This song feels appropriate for this week:
Come out of sadness
From wherever you’ve been
Come broken hearted
Let rescue begin
Come find your mercy
Oh sinner come kneel
Earth has no sorrow
That heaven can’t heal
Earth has no sorrow
That heaven can’t heal
So lay down your burdens
Lay down your shame
All who are broken
Lift up your face
Oh wanderer come home
You’re not too far
So lay down your hurt
Lay down your heart
Come as you are
While he was in Lancashire last weekend for the FM Annual Conference Bishop David Roller recorded one of his Whole Earth Stories alongside the sheep on the Carter’s farm.
In it he is retelling one of Jesus parables that can be found in Luke 15:1-7.
We are going to be singing this song at our Sunday morning gathering this week and we thought you might like to get to know it before then.
Brenton Brown describes the song like this:
John Mark McMillon comes from Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
All treasures of wisdom and things to be known
Are hidden inside Your hand
And in this fortunate turn of events
You ask me to be Your friend
You ask me to be Your friendAnd You,
You are my first
You are my last
You are my future and my past
On this Good Friday evening let us look back on a dreadful death.
Let us consider what happened on Saturday.
Then lets us turn towards an empty tomb on Easter Sunday:
Bishop David Roller continues his Whole Earth Stories:
Noah’s real story. The backstory behind every disaster movie is this story…the great flood. God’s response to our evil, and one good man in the middle of the mess.