The Voice of Inclusion (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
With the prostitutes, the tax collectors with the unclean, the lepers Christ is the voice of inclusion showing us his ...
With the prostitutes, the tax collectors with the unclean, the lepers Christ is the voice of inclusion showing us his ...
The weight of our own sin only shards hanging after the stones have been thrown in our glass houses how ...
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 ...
No longer wandering, going about the land preaching, healing spreading the message of love the time coming growing near, his ...
Before I can worship truly joyful before I can sing of the rising of my king Needing to walk along ...
Before the rising of our savior the joy of Easter morning coming face to face with the reality of his ...
The words entering into worship prayers from the pulpit that we would observe a holy Lent with disciplines of old ...
The days of Lent a forty-day season able to change our lives if we would let them Reflecting on the ...
So much of the rest of the year the happy, joyous side of our faith the coming of the Christ-child ...
This season of our faith from Ash Wednesday to Easter the season of reflection, of Lent so unlike the Advent ...
The prayerful things, fasting what we give up for Lent different than the New Year's resolutions lying in the dust, ...
The little things that we give up things we add to our days denying ourselves of chocolate, TV, spending more ...
Still fresh in my memory the smell of the burning palms the smoke thick, wrapping round me as the joy ...
Aware of our station coming to the rail confessing our sin our utter need for God Humbly coming, approaching your ...
The prayers that they offered in the story of Jesus the Pharisee and the tax collector both on their knees ...
In confessing his sin his humble estate coming before God knowing he should die In ashes and sackcloth mourning our ...
Christ's lesson on the two in the temple the rich Pharisee and the lowly tax collector The latter, humbly praying ...
Falling to his knees praying humbly knowing himself confessing his sin praying honestly to God Aware of his place how ...
The shift in the story the climax fast approaching his face set on Jerusalem his time coming, to fulfill, complete, ...
In spite of our failings our sinful nature we live assured trusting in your great love Your promise to love, ...
At the altar rail pausing, in prayer, waiting for the bread for the cup waiting for You to feel your ...
They were people like us, not leaders of the law, of the Temple working for a living, by the sweat ...
Like the tax collector we are all Abraham's children children of the promise of the savior, of the creator sheep ...
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