Poetry
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100 Poems For Jesus
$14.99Add to cartHave you ever wondered where God was when you needed Him or if He even cares? Are you struggling, or know someone who is, with understanding why God would allow His children to experience suffering and despair in their lives? Join the author on a magnificent journey of spiritual healing and discovery. Take a walk with God through this book and discover God’s ultimate design for your life. You will find, through these inspired poems, how the author was taken from a state of despair to a new understanding of God’s qualities, and to a renewed faith in His purposes and His ways.
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Run Shepherds Run
$16.95Add to cartThe Advent season is filled with rich themes that have fascinated poets. In Run, Shepherds, Run, Bill Countryman presents a poem a day for devotional reading during Advent and theTwelve Days of Christmas. Readers will find classic poets they know and love, including George Herbert, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as well as contemporary poets, known and unknown.
Run, Shepherds, Run includes helpful hints for reading poetry, for those who have less experience reading it than others, as well as useful annotations to help readers with older language that may not have easily apparent meanings for today’s readers.
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Sweet Whispers Into My Spirit
$12.49Add to cartSweet Whispers into My Spirit is a poetic journey through the life of women. It searches deep into their hearts and gives comfort to their woes. This book shines a light upon motherhood, death, childbirth, disease, and spirituality, along with other issues women may face. After reading this book women should feel comfort knowing that God is forever present in every episode of their lives.Women should also know some other woman is walking or will walk in their shoes, so they should always wear comfortable walking shoes. This will help the next woman to walk through the daily soap opera called life with ease.
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Climbing Higher : A Life In Poetry
$16.49Add to cartReal life poetry goes beyond niceties. The spoken word is “supposed” to take on defining times. The poetry landscape gives meaning where meaning has been lost, emotion to callousness, encouragement to discouragement, life to death and – even, at times, death to what is only an illusion of life. We hurt, laugh and cry, mess up but get back up again. In today’s “reality” we must be real. We are victorious ONLY as we press through.
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My Walk With Jesus
$16.49Add to cartThis book documents my walk of faith, which began after giving my life to Jesus. In September 2001, I was led to record the poetic words I was given. This book incorporates three years of writing. It reveals a very intimate view of my personal relationship with the living God in journal form. I believe that it is my responsibility to share this poetry. My prayer is that this book glorifies the Lord. My hope is that it will strengthen the believer and encourage the non-believer to ask some soul-searching questions.
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Ordering Of Love
$21.00Add to cart“In a brilliant marriage of myth and manner, histories sacred and profane, prayers of petition and of praise, these poems both articulate and illumine the trouble in the gap in which we live-the gap between human affections and Divine Love. L’Engle is unfailing in her willingness to see through-not around-human suffering, and in so doing announces no final severing of spirit and flesh but an enduring vision of resurrection in that crux, in the cross, in the One in Whom all things meet, continuing.”
-Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim and Philokalia: New and Selected Poems“I love L’Engle’s poetry for the way it incarnates not only the great Truths of the faith, but all the little truths of our ordinary existence-our working and playing and loving and fighting and dreaming and idling and all the rest of it-and for the way it shows us that those big and little truths should not, cannot, be separated.”
-Carolyn Arends, recording artist and author“Why is L’Engle one of the defining poets of our time? Because when life hurts, she does not shrink from the wounds. She clarifies the murk with hope as we feel the lift of grace.”
-Calvin Miller, Beeson Divinity School
Birmingham, Alabama“We are, all of us, the richer for this carefully crafted and prayerfully rendered collection.”
-Phyllis Tickle, Author, The Divine Hours“Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.”
-Madeleine L’EngleMadeleine L’Engle’s writing has always translated the invisible and intricate qualities of love into the patterns and rhythms of visible life. Now, with compelling language and open-hearted vulnerability, The Ordering of Love brings together the exhaustive collection of L’Engle’s poetry for the first time.
This volume collects nearly 200 of L’Engle’s original poems, including eighteen that have never before been published. Reflecting on themes of love, loss, faith, and beauty, The Ordering of Love gives vivid and compelling insight into the language of the heart.
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Whispers To The Heart
$21.99Add to cartA beautiful illustration of repentance. A woman with a past finds her way to Jesus’ feet and collapses in spite of all the obstacles and hurdles that have been laid before her. This is a woman on a misson. Judgments, labels, past hurts and sins do not stand in her way. She latches onto Christ’s unconditional love and forgiveness. She becomes broken. A beautiful brokenness that sees joy and hope in the midst of suffering and pain. A brokenness that can see Jesus Christ reaching out a hand of love and forgiveness through the tears in her eyes. She finds a Jesus that will love her right where she is at. The woman looked at as a Sinner rises up, no longer to be looked at as the Sinful Woman she once was but as the woman God intended her to be. She becomes Victorious.
