Title: The Song of Zechariah
Scripture: Luke 1:57-80
Speaker: Tim Spanburg, TimS@ChristCommunityKC.org


>> A Fearless Inventory of the Darkness

> The Darkness of the Silence of God

“When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence." - C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

> The Darkness of the Enemies of God

> The Darkness of Our Own Hearts

"Our response to the wrongness of the world (and of ourselves) can often be an unhealthy escapism, and we can turn to the holidays as anesthesia from pain as much as anything else. We need collective space, as a society, to grieve — to look long and hard at what is cracked and fractured in our world and in our lives. Only then can celebration become deep, rich and resonant, not as a saccharine act of delusion but as a defiant act of hope." -Tish Warren

.> The Light of the Word

> The Light of Forgiveness

> The Light of His Mercy