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JaredH
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Sermon - "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas", by Pastor Ruth L. Foss, Suncook United Methodist Church, Suncook, NH 11/29/09
Ruth FossSuncook United Methodist ChurchNovember 29, 2009Isaiah 2:1-4 ESV BibleThe Lord be with youAnd also with youLet us...
 
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Spoke Time Into Existence
God, by his will, by his voicecreating lightinto the darknessbeginning, day, nightbound by God’s wordthe waters separated,the...
 
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Link to NRCAT's Agenda for 2009 and list of accomplishments (received via email 11/30/09)
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your efforts over the past few years. You've helped us halt the use of torture in detainee...
 
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Prophecy Fulfilled
Proclaiming, filled with the holy spiritthe prophecy fulfilledChrist, the Messiah cometo save us, to fulfill the promisethe...
 
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Given us a Savior
Not sometime in the futurenot a prophesy of another timeZechariah speaking, filled with the spiritfor God has given us a...
 
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Faithful, though we are not
Signs, prophesies, promises fulfilled, God faithfulthough we are notwhen we break the covenantsstray from the law, from Godhis...
 
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Loving Us
God, prophesy completeloving us, even when we doubteven when we turn from his waysgiving us his sonto guide us back to...
 
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His Promise Alive
the words of Godthe covenants of oldwritten in the prophetsthe words of scriptureHis promise aliveheralded into the worldby the...
 
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given Voice
the mute given voiceready to speak, to prophesyto the one who was to comecome now, into the worldfulfilling the promise of...
 
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Filled
Given voice, filled with the Spiritafter months with no ability to speakproclaiming the son of Godcome to save the earthhis son...
 
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Prophesied about his Son
In the instant, his silence removedpraising Godfor the fulfillment of the wordthe son of Godcome to earthin the naming of his...
 
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Before He was Born
The Priest prophesiedwhile He was yet in the womb,the king of kingsthe Messiah already comecome into the world to saveout of...
 
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Messengers – haiku – 2
harbingers, heraldsspeaking the truth of God’s lovehis word for peopleNovember 30, 2009Upper Room Disciplines for...
 
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Messengers – haiku - 1
the heralds of Godmessengers sent from heavenprophets of the wordNovember 30, 2009Upper Room Disciplines for...
 
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Zechariah
Entering the holy of holiesthe priest struck dumb by his disbeliefgiven voice upon his birtha messenger, a prophet of...
 
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The future come and to come again
Zechariah’s prayer, his prophesyfilled with the holy spiritthe Christ, the Messiah, the wordforetold, coming into the...
 
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In His Coming
in the prophesy fulfilledthe coming of the Christfinal victory, the return assuredthe words of scriptureof prophesy telling of...
 
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Sacrificial Giving
to understand the givingChrist coming into the worldchoosing the crossnot a throne made of goldlooking to the widowher meager...
 
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Spending equals Love
The lie of Christmasthe ways of this earththat spending equals lovedisproved by his humble birthThe king, our saviorborn in a...
 
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Seeing Advent
Not the sales, the glitter, things we call Christmas; not Santa and his sleighSeeing Advent anew,so did she humbly prayCalling...
 
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Busy
We are busywhen we should be waitingexpectantly, activelywaiting for the kingOur lives hecticno time to waitthe list growingwe...
 
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Speaking
Oh how he spoke, naming the fact of the Christwith us, already herebefore he was bornbefore the manger, the starout of his...
 
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While the World Failed to Notice
While the world failed to noticethe king, our savior, born, placed in a manger bedno room for his parents in the innforeigner,...
 
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Benefit Concert #1: Supporting Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute interfaith environment projects
(Marquette, Michigan) – About 100 people listened to folk songs and rousing harmonica music and drank hot apple cider at...
 
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May we be the means
Hearing the words of the first church,of God’s infinite love, continuingbut also, hearing the harder wordsof Deuteronomy, a...
 
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Heed the Words
The congregation, in our amens, the waving hands, the nodding headsthe hearts smiling, in his words,a prayer for our country,...
 
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Becoming Proud
“Becoming Proud”so true of our lives, our societyour abundance, our wealthas if all of these were ours aloneour sweat, our...
 
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How Much We Need God
If only, in this seasonAdvent coming, that we would rememberthat we would truly understandthat we would truly believehow much...
 
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Fooling Ourselves
drinking the opiate of wealththe self-made man philosophyHoratio Alger story of our agea lie, a false idol, man rising as...
 
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Hanging the Symbols
images, little symbolsof our faith, from the very beginninghung reverently, upon the treeamid the lights, saints, the angelsthe...
 
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Singing the Song of Mary
Our mother, of our brotherour savior, the Christso we sing, joining hersinging the song of Maryits melody aliveshining in the...
 
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Changing the Seasons
The colors replacedthe browns, the yellows, the autumn, earthyharvest decorationsgiving way, changingto the greens and...
 
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Joining Mary
Call us into the Magnificatjoining Mary, with herinto our Advent journeyour worship, our waitinglike her, trusting, our...
 
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At the Cusp of Advent
Out of the day of Thanksgivingafter the declarationsof Christ the Kingat the cusp of Adventpreparing our heartsperspective on...
 
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Not One Cross, But Three
Some of our memoriesthe manger, the crossdeeply anchored within usimages of our faithThe cross of Christstanding on Calvarythe...
 
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The Words of Deuteronomy
The words of Deuteronomyuttered with passionoverlaid on our timesa warning for this ageas surely as for that timeIn this age of...
 
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Back to Relationship
A mirror on this agea call back to relationshipour society teeteringon the edge of the abyssPride in ourselvesin our own...
 
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Hope
Hope, even within our singrace, the faithfulness of Godable to heal us allwhen we stray,when our pridegets in the waythe...
 
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Return
The ancient wisdomwords so long agocalling us stillto let go of the worldreturning to GodOur whole selvesthe falseness of our...
 
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Humble Penitence
Within our thanks givingour offering of praisethanks to our fatherwho has given us so muchhumble penitencefor our continuing in...
 
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Look to the Christ Child
God, love, incarnatethe birth of Christhis arrival, loving coming to earthno room in the inn, for the kinglaid in a manger...
 
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Sharing
Out of their examplea lesson in sharingnothing held backall together, held in commonsharing to allwith all, as they had...
 
Tom Usher
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SOME KIND OF TALMUDIC GARBAGE ABOUT JESUS CHRIST
I posted the following on the Anti-Nazi group on Facebook:Richard France,You know nothing about Christianity.I addressed...
 
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To Whom We Are Thankful
In our prayers, in stopping to give thankscertain to honor God, to whom we are thankfulfrom whom all of our abundance, our...
 
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Too Far Separated
The words of our forefathers,at the first Thanksgivingat the beginning of our nationin the midst of civil war,bowing down,...
 
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An Abundance
We pause today,if only for this daythankful, aware, slowing ourselvesgathering togetherto fellowship, to worshipsaying a...
 
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Bearing God’s Blessings
We, the believes, members of the bodythe church, the living embodimentthe bride of ChristWe are to bear God’s blessingsthe...
 
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Remembering Our Place
The creator, being part of the creationremembering our place, the need to praise Godto thank our father, for the blessings, for...
 
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Thanking God Together
Words shared, gatheredthanking God togetherfor the earth, for lifefor his blessings upon uspraising, singing, a church...