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Whispers To The Heart
$13.49Add to cartA beautiful illustration of repentance. A woman with a past finds her way to Jesus’ feet and collapses in spite of all the obstacles and hurdles that have been laid before her. This is a woman on a misson. Judgments, labels, past hurts and sins do not stand in her way. She latches onto Christ’s unconditional love and forgiveness. She becomes broken. A beautiful brokenness that sees joy and hope in the midst of suffering and pain. A brokenness that can see Jesus Christ reaching out a hand of love and forgiveness through the tears in her eyes. She finds a Jesus that will love her right where she is at. The woman looked at as a Sinner rises up, no longer to be looked at as the Sinful Woman she once was but as the woman God intended her to be. She becomes Victorious.
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Theater Of The Mind
$26.99Add to cartFor this publication, Yolanda Cohen and Betty Hill have teamed up to bring you a very unique experience in poetry. Yolanda has been an award-winning poet for more than four decades whose poetic artistry is loved in many languages and has been extensively published internationally. This book contains some of her most treasured poems. Betty is a “newcomer” on the scene who has made her presence known with a very folksy style of writing her story poems. Betty has a promising future. Both poets have a unique way of communication through rhyming, although each can claim a style distinctively her own. This book has a treasure in poems in all categories: inspirational, religious, friends and family, fun and laughter, and much more. This book belongs in every personal library.
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Echoes : From The Heart Inspired By Life And Gods Love That Whisper Of Yest
$23.99Add to cartOne day, an angel rested on my shoulder and began whispering in my ear. Days and nights ran together as the words poured from my thoughts onto paper. Poetry is a way of expressing my innermost thoughts to touch the hearts and souls of strangers, as well as those I love. Thoughts echoed in this poetry epitomize expressions of inspiration. These verses are generated from random thoughts, comments from others, images portrayed, or creative reflections of feelings to warm the heart and lift the spirit. The poetry in this book offers simple expression as a means for sharing true feelings from the heart-down-to-earth, without restriction, with simplicity, of a fundamental nature, and with God’s blessing.
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Poetic Messages : Poems To Inspire Every Heart
$12.49Add to cartSpeaks for itself. It is and does exactly what the title states. Pick up a copy today and watch the Gospel come alive through poetry.
Poetic Messages: Poems to Inspire Every Heart is a must-have for your personal library. It delivers powerful messages with poems that speak to every heart. If you are seeking edification, encouragement, enlightenment, enrichment, restoration, revival, and even the Truth, then this is the book for you. Pick up a copy today, start reading, and let your heart be inspired! -
Echoes : From The Heart Inspired By Life And Gods Love That Whisper Of Yest
$15.49Add to cartOne day, an angel rested on my shoulder and began whispering in my ear. Days and nights ran together as the words poured from my thoughts onto paper. Poetry is a way of expressing my innermost thoughts to touch the hearts and souls of strangers, as well as those I love. Thoughts echoed in this poetry epitomize expressions of inspiration. These verses are generated from random thoughts, comments from others, images portrayed, or creative reflections of feelings to warm the heart and lift the spirit. The poetry in this book offers simple expression as a means for sharing true feelings from the heart-down-to-earth, without restriction, with simplicity, of a fundamental nature, and with God’s blessing.
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Waters Under The Earth
$12.00Add to cartThe London Times LS described Robert Siegel’s poetry as “unpretentious versatility” like “returning to the mainland after a tour of the islands.” In this latest collection of poems, Siegel brings his remarkable range and technical mastery to bear on the mysteries of creation-wolves, slugs, moles, fireworks, mowing-all through a haunting a weave of mythical themes.
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Road Of Life
$21.95Add to cartIn his thirteen years as Vicar, popular author David Adam welcomed over 1 million pilgrims to the Holy Island of Lindesfarne in Northumberland. Each pilgrim had a story to tell and each came for a different reason. Some radiated a sense of God’s presence, and others were simply too hurried to do anything but look around quickly and move on to the next site.
Using the stories of pilgrims Adam encountered on Holy Island, he explores how we can approach our own lives as pilgrimage, without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. How can we move beyond what is safe in our world and encounter the Mystery? How can we learn to disconnect from all the technology that keeps us multi-tasking all day and all night? How can we rediscover awe in the world around us?
In the wonderful prose and poetry for which he is so well-loved, David Adam helps us get on the road of life, even when we don’t have time to travel to distant lands.
