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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Through One Man – Part 2

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Through Christ alone, fully human and totally divine the word made flesh coming to earth to redeem us of our sin As one man brought sin into...

Through One Man – Part 1

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By the choice of Adam by his disobedience his choosing to eat of the fruit all of us are cursed Knowledge, the bitter fruit the cost so grea...

Banished

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Forever banished thrown out of the beautiful garden Eden forever lost, our place in the fall of man Dying to our creator breaking his first ...

Our Carnal Nature

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Lustful, our carnal nature the corruption of our sexuality focused on the earthly the things of man The garden there for our enjoyment the s...

a balsa plane

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The shape of the wood changing under my touch turning the block the square becoming a cylinder making a balsa plane a space ship, with ...

Pinewood Derby

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The precision, I remember his motions helping me create the car the weight we added Balancing the shape the aerodynamics of the racer the Pi...

The Steel Gray Sky

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The steel gray sky plastered above the land heavy glowering colors foreboding at the twilight dusk descending to night Cold wind blowing, ou...

A Frozen Pond

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Going off into the distance the ice still solid, frozen the reeds little islands up through the February thawing the pond not yet released f...

Suncook United Methodist Church - altar - 2/21/2010 - 1st Sunday in Lent

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Saturday, February 20, 2010

God’s Constant Love

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God, always with us ready to reach out to us in our brokenness, our doubt in moments of joy or fear God’s love constant steadfast, eternal w...

Needing Christ

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Needing Christ fully human, utterly divine to restore the connection to undo the harm the breach between God and man since the fall Not of o...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Eyes Wide Open

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Snapped to attention the change in the weather Christ speaking and the waves the winds calmed to stillness Eyes wide open as big as saucers ...

Surely this was Death

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Cast out of the garden because we had eaten the fruit broken the first law of God listening to the snake Aware of more than we ought wisdom ...

Dying in Their Wisdom

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Biting of the forbidden fruit dying to our God no longer his creation sentient, dying in their wisdom after following the snake dying in the...

No Original Sin

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If the fruit was not eaten the garden never changed man and God dwelling walking with each other innocent in the garden oh if this coul...

Denying Their Sin

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Calling this a myth because the word sin was not there their nakedness revealed because they had eaten the fruit Their disobedience not a si...

A Heart in Our Backyard - 02/19/2010

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

A Forty-Day Season

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The days of Lent a forty-day season able to change our lives if we would let them Reflecting on the sacrifice our savior going to the c...

A Holy Lent

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The words entering into worship prayers from the pulpit that we would observe a holy Lent with disciplines of old renewing our faith in ...

Before We can Celebrate

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Before the rising of our savior the joy of Easter morning coming face to face with the reality of his grace Coming to the road, the pa...

Spiritual Preparation

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Before I can worship truly joyful before I can sing of the rising of my king Needing to walk along with the disciples to be with Chri...

The Smell of the Burning Palms

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Still fresh in my memory the smell of the burning palms the smoke thick, wrapping round me as the joy burned away The ashes gray, thick...

A reminder of Christ’s going to the cross

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The little things that we give up things we add to our days denying ourselves of chocolate, TV, spending more time in the word, in prayer...

Different than the New Year’s Resolutions

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The prayerful things, fasting what we give up for Lent different than the New Year’s resolutions lying in the dust, abandoned Walking d...

So Unlike the Advent Story

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This season of our faith from Ash Wednesday to Easter the season of reflection, of Lent so unlike the Advent Story No angels, no shepherds, ...

A Season I Need

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So much of the rest of the year the happy, joyous side of our faith the coming of the Christ-child the gifts, the angels and shepherds smile...

Stepping Out in Love

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Our lives, in our beliefs more than stepping out in faith to truly act upon our convictions the model of Christ stepping out in love instead...

In Confessing His Sin

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In confessing his sin his humble estate coming before God knowing he should die In ashes and sackcloth mourning our distance how far ...

In Humility Righteousness

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The prayers that they offered in the story of Jesus the Pharisee and the tax collector both on their knees In his humility, righteousne...

Help Beyond Their Reach

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An indictment, in this land of plenty so many, of us, equally Uninsured, needing services falling between the cracks help beyond their r...

Confessing our need for God

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Aware of our station coming to the rail confessing our sin our utter need for God Humbly coming, approaching your altar like the tax ...

Trusting in Your Great Love

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In spite of our failings our sinful nature we live assured trusting in your great love Your promise to love, redeem us lived out in the Chri...

His Face Set on Jerusalem

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The shift in the story the climax fast approaching his face set on Jerusalem his time coming, to fulfill, complete, to live out the master’s...

Be Merciful to me, a sinner

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Falling to his knees praying humbly knowing himself confessing his sin praying honestly to God Aware of his place how far below the c...

justified with God

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Christ’s lesson on the two in the temple the rich Pharisee and the lowly tax collector The latter, humbly praying unable to speak, pri...