our
joy in Advent
stomped
down, hidden under
insanity,
madness, beyond all reason
the
consumer society
on
full overload
the
turning, away from the world
the
waiting for God
lost
in the frenzy, the delusion, the lie
to
buy it now
Edited December 10, 2012
====
Spirit
Study,
around session
2,
“Giving Up
on Perfect”
of video
series:
“A
Different Kind of Christmas: Living and Giving Like Jesus”
by Reverend
Mike Slaughter
and
companion book,
“Christmas
Is Not Your Birthday: Experience the Joy of Living and Giving like Jesus”,
also by
Reverend Mike Slaughter,
led
by Pastor Ruth Foss
A Handmaiden of the Lord
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
December
9, 2012
Second
Sunday of Advent
&
Worship
Theme: “I Believe in the Love/ Peace”
Luke 3:1-6 (English Standard Version Bible)
John the Baptist Prepares the Way
Malachi 3:1-4 (Common English Bible)
Philippians 1:3-11 (Contemporary English
Version Bible)
and
sermon – “True Love”
by
Pastor Ruth Foss
A Handmaiden of the Lord
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
December
9, 2012
Second
Sunday of Advent
&
poem, “Consumption like locusts”
November 25, 2009
musings on Black Friday,
the day after Thanksgiving
November 27, 2009
&
Advent Conspiracy
&
Christ the King Sunday
Luke 6:37-38
Psalm 92:1-4
Hymn: “Come, Ye Thankful People Come”,
by Henry Aford,
United Methodist Hymnal, # 694,
based on Mark 4:26-29 (Parable of the Growing Seeds)
and Matthew 13:36-43 (Parable of the Weeds)
& sermon “Defined by Generosity”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
Suncook
United Methodist Church
Suncook,
NH
November 22, 2009
His sermon is the final of a four-part series based in
part on
Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s
book,
“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and
Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)
&
Luke 12:15-21
and Psalm 16
and “The Prayer of St. Francis”,
United Methodist Hymnal #481;
and sermon, “I Want It All . . .”,
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss,
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
November 15, 2009
Her sermon is the third of a four-part series based in
part on
Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s
book,
“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and
Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)
&
Luke 15:11-32, “The Prodigal Son”
Proverbs 21:5, 21:20
Psalm 98:4-8 (Call to Worship)
and Matthew 6:24
“No man can serve two masters:
for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one,
and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
& sermon “The Saints and Their Checkbooks”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
Suncook
United Methodist Church
Suncook,
NH
November 8, 2009
His sermon is the second of a four-part series based in
part on
Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s
book,
“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and
Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)
&
Ecclesiastes 5:8-15
Psalm 15 (Psalter)
& sermon, “Oh For the Simple Life . . .”
by Pastor
Ruth Foss
A
Handmaiden of the Lord
Suncook
United Methodist Church
Suncook,
NH
11/1/09
All Saints Day
Her sermon is the first of a four-part series based in
part on
Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s
book,
“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and
Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)
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