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Tumbling Grounds
$21.99Add to cartTumbling Grounds touches deeply on the joy and grief inherent in the drama of human existence. It is a collection that will make your mind soar and your heart sing, and subsequently bring tears of joy to your eyes. This is poetry at its best: a rich literary diet for the soul, the spirit, and the body. Take a bite-it will be worth it. “I have been both fortunate and privileged to have edited this work. Dr. Aku’s imagery is extraordinary, and his subject matter ranges from a simple leaf, floating downward towards the ground, to the maelstrom of emotional conflict. “It has been most gratifying. I wish to thank Dr. Aku for the opportunity to have gotten a glimpse into his vision of the world, of life, of love, and of morality. His expressions have, at different times, left me breathless, smiling, or laughing out loud. This truly is an outstanding collection of poetry.” -Mario Lew
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Tumbling Grounds
$13.49Add to cartTumbling Grounds touches deeply on the joy and grief inherent in the drama of human existence. It is a collection that will make your mind soar and your heart sing, and subsequently bring tears of joy to your eyes. This is poetry at its best: a rich literary diet for the soul, the spirit, and the body. Take a bite-it will be worth it. “I have been both fortunate and privileged to have edited this work. Dr. Aku’s imagery is extraordinary, and his subject matter ranges from a simple leaf, floating downward towards the ground, to the maelstrom of emotional conflict. “It has been most gratifying. I wish to thank Dr. Aku for the opportunity to have gotten a glimpse into his vision of the world, of life, of love, and of morality. His expressions have, at different times, left me breathless, smiling, or laughing out loud. This truly is an outstanding collection of poetry.” -Mario Lew
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God Of Dirt
$11.95Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, Mary Oliver has published numerous books of poetry and essays. Her poems are quoted in everything from Web sites to hymn books. Earthlight, a “Magazine of Spiritual Ecology,” has declared her an “earth saint.”
In this engaging study, Thomas W. Mann shows Oliver to have keen eyes and ears for reading the book of nature. Readers will discover that the correspondence between Oliver’s poetry and traditional religious language provides a fresh perspective from which to enjoy her work. At the same time, Oliver’s reading from the Other Book of God invites us into nature’s “temple” where we may come into the presence of the holy and from which we may leave rejuvenated and blessed. God of Dirt is an important study of a contemporary poet whose work is as likely to be read by a preacher in a pulpit as by an activist at an environmental rally, and will help us experience a new vision of the beauty of our world. -
Poems Of An Anointed Breakthrough
$14.99Add to cart“When I was age fourteen, God began imparting in me poems that were dealing with the hurt, pain, love, and even disappointments that were taking place in the lives of people. At the age of thirty-two, I was incarcerated. That’s when the gift that God had imparted in me began to supernaturally manifest itself in my spirit. I was given a prophetic word from a man of God saying that I would write like Paul. Within those three years of my incarceration, I not only experienced the life of Paul, but I also experienced the mighty works that Jesus did, as I made Him my personal Savior and the Head of my life. It was then that I was led into my prophetic calling as an anointed vessel of God.” -EVANGELIST YOLANDA COTTON These anointed poems will open your eyes, heart, and mind into receiving God’s Word in such an understanding way that it will heal, deliver, save, and even inspire you. It will change your heart into believing that God is loving, forgiving, caring, and merciful. And He’s also a chastising and correcting God.
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30 Days Of Love
$13.49Add to cartHow can you love when you might not know the true meaning? This simple four-letter word is easily defined without context. However, once context is added, it changes. For instance, is the love God had for the world the same as the love you have for home cooking? Is love for a spouse the same as love for a child? The purpose of this book is to explore 30 different types of love through 30 different entertaining scenarios. But be forewarned- because God inspired this book, it will invoke thought and divine revelation, so read it at a slow pace. This book guarantees moments of reflection and insight. Also, because of its 30 different and independent accounts of love through poetry and short stories, it is an easy read and the perfect travel book. Just remember life and love are choice driven, so choose 30 Days of Love, and you will not be disappointed.
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Shout For Joy
$14.99Add to cartI am back in Missouri and life is still difficult but the Lord is still good Twenty-five years ago, Sharina Smith survived a suicide attempt and began a journey that took her far from the Missouri Ozarks to the East Coast and back home again. Chronicling the loneliness she felt at the loss of her earthly father and the bitterness of feeling abandoned by her Heavenly Father, these poems show that Sharina saw glimmers of joy despite a lingering sense of ennui and emptiness. After years of running away from home and her first love, Sharina returns to the Ozarks, her high school sweetheart, and her Father’s arms. Both her husband and her Heavenly Father are embraced with a shout of joy as Sharina discovers the journey has just begun. “Shout for Joy takes you on an intimate journey through the songs of sorrow to the shouts of joy that have been woven into Sharina’s life. Your heart will be moved with compassion and recognition as you travel with her on this journey. Read it! Enjoy it! Read it again!” -Robin Rees, SINGER, SONGWRITER, SPEAKER “Sharina Smith shares from her heart and her hurts. Her transparency will help fellow travelers who are struggling with this awesome and sometimes awful thing called Life. I am thankful Sharina has found the time necessary for, and much success in, her search for her soul.” -Pastor Hosea Bilyeu, RIDGECREST BAPTIST CHURCH
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Dream Realized : A Collection Of Poems By Cowboy Mike Bright
$33.49Add to cartMichael Bright died of cancer when he was 51. During his life, he had written a lot of poems. He was poet laureate to his friends. They frequently requested retirement and birthday poems. His poems express emotion, values, faith, love of ministry, friendship, love of country, cowboys, the West, Alaska, Standard Publishing, the church, and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Many people asked him to publish his poems. His family honors his desire with the printing of this volume. A Dream Realized will be a great read for Mike’s many friends and associates. Everyone will enjoy getting to know the heart of a wonderful human being.
