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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

We must #love our #enemies

We must love our enemies,
those who hate us, who seek to harm us,
we must follow the command of Jesus,
to love, to continue, to offer love to them.
 
We must love our enemies,
the stranger, our neighbor,
the other we meet, we encounter,
even those who hate us, who hate.
 
We must treat each person equally,
as a good neighbor, as a servant,
offering them a warm smile,
a kind word, we must offer them love.
 
We must see those who hate us,
as they are, truly, authentically,
we must see them as worthy, as human,
as God does, that they deserve love.
 
We must love those who hate us,
we must extend, a hand of friendship,
we must meet them where they are,
offering love, comfort, compassion.
 
Even when they are broken, hurting, angry,
even when they lash out against us,
we must walk up beside them, sharing,
We must love our enemies, those who hate us,
like Jesus, we must go the extra mile.
 
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edited October 18, 2023
We must love our enemies
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/we-must-love-our-enemies.html
Edited/ new name October 15, 2023
Do we love our enemies?
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/do-we-love-our-enemies.html
Edited/new name October 15, 2023
Do we love the stranger?
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/do-we-love-stranger.html
&
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Soul of Leadership
Part 3: Love in Action
https://transformingcenter.org/2012/02/love-in-action/
Ruth Haley Barton
&
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Strength to Love, book, page 119
https://www.amazon.com/Strength-Love-Martin-Luther-King/dp/0800697405
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/strength-love
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1963
&
Sermon: "Loving Your Enemies,"
by the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
November 17, 1957
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/loving-your-enemies-sermon-delivered-dexter-avenue-baptist-church
&
Edited October 15, 2023
Are we kind to the stranger – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/are-we-kind-to-stranger-v2.html
October 15, 2023
Are we kind to the stranger?
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/are-we-kind-to-stranger.html
Edited October 15, 2023
This person is my neighbor – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/this-person-is-my-neighbor-v2.html
Edited October 15, 2023
God gave us Christ – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/god-gave-us-christ-v2.html
Edited October 15, 2023
Sow bountifully – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/sow-bountifully-v2.html
Edited October 15, 2023
God sowed Christ into humanity – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/god-sowed-christ-into-humanity-v2.html
October 15, 2023
God sowed Christ into humanity
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/god-sowed-christ-into-humanity.html
Edited October 15, 2023
Jesus is head of His Church – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/jesus-is-head-of-his-church-v2.html
October 15, 2023
Jesus is head of His Church
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/jesus-is-head-of-his-church.html
October 15, 2023
Not yet a sheep
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/not-yet-sheep.html
October 15, 2023
Unconnected parts
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/unconnected-parts.html
October 15, 2023
Baptism Sunday
Sermon by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux
https://reverb.church/pastor/
Reverb Church
Sermon series: Follow Jesus
Sermon 11: “Church Governance”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5_91cozxhg  (11am service)
(Pastor Bryan/ sermon starts around 1 hour and 11 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBGYzlfLfyA  (9am service)
(Pastor Bryan/ sermon starts around 52 minutes)
1 Timothy 3: 1-7, 14-15
1 Timothy 2-4
Colossians 1:17-18
Ephesians 1:22-23
OT – 2 Samuel, Exodus 7:17, Exodus 24:1,9, Numbers 11:16, 24-25
NT – Acts 14:23, 15:2, 20:17; Titus 1:5; James 5:14
Acts 11:3, 1 Timothy 5:17, 1 Peter 2:25, 1 Peter 5:1-4
Titus 1:5-9
1 Peter 5:1-5
&
Edited October 15, 2023
Write Your Word on my Heart – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/write-your-word-on-my-heart-v2.html
Edited October 8, 2023
Write Your Word on my heart
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/write-your-word-on-my-heart.html
Edited October 8, 2023
Write Your Word on our hearts
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/write-your-word-on-our-hearts.html
October 8, 2023
Write Your words on our hearts
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/write-your-words-on-our-hearts.html
2 Corinthians 3:3
Ezekiel 11:19
Ezekiel 36:26
Jeremiah 31:33
Hebrews 8:10
October 8, 2023
All she had to live on - 3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/all-she-had-to-live-on-3.html
October 1, 2023
All she had to live on - 2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/all-she-had-to-live-on-2.html
&
February 15, 2014
all she had to live on
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/all-she-had-to-live-on.html  
Mark 12:41-43
“True Giving” (NCV)
“The Widow’s Gift”
Deuteronomy 16:17
 “A Child’s Commitment”
Upper Room Daily Devotional
http://devotional.upperroom.org/devotionals/2014-02-14
by James A. Harnish
https://www.facebook.com/jim.harnish
https://twitter.com/search?q=james%20harnish&src=typd
for February 14, 2014
read February 14, 2014
for January and February 2014
http://devotional.upperroom.org/issues/jan-feb2014
&
October 8, 2023
Prayer for Israel by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux
https://reverb.church/pastor/
Psalm 122
Sermon by Kids Pastor Jake Jaudes
Reverb Church
Livestream of 9am service
https://www.facebook.com/ReverbChurchFL/videos/645259814397597
(prayer and sermon starting at about 38:30 minutes)
Livestream of 11am service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8NYcofv14c
