03/11/2018
John 6:5-14
Sarah Neff
“It is not easy to offer the world to each other and to God. We prefer to take the world, possess it, and consume it. What we do not realize is that this hoarding gesture, a gesture often founded upon a deep insecurity and anxiety within us, compromises and degrades the giving of God that is the life of the world…Our eating, in other words, can be a witness to the offering of creatures and of God that makes life possible. –Norman Wirzba, Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating
“When people fully participate in the Eucharist the world ceases to signify as a material possession and instead becomes a gift to be given and shared.” –Norman Wirzba, Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Holy Manna by Atkin/Moore
Come for the Feast is Spread by Burton/Gordon
We Will Feast in the House of Zion by McCracken
Blessed Assurance by Crosby/Knapp
All the Poor and Powerless by Leonard/Jordan
Hungry by Scott
Doxology
Go further:
The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple by Richard Bauckham
The Death of the Messiah by Raymond Brown
The Gospel According to John (Part 11) by Raymond Brown
The Gospel of John: A Commentary by Frederick Dale Bruner
Entering into the Heart of Jesus: Meditations on the Indwelling Trinity of St. John’s Gospel by George Maloney
John: A Commentary by Marianne Meye Thompson
Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus Through the Gospel of John by John Vanier
Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating by Norman Wirzba
From Nature to Creation by Norman Wirzba
Lent Reading:
God is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved) by Kate Bowler
Good Dirt (Lent, Holy Week & Eastertide) by Lisa Finn Borgo & Ben Barczi
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Reader ed Chris Breslin
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
Living the Christian Year by Bobby Gross
Cross-Shattered Christ by Stanley Hauerwas
God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent & Easter ed Greg Pennoyer
The Seven Last Words from the Cross by Fleming Rutledge
Listening at Golgotha: Jesus’ Words from the Cross by Peter Storey