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Dream Realized : A Collection Of Poems By Cowboy Mike Bright
$21.99Add to cartMichael Bright died of cancer when he was 51. During his life, he had written a lot of poems. He was poet laureate to his friends. They frequently requested retirement and birthday poems. His poems express emotion, values, faith, love of ministry, friendship, love of country, cowboys, the West, Alaska, Standard Publishing, the church, and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Many people asked him to publish his poems. His family honors his desire with the printing of this volume. A Dream Realized will be a great read for Mike’s many friends and associates. Everyone will enjoy getting to know the heart of a wonderful human being.
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Liturgy For Stones
$12.95Add to cartFamiliar with war, death, and poverty, Claussen looks for the hints of beauty that draw us through the struggle toward God’s hopes and dreams for humankind. Her search for God in shopping malls and nature, in pain and beauty, in friends and strangers invites others to enter more deeply into their own unique experience of God in daily life.
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Empty Room With Light
$12.95Add to cartFamiliar with war, death, and poverty, Claussen looks for the hints of beauty that draw us through the struggle toward God’s hopes and dreams for humankind. Her search for God in shopping malls and nature, in pain and beauty, in friends and strangers invites others to enter more deeply into their own unique experience of God in daily life.
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Blue Collection
$15.49Add to cartLongfellow Press
The Blue Collection is a compilation of moods and emotions written in words that best describe who I am as a person as well as my past and previous experiences. The poems included in this book range from people, places, and things to beliefs, observations, hopes, and dreams in which my whole life is based. This book does not have one main subject or theme; it is an accumulation of random thoughts and ideas that everyone in some aspect can relate to. These works are a hybrid of classical and contemporary styles that in my opinion are the missing links in the poetry of today. My main goal is self-expression in the form of poetry in which children of the youngest age to men and women of any culture can grasp the concept of my works. -
In A Dark Wood
$17.00Add to cartThis book features a diverse group of voices describing unlikely and often moving journeys toward or away from faith – Protestants, Catholics, and Jews; laypeople and professionally religious activists, poets, politicians, and ordinary folk. In dozens of readings, poems, and prayers, the Psalmists, medieval saints, and other poets reflect on belief and doubt, on the loss of faith and its rediscovery.
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Great I Am
$13.49Add to cartThe Great I Am is the first work in a series of books of poetry from an unknown yet gifted poet. But it is much more than just a book of poetry. Rather, it is a book of exaltations that will make your heart sing for God, your mind take hold of the things of Christ, and your spirit rise up with boldness. It is a book of timeless truths expounding on God’s grace, mercy, deliverance, and greatness, and our need to have faith in a faithful and almighty God. And if the poetry were not enough, the author begins this book with a personal essay, which serves to do more than introduce herself to the Christian literary community. It is an essay of personal triumph in Christ that tells of her humble beginnings as a child with a knack for writing, a love for literature, and suffering that caused her to question the significance of her existence. This young woman’s tribulations and tragedies were the foundation for her spiritual deliverance that marked the pathway to her God-given destiny. The Great I Am will leave readers with a sense of “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” and will make for a memorable first book in what is sure to become a cherished series.
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Becoming One
$15.49Add to cartCan we ignore the commands and prayers of Jesus Christ and expect to get by with it? “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee … that the world may believe that thou hast sent me” (John 17:21). Becoming One is a peacemaker that will bind the body of Christ in love. Can an arm say, “I have no need of the foot”? If we reject and ignore the body of Christ, we reject Jesus! “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me” (Matthew 25:40). Becoming One has thirty-two dynamic poems and sixteen short stories. It also contains sixty-one reasons directed at opening fellowship and communication in the body of Christ! It will help in understanding doctrinal differences. Becoming One can help your relatives and your church. It will be a tool in your library to break boring, unproductive tradition and religious rituals. Becoming One will challenge every church in your community. If you are a peacemaker and want to be used, this is your tool. Becoming One also unravels the confusion of Pre-, Mid-, and Post- Tribulation raptures. It has insight into seven different raptures between the Resurrection and the Millennium.
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Triumph Through Tears
$22.99Add to cartTriumph Through Tears is a comforting collection of poetry that will help in the healing process while enlightening you in God’s Word. It was inspired and written through personal tragedy. This collection of heartfelt poetry will help you connect with God to bring about your “special miracle,” and help you “Triumph Through Tears.”
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ABCs Of Life For Children And Adults
$22.99Add to cartAbolishing apathetic attitudes, Building biblical behavior patterns, and Choosing Christ-like character-The ABC’s of Life for Children and Adults depicts biblical principles and morals. Through a collection of ten short stories for children and ten essays for older readers, the author portrays values such as honesty, decency, and a strong work ethic. The author proposes that through reminding ourselves and teaching our children healthy attitudes and behavior, as Christians we can make a difference that will impact our world. In addition to the short stories and essays, the author includes a collection of Christian song lyrics and poetry. She concludes the book with a list of positive qualities entitled “ABC’s to Successful Living.”These are qualities the author encourages everyone reading her book to strive for daily.
