Download or read book Gospel Words in Prose and Verse written by James Samuel Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gospel Words in Prose and Verse written by James Samuel Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Select Pieces in Verse and Prose written by John Bowdler and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enjoying the Bible written by Matthew Mullins and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Christians view the Bible as an instruction manual. While the Bible does provide instruction, it can also captivate, comfort, delight, shock, and inspire. In short, it elicits emotion--just like poetry. By learning to read and love poetry, says literature professor Matthew Mullins, readers can increase their understanding of the biblical text and learn to love God's Word more. Each chapter includes exercises and questions designed to help readers put the book's principles and practices into action.
Download or read book Written for You written by Miguel De La Cruz and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God, life, and questions. For many more questions than answers. Please read this book, for there is one prose poem written for you. Written for You is a book with prose poems recited by Pastor Sam Iglesias, then a Bible verse followed by his homily. They are linked together for continuity; this allows the reflection of the word of God and how it will enable you to understand the Lord's grace. The Lord has not changed and what was is still today. Find God, in his words, in the Holy Bible. Your starting point of building your faith and trust. Written for You is written in the hope that it may affect you profoundly, so it may show you that the word of our Lord is relevant in your life; continue to learn and teach the word, serve the Lord. Allow yourself to be a teacher, allow the Holy Spirit to be present. Jesus said, “Wherever you may go in the world, tell all of the good news.” Pastor Sam gives you the good news, for the Lord commands him, as it is commanded for you to share the good news with all. Written for You is only a key; it can open the door, but you must choose from the two alternatives, the world or the word. We must pray for the grace, valor, and wisdom. When we surrender and submit to his authority, then the true purpose of who you are will be revealed and allow you to see the light, so you may worship the Lord in his splendor and do his will.
Download or read book The Gospel Poetry written by Juanita Simmons and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Father, help us grow in understanding of your great love for us. May our thoughts, our words, and our actions every day express this love, wherever it may be. God, be merciful to us and bless us, look on us with kindness, so that the whole world may know your will, so that all nations may know your salvation. May all the people praise you, O God. We pray in Jesuss name. Amen.
Download or read book Johannine Thoughts written by James Drummond and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bible and Poetry written by Michael Edwards and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, provocative look at the link between poetry and Christianity, both as it relates to the Bible itself as well as to Christian and religious life, by an accomplished scholar. The Bible is full of poems. In the Old Testament, there are the Psalms and the Song of Songs, the great exhortations and lamentations of the Prophets, and passages of poetry woven in throughout. In the New Testament, Jesus describes the kingdom of heaven with poetic epithets such as “a treasure hid in a field,” calling the Son of God “the true vine,” “the light of the world,” “the good shepherd,” and “the way, the truth, and the life.” The Gospels reverberate with allusions to the poetry of the Old Testament; the last book of all is Revelation, a visionary poem. The Bible, in other words, asks to be read poetically from start to end, and yet readers have rarely considered what that might mean, much less heeded that call. In The Bible and Poetry, the poet and scholar Michael Edwards reshapes our understanding of the Bible and religious belief, arguing that poetry is not an ornamental or accidental feature but is central to both. He speaks personally of his early, unanticipated, transformative encounters with scripture. He offers close, insightful, and resonant readings of biblical passages. Poetry, as he sees it, is the vital and necessary medium of the Creator’s word, and the truth of the Bible is not a question of precepts and propositions but of a direct experience of its poetry, its power.
