Contemplating Grace

Maybe like Naaman
putting a stumbling block
an additional hurdle, a burden
where there is love

Contemplating grace
more to be done
too easy to wash in the waters
that the price already was paid

Seeming that there is more to do
somehow to earn God’s love
thinking too much
when we should just believe

The price already paid
stamped paid in full
only to die with Christ
that we may rise with him

To come before the cross,
admit our unworthiness
that we can’t be
righteous alone

Needing the gift,
of God’s grace
accepting Christ as our savior
and to be redeemed


July 4, 2010
2 Kings 5:1-14
Psalm 30
Luke 10:16-20
Galatians 6:7-10
Psalm 36:5-10 (United Methodist Hymnal #771)
Worship Theme: “The high cost of freedom”
and sermon, “The Cost of Freedom”
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
July 4, 2010
Independence Day
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost


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