Category Archives: Poetry

Troubler Why Do You Trouble Us?… a Pastor’s lament for a backslider

Oh Troubler, why do you trouble us? We had just talked to you, we thought you were doing better… Why did you take your eyes off of Him who comes to us in the midst of every storm? What did … Continue reading

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On the Passing of a Pornographer

On the fall of a  Pornographer; But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth … Continue reading

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The Summer is Ended…by Bill Randles

TO BE READ ALOUD… I heard a lamentation, a chorus of bitter regret… ‘The Harvest is Past, the Summer is Ended,  and we are not saved…’ I heard a congregation… ruefully confess… ‘We are the people left behind…’… wandering and … Continue reading

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Confessions…(mourning for backslidden peers)

Dear LORD, I’ve been looking back… and  remembering the day you opened up my eyes.. In the painful winter of my young life… You showed me something I had never seen before, (tho I had often gazed at the crucifix … Continue reading

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A Dirge (For A Friend That Fell)

Oh Troubler, why do you trouble us? We had just talked to you, we thought you were doing better… Why did you take your eyes off of Him who comes to us in the midst of every storm? What did … Continue reading

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To Be A Pilgrim…by John Bunyan

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as … Continue reading

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