Category: Poetic
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4/28 Limerick: Crave Him
True discipleship is to crave Him / More than just singing a praise hymn / Desire for His heart / Consumes every part / Til we are living like His sim!
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4/27 Limerick: Re-Vided Heart
In a world that seems so divided / Give me a heart that is “vided” / When I know You’re real / I’ll feel what “they” feel / And feed them the grace You provided
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4/26 Limerick: Prevailing Passion
We all have desires to prevail So those that we love, we don’t fail Yet to gain the whole I must shift my goal To “Union with Christ” as my grail Today I will keep refixing my eyesUntil they see You
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4/24 Limerick: Long You
The best gift that I could wish true / Is for you to know God’s “long you”
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4/23 Poem: Seek Deep
The Quest-ion must / Take root in our soul / So when it’s removed / It leaves a deep hole
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4/22 Limerick: Like Jesus
“Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” “Yes, Lord; you know that I like you.”
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4/21 Limericks: Sup-Re-Natural
It’s natural to hate our foes / The authors of our earthly woes // But that’s not the end of our tale / We must learn to see past the veil…
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4/20 Limericks: Betraying Forgiveness
It can feel like eating raw kale / When I need to forgive betrayal
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4/18 Limericks: Consuming Hunger
The hunger that gnaws at my soul / Reminds me I long to be whole / When I’m filled with You / (Tis strange but it’s true) / I suddenly have a new goal…
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4/17 Limerick: Changing Faith
Faith cannot merely be passive / Or something that we take a class of / It’s making a bet / That God won’t forget / Which wins us a payoff that’s massive!
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4/16 Poem: Unjust Deserts
When the world hurts / We want just desserts / A law that is true / Protects me from you // This comes at a cost…
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4/14 Limericks: Bread Line
If we wish to join the divine / We must make it past the “bread line” / It’s good to be fed / But what if instead / We sought to hear Jesus call us “Mine!”
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4/13 Limerick: Ruin-O-Us
Though crucifixion may seem ruinous / It’s actually salvation glorious / When in Him we / Are nailed to a tree / All the world learns to see Christ in us!
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4/12 Limerick: Out-Vestment
Our hearts can only find rest / When we know where to invest / Desire becomes pure / When we are sure / Christ is in whom we are dressed!
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4/11 Poetry Slam: Over-Flow
We gotta get into Your Over-Flow / So we escape this world‘s under-tow / Sin has trapped us all in ways we don’t know / Free us from ruts so with You we go
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4/10 Limerick: Fast-en Grace
If we intend to win our race / We must learn to fast-en grace / Hunger un-met / Is how we get / Jesus to run in our place!
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4/9 Limerick: Re-Present Christ
My hope is that you will not dissent / When Christ chooses us to be present / His love becomes fresh / When shown in our flesh / As our suffering brings a new advent!
