Sacrament Church Preston Sharpe

Sunday, April 7, 2024
Resources:
Willie James Jennings, Acts (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2017).
Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008).
Wright, Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, (New York: HarperCollins, 2008).
Lewis B. Smedes, Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don’t Deserve, (San Fransisco: Harper, 1984).
Chris E.W. Green, “Why Does the Resurrection Matter?” Speakeasy Theology, April 2, 2024, https://cewgreen.substack.com/p/why-does-the-resurrection-matter.

Sunday, March 31, 2024
Resources:
Richard Hays, First Corinthians (Louisville: 2011).
Gordon Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, Revised Edition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014).
Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited (Grand Rapids:Zondervan, 2011).
Tom Wright, Mark for Everyone (Louisville: John Knox, 2001).
Rowan Williams, Meeting God in Mark: Reflections for the Season of Lent (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2014).
Eugene H. Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992).
Wright, John for Everyone, Part 2, (London: SPCK, 2022).
Marianne Meye Thompson, John, A Commentary, (Louisville: Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2015).

Sunday, March 24, 2024
N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is, (Downers Grove: IVP, 1999), 34-53.
Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem, (New York: HarperCollins, 2006).
Esau McCaulley, Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal, (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2022). 
Wright, Mark for Everyone, (Louisville: John Knox, 2001).
Fleming Rutledge, The Undoing of Death: Sermons for Holy Week and Easter, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002).
Rowan Williams, “Silence in the face of mystery,” Christian Century, August 21, 2018, https://www.christiancentury.org/article/critical-essay/silence-face-mystery.

Sunday, March 17, 2024
Resources:
Walter Brueggemann, A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998).
Christopher J.H. Wright, To the Cross: Proclaiming the Gospel from the Upper Room to Calvary (Downers Grove: Intervarsity, 2017).
Chris E.W. Green, Being Transfigured: Lenten Homilies (Abbotsford, BC: St. Macrina, 2023).
Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (New York: Random House, 1996).
Wendell Berry, “An Entrance to the Woods,” Recollected Essays 1965-1980, (San Francisco: North Point, 1981).
Tracy Balzer, Thin Places: An Evangelical Journey Into Celtic Christianity, (Abilene: Leafwood, 2013).

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 Knox, 2001).
Wright, The New Testament and the People of God, (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992).
Marianne Meye Thompson, John: A Commentary (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2015).