Category: poetry

  • Day 260: The Other Elam: A Song (Ezra 2:7, 31)

    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…

  • Day 048: Two Gospel Characters that Ignored Leviticus, and Why It Was Ok (Leviticus 14-15)

    8 And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days. 9 And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his…

  • Carry Me Home: A Poem for Ed

    Late last night, I got the call that a beloved saint in my church had his homegoing. He had been fighting cancer for years, and last summer he told me that there weren’t any more treatments to try, and he was going to let the cancer run its course. I’ve visited with Ed several times…

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