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Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Holy Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Holy Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Holy Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Holy Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Holy Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Holy Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Holy Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

Christy Nelson is the Bolt Gallery featured artist for June 2019. She joined us on Sunday to talk about her Transform show, the importance of our stories, and the metamorphosis of seeing.

Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Holy Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Holy Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

Our weekly songs, readings and practices are now available in our Weekly Guide! We hope for it to be a catalyst for the movement of the Spirit through our week. Sign up to receive it here. Love -  Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe's

TEXT Matthew 16:24-36   TAKEAWAYS 1 Write em down: “I am dust and ashes.” “The world was created just for me.” 2 Less is more. What do I need to do or say less? 3 Spend one full half hour in a natural setting meditating on the flow of life. 4 Prayerfully, be who you are in conscious awareness of Christ’s presence   BENEDICTION The grace of God means something like: "Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are, because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you." There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too. Amen. - Frederick Buechner  

SONGS WE SANG Jesus Paid It All by Kings (MHM) Heart Of Worship by Matt Redman Love Song by Jason Morant King Of My Heart by John Mark McMillan TEXT Philippians 2:1-4 MSG Philippians 2:1-4 NIV   TAKEAWAYS 1 Surrender to Everyone 2 Pray for the person that annoys you 3 Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter. - Joyce Meyeer 4 Listen through your screams to the wind still whispering: Don't give up -- Surrender! - Eric Ganther BENEDICTION By Rachel Held Evans, who recently passed away and we will miss. God, go with us. Help us to be an honor to the church. Give us the grace to follow Christ’s word, to be clear in our task and careful in our speech. Give us open hands and joyful hearts. Let Christ be on our lips. May our lives reflect a love of truth and compassion. Let no one come to us and go away sad. May we offer hope to the poor, and solace to the disheartened. Let us so walk before God’s people, that those who follow us might come into his kingdom. Let us sow lo

SONGS WE SANG The Earth Is Yours by Gungor Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing by Audrey Assad Twenty-Three by Aaron Strumpel You're Beautiful by Phil Wickham TEXT Psalm 139:7-12 TAKEAWAYS 1 We have the Spirit 2 Get lost 3 Take a walk without a plan 4 Practice knowing as we go instead of knowing before we go BENEDICTION God go before you to lead you, God go behind you to protect you, God go beneath you to support you, God go beside you to to befriend you. Do not be afraid. May the blessing of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit be upon you. Do not be afraid. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. Amen. PRACTICE Get lost! Go for a walk without knowing where you're headed, pausing to notice what you come across, wondering about it with God. Go for a drive without destination. Follow interesting road signs. See where you end up. Wherever you end up, spend time in silence. RESOURCES Elizabeth Rooney: A Later-In-Life Poet 1A Podcast: The Curious Ways We Find (And Lose) Our Way

Busy week! Lydia Cruz - Bolt Gallery's featured artist for April 2019 - shared about the personal origins of her exhibit The Forest. Then we talked about breakfast. SONGS WE SANG Mightier by Aaron Strumpel Your Love Never Runs Out by Loud Harp Broken Vessels by Hillsong Sins Are Stones by John Mark McMillan TEXT John 21:1-17 (MSG) READINGS “The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you’re smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature.” - Phillips Brooks “It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.” - Phillips Brooks "What matters is not where we are, but who -- what real things -- are with us. " - Robert Capon BENEDICTION O Lord, refresh our sensibilities. Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in, and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with, and casseroles that put

SONGS WE SANG Weeping Mary by Loud Harp Here With Me by Loud Harp In Christ Alone by Passion Because He Lives by David Crowder Band TEXT Luke 22:14-19 Luke 24:13-32 READINGS “So this story isn’t yet primarily about Jesus. It’s about people like us, muddled & afraid but showing up, going to look, still not understanding, but unable to let go. About people like us finding a stone rolled away when we thought it was impossible, but not yet understanding why it’s happened or what’s going to happen next.” - NT Wright “To practice the sacrament of sacred presence is to be Jesus, and to see Jesus. It’s all right in front of us, here and now...Certainly, if we live in the past, we will be depressed. If we live in the future, we are guaranteed anxiety. Now is always vast and new. Like any practice, it’s not about technique or program. It’s a decision.” - Gregory Boyle TAKEAWAYS Look Linger Invite PRACTICE This week, practice the Prayer Of 3s as you feel invited: Take a moment to pause whatever you are doing and

Lent is a period of 40-days leading to Easter when we practice letting go in order to receive from God. Sometimes this letting go looks like giving up something very specific - sweets, coffee, etc - and our cravings for those things might draw us to God. Sometimes the letting go is a more internal, daily practice as we listen to the Holy Spirit. Regardless,  Lent is both a time of more intense spiritual practice and a season of open-handed surrender rather than tight-fisted discipline. During Lent, Sundays are feast days. Days when we celebrate mini-resurrections on the way to the resurrection of Christ. For Lent this year at Timberline Old Town & Everyday Joe’s, we will enter into these mini-resurrections through the five senses in a series called Awakenings. The senses are signs of life, and we wonder what would happen if we were to be intentionally awake to them. This week, we enter into the sense of sight. This particular Sunday as also a Movement Sunday. When a month has a fifth Sunday, we take it as

SONGS WE SANG Give Me Your Hand by Aaron Strumpel May You Find A Light by The Brilliance I Lift My Eyes by Loud Harp Relentless by Hillsong United TEXTS 2 Corinthians 2:14 (MSG) Psalm 23:1-3 READINGS "The main thing about Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the atmosphere produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to look after, and it is the one thing that is being continually assailed." Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest “Lord, I crawled across the barrenness to you with my empty cup … If only I had known you better, I’d have come running with a bucket.” Nancy Spiegelberg TAKEAWAYS 1 How could beyond me hospitality make a difference in the life of someone you know today? 2 What do you need to exhale today? What can you inhale to take its place?   PRACTICE This week, consider making Breath Prayer a daily practice. RESOURCES Smell by Frederick Buechner