Aaron Buckles (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like so many who would follow the priest falling, caving, buckling to the will of the congregation, the people when ...
Like so many who would follow the priest falling, caving, buckling to the will of the congregation, the people when ...
Lord, We thank you for this holy ground, this place we are gathered in We thank you for the vision ...
Lord, We thank you for this holy ground, this place we are gathered in We thank you for the vision ...
Leading us to our seats, watching the congregation, caring for the flock from the back of the sanctuary, from the ...
The pastor had them enthralled, And us too, describing the Shaping of each of us, Using the words of the ...
A start of a new year, After the distance, the falling away Of the summer days, together again Singing, praying, ...
We were sent out by the congregation to be His hands, to be their hands Down East; putting on His ...
Christianity is a team sport, so the pastor said that morning from the pulpit. Sometimes it can feel lonely, different ...
She was free, free of the script, the words, the guide she had sitting before her Free to speak from ...
With tears pouring down my face, washing down into my mouth wide open singing, praying, believing in the power of ...
Three of the matriarchs willful women of our congregation congressing in the parking lot outside the sanctuary sharing a scheme, ...
We sat around the living room a more casual gathering the small flock listening to the word, yes; but sharing ...
Bright, young faces sitting on the steps, in the chancel drinking in the words of the pastor hearing of the ...
Summer Sunday best became splattered with His blood in the intinction, the joining of His body, His blood, the dipping ...
He was our cantor, modeling the responsive lines to his homily on faith. Echoing, joining him, in remembering the mantra ...
The war got a little closer to home as the concerns were lifted before the congregation in the stilled sanctuary ...
So right to honor, to pay tribute to thank them, before Pentecost before the joining of new members so noble ...
The pastor, speaking in parables, and more directly to the congregation itself to brothers and sisters of the same cloth, ...
Bread from the baker, the sustainer God, ready when needed spoiling when saved This time is a test another test ...
We have heard the news a crisis in the congregation urgent needs for a new appeal a new infusion, a ...
We are a congregation intent on breathing in, new disciplines, new practices to be sure; but aren't we ready, ready ...
I stood before the congregation knowing the financial crunch the hard work, done by so many for so many years, ...
Oh to be like John, John Wesley our founder, the beginning of the faith to see the miners, the men ...
Pitch the Tent on the lawn set up the chairs, the signs, the pulpit flagmen at the roadside, cars parked ...
Without walls, just the tent the place of the meeting for the people where God lived before the Temple before ...
At the end of the Thanksgiving service, she shared the affirmation of her call, her turn before the committee, She ...
In my trade, you never are to ask these kinds of questions, questions where you don't know the answer, those ...
Watching her eyes, in worship as she preached from her heart, not merely from the words she crafted oh so ...
Down he fell, trusting, falling backward into the tank, immersed by the waves down into the cleansing waters of the ...
Share Christ's love in the world Hear the cry of the people Yearn to know God better Always be a ...
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