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Resources
Think, Read, Pray
On this page you'll find lectures, recommended readings On The Bookshelf, riches for Lent, Easter, Advent and Christmas, and other resources.
How can we better serve you?
Please email us and let us know what additional resources you'd like to see here.
You are invited into our Prayer Circle
Each month we send out a one page Prayer Circle letter with
- Thanks for God’s blessings in the month that’s passed
- Specific prayer requests for Theological Horizons’ ministry
- Petitions offered by anyone in the Prayer Circle & beyond
- Brief devotionals, prayers and resources for your spiritual flourishing
We treasure your prayers & would be blessed by your part in this ministry! If you would like to be included, please contact us by email, letter or telephone.
Lectures by Charles Marsh
- Listen to or watch the video of Charles's "Last Lecture" at the University of Virginia
- Listen to his lecture, "Redemption, Reconciliation and Creation of Beloved Community: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Christian Vision", Wheaton College, April 2008
- Listen to Charles's lecture "Let Us Now Praise Peculiar People!" Baylor University, February 2008
Wilderness Theology
”The Grace to Go Nowhere” was the theme of Charles Marsh’s seminar exploring the Christian disciplines of holy silence and stillness; disciplines which are often neglected but which bring balance and perspective to the active life. Read Charles's sermon on learning to be still in a nation of busy believers.
On Our Bookshelf
For these and other titles, we invite you to visit our friends at Splintered Light Bookstore in Charlottesville, Virginia or online.
Survival Guide for Christians: How to be students and disciples at the same time
by eTony Campolo and William Willimon (Paperback) ISBN: 1582292361
Especially for college-age students, Survival Guide For Christians On Campus, is a powerful message for modern, university based Christians seeking to better understand and exemplify their faith in an academic setting. Through lively, engaging writing and solid theology, Campolo and Willimon encourage students to use the university experience to test, think about and ultimately strengthen their faith, not to shy away from tough questions. A great high school graduation gift.
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence (Whitaker House, 1982) 
ISBN:
0883681056
New! Recommended by Clair Wolterstorff is a small, compassionate work seeking to invite all of us into the depth of God's presence.
"[It] is a book which is most helpful for those who feel themselves to be too ignorant, too reticent, too ordinary -- no spiritual giant -- to undertake a way of prayer, but who nevertheless are deeply hungry for the abiding presence of God in their lives."
For more of her comments on the classic, The Practice of The Presence of God, read here.
The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justic, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today by Charles Marsh NOW IN PAPERBACK!
(Basic Books, 2005) ISBN: 0-465-04415-8
Philip Yancey praises The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today, the new book by Horizons director Charles Marsh: "Half a century ago an underground army rallied around a vision in order to change the moral landscape of America. Part historian, part raconteur, and part preacher, Charles Marsh calls us to keep alive that vision and to fulfill its promise. I found myself both moved to nostalgia and stirred to action as I read his gripping account.”
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs
(HarperSanFrancisco, 2005) ISBN: 0060766905
Disney’s big new film came last year: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, based on the book from C.S. Lewis’s beloved Chronicles of Narnia, a series which has sold more than 100 million copies and is one of the most enduring classics of children’s literature.
To accompany Disney’s movie release, HarperCollins publishers commissioned Dr. Alan Jacobs to write a brand new Lewis biography entitled The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis, a book which has just come out to great reviews.
We are privileged know Alan Jacobs, author of The Narnian professor of English at Wheaton College. Theological Horizons supported Alan with a writing grant over six years ago—and we are gratified to see this seed of encouragement play a part in a fruitful writing career. We congratulate Alan on the publication of this exciting new book!
Now The Narnian was nominated for the prestigious Quill Award in Religion, along with the Dalai Lama, Bart Ehrman, T.D. Jakes and Karen Armstrong.
“Alan Jacobs is an ideal biographer for Lewis…Even nonbelievers may find themselves drawn to this deft portrait of a man whose ineffable longing for grace speaks to the experience of us all.” The Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2005
The Last Days: A Son’s Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of the New South by Charles Marsh (Basic Books, 2002) ISBN: 0465044190
Seeking to come to terms with the haunting memories of his childhood in the
deep South—Charles Marsh has crafted a memoir of small-town Southern
life caught up in the whirlwind of the Civil Rights movement. The Last
Days examines the collision of worlds once divided—where Protestant
conservatism, the African American struggle for civil rights, and late 1960s
counter culture—that propelled the dramatic changes in everyday life
in a small Southern town.
