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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