Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Junk filled the vacuum – v3
A
sign of the end times,
of
our loss of vision
looking
to ourselves
not
for the kingdom
We
are thankful on Thanksgiving
then
we immediately forget our joy
running
to the mall
to
beat the next guy
We
are joyful for Christmas
for
the coming of Christ
but
we bury the Savior
under
glitter and lights
Junk
filled the vacuum
when
we ceased to believe
we
are now out shopping
when
we should be on our knees
We
are lost in the season
wrapped
in consumption
forgetting
what is important
the
things that matter
Christ
at the center
the
babe in the manger
love
came down at Christmas
to
save us completely
====
Edited
December 12, 2012
Edited
December 10, 2012
December
10, 2012
Spirit
Study,
around
session 2,
“Giving Up
on Perfect”
of video
series:
“A
Different Kind of Christmas: Living and Giving Like Jesus”
by Reverend
Mike Slaughter
and
companion book,
“Christmas
Is Not Your Birthday: Experience the Joy of Living and Giving like Jesus”,
also by
Reverend Mike Slaughter,
led
by Pastor Ruth Foss
A Handmaiden of the Lord
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
December
9, 2012
Second
Sunday of Advent
&
Worship
Theme: “I Believe in the Love/ Peace”
Luke 3:1-6 (English Standard Version Bible)
John the Baptist Prepares the Way
Malachi 3:1-4 (Common English Bible)
Philippians 1:3-11 (Contemporary English
Version Bible)
and
sermon – “True Love”
by
Pastor Ruth Foss
A Handmaiden of the Lord
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
December
9, 2012
Second
Sunday of Advent
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Black Friday, Gray Thursday – v2
We
grieve for the lack of faith
for
the disbelief in God
for
the merchandise, the junk
that
gets in the way of worship
Another
sign, surely
of
the end times, of Satan,
Black
Friday, Gray Thursday
shopping
without end
Nothing
of Jesus, of the Christ
of
our Savior, our Lord
all
of us lost sheep
lost,
gorged on the world
====
edited
November 28, 2014
Black Friday,
Gray Thursday – v5
Black Friday
2014
edited April
7, 2014
Black Friday, Gray
Thursday – v4
(editing
version 2)
edited January
11, 2014
Black Friday,
Gray Thursday – v3
December 2,
2013
“within the
excess of Christmas”
&
Edited
December 12, 2012
Black Friday,
Gray Thursday – v2
December 10,
2012
Black Friday, Gray Thursday
Spirit Study,
around session 2,
“Giving Up on Perfect”
of video series:
“A Different Kind of
Christmas: Living and Giving
Like Jesus”
by Reverend Mike Slaughter
and companion book,
“Christmas Is Not Your
Birthday: Experience the Joy of Living and Giving like Jesus”,
also by Reverend Mike
Slaughter,
led by Pastor
Ruth Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
December 9,
2012
Second Sunday
of Advent
&
Worship Theme: “I Believe in
the Love/ Peace”
Luke 3:1-6
(English Standard Version Bible)
John the Baptist Prepares the Way
Malachi 3:1-4 (Common
English Bible)
Philippians 1:3-11 (Contemporary
English Version Bible)
and sermon – “True Love”
by Pastor Ruth
Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
December 9,
2012
Second Sunday
of Advent
&
December 2,
2013
“within the
excess of Christmas”
First Sunday
of Advent
First Sunday
of Advent sermon series:
An “Advent”ure
to the Stable”
Romans 5:1-5 (New Living Translation)
Isaiah 52:7-12 (New Living Translation)
Isaiah 9:1-3 (New Living Translation)
Prayer of
Thanksgiving
children’s
sermon
“The First
Christmas Present”
by Regina
Goode
communion –
“Your Presence Is Heaven To Me”
and sermon “An
“Advent”ure of . . . Hope”
by Pastor Ruth
Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
December 1,
2013
All of my
poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,
2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for
usage. See all 40,770+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com
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