With Your Spirit – v5

How can we be one people,

how can we serve You, oh God;

when our words divide us

pulling ourselves apart?

With Your Spirit, Lord,

bind the wounds that exist;

help us to discern, to see

the path You have for us.

Teach us to be faithful

caring for the others,

loving all our neighbors

as You love us.

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edited March 24, 2015

With Your Spirit – v5

(editing version 3)

edited October 16, 2014

With Your Spirit – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/with-your-spirit-v4.html

(editing original again)

Edited September 13, 2013

With Your Spirit – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/with-your-spirit-v3.html

Edited September 13, 2013

With Your Spirit – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/with-your-spirit-v2.html

June 24, 2011

With Your Spirit

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/06/with-your-spirit.html

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Edited September 7, 2013

“Making the secular Holy – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/making-secular-holy-v2.html

new poem September 7, 2013

“Making the secular Holy”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/making-secular-holy.html

https://www.facebook.com/StandWithFrank/posts/324730717671030

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This poem is about my wife and me when we got married

in a civil service on December 17, 2004 in Concord, NH in White Park

and then before our church family at

Wesley United Methodist Church in Concord, NH

http://www.concordwumc.org

on April 23, 2005.

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We celebrate 2 anniversaries because they both mean a great

deal to us, in very different ways.

I grieve for those who are able to marry civilly in so many

states now, such as NH, but are unable to marry in their

United Methodists churches and for the clergy who are put on trial

for choosing to go against the Discipline to marry them.

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trials of Rev. Frank Schaefer

http://www.unitedmethodistreporter.com/2013/09/rcm-another-clergy-member-facing-church-trial/

and Rev. Thomas Ogletree

http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5259669&ct=13119911

and  Rev. Steve Heiss

http://www.rmnblog.org/2013/08/rev-steve-heiss-.html

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Edited September 7, 2013

For Offering Love – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/for-offering-love-v2.html

June 22, 2011

For Offering Love

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/06/for-offering-love.html

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Matthew 10:40-42

2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16

Psalm 13

Worship Theme: “All Are Welcome”

and sermon: “Ambassadors for God”

by Pastor Ruth L. Foss

https://twitter.com/PastorRuthFoss

http://www.facebook.com/pastorruthfoss

http://www.pstruthsermons.blogspot.com

sermon blog

http://www.pstrruthfoss.blogspot.com

meditation blog

http://pstrfoss.wordpress.com/

“God’s Whisper” blog

Suncook United Methodist Church

June 26, 2011

Second Sunday in Pentecost

&

note of Cynthia Good

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000252694374

on Keith Olbermann Special Comment

http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/olbermannmarriage.html

and

Passage of gay marriage bill in New York last night

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gay-marriage-vote-a-milestone-in-new-york/2011/06/24/AGTGZrjH_story.html?fb_ref=NetworkNews&fb_source=home_oneline

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posting on my Facebook page

“my 'heart' sinks with your continued association with the United Methodist church. God's Word clearly says that the Lord’s command is no females are allowed to be leaders. 1 Cor. 14:33-38; 1 Tim 2:12-3:12. Violating God's Word is not a recommended path to follow.”

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verdict and judgment in Love on Trial,

http://www.loveontrial.org/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-On-Trial/190582754298364

the case against the Reverend Amy DeLong,

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000572962166

http://www.rmnetwork.org/amy-delong/

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John 8:1-11

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June 23, 2011

Able to Breath – unedited

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/06/able-to-breath-unedited.html

&

John 8:1-11

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Samuel Thompson’s

http://www.facebook.com/#!/keleayon

Inclusion Essay

shared at the New England United Methodist Church

Annual Conference

http://www.neumc.org/pages/detail/195

in response to call by Reconciling Ministries Network

http://www.rmnetwork.org/

for essays describing, “My vision for an inclusive church”,

June 10, 2011

&

in part inspired by conversations with

the Reverend John Makokha

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=556451505

Riruta UMC

http://rirutaumc.org

http://www.rmnetwork.org/

Other Sheep Afrika-Kenya http://www.othersheep.org/OSEA_CL_Other_Sheep_Kenya.html

Children of Africa Hope Mission Project in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. http://rirutaumc.homestead.com/children_of_africa.html

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Matthew 25:31-46

The Sheep and the Goats

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Matthew 28:18-20

Great Commission

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