type of challenge. They all require of us a choice to be a spiritual person, to live a spiritual life. We are required to "bet our life" that the visible world, while real, is not reality itself. - Dallas Willard, Hearing God
Luke 14:25-35The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. - G. K. Chesterton
Luke 14:1-24; Isaiah 55:1-8The future is given to those who are experienced in groaning. The future is denied to those who have been cynical and calloused and self-deceiving enough to rejoice in the present ordering and are unable to grieve about the ruin toward which the royal community is headed.... The staggering works of Jesus - feeding, healing, casting out, forgiving - happened not to those who held to the old order but to those who yearned because the old order had failed them or squeezed them out. - Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination
Luke 13:18-35When we submit our lives to what we read in Scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. - Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book
Luke 13:1-17There is mystery in God. If God could be fit into our puny human minds, or limited to our experience of him, or contained in our theological description of his ways, he would be too small a God to worship. - R. Paul Stevens and Michael Green, Living the Story: Biblical Spirituality for Everyday Christians
Luke 12:35-56What about those who have strayed from God's path, those whose eyes have veered in idolatrous directions? Are such people simply to die of spiritual thirst in the desert? No, the opposite is true. God uses the wilderness to win many back when they stray. With God, streams of living water appear in the desert. - Mark Sayers, A Non-Anxious Presence
Luke 12:13-34Fear is not a Christian habit of mind. - Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness of Things
Luke 12:1-12The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work that you most need to do and the world most needs to have done.... Thus, the place God calls you is the place your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. - Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC
Luke 11:33-54“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on...that’s who we really are.” - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Luke 11:14-32The church has always been under call to live differently…. You are not just out there. You have been addressed, claimed, named, commissioned. You have been addressed in your baptism. Every time you take communion, you are called to the extravagant goodness of God, called to put your life down in the power and wonder of the creator God, called to remember that you are God’s, that you belong to him and exist for him. - Walter Brueggemann, A Way Other Than Our Own
Luke 11:1-13Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other need; prayer is the beginning of that communion, and some need is the motive of that prayer. Our wants are for the sake of our coming into communion with God, our eternal need. - George MacDonald, "The Words of Jesus on Prayer," in Unspoken Sermons
Luke 10:38-42Stillness before God transforms us into unhurried love. It is in the stillness of silent prayer that God turns over the soil of our hearts, revealing our desires to us and the source of their fullest satisfaction. - Tyler Staton, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools
Luke 10:25-37"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. It can be received gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes, like a deer at the salt." - Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies
1 Peter 2:9-12When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom. But when it goes the way the Master went, unmasking and challenging the powers of darkness and bearing in its own life the cost of their onslaught, then there are given to the Church signs of the kingdom, powers of healing and blessing which, to eyes of faith, are recognizable as true signs that Jesus reigns.” - Lesslie Newbigin, Gospel in a Pluralist Society
Luke 9:46-62"To follow a crucified Messiah is to confess that those who are mighty by the standards of the world are not the ultimate insiders but are likely to be the consummate outsiders in the kingdom of God. Conversely, to be enfolded into the kingdom of the crucified Messiah is to be given the status of consummate insider, even if one was previously at the margins of society." - J. R. Daniel Kirk, Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul?
Luke 9:18-36A capacity to be thankful in the midst of hard times requires acknowledging that we do not know the whole story, that we are living before it is complete, and that we are thankful for the presence of God and faithful persons in our lives. Gratitude is a crucial way that death and destruction do not have the final word, and cannot fully define us. - Christine Pohl, Living Into Community
Luke 9:1-20Baptism takes us to where Jesus is. It takes us therefore into closer neighbourhood with a dark and fallen world, and it takes us into closer neighbourhood with others invited there. The baptized life is characterized by solidarity with those in need, and sharing with all others who believe. And it is characterized by a prayerfulness that courageously keeps going, even when things are difficult and unpromising and unrewarding, simply because you cannot stop the urge to pray. Something keeps coming alive in you; never mind the results. - Rowan Williams, Being Christian
Acts 2:1-21; Luke 24:44-53The Spirit is given to begin the work of making God's future real in the present. ... Just as the resurrection of Jesus opened up the unexpected world of God's new creation, so the Spirit comes to us from that new world, the world waiting to be born, the world in which, according to the old prophets, peace and justice will flourish and the wolf and the lamb will lie down side by side. - N. T. Wright, Simply Christian
Luke 8:40-56
Luke 8:22-39"If God were small enough to be understood, he wouldn't be big enough to be worshipped." - Evelyn Underhill
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