The Spirit Descending (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The Spirit, tangible, palpable like a dove, a wind, tongues of fire, flames, the Spirit bodily, resting on him, in ...
The Spirit, tangible, palpable like a dove, a wind, tongues of fire, flames, the Spirit bodily, resting on him, in ...
Into the Jordan out in John's arms, rising up a dove descending January 10, 2009 Mark 1:9-11 (Raymond A. Foss)
The son, pleasing to God at the banks of the Jordan, coming to be baptized to go to the one, ...
Like John, at the banks of the Jordan like Isaiah, the people in exile anointed, to be witnesses, to testify ...
We must return, to Nazareth, to Bethlehem to the river, the Jordan to the time of the Christ, with us ...
He healed the sick, ministered to them all the son a servant to their needs even when he grieved the ...
The story began anew, the steps of fulfillment immediately revealed, the ancient text alive in the Jordan, where he was ...
Without the Thursday, without the Friday There could be no Sunday miracle A holy Thursday carrying out God's plan fulfillment ...
There I was, with my partners, my brother working, as we had for years, toiling in our boat on the ...
The savior of the world, the one we had hoped for, the Messiah we prayed for his coming, held in ...
Coming up out of the water out of the River Jordan Heaven opened to him He saw God descend the ...
He was baptized in the River in the Jordan by Elijah; but he was anointed king, not by oil, as ...
Jesus on the cross, in the manger, on the mountain healing, praying, walking on water coming out of the Jordan ...
The pastor knitted imagery that didn't go quite together that were a bit incongruous, a bit distinct images of the ...
We, like the shepherds, the wise men, the father and mother, go to the stable each year, at this time, ...
The words of God, the Son, at the beginning, the start of his earthly ministry After the baptism, near the ...
He moved to ministry Washed in the Jordan, touched by the dove, anointed by water, the Word of God, the ...
We, the heirs, the brothers and sisters are to be as the dove, to land bodily on the saved, to ...
In prayer, Jesus was touched by the physical manifestation of the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit the other end ...
"The Jordan River is muddy and cold, chills the body but not the soul", or so said our songs in ...
The instant, the moment, the second he was baptized, touched by the spirit, he began, using the gifts, he had ...
His mother's voice through his mother's womb gave away his presence, his nearness his being, so close, so close a ...
The divine was revealed made clean, prepared, anointed not with a crown; but with water not in the Temple but ...
A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there; A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Enter, as in the Temple of Jerusalem, ATHALIA, MATHAN, ABNER WHY, to our Wonder, in this Place is seen, ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard -- Till morning ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
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