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ABCs Of Life For Children And Adults
$14.99Add to cartAbolishing apathetic attitudes, Building biblical behavior patterns, and Choosing Christ-like character-The ABC’s of Life for Children and Adults depicts biblical principles and morals. Through a collection of ten short stories for children and ten essays for older readers, the author portrays values such as honesty, decency, and a strong work ethic. The author proposes that through reminding ourselves and teaching our children healthy attitudes and behavior, as Christians we can make a difference that will impact our world. In addition to the short stories and essays, the author includes a collection of Christian song lyrics and poetry. She concludes the book with a list of positive qualities entitled “ABC’s to Successful Living.”These are qualities the author encourages everyone reading her book to strive for daily.
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Believing For Miracles
$14.99Add to cartBelieving for Miracles will comfort you, help heal you, and inform you on how to receive from God! You will love reading this book and sharing it with others. It makes a great gift! This beautifully written collection of poetry will definitely transform your life and usher you into the supernatural realm of the miraculous!
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Listen With Your Heart
$16.49Add to cartThis is not simply another book of poems. To tell the truth, the author never really liked poetry much. The poems are divided into groups such as grace, faith, and praise, enabling them to be used as devotionals. Through the words of the Psalms and the language of the Scriptures, certain truths are revealed in the words of the poems. They are truths that all readers can know if they are open to the message that lies within. Through praise and honor to God, the words reveal their meaning through simple phrases. The writings will help you understand that during your happiest or saddest moments, and everything in between, keep your eyes focused on the Lord. Though the answer may not be clear, the destination is still the same. These words were revealed to an ordinary person who opened her heart to what God had to say. Nothing is “different” or “special” about her; she just learned to listen.
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Ode To Jesus
$12.49Add to cartOde to Jesus is a collection of rhyming poems of many different subjects, mostly in simple everyday language, that draws attention to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ in the believer and invites unbelievers to accept his offer of salvation. Much of the material is an expression of my own experiences in my everyday walk through life, including struggles, trials, and of course, victories in the Lord Jesus. I strongly believe that these poems were birthed through the Lord’s work in my life, and my prayer is that they will minister to people and touch some lives.
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As I Walk
$13.49Add to cartChristians are faced with emotional turmoil, separations, conflicts, and tragedies on a daily basis. Yet, God’s interventions allow them to continue with the pursuit of joy. As we walk amidst these valley experiences, we have the assurance that God is with us. As I Walk displays the sorrows and the triumphs of Christian living. It demonstrates the agony of real issues of the heart as well as the power of God’s restorative interventions. This book will appeal to adult-aged Christians who desire to live more empowered lives for Christ as they deal with life’s difficulties. As I Walk will touch hearts and inspire readers. This collection will promote inner healing that comes only from a relationship with God.
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Swift Lord You Are Not
$21.95Add to cartSome poets begin very early to write great poetry. Arthur Rimbaud wrote one of his best poems at 15, Percy Shelley published his first book of poetry at 18. But Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B., did not start until he was 75, after decades of writing as a professional theologian. Now 82 he gives us Swift, Lord, You Are Not, poems of the struggle to find God-waiting for the silence of God to break. He does not write pious verse, or inspirational poetry, but of wrestling with the illusive God. His themes are mostly biblical and monastic. He closes with an essay Poet: Can You Start at Seventy-Five? in which he describes the literary decisions he makes within the monastic context-decisions he needs to make with some dispatch. At 75 he does not have decades to mature. He writes with a new language.
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Priest To The Temple Or The Country Parson
$20.99Add to cartGeorge Herbert, who died before he was forty, found his vocation as a poet in the last six years of his life and as a priest in the last three. It was a time of low standards for the Church and its ministry and from his parish at Bemerton near Salisbury he set about reflecting on what his role should be. The result was A Priest to the Temple, a text of deep devotion and beauty and a classic statement on the nature of priestly ministry that is unparalleled in its practical and timeless wisdom. Some thirty devotional poems, ranging across the poets life are also included here.
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My Sheep Know My Voice
$21.99Add to cartMy Sheep Know My Voice is a collection of fine divine poems written by Jacqueline K. Murray under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Each poem has its own unique style of reaching believers in Christ as well as unbelievers. With revelation of God’s Word and sensitivity to the voice of the Holy Spirit, Jacqueline pens messages for a lifestyle of deliverance and liberty. Through poetry, the reader is provoked to examine himself from different angles of self-characterization. Jacqueline’s simplistic approach to this art form renders a direct unveiling of the mysteries of God’s Kingdom and provides spiritual food that necessarily dictates meditation and change. This book is in its second printing, and has been revised and updated with numerous new poems. As you will see as you read through the following pages, Jacqueline is truly gifted to minister God’s Word through poetry. Her unique approach will no doubt capture your attention, feed your Spirit man, and cause you to want more.