(prayer and sermon starting at about 41:15 minutes)
Sermon series: Follow Jesus
Sermon 10: “We’re All in this Together.”
(High School Musical story)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS3exH4aWnY
Acts 2:36-47
1 Corinthians 12:13, 18-20
1 Timothy 3:16-17
Romans 9:1-3
&
October 6, 2023
Christ bore the lashes we deserved – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/christ-bore-lashes-we-deserved-v2.html
October 4, 2023
Out of her poverty – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/out-of-her-poverty-v2.html
October 1, 2023
God gave us Christ
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/god-gave-us-christ.html
October 1, 2023
Sow bountifully
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/sow-bountifully.html
October 1, 2023
Her last two coins
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/her-last-two-coins.html
October 1, 2023
out of her poverty
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/out-of-her-poverty.html
October 1, 2023
All she had to live on - 2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/all-she-had-to-live-on-2.html
October 1, 2023
Sermon by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux
https://reverb.church/pastor/
Reverb Church
Livestream of 9am service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jCxENOGnoI
(prayer and sermon starting at about 40 minutes)
Livestream of 11am service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWNZdRFflw
Sermon series: Follow Jesus
Sermon 9: “A Generous God”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04iuJCM6xGs
Mark 12:41-44 (The Widow’s Mite)
John 3:16
Acts 20:35
Matthew 6:1-4
Matthew 6:21
2 Corinthians 9:6-7
Malachi 3:10
Matthew 25:34-40
&
October 1, 2023
His body given
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/his-body-given.html
October 1, 2023
We do not eat His body
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/we-do-not-eat-his-body.html
Edited October 1, 2023
Follow Jesus – 1 – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/follow-jesus-1-v2.html
September 26, 2023
Follow Jesus - 1
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/follow-jesus.html
Edited September 24, 2023
Don’t be too casual – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/dont-be-too-casual-v2.html
September 24, 2023
Not just going through the motions
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/not-just-going-through-motions.html
September 24, 2023
We must remember
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/we-must-remember.html
September 24, 2023
Blood poured on our hearts – v1
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/blood-poured-on-our-hearts-v1.html
September 24, 2023
Prayer is worship
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/prayer-is-worship.html
September 24, 2023
Worship begins - 2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/worship-begins-2.html
September 24, 2023
Using an outcast, an other
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/using-outcast-other-v1.html
September 24, 2023
This person is my neighbor
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/this-person-is-my-neighbor.html
September 24, 2023
Don’t be too casual
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/dont-be-too-casual.html
September 24, 2023
Sermon by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux
https://reverb.church/pastor/
Reverb Church
Livestream of 11am service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2Re-KLyR8
Sermon series: Follow Jesus
Sermon 7: “Communion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFgidPxPNpM
1 Corinthians 11:17:34
1 Peter 1:19
Matthew 26:26
Mark 14:22
Luke 22:14
Luke 22:18-20
&
Edited September 24, 2023
To be honest – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/to-be-honest-v2.html
September 23, 2023
Do you know their pain – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/do-you-know-their-pain-v4.html
September 22, 2023
To be honest – v1
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/to-be-honest-v1.html
September 19, 2023
Who am I
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/who-am-i.html
Edited September 19, 2023
I was at the side of the road – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/i-was-at-side-of-road-v2.html
September 18, 2023
I was at the side of the road
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/i-was-at-side-of-road.html
Edited September 18, 2023
Love sacrifices – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/love-sacrifices-v2.html
Edited September 17, 2023
Praise is a choice – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/praise-is-choice-v2.html
September 17, 2023
Praise is a choice
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/praise-is-choice.html
Edited September 17, 2023
When we meet trials – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/when-we-meet-trials-v2.html
Edited September 17, 2023
I was beaten, broken – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/i-was-beaten-broken-v2.html
September 17, 2023
When we meet trials
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/when-we-meet-trials.html
September 17, 2023
I was beaten, broken
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/i-was-beaten-broken.html
September 17, 2023
Sermon by Pastor Anthony Christopher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxIsZKiXrM (9am service)
(sermon starts about minute 34:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJyRBhDPuk4 (11am service)
(sermon starts about minute 34:30)
Reverb Church
https://www.facebook.com/ReverbChurchFL/
Sermon series: Follow Jesus
Sermon 6: “Worship through Perseverance”
Subtitle: The Valleys and the Mountains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxIsZKiXrM
1 Samuel 1:9-20 (Hannah’s Prayer)
Romans 12:1
Matthew 16:24-25
Psalm 111:1
Psalm 141:2
James 1:2-4
&
September 17, 2023
Love sacrifices
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/love-sacrifices.html
Edited September 17, 2023
Do you know their pain – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/do-you-know-their-pain-v3.html
Edited September 11, 2023
