I can hear the barkers
the commercial’s announcer
Good News of Great Joy
in the sales prices, the
great deals,
for all the people
all over the world
Nothing of Jesus
of the Christ-child
of God who descended
who left paradise
nothing of Jesus, the man,
God who climbed the cross
nothing at all of
Christmas
in this story at all
====
December
3, 2014
Good
News of Great Joy
December 3, 2014
a stampede of
shoppers
December 3, 2014
Like a herd of
cattle
December 1, 2014
The Crush of
Christmas
Advent book
study:
Acts 1:8-14
referenced
article about Black Friday death in 2008
(and website for
Black Friday Deaths - http://blackfridaydeathcount.com/)
Introduction and
Chapter 1.
“Beginning with the End”
Not A Silent
Night
by Reverend Adam
Hamilton
Spirit study led
by Pastor Ruth Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
“God’s Whisper” blog
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
&
earlier books by
Rev. Hamilton studied in Spirit Study groups -
The Way: Walking
in the Footsteps of Jesus
&
“Final Words from
the Cross”
&
“24 Hours That Changed the World”
&
December 14, 2012
We have lost
Christmas
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
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 28, 2010
Turn to Bethlehem
Romans 13:11-14
Isaiah 2:1-5
Worship Theme:
“Hope”
and sermon, “The
Reason for the Season”
by Pastor Ruth L.
Foss
Suncook United
Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
November 28, 2010
First Sunday of
Advent
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