Timberline Old Town

SONGS WE SANG Great Are You Lord by All Sons & Daughters How Beautiful by Mosaic Dirt by The Collection How He Loves Us by John Mark McMillan INVOCATION "Be Opened" by Malcolm Guite Be opened. Oh if only we might be! Speak to a heart that’s closed in on itself: ‘Be opened and the truth will set you free’, Speak to a world imprisoned in its wealth: ‘Be opened! Learn to learn from poverty’, Speak to a church that closes and excludes, And makes rejection its own litany: ‘Be opened, opened to the multitudes For whom I died but whom you have dismissed Be opened, opened, opened,’ how you sigh And still we do not hear you. We have missed Both cry and crisis, we make no reply. Take us aside, for we are deaf and dumb Spit on us Lord and touch each tongue-tied tongue. TEXT Luke 1:39-45 1 Samuel 16:14-18, 23 TAKEAWAYS 1 What am I hearing that I need to stop hearing? 2 What am I not hearing that I need to start hearing? 3 Listen to the birds of the air 4 Listen to music without words 5 Listen to a voice that you woul