Persecuted like Christ (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What do we fear that keeps us in our seats when we should be persecuted like Jesus our lives in ...
What do we fear that keeps us in our seats when we should be persecuted like Jesus our lives in ...
When the glass falls our hypocrisy exposed when our sin is revealed naked in glass houses our stain bright red ...
Standing in judgment condemning others when they stand in glass houses shards all around Throwing stones in glass houses letting ...
Two men, having earned their penalty the judgment of the law too late to repent too late for sacrifice too ...
So much can be said yet nothing understood not as a human not unto ourselves In the coming of the ...
Pure, unblemished the sentient lamb coming forward as part of God's plan Kneeling before us the priest the sacrifice taking ...
The costs will be greater though maybe not tomorrow down into our future when the costs are fully realized The ...
The need is greater than what we have funded long waiting lists and unfunded mandates Now in this cruel season ...
Too slow coming by finally, action the world speaking standing together with the people yearning to breathe free Against the ...
The poison of their anger revenge served cold gutting all social services far into the bone Cutting the advocates the ...
The plea of a mother of others speaking joining together as if with one voice I beg you to reconsider ...
Firing on the innocents gunning down the protesters coming from the time of prayers into the Square of the Martyrs ...
At the end, judgment guided by God's holy word the loving word of Christ The one who came to fulfill ...
Letting this stand the oppression of the nations letting the people starve in subjugation Standing idly by as the people ...
The wages, the price the result of our transgressions sin only gives death the judgment of the law Grace washes ...
Wrapped in clay emptied of his holiness God descending to earth walking as a man Humble, of the dust temporal, ...
How well I know the moaning, the pain opening my heart hours in the pew kneeling bowed low Crying out ...
Only in his baptism washed in his holy blood made new in our Savior saved from the judgment of death ...
One lesson of the judgment the teaching of our Savior how He will judge the world the peoples of the ...
None of them truly strangers just new neighbors the face of Christ present in all the people that we meet ...
Take time today pray and ponder pause to consider how to live out Christ's call The challenge of the judgment ...
Too many readings of this holy scripture focus on the sheep the calling of the flock the judgment of the ...
The children of Abraham for you and me these are who Christ came for to redeem us from death the ...
All of us welcome at the feet of Jesus all of us called to come before God The example of ...
The Christ of the judgment coming in fire the clouds his entry back into the world Not in suffering but ...
Judgment to be replaced on that blessed day the day we wait for this Advent time of year Mercy came ...
The judgment of God our failing under the law for the judgment of our sin the Lord God gave His ...
Shards of God's love planted in our hearts the Spirit crying when we stray from Love Shards cut us to ...
Made in the image a mirror of Christ perhaps nascent growing in our hearts a piece of the Creator in ...
In the whisper of our Maker the breath of life given a seed planted in the humble clay of man ...
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