You Chose to Suffer - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

In the coming of Jesus
the healing of our Savior
in Love come down
down to the earth

You gave up
abandoned Your power
You chose to suffer
walking as a man

You climbed the cross
the cup in the garden
Gethsemane, Golgotha
the dark cold tomb

God choosing to die
in utter humiliation
the King of the universe
going down to the dead

This is the risen Lord
the God, the Creator,
the Savior, the Spirit
to whom we bow down

This is the Master
whose voice we follow
the Shepherd, our Brother
guiding our trembling steps

December 9, 2010
2 Corinthians 4:1-10 (NRSV)
Isaiah 11:1-9 (TEV)
Luke 2:22-32 (TEV)
Luke 2:14 (bulletin cover)
Luke 2:8-14
Luke 19:41 (worship theme)
Responsive Prayer
(“Call to Worship #3”,
Year B, Second Sunday of Advent,
December 7, 2008, Order of service written by
the Rev. Nancy Townley, Abingdon author.)
http://www.worshipconnection.cokesbury.com/content.aspx?dyn=1705
Advent Candle Liturgy, by Dean McIntyre (with Psalm 72:1-7)
Children’s Message based on Matthew 1:21-23
Worship Theme: “If only you knew the way to peace”
and sermon, “Blessed Are the Peacemakers”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
December 5, 2010
Second Sunday of Advent

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