Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Feb 15, 2025
[028] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – BE NOT CONFORMED TO THE WORLD
“If you don’t agree with us, you are not included.” “We will finance your new building but only if you add a night club.”
This world is absolutely full of compromise. It happens in relationships (sexual pressure on a woman), in
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 13, 2025
[199]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – ON STONY SHORES
This is a short poem and I do not wish to add to it. I live close to the beach and the rainforest. Some beaches in the tropics here have a lot of smooth rocks on them, basalt in origin from past volcanic activity.
In the tropical rainforest you
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 6, 2024
[009]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - A TREE CLIMBER
Some people have a burning desire to go to see someone or some event important. Look how many turn out to a Trump rally, or a football final, or who go to see some vain film star.
However, some people have a real need and want to meet someone to see
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 12, 2025
[054]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DAY IS AT HAND
This poem is figurative in a sense. I look at the early glimmer of light in the east as the sun soon will rise. Then it increases until it is full day with the bright shining sun.
What the poem does is begin with the harbinger of the dawn in
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 9, 2025
[107]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GOSPEL REFLECTIONS
This poem begins with reflections them moves to creation, then the death of the Lord followed by salvation and ends with a very pleasant scene in peaceful waters and sunlight.
The inspiration for this was recall of the tropical scenery around me
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 14, 2024
[013] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - ACADEMIC CHRISTIANITY
If you did a survey in universities and places of higher learning, and in liberal theological colleges in our days, you would find very few Christians. The mind of man today is bent on humanism and the search for rationalism in an existential
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 7, 2025
[098]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GENESIS SYNOPSIS
How can you possibly put the book of Genesis into a poem? The answer is, be brief and try not to miss the main events. I had the desire to write a Genesis poem and this is the result.
The poem begins of course with Chapter 1 and works to the
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 23, 2025
[140]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – IN DESPAIR BUT NOT ALONE
There is some personal sorrow in this poem and some of the poem’s content comes from experience, not a pleasant one.
When writing this – a task that was difficult because of the way I used the rhyme scheme – I appealed to the Psalms and my
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 29, 2025
[146]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – IN UNION WITH CHRIST
It is a great joy and a mark of praise that we are in Christ. Do Christians use that phrase “in Christ” and not think into the depth of it?
In union with Christ examines that subject, and it is too great to write well on it in a poem with
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Did you know that “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” was written, not about the mythical Land of Oz but it was about Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people.
The lyrics were written by Yip Harburg, the youngest of four children born to Russian-Jewish immigrants. His real name was Isidore Hochberg,
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Contributed by Steven Platt on Mar 8, 2002
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Here are some opening lines to books or poems. See if you recognize them.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" -A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
"Call me Ishmael" -Moby Dick – Herman Melville
"Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after
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Contributed by Troy Mason on Aug 23, 2002
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Our Inheritance (Poem in honor of Jewel Hogan for her funeral, Oct. 18, 1997)
I dreamed that the Lord came by my bedside
And took me far away.
On a tour of Heaven,
Everywhere I looked my eyes
Saw the beauty of gold and prescious jewels
As abundant as the grass of the earth
Everywhere I walked
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Let me close with a poem that was read out at the Queen Mother’s funeral; which I think sums up the Christian faith very well.
"I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year. “Give me a light that I may tread safely
into the unknown.”
And he replied: “Go out into the darkness
and put your
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Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Oct 27, 2004
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a poem entitled “I Loved Once,” in which she writes, “They never loved who dreamed that they loved once,” and “Love looks beyond the bounds of time and space, Love takes eternity in its embrace.”
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Dorothea Day’s poem “My Captain” is the Christian response to Henley:
Out of the light that dazzles me,
Bright as the sun from pole to pole,
I thank the God I know to be
For Christ the conqueror of my Soul.
Since His, the way of circumstance
I would not wince nor cry aloud.
Under that rule,
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Aug 27, 2005
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I found a little poem by an anonymous author that sounds so familiar, it’s as if I could have written it. It says: “Lord, I’m so discouraged, I don’t know what to do; I have so many burdens, And I gave them all to you. But you didn’t take them, Jesus, will
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 7, 2006
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I want to close with this little poem entitled “Jesus” written by Charlotte S.C. Panton.
Lonely? No, not lonely
With Jesus standing by;
His presence always cheers me,
I know that He is nigh.
Friendless? No, not friendless
Since Jesus is my friend;
I change, but he remaineth
True, faithful to the
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 30, 2006
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I want to close with this poem by Lois Reynolds Carpenter, entitled “Second Birth”.
I never loved the pleasant earth
So much as since my second birth.
The shy forget-me-not’s soft blue
Seems bits of Heaven shining through.
The golden buttercup’s bright face
Proclaims the glory of His grace.
His
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Contributed by Bruce Willis on Jan 1, 2007
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There’s a poem by Joseph Addison Alexander that I believe drives home the urgency for someone here today. It’s untitled to my knowledge and goes like this:
There is a time, we know not when,
A place, we know not where;
Which marks the destiny of men
To glory or despair.
There is a line, by us
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