Category: poetry
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THE GOSPEL IS MESSY (a poem)
We like to imagine the gospel as clean and presentable. But Jesus entered our world through blood and water, healed with spit and tears, and offered grace through broken bread and spilled wine. The good news is gloriously, beautifully messy.
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Grace: A Poem
Sometimes we think of grace in terms of beauty. Other times it’s in terms of forgiveness. Which is it? Yes.
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Day 260: The Other Elam (Ezra 2:7, 31)
zra’s long list of returnees includes “the other Elam,” a name most readers skip over. This reflection and poem remind us that even the overlooked are remembered by God, and every name matters in His book.
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Day 124: Wazzup With Uzzah? (1 Chronicles 13-16)
Through the Bible: 1 Chronicles 13-16
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Four Gardens (A Poem for Easter)
Once, in the cool of the day, God walked into a Garden; Where a serpent hissed, and man hid, and half eaten fruit lay fallen on the ground. Adam, where are You? said the Father. And the man was driven out of the Garden, head down, condemned. Once, in the dead of night, Jesus walked…
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Day 048: Two Gospel Characters that Ignored Leviticus, and Why It Was Ok (Leviticus 14-15)
Through the Bible: Leviticus 14-15