Download or read book Christ in Literature Being a Treasury of Choice Readings in Prose and Verse Illustrative of the Acts and Words of Jesus Christ Together with the Four Gospels Arranged in One Continuous Narrative Printed Concurrently with the Readings Compiled and Edited by Edward Eggleston written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Morning Thoughts in prose and verse on portions of the Gospel of St Mark etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Christian life thoughts in prose and verse from the best writers of all ages selected and arranged by mrs H Southgate written by Christian life and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse written by Alfred William Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifteenth century prose and verse written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gospels in Verse written by Jabez L. van Cleef and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1999-12-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I started to think about making the bible into a poem one day when I was sitting in church, trying not to go to sleep while somebody was reading a passage from Isaiah. It was the passage that the American artist Edward Hicks used as his inspiration for the many paintings he painted collectively entitled The Peaceable Kingdom. Its not that the passage was especially boring, any more than other passages from the bible, probably less so than most in fact. Its just that for the first time, I caught myself playing this game in my mind where I try to rearrange the words of the text to make them into rhyming lines. We have these little handouts at church showing the readings for the day, and I had been looking at the words as if the reading were a word puzzle, trying to make it into verse instead of trying, as I suppose I ought to have been, to gain some edifying message from what I was both hearing and reading. At that moment I understood that I had been playing this game in my head since I was a child without ever thinking about it or having any awareness of what I was doing. There is a kind of round-robin program at church, called the lectionary, where they assign readings according to a cycle which repeats every three years. I realized that my rhyming game had invaded all parts of the lectionary, like a flu virus. I suppose the intent of the lectionary is that, with repetition, the readings come to have a familiar quality, so its easy to let ones mind wander and engage other things. And I suppose another part of this intent is that it permits the text to become a ritual, wherein we give leave to the faithful, that is, those who appear in church every week for several years, to allow the text to become a kind of music, and to supply their own relevance by meditating on the material of their own experience, as if it were a text being set to this music which is also a text. I must confess that I did not only versify, I also transposed and ornamented small pieces of a text in my mind while I sat through these readings, so that instead of keeping their stolid and prosaic rectitude the words would don finery and trip forward with a lilt, first hesitant and then quite sure. When the reading came to an end and I resumed my more or less official duty as congregant or chorister, along with the faithful, standing, sitting, kneeling, singing, praying, listening, waiting my turn, and accurately delivering myself of the correct responses during the liturgy; I forgot what I had been doing in the interlude of the reading, these multiple-recurrent poetic daydreams that came over me every week, every year, and every three years simultaneously. First, it meant that for my mind it was somehow more natural that the text be expressed as a rhyming verse, because in practical terms that is what I had forced it to become without the least need for doing so. Second, I began to wonder why the little sections in the chapters of the bible are called verses; if they were meant to be thought of as prose, why werent they called paragraphs? Then I thought of medieval troubadours and poets like Homer who were supposed to have sung for hours, and that oral traditions depended on poetic structures to make the texts memorable enough to survive, and measured enough to go with the music. After a while it began to seem perfectly natural that the bible or parts of it should be rendered over from the relative sterility of prose into the emotionally fraught subjective world of poetry. I have often seen it written that the Gospel According to John is thought to be more poetic than the other three, and so I was drawn to consider this as my first enterprise. Actually I made a list of passages that I like the shape of in many different books from both the old and new testaments. I quickly realized that there were extended storie
Download or read book Christ in Literature written by Edward Eggleston and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Sense Atheism written by Barry Goldberg and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some atheists, it's enough to simply not believe in God. Some people believe, but you don't. And that's OK.Other atheists, however, find themselves constantly being asked to justify why they don't believe in God, to explain how they can possibly have morals without believing in God, to respond to various arguments that supposedly prove the existence of God, to acknowledge that America was founded as a "Christian" nation, etc. And if you don't have a background in philosophy, formal logic, comparative religions, ancient history, and various scientific fields, it can be a bit daunting to attempt to respond to questions and assertions like these.Well, fear not! "Common Sense Atheism" is a collection of original essays that address these issues and many others in clear and easy to understand language, with just a dollop of humor to make it all go down smoothly. These essays will help you understand and explain to others why a lack of belief in God really is the only rational choice.After all, you shouldn't need a PhD to defend your lack of belief.
Download or read book The Backwater Sermons written by Jay Hulme and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender poet, performer, educator and speaker. In late 2019, his fascination with old church buildings turned into a life-changing encounter with the God he had never believed in, and he was baptised in the Anglican church. In this new poetry collection, Jay details his journey through faith and baptism during an unprecedented world-wide pandemic. As he finds God in the ruined factories and polluted canals of his home city, Jonah is heckled over etymology, angels appear in tube stations, and Jesus sits atop a multi-story car park. Cathedrals are trans, trans people are cathedrals, and amidst it all God reaches out to meet us exactly where we are. Jay’s poetry explores belief in the modern world and offers a perspective on queer faith that will appeal not only to Christians, but young members of the LGBT+ community who are interested in faith but unsure of where to start.
