insanity, madness,
beyond all reason
the consumer society
on full overload
the turning, away from the world
lost in the frenzy, the delusion
to buy it now
Christ is the center
the reason for the season
He came from heaven
He was the gift
edited November 28, 2014
Consumption Like Locusts – v3
(editing original again)
Black Friday 2014
Edited December 10, 2012
Consumption Like Locusts – v2
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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
“God’s
Whisper” 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
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
December
9, 2012
Second
Sunday of Advent
&
November 25, 2009
Consumption Like Locusts
&
edited
November 28, 2014
Mercenaries
in the Consumer Wars – v2
Black
Friday 2014
November
25, 2009
Mercenaries
in the Consumer Wars
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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