Tag: lent
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Mountains and Valleys – A Poetic Autobiography
What is the opening sentence of my autobiography? … well, I’ve climbed to the top of life’s mountain and fallen into the muck of the valley. Pain, failure, and redemption are the main characters of my story.
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Conversion Poem About the Love and Grace of God
Conversion A Poem About the Love and Grace of God I began divided. Quite selfish with a heart hungry for evil yet filled with a deep longing brewing below the surface that never seemed fulfilled by anything other than you. So what was I to do – in love with myself and my selfish desires…
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Christian Poetry Chapbook Ebook Temporarily Free
Hello, everyone! I have recently published my first chapbook of Christian poems titled “A Voice in the Wilderness – A Chapbook of Poems about God”. This has been developed and polished over the past six months or so. I am happy with the final product and hope you find encouragement in the poems but also…
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Silence Speaks Poem About Listening in Nature
Silence Speaks Poem About Listening in Nature Silence comes swiftly with the sudden breeze quietly untangling the mind and piercing the restless heart. The rustles of the leaves in the trees let light fall like raindrops each time nature’s canopy is shaken. There’s a presence here unnameable, indescribable, ancient and older than the tallest oak.…
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Wrestling With Sin A Poem About Sexual Desire Temptation
Wrestling With Sin A Poem About Sexual Desire Temptation I’m wrestling with sin doing my damnedest not to give in. But I feel my back pinned to the mat knowing that temptation is going to win. My life feels like a chokehold, strangled beneath a force so strong and bold that I’ve grown tired of…
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Satan’s Speech Christian Religious Narrative Poem
Satan’s SpeechA Narrative Poem with Religious ThemesSatan stepped up to the podium,cleared his throat, and tapped the microphoneto address his legions of demons gatheredwith each new, human generationto discuss matters of military penetration.”It is no longer necessaryto corrupt good for evil,” he said.”It’s quite satisfactory to distractthe mind and heart from mission to resignation,carried away…
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Fasting in the Desert A Godly Poem About Contemplation and Selfishness
Fasting in the Desert Strip yourself naked, unclothed of selfish desire. For it requires fuel to burn just as a raging fire. If all thoughts revolve around me and mine, how am I to hear the voice of God, how am I to feel the presence of the Divine? It’s by starving addictions that we…
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Ashes Devotional Poem For Lent Ash Wednesday
Ashes The fire blazed and in the flames I gazed upon the fuel – the false self feeding this renewal. It is awareness that strikes the match and dispatches the light roaring into the darkness. Though this heat is intense, it only speaks of how immense your glory and goodness truly are. I fed myself…
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Christ the Redeemer – A Poem For Easter
Christ the Redeemer – A Rhyming Religious Poem For Easter Darkness drew back in disbelief on that day,When death’s victory was thwartedAnd the stone was rolled away.What depths of love,What heights of grace,Could bear the weight of the human race?Defeat didn’t last but three days,Before the wounds were healedAnd the burial cloth was cast away.Satan’s…
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It Is Finished – The Gospel of Grace
“After this, Jesus knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), ‘I thirst.’ A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ‘It is…
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Accepting and Being Comfortable With Our Weaknesses
“So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My…
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Revival – A Christian Poem About Restoration
Revival – A Christian Poem About Restoration Take this wounded heartthat beats in its own keyand tune it to the beauty of your mercy. Gather these scattered fragments –pieces of man I yearn to beand mold me in the image of your Son. Bathe me beneath the waves of your living water.For you, you are…
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Sing to the Lord a New Song – A Christian Poem For Lent
“Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell his salvation from day to day.” Psalm 96:1-2 Sing to the Lord a New Song – A Christian Poem For Lent “Sing to the LORD a new song” that radiates from the…
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The Abundance of Your Mercy – A Christian Poem For Lent
The Abundance of Your Mercy – A Christian Poem For Lent In the hour of my tribulation, I fail the same trials and tests Time and time again. Delighting for a fleeting moment in my selfish pleasures Before becoming quickly convicted of my sin. Do I find peace, joy, or comfort in my lustful wallowing?…
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In You I Trust – A Christian Poem For Lent
In You I Trust – A Christian Poem For Lent In the midst of my trials, May I not lean on my familiar ways, But walk boldly relying on only your deliverance Through the heat of fiery flames. And may I not trust in this fragile castle I’ve erected with stones of self-reliance and pride,…
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I AM – A Christian Poem About God
I AM – A Christian Poem About God I have painted a masterpiece for you And inscribed my name upon every branch, Every blade of grass, Every rising sun, Each shimmering star, Each full moon, And the trunk of every tree So that your eyes may look upon my creation And see me And know…
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The Roadblock to Faith – A Christian Lent Poem
The Roadblock to Faith – A Christian Lent Poem What Am I searching for, Riding on this merry-go-round, Spinning past the same old places And making the same old mistakes Over…. And Over… And Over… And Over… And Over Again? Am I really looking for answers, Seeking out the pivotal, hidden clue That will turn…
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The Journey – A Christian Poem for the Lenten Season
The Journey – A Christian Poem for the Lenten Season Give my heart feetSo that it may walk towards you.Give me the motivation to arise,And the drive to see your will through. When I am idlePut my body back into gear –To continue to put one foot in front of the otherIn the presence of…
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