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Copenhagen Climate Conference
My prayer is that real progress can be made.
 
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Difference Between Methodist and Baptist
Methodist vs BaptistMethodists and Baptists are both Christian faiths that have a lot of similarities but in many ways, also...
 
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Joseph’s Choice
His betrothed,with childhow can this bewhat shall he doSend her awayquietly, with respectBut an angel shared a visionthe holy...
 
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Tended with Love
As if a garden, our livesthe joy, love, relationshipconnection with God, our families,our friends, neighbors, even...
 
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Walking to Heaven
A journey, a pathwalking to heaventhe way of holinessthat we travel on this life here on earthFollowing the shepherd’s...
 
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He Will Restore
The work of the potternever fully donegoing in to be reformedrestored, over the days of our livesworking out our...
 
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The Potter and the Clay
From the dust, the earthliving waters, a wet lump of clayspinning on the potter’s wheela shapeless form, inertGiven breath,...
 
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Working the Imperfections
Lovingly, working the imperfectionsthe bubbles, the things that don’t belongrefining, moldings, changingstarting anew, the...
 
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Coaxed from the Clay
our beings, not just our formscoaxed from the clay,by the hands of the potterthe breath of God alivespirit given and the stuff...
 
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The Hands of God
What the hands of God beto craft the wings of butterflies, the gossamer of cloudsthe clay of human lifeall about to be...
 
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Loving the Work
With joy, a song in his heartthe potter shaping the clayinert stuff of the earthmolded in his handsa worthy vesselbeautiful to...
 
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Going back on the potter’s wheel
Understanding the father,perhaps in a different waythe creator, our saviorgathering us in his arms open widetaking in our...
 
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Remaining new clay
After the molding, the shapingthe creation of our livesthe potter still therethe firings, the heat,the flames and trialsour...
 
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The urgings of the potter
molded, transformedour form taking shapethe push, the tug, the calling outthe urgings of the potterhis will, his hands, his...
 
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Messy Work
The hands of the potterdrenched with our claythe dust of the earthcoming to life in his handsDecember 4, 2009Genesis...
 
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Our Gathered Shards
The brokenness, the piece of our crackedshattered vessels, the clay dropped by our own handsThe potter, still, when we come to...
 
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Even after we have been fired
our clay, ever openever wet, able to be changedtransformed by the creatorthe potter, our mastereven after we have been...
 
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Like a Ballet
Like a balletturned upwardspinning, round and roundour form taking shapeupon the potter’s wheelwhile in the womb,our lives...
 
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The Dry Dust
The dry dust sittingupon the good earthpicked up by the creatorgiven new birthHis hands creatinghis image coming to lifewith...
 
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Animating the Dust
The dust combinedthe potter moldingliving waters, his handscoming into sightthe breath, God’s spiritgiving us lifeanimating...
 
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Wet Feet
Out of the boatonto the watersfeeling the call of the Lordto believeWe are his servantsthe clay of the potter’s wheellike...
 
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Clay Balloons (revised/completed)
Talking of the creatorGod, in creating,active and hands ontouching us, our dirt,within the potter’s handsadding living water...
 
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Clay Balloons
Talking of the creatoractive and hands ontouching us, our dirt,the clay of our formsgiving us life by his breathable to fill...
 
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Coming Again
Coming againinto our consciousnessthe wonder of his starthe simplicity of the crècheand the story of Mary, of Josephthe...
 
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Gifts of Hope
The Christ, coming againthe babe in the mangerbalance to the excessthe falseness of this ageBringing, offeringgifts of hopeto...
 
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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...