We, the children,
baptized like Jesus
Beloved of God,
children, brothers and sisters
with Christ, with
one another, connected,
sharing in the
cleansing, in the changing
our lives no
longer our own, but God’s
given to God,
empty, to be filled
for a purpose, for
God’s pleasure
Becoming one with
the church
the Spirit falling
upon us, water,
indwelling within
our hearts, power;
forever changed,
as when David was anointed,
when Paul fell
blind on the Damascus Road,
when Christ
revealed himself to Cleopas and the other,
and when the
Spirit fell on Pentecost
and upon
Cornelius, all the others throughout time
Bodily, into the
waters with Christ
drowning, dying to
ourselves;
up from the waters
in praise
to grow and serve
with Him;
yoked with our
Savior, the Spirit within,
to spread the Good
News, life,
to the ends of the
earth
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edited February 4, 2015
Beloved of God – v4
(editing version 2)
edited July 8, 2014
Beloved of God – v3
edited June 30, 2014
Beloved of God – v2
June 30, 2009
Beloved of God
&
edited December 2, 2014
In Connection – v3
(editing original again)
edited
November 11, 2014
In
Connection – v2
June
30, 2009 and July 1, 2009
In
Connection
Reverend
Sammie Maxwell
African
Choir
Celebration
of Youth
Baptism
of the Teens
families
from the Democratic Republic of Congo,
who
suffered through the massacre of August 13, 2004,
at
Gatumba, their refugee camp in Burundi
Psalm
130
Mark
1:1-13
and
sermon, “A Baptism of Life Change”
by
Bishop Peter Weaver
New
England United Methodist Conference
Contoocook
United Methodist Church
June
28, 2009
&
May
22, 2012
Reading Partners In Ministry of 5/22/2012 from
Bishop Peter Weaver of New England Conference of the United Methodist Church
&
his quote from his Episcopal Address:
"If God can bring to life the crucified
Christ, then surely God can bring to life a calcified church."
&
listening
again to Episcopal Address (sermon) by Bishop Peter Weaver
General
Conference of United Methodist Church
&
March
13, 2014
opening our hearts - 2
Hebrews
13:2
“A
Light on the Riverbank”
devotion
by Anna Robertson Stone
&
for
March 13, 2014
read
March 13, 2014
Duck
Commander Daily Devotional
compiled
by Alan Robertson
&
Edited
October 22, 2013
Streams
of Water – v3
Edited
October 14, 2013
Streams
of Water – v2
June
30, 2009 and July 1, 2009
Streams
of Water
Reverend
Sammie Maxwell
Celebration
of Youth
Baptism
of the Teens
Psalm
130
Mark
1:1-13
and
sermon, “A Baptism of Life Change”
by
Bishop Peter Weaver of New England United Methodist Conference
Contoocook
United Methodist Church
June
28, 2009
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