Right with God – v3

Only in our faith in Christ

made right with God

redeeming the lost

raised from the dead

sealing the breach

the chasm between God and man

Eternal peace,

not earthly favor,

washed clean of our sin

anticipating eternity

our heavenly reward

when our work here is done

Edited December 21, 2013

Right with God – v3

Edited November 11, 2013

Right with God – v2

February 22, 2010

Right with God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/02/right-with-god.html

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/raymond_a__foss/poems/28590

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010_02_21_archive.html

Romans 3:23

Romans 3:21-26

and

Upper Room Daily Devotional

http://www.upperroom.org/devotional/default.asp?month=2&day=17&year=2010

for February 17, 2010,

 “Ash Wednesday”,

by Jim M. Quint

read 2/22/2010

&

Genesis 2:15-3:13

Genesis 2:15-25

Genesis 3:1-13

1 John 4, 7, 9 (Call to Worship)

Unison Prayer,

Ephesians 5:20-33

and sermon,

 “What is This Thing Called Love?”

by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,

based in part on book,

Wrestling With Angels: What Genesis Teaches Us About

Our Spiritual Identity, Sexuality and Personal Relationships,

by Naomi H. Rosenblatt (http://www.bnaibrith.org/lbureau/rosenblatt_naomi.cfm) and Joshua Horwitz (http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=42725&view=full_sptlght )

http://www.amazon.com/Wrestling-Angels-Spiritual-Sexuality-Relationships/dp/0385313330

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

February 14, 2010

Transfiguration Sunday

&

Mark 9:2-9

&

Paragraph 103, Section 3 – Our Doctrinal Standards and General Rules:

The Articles of Religion of the Methodist Church, (generally Articles I to XII

http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=1817

http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=1649

http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=1650   

and specifically:

Article II – “Of the Word, or Son of God, Who Was Made Very Man”;

Article VII – “Of Original or Birth Sin”;

Article VIII – “Of Free Will”),

http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=679753

The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, 2008 edition

&

Romans 5:12-21

1 Corinthians 15:22

&

Doctrine of Original Sin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin

&

John Wesley’s sermon on Original Sin (sermon #44)

http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umhistory/wesley/sermons/44/

&

Worship service after Our Family’s Table

Mediation by Pastor Ruth L. Foss,

on the meaning of “being made in the image of God”

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

January 13, 2010

&

Genesis 1:1-2:4

(read responsively by the congregation,

speaking the words of God)

Psalm 19:1-13

Congregational Centering hymn:

“Let All Things Now Living”

Faith We Sing, #2008

Anthem: “The Time Between”,

http://www.gbod.org/worship/music/timebetween-crider.pdf

by R. Frederick Crider, Jr. (Ps. 31:14-15)

and sermon, “The Book of Genesis: The Story of Our Beginning”

by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,

based in part on Chapter One (Genesis 1:1-2:3),

of book, Wrestling With Angels: What Genesis Teaches Us About

Our Spiritual Identity, Sexuality and Personal Relationships,

by Naomi H. Rosenblatt and Joshua Horwitz

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

January 10, 2010

First Sunday in Epiphany

(Baptism of the Lord Sunday)

&

Psalm 8:4-5 (KJV)

“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.”

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