Do you know their pain – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/do-you-know-their-pain-v2.html
September 11, 2023
Do you know their pain
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/do-you-know-their-pain.html
September 10, 2023
Many believed
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/many-believed.html
Edited September 10, 2023
Don’t hold onto that debt – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/dont-hold-onto-that-debt-v3.html
Edited September 10, 2023
Never thirst again – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/never-thirst-again-v2.html
Edited September 10, 2023
Ask for the living water – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/ask-for-living-water-v2.html
September 10, 2023
Connect with those before us
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/connect-with-those-before-us.html
September 10, 2023
Never thirst again
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/never-thirst-again.html
September 10, 2023
Service (9am)
Sermon by Pastor Gabe Bedenbaugh
(starting at about 40 minutes)
https://www.facebook.com/ReverbChurchFL/videos/1261237015274780/
Service (11am)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0KxH6rKKec
Sermon by Pastor Gabe Bedenbaugh
(starting at about 34 minutes)
https://reverb.church/pastor/
Reverb Church
Sermon series: Follow Jesus
Sermon 5: “Love”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UEZsV5bg_8
Luke 10:25-37 (the Good Samaritan)
&
Edited September 10, 2023
Don’t hold onto that debt – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/dont-hold-onto-that-debt-v2.html
Edited September 10, 2023
Approach God daily – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/approach-god-daily-v2.html
September 10, 2023
Don’t hold onto that debt
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/dont-hold-onto-that-debt.html
September 10, 2023
Approach God daily – v1
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/approach-god-daily-v1.html
September 10, 2023
Praying urgently, humbly
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/praying-urgently-humbly.html
September 10, 2023
Bread for today only
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/bread-for-today-only.html
September 10, 2023
Not my will Lord
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/not-my-will-lord.html
September 9, 2023
Where do you want me Lord
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/where-do-you-want-me-lord.html
September 9, 2023
Your kingdom, Your will
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/your-kingdom-your-will.html
September 9, 2023
Align us with God’s will
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/align-us-with-gods-will.html
September 9, 2023
Start with praise, with worship
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/start-with-praise-with-worship.html
September 9, 2023
Approach the Lord
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/approach-lord.html
September 8, 2023
Talking to/with God
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/talking-towith-god.html
Edited September 8, 2023
I don’t know what to pray – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/i-dont-know-what-to-pray-v2.html
Edited September 6, 2023
No specific words – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/no-specific-words-v2.html
September 5, 2023
I don’t know what to pray
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/i-dont-know-what-to-pray.html
September 5, 2023
No specific words
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/no-specific-words.html
Edited September 5, 2023
Release them – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/release-them-v2.html
September 4, 2023
Release them
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/release-them.html
September 4, 2023
Ask for the living water
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/ask-for-living-water.html
September 4, 2023
pray like this – 2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/pray-like-this-2.html
September 4, 2023
I offer forgiveness
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/i-offer-forgiveness.html
September 4, 2023
I forgive them
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/09/i-forgive-them.html
September 3, 2023
Sermon by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux
https://reverb.church/pastor/
Reverb Church
Sermon series: Follow Jesus
Sermon 4: “Go… Make Disciples”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiwpJ3B0V7I (11am service)
(Pastor Bryan/ sermon starts around 50 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42U3LRv9zx4 (9am service)
(Pastor Bryan/ sermon starts around 45 minutes)
Matthew 28:18-20 (The Great Commission)
John 4:1:41 (Woman at the Well)
&
August 27, 2023
Sermon by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux
https://reverb.church/pastor/
Reverb Church
Sermon series: Follow Jesus
Sermon 3: “Pray”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAe2H66Up0g
Matthew 6:5-15 (The Lord’s Prayer)
&
Edited August 27, 2023
A mission statement – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-mission-statement-v3.html
Edited August 
A mission statement – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-mission-statement-v2.html
August 21, 2023
A mission statement
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-mission-statement.html
August 20, 2023
Sermon by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux
https://reverb.church/pastor/
Reverb Church
Sermon series: Follow Jesus
Sermon 2: “Be Baptized”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_qite52hlg
Acts 8:26-40 (Philip and the Ethiopian)
Matthew 28:18-20 (The Great Commission)
&
August 15, 2023
Sermon by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux
https://reverb.church/pastor/
Reverb Church
Sermon series: Follow Jesus
Sermon 1: “Repent and Believe”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD32AdtidUc
Luke 7:36-39 (ESV) (Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman)
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
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Poetry, Christ, Spirit, God, Faith, love, grace, hope, repent, believe, forgiveness,
 
