Textweek ATLAS November 23, 2014: Christ the King / Reign of Christ

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Reign of Christ / Christ the King
November 23, 2014

• Brueggemann, Walter, "Psalm 100, Expository Article," Interpretation, 1985.
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“This Psalm is one of the best-known and best-loved in the entire repertoire of the Psalter. It breathes a faith of simple trust, glad surrender, and faithful responsiveness. It is not sung by newcomers who are only now embracing the faith but by those who are seasoned and at home in this faith and piety. Nor is it sung by the alienated who have any cause either against God or neighbor.”

Byars, Ronald P., "Between Text & Sermon, Psalm 95," Interpretation, 2002.
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“It may be that the crisis for faith in our time is linked to the habit of shrinking God to a manageable size. There is among us a widespread agnosticism, on the one hand, and a surfeit of easy God-talk on the other.”

• Haberer, Jack, "Ephesians 1:15-23," Interpretation, 2008.
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“The writer wants the Gentile recipients to apprehend and be apprehended by "every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places" (v. 3) that have been experienced already by the Jewish community. Ultimately, he prays for and, indeed, declares that those two communities have been constituted by the one God to live into the fullness of Christ's work and to experience it together as one body.”

• Johnson, Stephen C., "The 'Future' of Preaching: Apocalyptic Eschatology and Christian Proclamation," Restoration Quarterly, 2007.
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“One of the ways Moltmann expresses this thought is by the use of the term ‘anticipation.’ For him, the Christ event is not only the subject of Christian proclamation, but it also affects the process of proclamation and the way it takes place. As the Christ event anticipates the future of God, so Christian proclamation functions to do the same.”

• Roldan-Roman, Ingrid; Flesher, LeAnn Snow (translator), "Reclaiming the Reign of God for the Poor,"Review and Expositor, 2012.
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"The church of Jesus Christ cannot be merely a spectator in history. It must actively engage its historical and social circumstances. It must be active in daily life to be a part of history. Unfortunately, our celebrations and religious rituals are frequently very distant from the realities around us."