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Giving Thanks for Bishop James Thomas
By: Bishop Gregory V. Palmer
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10/26/2010
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All Saints' Day
Fred Pratt Green penned the words below which is the first verse of the hymn Rejoice In God’s Saints (No. 708 in the United Methodist Hymnal). This year as we approach All Saints Day they speak to me poignantly as I continue to rejoice and give thanks for the life, faith and ministry of Bishop James Samuel Thomas.
All Saints Day: A Time to Remember and Be Re-Membered
By: Bishop Gregory V. Palmer
on
10/30/2009
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All Saints' Day
All Saints Day is a specific opportunity to not only remember but to be re-membered to the whole Christian communion. We are bound to all Christians in every time and place. That is a humbling, awe inspiring and scary thought. It’s not hard to think about the best qualities and characteristics of other disciples that we admire. Those things tend to humble and awe us. The scary part is that we are also connected to fellow disciples with all of their warts and shortcomings. But the miracle and mystery is that God manages to use us warts and all. And the extraordinary good news is that God desires to perfect us in God’s love.
