The caring for the earth – v2

All of us together were

charged from the very beginning

to dominion and stewardship

a caring for the earth

The earth finite,

needing to conserve, to give back,

to treat our earth with reverence;

Caring for our earth

as each of us are commissioned

as we walk in this life.

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edited May 29, 2015

The caring for the earth – v2

November 24, 2009

The caring for the earth

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/11/caring-for-earth.html

Pastoral Letter of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church

“God’s Renewed Creation: Call to Hope and Action”, at:

http://www.umc.org/atf/cf/%7BDB6A45E4-C446-4248-82C8-E131B6424741%7D/GRC_Pastoral%20Ltr.pdf

& more worship resources at:

http://www.gbod.org/worship/default.asp?act=reader&item_id=48267

&

Christ the King Sunday

Call to Worship

(taken from United Methodist Book of Worship, page 76)

Luke 6:37-38

Psalm 92:1-4

Hymn: “Come, Ye Thankful People Come”,

by Henry Aford,

United Methodist Hymnal, # 694,

based on Mark 4:26-29 (Parable of the Growing Seeds)

and Matthew 13:36-43 (Parable of the Weeds)

& sermon “Defined by Generosity”

by Reverend Huntley Halvorson

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

November 22, 2009

His sermon is the final of a four-part series based in part on

Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s book,

“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)

&

Luke 12:15-21

and Psalm 16

and “The Prayer of St. Francis”,

United Methodist Hymnal #481;

and sermon, “I Want It All . . .”,

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/11/sermon-i-want-it-all-by-pastor-ruth-l.html

by Pastor Ruth 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

Suncook, NH

November 15, 2009

Her sermon is the third of a four-part series based in part on

Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s book,

“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)

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