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Where The Heart Is
$33.49Add to cart“Things get spilled, the “TO DO” list is endless, and grows sprouts like neglected old potatoes.” So writes Charles William Golding in one his poems about living in February. To read his poetry is to enter his life, meet his family and friends, wander through his wife’s personally sculptured wild English country garden, visit with him in his early life in his native Virginia, and share the wonders of life in the Pacific Northwest. In all his poems he also sprinkles them with a subtle sense of humor, and quite frequently a different perspective of views enhanced by living abroad for long periods of time in London and Spain.
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Where The Heart Is
$21.99Add to cart“Things get spilled, the “TO DO” list is endless, and grows sprouts like neglected old potatoes.” So writes Charles William Golding in one his poems about living in February. To read his poetry is to enter his life, meet his family and friends, wander through his wife’s personally sculptured wild English country garden, visit with him in his early life in his native Virginia, and share the wonders of life in the Pacific Northwest. In all his poems he also sprinkles them with a subtle sense of humor, and quite frequently a different perspective of views enhanced by living abroad for long periods of time in London and Spain.
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Musings Of An Immigrant Seeker
$22.99Add to cartMusings of an Immigrant Seeker is my journey toward and in God as reflected in poems, devotions, and songs. Whether inspired by circumstances, relationships, pictures, or the Bible, these writings have been gifts from my heavenly Father, the Giver of all good gifts. As He has touched me in allowing me to write them, I hope others will also feel and meet Him as they read through them, and discover as I did that He has been with them on their journey all along: The Search and Meeting God The Journey, My Discoveries in Him Life Lessons in Christ Finding Rest in Daily Life, because of rest with Him and others
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Musings Of An Immigrant Seeker
$14.99Add to cartMusings of an Immigrant Seeker is my journey toward and in God as reflected in poems, devotions, and songs. Whether inspired by circumstances, relationships, pictures, or the Bible, these writings have been gifts from my heavenly Father, the Giver of all good gifts. As He has touched me in allowing me to write them, I hope others will also feel and meet Him as they read through them, and discover as I did that He has been with them on their journey all along: The Search and Meeting God The Journey, My Discoveries in Him Life Lessons in Christ Finding Rest in Daily Life, because of rest with Him and others
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From The Pen Of The Poet To The Beat Of The Heart
$18.99Add to cartEveryone needs a word of encouragement from time to time. In this book of poems, you will find not only encouragement, but also inspiration, challenge, and hope to continue on through the day-to-day challenges of life as well as the bigger trials and difficulties that you will undoubtedly face. In the few minutes it takes to read a poem or two, you will be given a fresh and new outlook, in spite of your circumstances. People around the world have been impacted by Jim’s poems-you will be as well. ENCOURAGEMENT: Everyone Needs It INSPIRATION: Living Life to the Fullest CHALLENGE: Make a Difference TRUST: Everything of Value Is Built on This PRAYER: Conversations with God PATRIOTISM: For God and Country HOLIDAY SEASONS: Times of Celebration and Reflection
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Truth Seeker
$15.49Add to cartCut off from our connection with the divine, humankind is afflicted by a metaphysical anxiety, which is now a global condition. The Truth Seeker is one woman’s journey to try and combat this malaise. Through poetry and prose, Lucy White questions her beliefs and tries to make sense of the secular and the sacred in her search for a connection with that essence of divine love we call God. Meditating on her personal journey led the author to the awareness that we live in a world of polarities between which we ricochet unknowingly. At present the secular outweighs the sacred and the male force outweighs the female force. Balancing these forces could bring peace and harmony to the world. The author espouses a new philosophy, that of Spiritual Feminism, a philosophy that acknowledges and elevates women as wise nurturers connected to the divine, a philosophy that balances the female force equally with the male force. During the writing of the book, Lucy White began to experience a benign energy force that seemed to be tracking her progress. Was God keeping an eye on her work?
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If I Could
$14.99Add to cartIf I Could… is a compilation of biblical scripture taken from the King James Version of God’s Word and poetry by Paul McCutcheon. Even if you don’t agree with the interpretation of God’s Word, the poetry is very inspiring. Through the power of technology, Paul’s poems have helped show others they are not alone in their grief. Paul uniquely combines the Word of God with his poetry, taking a person through the steps leading to salvation and the gift of comfort that God offers to all who grieve the loss of a loved one. Paul continues his journey through grief from the death of his three sons with a deep desire to help others learn how to cope with their grief. He knows that a person in grief from the loss of a child cannot “just get on with their life,” yet he does know they can learn to cope with their grief. Paul’s book also offers a list of organizations dedicated to helping those who face a life of pain brought on by the death of a loved one.
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Seeing The Psalms
$40.00Add to cartWilliam Brown introduces a new method of exegesis, particularly for biblical poetry, that attends to the metaphorical contours of the psalms. His method as proposed and demonstrated in this book supplements traditional ways of interpreting the psalms and results in a fresh understanding of their original context and contemporary significance. Brown’s pioneering work explores the hermeneutical promises and challenges of interpreting the book of Psalms through the lens of metaphor. While form-critical analysis has been the staple of psalms research for over a century, scholars have by and large overlooked the Psalter’s use of imagery at great theological cost. More than any other corpus in Scripture, the Psalter embodies “incarnational language,” discourse that is as visceral as it is sublime. The psalmist’s use of imager, Brown argues, has the power to captivate the imagination, edify the mind, and cultivate moral discernment and theological reflection.
