Difference between revisions of "Sermon for June 21st, 2015"
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*Poor Goliath (never had a chance). But why did no one realize this? | *Poor Goliath (never had a chance). But why did no one realize this? | ||
*ish benayim: David as the true "man in the middle" (as opposed to Goliath). | *ish benayim: David as the true "man in the middle" (as opposed to Goliath). | ||
| + | *related to above: Saul and Goliath are opposites, not David and Goliath (saul selected because of his heighth, to "fight battles for us" | ||
*Is this story really about David and Goliath? what's the bigger picture context? | *Is this story really about David and Goliath? what's the bigger picture context? | ||
Eugene Petersen: "While David knelt by the brook, the world was bounded on one side by the arrogant and bullying people of Philistia and on the other side by the demoralized and anxious people of Israel. To the north of the brook the powerful but stupid giant; to the south of the brook the anointed but deeply flawed king. No one could have guessed that the young man picking stones out of the brook was doing the most significant work of the day . . . The only person fully in touch with reality that day was David. The only fully human person in the Valley of Elah that day was David. Reality is made up of mostly what we can’t see. Humannness is mostly a matter of what never gets reported in the newspapers. Only a prayer-saturated imagination accounts for what made holy history that day—the striking immersion in God-reality, the robust exhibitionism of David-humanity” | Eugene Petersen: "While David knelt by the brook, the world was bounded on one side by the arrogant and bullying people of Philistia and on the other side by the demoralized and anxious people of Israel. To the north of the brook the powerful but stupid giant; to the south of the brook the anointed but deeply flawed king. No one could have guessed that the young man picking stones out of the brook was doing the most significant work of the day . . . The only person fully in touch with reality that day was David. The only fully human person in the Valley of Elah that day was David. Reality is made up of mostly what we can’t see. Humannness is mostly a matter of what never gets reported in the newspapers. Only a prayer-saturated imagination accounts for what made holy history that day—the striking immersion in God-reality, the robust exhibitionism of David-humanity” | ||
Revision as of 11:26, 20 June 2015
- Poor Goliath (never had a chance). But why did no one realize this?
- ish benayim: David as the true "man in the middle" (as opposed to Goliath).
- related to above: Saul and Goliath are opposites, not David and Goliath (saul selected because of his heighth, to "fight battles for us"
- Is this story really about David and Goliath? what's the bigger picture context?
Eugene Petersen: "While David knelt by the brook, the world was bounded on one side by the arrogant and bullying people of Philistia and on the other side by the demoralized and anxious people of Israel. To the north of the brook the powerful but stupid giant; to the south of the brook the anointed but deeply flawed king. No one could have guessed that the young man picking stones out of the brook was doing the most significant work of the day . . . The only person fully in touch with reality that day was David. The only fully human person in the Valley of Elah that day was David. Reality is made up of mostly what we can’t see. Humannness is mostly a matter of what never gets reported in the newspapers. Only a prayer-saturated imagination accounts for what made holy history that day—the striking immersion in God-reality, the robust exhibitionism of David-humanity”
