dry wineskins

dry wineskins

not supple any longer

without love, unable,

to accept the word

dry wineskins

sapped of love, of water,

no longer thirsting

unable to hold life

the new wine of Christ

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edited June 9, 2016

sweet wine of Jesus – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/sweet-wine-of-jesus-v2.html

June 7, 2016

sweet wine of Jesus

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/sweet-wine-of-jesus.html

June 7, 2016

stretching old skin

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/stretching-old-skin.html

June 7, 2016

tasting the new wine

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/tasting-new-wine.html

June 7, 2016

new wineskins

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/new-wineskins.html

June 7, 2016

new wine filling us

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/new-wine-filling-us.html

June 7, 2016

stretching our flesh

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/stretching-our-flesh.html

June 7, 2016

stretching our bodies

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/stretching-our-bodies.html

June 7, 2016

stretching our faith

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/stretching-our-faith.html

June 7, 2016

giving new life

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/giving-new-life.html

June 7, 2016

giving new lives

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/giving-new-lives.html

June 5, 2016

a balm feeding the skin, the flesh

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-balm-feeding-skin-flesh.html

June 5, 2016

giving to the potter

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/giving-to-potter.html

June 5, 2016

supple vessels

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/supple-vessels.html

June 5, 2016

giving us new flesh

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/giving-us-new-flesh.html

June 5, 2016

the wine

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-wine.html

June 5, 2016

old wineskins

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/old-wineskins.html

June 5, 2016

dry wineskins

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/dry-wineskins.html

June 5, 2016

poured out, spilled

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/poured-out-spilled.html

June 5, 2016

ruined, perished

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/ruined-perished.html

June 5, 2016

dry, rigged

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/dry-rigged.html

Luke 5:37

sermon “Let us pour the new wine”

by United Methodist Bishop Sudarshana Devadhar

http://www.umc.org/bishops/sudarshana-devadhar

http://www.neumc.org/meetbishopsudarshanadevadhar

Celebration of Ministry service for

Northern Maine District Superintendent

https://www.facebook.com/NME.UMC

Rev. Dr. Pat MacHugh

http://www.churchonthecape.org/New%20Pastor.htm

Orono United Methodist Church

June 4, 2016

&

June 4, 2016

utterly destroyed

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/utterly-destroyed.html

Luke 5:37 (Darby English Bible)

“And no one puts new wine into old skins,

otherwise the new wine will burst the skins,

and it will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed”

edited June 4, 2016

wine of the vineyard – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/wine-of-vineyard-v3.html

edited June 3, 2016

wine of the vineyard – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/wine-of-vineyard-v2.html

June 3, 2016

wine of the vineyard

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/06/wine-of-vineyard.html

Luke 5:37

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