#poetry #Christ #God #Spirit #Faith #love #grace #repent #believe #forgiveness
 
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Poetry, calling, purpose, Christ, Spirit, God, Faith, love, grace, hope, The Great Commission, baptized,
 
#poetry #calling #purpose #Christ #God #Spirit #Faith #love #grace #GreatCommission #baptized
 
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Poetry, Christ, Spirit, God, Faith, love, grace, hope, The Great Commission, prayer, pray, forgiveness, Lord’s prayer,
 
#poetry #Christ #God #Spirit #Faith #love #grace #GreatCommission #prayer #pray #repent #forgiveness #LordsPrayer
 
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Poetry, calling, purpose, Christ, Spirit, God, Faith, love, grace, hope, healing, The Great Commission, living water,
 
#poetry #calling #purpose #Christ #God #Spirit #Faith #love #grace #healing #GreatCommission #livingwater
 
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Poetry, calling, purpose, Christ, Spirit, God, Faith, love, grace, hope, healing, The Great Commission, Good Samaritan, neighbor, stranger,
 
#poetry #calling #purpose #Christ #God #Spirit #Faith #love #grace #healing #GreatCommission #poem #GoodSamaritan #neighbor, stranger,
 
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Poetry, Christ, Spirit, God, Faith, love, grace, prayer, pray, worship, Hannah, sing, sacrifice,
 
#poetry #Christ #God #Spirit #Faith #love #grace #prayer #pray #worship #Hannah #sing #sacrifice
 
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Poetry, Christ, Spirit, God, love, grace, communion, Lord’s Supper, sacrament, body, blood, remembrance, Passover, New Covenant,
 
#poetry #Christ #God #Spirit #love #grace #communion #LordsSupper #sacrament #body #blood #Passover #NewCovenant
 
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Poetry, Christ, Spirit, God, love, grace, Widow’s Mite, giving, generosity, generous, tithe, offering, sow, reap,
 
#poetry #Christ #God #Spirit #love #grace #giving #generosity #generous #tithe #offering #sow #reap
 
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Poetry, Christ, Spirit, God, love, grace, Acts 2, disciples, community, caring, sharing, prayer, teaching, gospel, Israel, law, scripture, Church, Body,
 
#poetry #Christ #God #Spirit #love #grace #disciples #community #caring #sharing #prayer #teaching #gospel #Israel #Church #Body
 
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Poetry, Christ, Spirit, God, love, grace, 1 Timothy 3, elders, pastors, overseers, deacons, Church, church governance, leadership, baptism, Body,
 
#poetry #Christ #God #Spirit #love #grace #1Timothy3 #elders #pastors #overseers #deacons #Church #Body #churchgovernance #leadership #baptism

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