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Show Yourself To My Soul
$18.95Add to cartOut of Bengal and the Hindu spiritual tradition comes a Nobel prize-winning mystical poet whose time for broad, popular acceptance has come. William Butler Yeats fell in love with these poems almost a 100 years ago, the Nobel Committee honored them with their literature prize in 1913 and just recently The Utne Reader cited Tagore as one of today’s most overlooked spiritual writers. This new edition is important because its lyrical translation has been made from Tagore’s original Bengali and because it makes the entire collection of 157 Gitanjali, or “song offerings” available to a wider audience for the first time. Rabindranath Tagore wrote with the insight and emotion that so characterizes Kahlil Gibran, with the mystical passion that has made Jalaluddin Rumi so popular and with a simplicity and depth that remains fresh and attractive to today’s seekers.
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Issues Of Life In Poetic Verse
$27.99Add to cartIn this unique work I have covered a variety of topics that have become vital though controversial in daily life. I have approached the subjects with an infusion of poetic verse dealing with the issues encountered in life that have been, and are, issues of personal conflict. There is no attempt to be scientific nor to disprove evolution, although many readers will require scientific answers for which there are none, because both Evolutionists and Creationists utilize faith for the proof they employ in their philosophies of life for the past, present, and future. The issues of faith are the real and only answers to many issues. The treatment of them is the result of a deep, personal religious faith that reveals to us a nation’s loss of morality in all segments of society from the point of view of a Christian. Christian Faith and Patriotism are two issues widely covered because morality is deeply involved in each of them. The last half of the book deals with an apologetic of creation because it is obvious to all Christian readers that there is a subtle attack against the promotion of their faith in America as a very real issue. Suffocation of Christianity from many quarters is an open fact of life. Many of the topics treated are not generally in the public’s daily reading matter and it should encourage Christians to continue to maintain a faith strong enough to withstand the attacks to destroy the Christian faith in America that have just begun in earnest.
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Understanding God : Poems And Songs
$21.99Add to cartVeronica Grant-Miranda has been compiling her writings in her continuing journey of understanding God. Her first writing was in 1974 after a traumatic divorce when she cried out: “God, why me? You know I love and serve You!” God quickly replied, “Why not you?” Veronica realized that she was not exempt from pain and tragedy. In her trauma she cried and cried and cried. In her futility she clearly heard Jesus calling her name: “Veronica.” Upon hearing His voice her tears suddenly stopped. She also began to understand that this God whom she loved since the age of seven cannot be fully understood by human beings such as she, but can be completely trusted. He ever abides.
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Ascent To Love
$16.00Add to cartAcknowledgments
Chapter 1: I Have Come To The Garden
The Classics, The Bible, And Love In Medieval Literature
Chapter 2: Politics, Prophecy, And The Poetry Of Love
Chapter 3: Not Yet Aeneas, Not Yet Paul Inferno
Chapter 4: Redeemed From Fire By Fire Purgatorio
Chapter 5: Join The Dance Paradiso
Author IndexAdditional Info
As the unsurpassed Christian epic poem, Dante’s Divine Comedy provides not only far more personality and emotional depth than the pagan epics, it opens up all the issues on which Western history turns-truth, beauty, goodness, sin, sanctification, and triumph.In this guide, Peter J. Leithart brings his rich biblical-typological insight to bear in opening up the Comedy for students, high school and up, mainly the sort of kids who keep looking for the jokes in the comedy. After examining the meaning and place of the courtly love tradition leading up to Dante, the heart of the guide walks us carefully through the craft and symbolisms of each progressive stage – Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each section contains helpful study questions.
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Roar On The Other Side
$15.00Add to cartPoetry stands at the center of Christian living. We glorify God through noticing, comparing, and naming in sometimes startling ways. Unlike the eye of science, poetry sees the deeper meanings that bind seemingly disjointed facts together. Poetry is the language of revelation, a most immediate means by which we may suspect the Mystery of the Word inhabiting our lives. The Roar on the Other Side is an invaluable introduction to the habits and skills that make a poet; more importantly, it is an introduction to the “vision” that makes a poet worth reading.
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Growing Into God
$10.95Add to cartGrowing into God is a personal and poignant new collection of poetry. Tapping into the deep spiritual life inside all of us, and drawing upon her growing understanding of God in our insecure and fast-moving world, Gateley travels the spiritual path from disillusionment to faith, despair to joy. Gateley s poetry is passionate, authentic, and immediate. Speaking to the spiritual malaise of our times, she calls and challenges us to new possibilities by recognizing and responding to our deepest hungers. This beautiful new collection of poetry will renew and affirm you on your spiritual quest.”
