Category: poetry
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Day 308: Feast (A Poem Based on Matthew 22:1-14)
11 “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. 12 And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness.…
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Day 288: How I Love You (A Prayer of thanks from Mark 5)
But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.(Mark 5:33) Through the Bible: Mark 4-5 My Jesus, I love you. I love you for feeling the desperate touch of one person when a whole crowd was pressing around you…
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Day 260: The Other Elam: A Song (Ezra 2:7, 31)
(with apologies to Billy Joel) “The sons of Elam, 1,254.”Ezra 2:7 ESV “The sons of the other Elam, 1,254.”Ezra 2:31 ESV Through the Bible: Ezra 1-3 Have you ever been “the other” in a group of people? James is a pretty common name, so I’m in lots of crowds with other Jameses. In fact, when…