Wisdom comes from making mistakes.
Compassion comes from hurts and heartaches.
Forgiveness comes when we learn to forgive.
And in dying to self, we learn to live.
Healing comes from deep, cutting wounds.
Resurrection comes from cold, dark tombs.
Anticipation comes when all hope is gone.
The darkest night precedes the dawn.
Love comes from those others reject.
Esteem comes from those the world […]
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“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all…”
(I Cor. 5.14 NIV)
Christ’s Spirit indwells us,
And His love compels us,
To go and love with the love we are shown.
As salt and as light,
To inflame and ignite,
The passions of those estranged and alone.
And when we obey,
These frail jars of clay
Are overflowing with […]
Grace without measure,
Mercy ever-flowing,
Love beyond pleasure,
Rising up and growing,
Neither ceasing nor slowing.
Peace deep in my soul,
Beyond comprehension,
Rest when I lose control,
When I sense life’s tension
Breeding apprehension.
When caught in this strife,
I have a thread of hope,
The promise of eternal life,
That goes beyond the scope
Of this life’s slippery slope.
Jesus, you alone
Meet me where I am,
You redeem and […]
Etched deeply into my heart of stone,
A love that cannot be erased,
Though sin may mar and deface,
Your mercy will still atone,
Your mercy will still atone.
Implanted in my heart’s tilled earth,
A divine fruit-bearing seed,
To supplant the native weed,
And bring a harvest of rebirth,
And bring a harvest of rebirth.
Birthed into my slumbering soul,
New life-breath will revive,
Awakened, astir […]
Man of sorrows, enduring Savior,
Object of God’s wrath and favor,
Anguish and joy, distinctive savor,
The paradox of the cross.
What a range of emotion you feel,
In the garden, a final appeal
As the moment itself becomes real,
Faced with the depth of loss.
When your closest friends forsake you,
And the indifferent soldiers take you
To the Romans who try […]
Rising above the despair and din
Of this chaotic world I’m living in,
I hear your sweet, melodic love song,
Floating, seemingly unaffected by
The cares and concerns, the worries and whys,
And my heart begins to sing along.
Hovering above the world’s commotion
Stirring my heart strings, evoking emotion,
Your song of love sweeps thru the earth,
Touching the wounded […]
Life, what a vast array,
Of emotions,
Some held at bay,
Some carried away,
Apathy and devotion.
Life, seemingly alone,
Solitary,
Sentiments unique,
Playing hide-and-seek
Guarded, careful, wary.
Life, in community,
Unique accord,
Conflict, unity,
Band of refugees,
Bound by a three-fold cord.
Life, comfortably insane,
Universal,
Exciting and mundane,
Intense joy, deep pain,
Prone to quick reversals.
Life, not for the heart-faint,
So don’t hold back.
Remove all restraints,
Cast off all constraints,
And walk […]
“Be glad, O children of Zion,
and rejoice in the LORD your God,
for he has given the early rain for your vindication;
he has poured down for you abundant rain,
the early and the latter rain, as before.”
(Joel 2:23 ESV)
The early and the latter rain
That falls upon the arid ground,
Refreshes my weary soul again,
As the showers fall all […]
On Sunday evening, our Pastor of College Students, Tom Hudzina gave a message entitled “Trials in Community.” And his application included little glow sticks that you have to bend and break in order for the light to be revealed. He pointed out that the light of the glory of our Lord within us is able to shine forth for His glory when […]
In the midst of the anguish and agony of the language of Psalm 22, we find an amazing statement. Tucked in with all of the verbiage of torment and torture of this graphic Messianic Psalm, we read, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise […]
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