08/18/2019
Hebrews 11:29-12:2
Chris Breslin
“How subversive, raising a liberator under Pharaoh’s roof! She joined their efforts to thwart the death edict and turn the tide of the Great River itself. Perhaps Jochebed, Bithiah and the young Miriam founded the Nile Network that day, women determined to use their subversive strength to plant seeds of liberation that would one day upend the empire.” -Kelley Nikondeha, Mothering as a Subversive Act
“I don’t want it to have happened. I want it to not have happened, but if you are grateful for your life — which I think is a positive thing to do, not everybody is, and I am not always but it’s the most positive thing to do — then you have to be grateful for all of it. You can’t pick and choose what you’re grateful for…That’s the great gift of the sacrifice of Christ, is that God does it too,.. That you’re really not alone.” –Stephen Colbert in conversation with Anderson Cooper
There’s a story of a priest coming to see a theologian on a personal matter which eventually boiled down to the priest saying ‘The problem is, Dr. Barth, I’ve lost my faith;’ to which the theologian, Karl Barth replied, ‘but what on earth gave you the impression it was yours to lose?’ -quoted by J. Louis Martyn
Mentioned:
Educated by Tara Westover
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nahasi Coates
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Scripture:
Genesis 4 (Abel)
Genesis 5:21-24 (Enoch)
Genesis 6:5-22 (Noah)
Genesis 12 (Abraham & Sarah)
Genesis 22 (Binding of Isaac)
Exodus 14 (Moses)
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
I Boast No More by Watts/McCracken
Pass Us Not, O Gentle Savior by Crosby/Doane/Gentle Wolves
O God Our Help in Ages Past by Watts/DeConto
You Carried Me by Reagan
Oceans by Houston/Crocker/Lighthelm
Words Remain by Garrels
Doxology
