“The world awoke today and groaned,
In pain because of unbelief,
It shuddered as the stain of sin,
Left pools of blood at Jesus’ feet.
This blood, not His, cried out below,
Righteous judgment it did seek,
Unjustly shed by wicked men,
Who killed the orphan, and the weak.
The world awoke today and groaned,
To find few witnesses of grace,
Just lonely sidewalks filled [...]
A short poem meant to challenge men in particular to view their roles as vice-regents of Creation rightly; always remembering Who it is that Scripture says “opens” and “closes” the womb, and Who it is that has the right to “kill and make alive again”…
“Image bearers
Not sovereign sharers
Of the power to kill and make alive [...]
A poem by John Piper:
The Children
Do you hear the children crying?
I can hear them every day,
Crying, sighing, dying, flying
Somewhere safe where they can play.
Somewhere safe from all the dangers,
Somewhere safe from crack and AIDS,
Safe from lust and lurking strangers,
Safe from war and bombing raids.
Somewhere safe from malnutrition,
Safe from daddy’s damning voice,
Safe from mommy’s cool ambition,
Safe [...]
by G.K. Chesterton
If trees were tall and grasses short,
[...]
Dr. James Dobson quoted this poem by Hery Wadsworth Longfellow as Dobson announced his resignation as Chairman of Focus on the Family:
THOU, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy [...]
“Fence posts and wire
clouds all a-fire
one thing I desire
to see the scissortail store its catch.“
W. Hank Balch (c) 2008
“O God, From Heaven Look Down and See“
-Martin Luther, 1524
1. O GOD, from heaven look down and see
A sight which well may move Thee:
Of godly men how few there be,
Forsaken we who love Thee!
Withheld is Thy pure Word, the light
Of faith itself extinguished quite
In all the sons of Adam.
2. Fictions they teach with cunning art,
and [...]
this garden unrefined
is quite the rugged sight
crawling vines of greenish hue
forsake the ground to press towards light
racing without crowds
these natural athletes of the field
train amidst both life and death
bringing forth victorious yield
what veterans who occupy
this territory of the earth
who care not for the president
or what their stocks and bonds are worth
their height depends upon their [...]
“Who are you little man?”
Or, “Are you a man at all?”
Why bother talking to a clump of cells
Inhabiting this terrestrial ball?
What is man, that he is mindful
Of himself? Much less that One
Is mindful of him. But then again,
That is his standard for mindfulness.
Since when have the mindless
Been entrusted to ascertain
The viability, and humanity of one
Who [...]
(This is a re-run of a poem I wrote in August of 2007.)
I recently wrote this poem after reflecting on Psalm 2, 127, 139, and Jeremiah 6:16. The main inspiration came from a concern that I have with the modern view (even within evangelicalism) of the family, and our inconsistency in viewing children as [...]
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" ... Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. God will not hold us guiltless, not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act." - Dietrich Boenhoffer
" ... Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. God will not hold us guiltless, not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act." - Dietrich Boenhoffer
