The Cup of Our Sin – v2

In the garden, Gethsemane
after the supper, the Passover,
the betrayal, Judas’s escape,
after his words, a new liturgy,
after the breaking of the bread
the sharing of the wine

A different cup waiting
there in that garden
the winepress, Gethsemane
more than sacrifice
waiting for him
the bitter cup of our sin

The Lord praying
his tears like blood
the awesome moment,
his cry to God, urgent,
“please take this cup from me.”

His humanity, for a moment
rising in panic, or fulfillment,
to turn from his path;
returning, Christ a servant
putting the cup to his lips

There in the garden
taking on the weight of our sin;
the stain of our shame;
the die cast, fulfilled
all now leading to Calvary.


Edited September 6, 2012
“The Cup of Our Sin – v2”
Mark 7:21-23 (NIV)
Mark 7:20-23 (The Message)
‘He (Christ) went on: "It's what comes out of a person that pollutes:
obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, depravity,
deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks, slander, arrogance,
foolishness—all these are vomit from the heart.
There is the source of your pollution."’
Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
(Revised Common Lectionary, Year C)
Upper Room Disciplines for 2012
http://bookstore.upperroom.org/cart/upperroom/p-17131.htm
August 27, 2012 to September 2, 2012
“True Worship”
by Jerry Kearney
for August 29, 2012,
read August 30, 2012
&
Spirit Study
led by Pastor Ruth Foss
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http://www.ahandmaidenofthelord.blogspot.com
http://pastorruth.posterous.com/
A Handmaiden of the Lord
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Suncook United Methodist Church
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September 2, 2012
&
earlier poem of
February 8, 2010
“The Cup of Our Sin”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/02/cup-of-our-sin.html
John 14:1-3, 12-18, 25-27
Psalm 46 (Call to Worship)
Psalm 23
and sermon, “When Your World Come Crashing Down”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
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Suncook United Methodist Church
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http://facebook.com/groups/136632035559/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Suncook-United-Methodist-Church/102221356487965
Suncook, NH
February 7, 2010,
based in part on article,
"Trauma and Theology",
by Professor Shelly Rambo,
Boston University School of Theology,
Focus Magazine, Winter 2009
http://www.bu.edu/sth/files/2010/01/STH_FOCUS_Winter09__AllSections1.pdf
&
Matthew 26:17-30;
Mark 14:12-25;
Luke 22:7-20.
&
Luke 22:39-46
Matthew 26:35-45
Matthew 26:39
“And he went a little further, and fell on his face,
and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible,
let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will,
but as thou wilt”. (KJV)

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