Emmaus at Pilot Mill

A teaching on Luke 18:31-19:27

Reflection Questions: 1. What is your nightly routine? 2. How do your nightly habits shape you? 3. What keeps you from sleep? What keeps you up at night? 4. What do your sleep patterns, struggles, or habits reveal about your lives, fears, commitments, and what you trust? 5. In your opinion, what is the link between daily sleep and the reality of death? 6. How are physical and spiritual rest related to each other? 7. Do you believe that God can sometimes work more in you as you sleep than when you are awake? Why or why not?Suggested Practice: 1. Think through your nightly liturgy. Make sure it is teaching you good habits of rest. Go to bed on time and get enough sleep. Reflect on or journal about how a week of good rest affects you spiritually and physically. 2. Talk to a family member or friend about the things that keep you from rest. Pray about them. 3. If you do not practice a weekly day of rest, do so this week. Reflect on how it affects you and your view of time, limits, your body, and God.

Editorial Note:The podcast publishing staff would like to apologize for recording artifacts in this installment, which diminish the seamless listening experience you've come to expect from Emmaus at Pilot Mill.

The Table at the Center of the CosmosThe Triune God at the Center of the TableFinding Ourselves at the Table “The Lord’s supper is the world in miniature; it has cosmic significance. Within it, we find clues to the meaning of all creation and all history, to the nature of God, and into the nature of man, to the mystery of the world, which is Christ. It is not confined to the first day, for its power fills seven. Though the table stands at the center, it’s affects stretch out to the four corners of the Earth.” Peter Leithart “If we can recognize his presence at work around the table, we will be able to recognize his work in the rest of our lives as well. If we can be trained into its logic of forgiveness, reconciliation, and renewal on Sunday, we can recognize that same logic of his presence in the world. Without such a discipline, however, we will always be tempted to take God‘s work into our own hands, instead of recognizing his work, submitting to, and participating in it. The table on Sunday morning, trains us to discern Christ’s presence in all the others places we eat during the week" David E. Fitch “Think of Christ as presiding over a banquet at the deep center of our being. His invitation to us is to search out the poor, crippled, blind, and lame aspects of our inner self and bring them to his feast of love. Here he stands ready to embrace them with love and to welcome them into the family of self that he is slowly weaving together in the ongoing transformation of our life.” David Brenner, on Luke 14:15-24

Our Joy

Our Peace

Our Hope

Always Beginnings

Becoming What We Worship

Everything is Mine

The Heart of the Law

(Note from the editor) Unfortunately, during the final two minutes of service, recorded audio from the speaker's mic was lost due to technical issues. The lost portion wraps up to Exodus 20:18-21.