Tag: Christianity
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Music
Tempo in flight, winging its way, over mountains, through valleys, across skys.On the wings of a violin I fly. Hummingbird quick. Soaring with the trumpets.My wings cannot carry, the destination is too far, the air too thin, the sun too bright.The orchestra is but a fragment of a key to the gates of heaven.The smallest…
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poems by the lakeside
The Glimpse I walked a dry lake bed on a misty day Grey clouds shifted slowly in the sky giving no hit of warmth of sun A thick mist had risen and drifted, cover and uncovering at its whim Skeleton trees reached with their boney fingers trying to grasp the veil Perhaps to wear. It…
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Immeasurable.
Who is it that shapes me? Makes me new. Changes the old dead man within, to one of life and youth. What do men see of me? What truth is known of my soul. I am a shadow of what I was meant to be. Greater Men than I have fallen, and greater men fall…
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Bad poetry on an empty stomach and brain.
Labor oh man, shovel coal into thy furnace. Feed the fires, fan the flame. Labor oh man, break boulders into dust. Chisel away, shape thy life. Labor oh man, but do not labor in vain. What costs righteousness? What price for goodness? Your life, and soul, for all eternity. Labor oh man, forget Him not. …
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Melodrama
The delicate line between melodrama and cynicism is spider silk thin. I seek to walk that line. Yet how can a poet hope to balance on such a tightrope? Can the cynic ever find anything good or true? Melodrama. Sinking into a mire of feelings, disregarding probability. Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has…
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Substitutionary atonement and guilt ACBC essay
The substitutionary atonement of Christ is most often remembered by the cross. How Ironic that an instrument of torture is now forever ingrained in the symbolism of Christainity. It is not without reason that we remember the cross. It is the representation of that act which saved us from eternal judgment. How great a gift…
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The Dual Nature of Jesus Christ.
One of the most profound mysteries in the universe is the coming of Jesus Christ as a man. How could an almighty God do such a thing? Why would He do such a thing? Because of his lovingkindness and mercy according to scripture. I am tasked with describing the mystery and explaining through scripture why…
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Egalitarianism and Complementarianism.
We as the church are in conflict with our culture, and that is as it should be. We must be careful that we do not soften doctrine so as to be in a more agreeable relationship with our culture and one of the areas where I observe softening of doctrine is the topic of the…
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ACBC Man essay.
Explain, using biblical categories, your understanding of the image of God in man. God is glorious, Holy beyond our comprehension, good, full of lovingkindness, mercy, truth. All powerful, all knowing, ever present, perfect. And we are made in his image. Yet even a cursory overview of humanity tells us that we lack many of these…
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Soul Song.
What are souls but music and stones. Through time my soul sits in my heart, a stone dead to the world, Unbroken and unbreaking. Awake my soul and sing. Stones turn, dust inhaling life. Sweet music pours forth, Too loud to be heard by mere flesh. As a rock splitting and water pouring forth So…
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