The words of love
of reconciliation
of love freed
from the precepts
not mere biology
not just the black and white
nobler things than these
Our law, hope
changing in these days
moved by mercy,
redemption
walking in
Christ’s ways
Edited March 10, 2014
Love Freed – v8
(editing original version
again)
after decision in Ogletree
complaint
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152269181539483&set=a.10150664537194483.406597.14169974482
Edited December 25, 2013
Love Freed – v7
(editing original version
again)
June 25, 2011
Love Freed
&
Edited December 24, 2013
A Chargeable Offense – v2
June 17, 2011
A Chargeable Offense
&
Edited December 23, 2013
Mending what is Broken –
v8
(editing original again)
after watching live stream
of Frank Schaefer
preaching at Foundry
United Methodist Church
December 22, 2013
&
Edited November 23, 2013
Love Freed – v6
(after conviction of Rev.
Frank Schaefer)
&
Edited November 13, 2013
Love Freed – v5
(editing original again)
Edited September 24, 2013
Love Freed – v4
(editing original again)
Edited September 20, 2013
Love Freed – v3
(editing original again)
Edited September 7, 2013
“Making the secular Holy –
v2”
new poem September 7, 2013
“Making the secular Holy”
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This poem is about my wife
and me when we got married
in a civil service on
December 17, 2004 in Concord, NH in White Park
and then before our church
family at
Wesley United Methodist
Church in Concord, NH
on April 23, 2005.
----
We celebrate 2
anniversaries because they both mean a great
deal to us, in very
different ways.
I grieve for those who are
able to marry civilly in so many
states now, such as NH,
but are unable to marry in their
United Methodists churches
and for the clergy who are put on trial
for choosing to go against
the Discipline to marry them.
&
trials of Rev. Frank
Schaefer
and Rev. Thomas Ogletree
and Rev. Steve Heiss
&
Edited August 25, 2013
Love Freed – v2
June 25, 2011
Love Freed
Love on Trial,
the case against the Reverend
Amy DeLong,
&
Events of June 23 in
Kaukauna - part 4
by Pastor Will Green
&
Still Small Voices
by Deaconess Rachel Harvey
&
sign
in front of our Church
ALL
ARE WELCOME
Suncook
United Methodist Church
Suncook,
NH
June
25, 2011
&
Matthew
10:40-42
2
Kings 4:8-11, 14-16
Psalm
13
Worship
Theme: “All Are Welcome”
and
sermon: “Ambassadors for God”
by
Pastor Ruth Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
Suncook
United Methodist Church
June
26, 2011
Second
Sunday in Pentecost
&
note of Cynthia Good
on Keith Olbermann Special
Comment
and
Passage of gay marriage bill in
New York last night
&
posting on my Facebook page
“my 'heart' sinks with your
continued association with the United Methodist church. God's Word clearly says
that the Lord’s command is no females are allowed to be leaders. 1 Cor.
14:33-38; 1 Tim 2:12-3:12. Violating God's Word is not a recommended path to
follow.”
&
John
8:1-11
&
Samuel
Thompson’s
Inclusion
Essay
shared
at the New England United Methodist Church
Annual
Conference
in
response to call by Reconciling Ministries Network
for essays describing, “My
vision for an inclusive church”,
June 10, 2011
&
in part inspired by
conversations with
the
Reverend John Makokha
Riruta
UMC
Other
Sheep Afrika-Kenya http://www.othersheep.org/OSEA_CL_Other_Sheep_Kenya.html
Children
of Africa Hope Mission Project in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. http://rirutaumc.homestead.com/children_of_africa.html
&
Matthew
25:31-46
The
Sheep and the Goats
&
Matthew 28:18-20
Matthew 28:18-20
Great
Commission
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