SONGS
Free - Gungor
Satisfied In You - The Sing Team
I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever
Relentless - Hillsong United
TEXT
Isaiah 11:6-10
CAMPAIGN BREAK
TAKEAWAYS
Over the next month leading to Advent, regularly read the poem in Isaiah 11:1-10, considering this commentary from Walter Brueggemann:
In poetry we can do things not permitted by logic or reason. Poetry will open the world beyond reason. Poetry will give access to contradictions and tensions that logic must deny. Poetry will not only remember, but also propose and conjure and wonder and imagine and foretell.
Consider these questions:
BENEDICTION
Risen Christ,
Come near to us who are in places of death,
Come near to us who are strugging to surrender,
Come near to us fools and make us your fools,
And let us practice resurrection in a world that fears death.
Amen
RESOURCE
Podcast: Hidden Brain | The Edge Effect
PRACTICE
The Poem is a 4-week series in Isaiah 11, a section of poetry a few of us have thought a lot about over the years. As a result of that thinking, it has had a large influence on how we view things and do things at Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's. The hopeful fruit of a month in the poem together is a reminder of our identity: congregationally and individually.
TEXT
Isaiah 11:1-5
TAKEAWAYS
BENEDICTION
Risen Christ,
Come near to us who are in
places of death,
Come near to us who are
struggling to surrender,
Come near to us fools
and make us your fools
and let us practice
resurrection in a world
that fears death.
Amen
The Poem is a 4-week series in Isaiah 11, a section of poetry a few of us have thought a lot about over the years. As a result of that thinking, it has had a large influence on how we view things and do things at Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's. The hopeful fruit of a month in the poem together is a reminder of our identity: congregationally and individually.
TEXT
Isaiah 11:2-4a
TAKEAWAYS
BENEDICTION
Risen Christ,
Come near to us who are in
places of death,
Come near to us who are
struggling to surrender,
Come near to us fools
and make us your fools
and let us practice
resurrection in a world
that fears death.
Amen
The Poem is a 4-week series in Isaiah 11, a section of poetry a few of us have thought a lot about over the years. As a result of that thinking, it has had a large influence on how we view things and do things at Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's. The hopeful fruit of a month in the poem together is a reminder of our identity: congregationally and individually.
TEXT
Isaiah 11:1
TAKEAWAYS
Sins of omission get us all
What do I need to reckon with personally?
What sins of my family or my race or my congregation or my gender do I need to consider that I haven’t considered?
"For A New Beginning" by John O'Donohue
In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.
For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.
Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.