Friday, November 28, 2014

Black Friday, Gray Thursday – v6

We grieve for the lack of faith
for the disbelief in God
for the merchandise, the junk
that gets in the way of worship

Another sign, surely
of the end times, of Satan,
Black Friday, Gray Thursday
shopping without end

Nothing of Jesus, of the Christ
of our Savior, our Lord
we are all lost sheep, Prodigals,
lost, gorged on the world


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edited November 28, 2014
Black Friday, Gray Thursday – v6

(editing version 2)
edited November 28, 2014
Mercenaries in the Consumer Wars – v2
Black Friday 2014
November 25, 2009
Mercenaries in the Consumer Wars
&
edited November 28, 2014
Junk Filled the Vacuum – v4
Black Friday 2014
Edited December 12, 2012
Junk Filled the Vacuum – v3
Edited December 10, 2012
Junk Filled the Vacuum – v2
December 10, 2012
Junk Filled the Vacuum
edited November 28, 2014
&
Consumption Like Locusts – v3
(editing original again)
Black Friday 2014
Edited December 10, 2012
Consumption Like Locusts – v2
&
edited November 28, 2014
Black Friday, Gray Thursday – v5
Black Friday 2014
edited April 7, 2014
Black Friday, Gray Thursday – v4
(editing version 2)
edited January 11, 2014
Black Friday, Gray Thursday – v3
December 2, 2013
“within the excess of Christmas”
&
Edited December 12, 2012
Black Friday, Gray Thursday – v2
December 10, 2012
Black Friday, Gray Thursday
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
sermon blog
meditation blog
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
sermon blog
meditation blog
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
December 9, 2012
Second Sunday of Advent
&
December 2, 2013
“within the excess of Christmas”
First Sunday of Advent
First Sunday of Advent sermon series:
An “Advent”ure to the Stable”
Romans 5:1-5 (New Living Translation)
Isaiah 52:7-12 (New Living Translation)
Isaiah 9:1-3 (New Living Translation)
Prayer of Thanksgiving
children’s sermon
“The First Christmas Present”
by Regina Goode
communion – “Your Presence Is Heaven To Me”
and sermon “An “Advent”ure of . . . Hope
by Pastor Ruth Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
December 1, 2013
&
November 25, 2009
Consumption Like Locusts
&
musings on Black Friday,
the day after Thanksgiving
November 27, 2009
and the constant selling for school,
Girl Scouts, etc.
&
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 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’s book,
“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity”
&
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’s book,
“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity”
&
Ecclesiastes 5:8-15
Psalm 15 (Psalter)
& sermon, “Oh For the Simple Life . . .”
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss
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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