Our Faith Call Us

Words of her poem
our prayer as a nation
a promise to the troubled
the oppressed yearning to breathe free
Our faith calls us
to an even deeper promise
to seek union, communion
with all who seek you
all who long to walk
with our Risen Lord
to lift up our neighbors
balm for their wounds
to walk with our Savior
where he will lead
Our faith calls us
to be hope for the hopeless
to assuage their fears
and give the prisoners comfort


July 6, 2012
Isaiah 61:1
Isaiah 61:1-4
Micah 6:8
the poem, “The New Colossus”
by Emma Lazarus
http://www.libertystatepark.com/emma.htm
&
“Prophet of Hope”
by F. Richard Garland
Upper Room
for July 4, 2012
www.devotional.upperroom.org/devotional/2012-07-04
&
Mark 11:15-19
Jesus cleansing the Temple
sermon by Ziegler Award winner,
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/ziegler-sermon-neumc-annual-conference.html
Reverend Gary Richards
http://www.newcovenant-umc.org/?q=content/meet-our-pastor
speaking of the Methodist Movement as a
Resistance Movement,
something that made some people very uncomfortable,
including one long-time Methodist who probably was thinking of John Wesley’s words, “Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.”
Annual Conference
http://www.neumc.org/pages/detail/195
http://www.neumc.org/pages/detail/380
New England United Methodist Church
http://www.neumc.org/
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23neumc
led by Bishop Peter Weaver
http://www.neumc.org/pages/detail/318
June 6, 2012 to June 9, 2012


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