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Chapters Into Verse (Abridged)
$39.99Add to cartDescription
Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, Chapters Into Verse surveys and defines the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Arranged in scriptural order from Genesis to Revelation, the book presents each poem alongside the biblical passage that inspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness the various ways sacred text has sparked the imagination of poets throughout the ages. The editors have included poems by virtually all the prominent religious poets–among them John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Edward Taylor, and Gerard Manly Hopkins. Included, too, are devotional and visionary works from a wide range of vintage poets–Robert Burns, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. Proving that the Bible is just as powerful a source of inspiration today as it was in the past, the collection also assembles a mixed congregation of modern and contemporary poets, such as Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Countee Cullen, e.e. cummings, William Butler Yeats, Laura (Riding) Jackson, A.D. Hope, Denise Levertov, and Philip Levine.Of enduring interest to readers of both scripture and literature, this anthology illuminates key passages of the Old and New Testament. In selection after selection, readers will encounter an astonishing variety of religious experiences, as a host of poets from many eras and many backgrounds respond to Holy Scripture profoundly and imaginatively. Features
“Spiritually, stylistically and chronologically, the range is absolutely astonishing.”–Parade Magazine -
For His Glory
$15.99Add to cartWritten in the tradition of the psalmists and inspired by the Holy Spirit, Cindy Price’s verses have never failed to be a source of encouragement. Whether they are a celebration of joy, an expression of sorrow, a question of why, a plea for deliverance, or a song of praise, her verses always glorify God and magnify His holy name. After reading this collection of inspirational writings, you will find yourself gazing at familiar stories and scriptures with a new outlook, and you will see the wild extravagence of God’s love in a new light.
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Psalms For A Pilgrim People
$35.95Add to cartThis book is neither a translation nor a paraphrase of the Psalms. Rather, the aim has been to make the Psalms prayable for those who find stumbling blocks in many of them as they have been variously translated into English. There is much in the Psalms, written centuries ago, that still speaks to us today; but there are other passages that trouble us. We live in a world vastly different from that of the Psalmist. Jim Cotter’s Psalms take today’s realities into account by including reference to issues of concern to us now, while retaining the poetry and beauty of the original Psalms.
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Interpreting Hebrew Poetry
$19.00Add to cartEditor’s Foreword
Abbreviations
1. Understanding Hebrew Poetry
Definition
Problems
Theories Of Poetry
Poetry-Prose Continuum
Three Approaches
Relationship Of Methods2. Parallelism
Robert Lowth
Basic Nomenclature
Synonymous, Antithetic, Synthetic Parallelism
New Understandings
Grammatic, Morphologic, Semantic Parallelism
Summary3. Meter And Rhythm
Definitions
Meter
Rhythm4. Poetic Style
Simile
Stanza And Strophe5. Poetic Analysis
Deuteronomy
Isaiah 5:1-17
Psalm 1
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Author Index
Scripture IndexAdditional Info
Here is a convenient introduction to the unique aspects of interpreting the one-third of the Hebrew Bible that is in poetic form. Numerous are the occasions when a failure to distinguish poetry from prose in the Old Testament has resulted in flawed interpretation. Robert Lowth’s Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753, 1787), marked a turning point of major proportions by focusing on the importance of parallelism of lines. But new studies of the past decade now require significant adjustments to Lowth’s analyses. Interpreting Hebrew Poetry offers an authoritative introduction to this discussion of parallelism, meter and rhythm, and poetic style. It also provides by way of example a poetic analysis of Deuteronomy 32, Isaiah 5:1-7, and Psalm 1. -
Gospel Treasury Cycle B
$16.95Add to cartWould you like to add something new, something fresh, to your lectionary worship experience? If you answered “Yes!” you will love this new collection by Andrew Daughters for Cycle B.
Use these inspirational poems in your church’s worship service as corporate readings, pastoral prayers, opportunities for lay involvement, or as private meditations. Or duplicate them for insertion in your parish newsletter or bulletin. However you choose to use them, this special collection will add vitality and meaning to your worship experience all year long.
This book is part of a three-part set, which follows the Lectionary cycles A, B and C. -
Gospel Treasury Cycle A
$15.95Add to cartWould you like to add something new, something fresh, to your lectionary worship experience? If you answered “Yes!” you will love this new collection by Andrew Daughters of contemporary poems based on lectionary Gospel texts for Cycle A.
Use these inspirational poems in your church’s worship service as corporate readings, pastoral prayers, opportunities for lay involvement, or as private meditations. Or duplicate them for insertion in your parish newsletter or bulletin. However you choose to use them, this special collection will add vitality and meaning to your worship experience all year long. -
Gospel Treasury Cycle C
$15.95Add to cartWould you like to add something new, something fresh, to your lectionary worship experience? If you answered “Yes!” you will love this new collection by Andrew Daughters of contemporary poems based on lectionary Gospel texts for Cycle C.
Use these inspirational poems in your church’s worship service as corporate readings, pastoral prayers, opportunities for lay involvement, or as private meditations. Or duplicate them for insertion in your parish newsletter or bulletin. However you choose to use them, this special collection will add vitality and meaning to your worship experience all year long.