“More than a spellbinding account of this horrendous moment in Southern
history, The Last Days is a stunning portrait of family love.” –Dennis
Covington
“A reverent look at the enduring quality of faith in the midst of challenging
times.”—Christianity Today
To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City by Mark Gornik
forward by Miroslav Volf, preface by LaVerne S. Stokes
(Eerdmans, 2002) ISBN: 0802846858
How are Christians to understand and respond to our distressed inner-city
communities? Building on both the perspective of God's new creation and the
view from the neighborhood, Mark R. Gornik's To Live in Peace shows how the
life of the church, the strategies of community development, and the practices
of peacemaking can make a transformational difference.
Help My Unbelief by Fleming Rutledge (Eerdmans, 2000) ISBN: 0802838952
With this volume of sermons, Fleming Rutledge speaks directly to readers who are With this plagued by doubts and uncertainties about Christian faith. Among the challenging questions she addresses are: Doesn’t everyone have their own idea of God? What if I’m not very religious? Can we still believe in the Resurrection today?
With pastoral warmth and intellectual fearlessness, Rev. Rutledge aligns herself with the struggling questioner as she faces the most penetrating theological challenges of our day. At the same time, she entrusts herself to the explosive force of God’s Word.
“These sermons are life preservers thrown to a culture drowning in uncertainty.”
—Tom Long
Praying After Loss
There are times in life when we are confronted by unspeakable grief. At a loss for words, we turn to Christians who have gone before us, believers who have spoken the hope of the Gospel in the midst of affliction. With them we intercede for the distressed ones:
In the Morning
O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray and to concentrate my thoughts on you:
I cannot do this alone.
In me there is darkness,
But with you there is light;
I am lonely, but you do not leave me;
I am feeble in heart but with you there is help;
I am restless, but with you there is peace.
In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience;
I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me…
Restore me to liberty and enable me to live now
That I may answer before you and before me.
Lord, whatever this day may bring,
Your name be praised.
---a prayer from prison by German pastor & martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In the Evening
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night,
And give your angels charge over those who sleep.
Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying,
Soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love’s sake.
--- from the Book of Common Prayer
For each Sunday through Advent and into the Christmas season, we invite you to join us here for readings from the rich Christian tradition. Add your own comments, readings, resources and prayers. Together we wait for the light, anticipating God's coming into the world!
Advent Reflections on the Horizons Blog
Daily Scripture Readings for Advent
Daily Scripture Readings from the Book of Common Prayer
Music for Advent Handel's Messiah Celtic Christmas Music
Prayers for the First Week of Advent (December 2-8, 2007)
Prayer for the Second Week of Advent (December 9-15)
Prayer for the Third Week of Advent (December 16-22)
Prayer for the Fourth Week of Advent (December 23-25)
RICHES for LENT and EASTER
Come by our blog each week for Lenten reflections.
You are invited to share books, thoughts, websites, articles, Bible verses that you find rich resources for Lent.
To receive our weekly email newsletter through Lent and Easter, simply drop us a line .
WEBSITES
Journey to the Center: A Lenten Passage by Father Thomas Keating daily Scripture, devotionals & prayer.
ExploreFaith.org Accessible tools for lent from a broad Christian perspective
Bible Readings For Lent from the Book of Common Prayer Join believers throughout the world through shared Scripture readings throughout Lent
BOOKS
Show Me The Way: Readings For Each Day of Lent by Henri J.M. Nouwen
Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter (a collection from various authors)
YOUR THOUGHTS DURING LENT AND EASTER
"The old German word for springtime is 'Lenz' which is also connected with our word Lent. Here in Germany, however, it is generally said that 'Lent' (which they sometimes use here, although the German term is 'Fastenzeit') comes from the Latin word 'lentus' which means slow, calm, quiet, reposeful, deliberate--all words that refer to the attitude we are to have during the 40 days of fasting."
--Mary in Berlin, Germany
"Ash Wednesday. Lent's forty day beginning. Reflecting and repenting as we think of all that Christ came to break and came to offer...then, three days after the cross, we will be those for whom great remembering rejoicing will come. Reflecting. Repenting. Rejoicing. Fasting. Feasting. Easter's coming.
Like the ebb and flow of the tidal marsh creek nearby, the seasons of the church year add a rhythm to our worship. Beginnings. Endings. Changes. Constancy. Fasting. Feasting. Heart journeys for celebrating, confessing, over and over again. Easter's coming."
--Lane in St. Simons, Georgia, USA
"Our Lenten Roses are showing up through our snows, and the morning air sifting thru our open bedroom windows smell of new life."
--Dan in Denver, Colorado, USA
Let us add your own reflections & resources! Email us and we'll post them.