Our pastor, setting the stage,
these days, these events, our times
into their context, framing our thoughts
back to the source, the beginning
Christ’s radical words,
changing our world
Explaining our hopes
in the radical words
the transforming power
the profound truths
in the teachings of Christ
On that mountainside,
in the words he shared,
setting the world right side up,
changing the rules, the order,
the human-made way of things
Seeing the world, humankind,
all of the world
as God sees the world,
all equal, all worthy
all loved by the creator, all
Loving our enemies,
seeing the good in them,
their humanity, just as our own
treating our enemies, our neighbors
as we would wish to be
Finding ourselves
in those who would hate us
finding God, the kernel of the divine
within each beating heart;
finding forgiveness,
as only Christ could forgive
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January
21, 2013
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
and
his final speech before his assassination
and
Inauguration of the President
Barack
Hussein Obama
Invocation
by
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Inaugural
Address
&
&
several
poems written in 2009
on
the juxtaposition of the
80th
birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
and
the inauguration of Barack Obama
as
President of the United States of America
January 18, 2009
the message, “It’s not just a dream but a reality”
on the sign in front of church,
the story of Moses and Joshua,
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Joshua 1:1-9
along with
Micah 4:1-4
Matthew 5:43-48
the sermon, “Love Your Who???”,
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,
Suncook United Methodist Church,
Suncook, NH,
and the hypothetical put to Eric Holder, nominee for
Attorney General,
by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on the use of
waterboarding,
January 15, 2009, during his Senate Confirmation
Hearings,
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2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. All rights reserved.
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