Saturday, December 06, 2014

Tear Down Christmas – v4

Blow up this holiday
turn your hearts to Jesus
the Babe in the manger
this isn’t what Christ died for
people being trampled at Walmart
so someone can get the best deal

Tear down this Christmas
time to start over
for it has lost its meaning;
nothing of Christ
in this frenetic season.

Rushing about, shopping
the Perfect gift
as that is the Good News of Jesus;
all an illusion, a lie,
forgetting about the Christ.

Tear down this Christmas,
the excess, the noise, noise, noise,
nothing of Christ in this Christmas. . . 
We must start over;
the love of the ages
lost in the dust.

Reclaim wonder,
a child, believer,
the joy of Christ’s coming;
Tear down this Christmas,
reclaim Jesus, the Babe in the manger;
we must start over right now.


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edited December 6, 2014
“Tear Down Christmas – v4
(editing version 3 below)
&
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
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
&
AUGUST 01, 2013
“Tear Down Christmas – v3”
Edited December 12, 2012
“Tear Down Christmas – v2”
December 10, 2012
“Tear Down Christmas”
“Burn Down Christmas”
Thoughts about:
-          the commercialization of Christmas,
-          the Fiscal Cliff
-          our lack of confidence in government
-          and the coarseness of the world
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

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