Not to war but to peace (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
God's word, given by the son in a land under the rule a captured nation under the powerful empire not ...
God's word, given by the son in a land under the rule a captured nation under the powerful empire not ...
The earth not to the powerful not to the mighty, the strong but to the meek not to the proud ...
God gives words to the prophets to those who will not be silent who would call out for justice who ...
God's offering of mercy in judgment in the comforting presence of our savior offered not to the powerful not to ...
Rereading his message on this day important to our land the major sermon the world as God would see it ...
Even today, as we celebrate the independence of our nation our people separated freed of the oppression tyranny of another ...
Reading these words of Christ preaching from the mountain closer to God revealing his message of what it is to ...
Christ speaking across the ages to each of us on blessedness in the eyes of God Not to the full ...
God's comfort, his assurance the loving hands of God blessed are those would mourn who sorrow in their soul God ...
In a moment of reflection may we stop on Independence Day to think of our freedoms in a totally new ...
In the words of Christ in his sermon on that mount telling us how to live guided in our freedom ...
Christ's word and the Spirit guiding our steps here living in our freedom in the way that God would want ...
Focused on our nation as we do on this day needing to be mindful of the savior's way He spoke ...
The sense of happiness of joy in our freedom revisited, recast in these words of Christ Needing to remember what ...
Our calling, as a people anointed for a calling in the words of our independence something of these words of ...
Remembering his teachings the lesson of our savior his message for living for the way we should walk as believers, ...
There on the mountain Christ coming to rest the disciples coming to him sitting on the lawn outside, under the ...
Not in the country where we live not in true independence walking on our own adrift in the world Our ...
We like the people in the ancient story doing what we must to prepare for the enemy our part in ...
Strength in our master his Spirit within our lives, our fortune turning these over to God Conscious of our weakness ...
Out of his goodness too broad to remember God's love so vast we cannot comprehend Even when we falter stray ...
The psalmist spoke of God as our fortress a place of refuge when our enemies are about How much more ...
Not to our own desires turning instead to the Lord strength in our weakness when temptation is at our door ...
Called in a vision struggling to be faithful seeing this man before him the threat he had been Called by ...
Enemies gathering in the city stiff-necked people of God unable to see who stood in the land, offering hope to ...
Snapped to attention the change in the weather Christ speaking and the waves the winds calmed to stillness Eyes wide ...
So unlike the lesson from our savior the story of the Samaritan to be a good neighbor by the way ...
What we seek, peace, simple rest only the shepherd can provide rest from our worries, our troubles the cares of ...
The fields of heaven those green pastures, still waters mansions in the fields our home, our place of rest through ...
Provision from the Lord our daily bread our every need helping us, beside us, ever wherever we go in the ...
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