Message From the Poet

Jesus saves. The Good News never gets boring, outdated, or powerless. The saved need to hear it because its message is refreshing, but the unsaved especially need to hear The Good News. These poems can start the conversation that can win the lost to Christ. Choose a favorite and share it prayerfully. Please obtain written permission from the author

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Prayer Request

Pray for me, Pastor, for sin has made a disaster of my life. I know that I must some day meet the Master. Because I am not right, I am afraid. I have seen so many loved ones laid to rest, and I realize that I could be next. I hear you preach about the Savior Who brought you out of your sin. I want Him to save me too, but I fear that you cannot convince me to change. I've tried my very best to reign over my sinful flesh, but I can never pass the tests that temptations bring. Just As I Am must not mean me, for I still seem to see myself as sinful as can be. Please, Pastor, pray for Jesus to set me free. I want to be saved. Does Jesus save all who ask from their future, present, and past sins? Can my new life begin over and over and over again, like I've never sinned? Was sin's penalty paid when Christ arose from the grave? Is it true that I am forever saved, forever free?

The Great Pumping Heart

Back and forth and back again, circulating information among those whose lives are stained by sin, among the saints, as well as the saints that ain't, the Great Pumping Heart circulates information, not only about salvation for the soul, but also about salvation that leads to self-preservation in a world from which poor people must demand their rights. Like a great, pumping heart, pumping life for the flesh to live, likewise the church gives the poor community life. The Great Pumping Heart is the place for any community leader to start if he is to reach the masses. The lawyer and the man who needs a lawyer can only be found on common ground in the church or the grave. And so, the Great Pumping Heart struggles to pump life and hope to parts of its community, overweight with the insanity of violent acts of inhumanity, born out of frustration because salvation for the soul was not enough to pump. But the Church must ever remember that a little leaven, leavens the whole lump, and that Christ died for the Great Pumping Heart to pump the news of eternal life.

Forgive Me

I hope you have forgiven me, now that you have entered the place where time is measured only as forever. How I wish we could have lived here in peace making the best of our time together! Circumstances in our lives would not allow us. Instead, we used our time to fuss about things that seem so unimportant today. Oh that we may meet again and live eternally in fellowship sweet.

Keep Laughing

Even though you know that I am gone, you still desire to rush home to tell me the latest news. Come on and tell me anyway. I'll be waiting, watching, and listening for the excitement in your voice as you share the story of your choice. When you laugh, I will laugh too, the same way we laughed when neither of us cared who thought we looked and sounded foolish. Our loved ones loved watching the exchange of laughter between us. For the laughter between you and me healed us all. Do you recall how we would still away, leaving them folded over, slayed in the wake of our exhaust? Keep laughing and baffling those who wonder why it seems you never laugh alone. I am laughing with you still, even though I am gone.

Having Jesus

Who can find more joy than having Jesus? Having Jesus lets me live my life with joy. The thought of facing Death would fill each day I live with fear. But having Jesus gives me joy year after year. Who can find more peace than having Jesus? For the Bible says He is the Prince of Peace. When the problems in my life get too demanding, and my troubles seem to grow each passing day, having Jesus gives me peace that passes understanding. Who can find more love than having Jesus? For the God above sent Him to show us love. Having all the love in all the world from every man, woman, boy and girl cannot compare to the love I've found in having Jesus.

The Light Within Me

Can the darkness that surrounds me possibly be brighter than the Light I have within me? Can the power of dark days make me lose the faith I have in Him living within me? The Light that saved, saves, and will save me, the Light that saves us from our sin lives in me and shines more brightly than all the dark trouble in this whole wide world.