Bible Poems for Reflection and Response
Bible Poems for Reflection and Response

Author: Donna Marie Merritt

Publisher: Cladach Publishing

Published: 2020-09

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781945099250

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A fresh way to experience the Bible! 290 down-to-earth poems, based on Bible passages, range from traditional rhyme to free verse, and speak in a personal voice to the reader. The applicable Bible verses are listed with each poem. Blank pages and wide margins provide space to creatively respond with thoughts, prayers, poems, sketches, and doodles. Looking for a new approach to Bible reading? For readers of the Bible as well as those who shy away from reading the Bible. Bible Poems for Reflection and Response offers a personal and interactive way to experience the enduring truths of God's Word. Not sure if you're a poetry person? These poems are accessible--no obscure poetic language, no hidden meanings. They range from traditional rhyme to haiku to free verse. There is something for everyone, and yet you will find that the poems seem to speak personally to you. You don't have to read in sequence. Jump around if you like. Read a poem every day, or twice a day, or once a week. This is your book to read and to interpret as you like. You can read the Bible verses suggested (and beyond) or simply the poems--or both. Personalize your reading experience. Space is provided with interspersed blank pages and with wide margins--to respond to what you're reading and feeling. By adding your thoughts, prayers, reflections, poems, drawings, and doodles, this book will truly become a conversation between you and God.

Biblical Poems Embedded in Biblical Narratives
Biblical Poems Embedded in Biblical Narratives

Author: Sharon R. Chace

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1725262290

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Biblical Poems Embedded in Biblical Narratives is an easy-to-use course book that synthesizes Sharon Chace’s interests in poetry, art, and biblical studies. Pastors and teachers will be able to craft their unique presentations for the first session—introducing both the subject and each other—based upon Sharon’s introduction. The following sessions include reflections and practices to evoke responses from participants. This course is ideal for teachers who want their students to both think critically and explore their own spirituality. Chace’s bridge-building theology, rooted in the humanities, is timely. Academic discourse, warm personal reflections, and a keen understanding of human nature combine in this instructional tool to create a broadly appropriate and engaging course.

David's Crown
David's Crown

Author: Malcolm Guite

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1786223082

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As well as the name of a virus, a corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where interlinking lines connect a sequence. It is the perfect name therefore for this new collection of 150 poems by the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite, each one written in response to the Bible’s 150 psalms as they appear in William Coverdale’s timeless translation. The Psalms express every human emotion with disarming honesty, as anger and thankfulness alike are directed at God. All of life is here with its moments of beauty and its times of despair and shame. Like the Psalms themselves, the poems do not avoid the cursing and glorying over the downfall of your enemies, but wrestle honestly with them as we do when we come to say them.

Biblical Poems Embedded in Biblical Narratives
Biblical Poems Embedded in Biblical Narratives

Author: Sharon R. Chace

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1725262312

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Biblical Poems Embedded in Biblical Narratives is an easy-to-use course book that synthesizes Sharon Chace's interests in poetry, art, and biblical studies. Pastors and teachers will be able to craft their unique presentations for the first session--introducing both the subject and each other--based upon Sharon's introduction. The following sessions include reflections and practices to evoke responses from participants. This course is ideal for teachers who want their students to both think critically and explore their own spirituality. Chace's bridge-building theology, rooted in the humanities, is timely. Academic discourse, warm personal reflections, and a keen understanding of human nature combine in this instructional tool to create a broadly appropriate and engaging course.

150 Poems from the Heart: Bible Poems
150 Poems from the Heart: Bible Poems

Author: Paul Revenson

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2016-02-10

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1633381420

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“Paul Revenson loves to share the Gospel in music and poetry, and he does it with passion and conviction. You will find spiritual comfort and encouragement here.” —David Epstein, Senior Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, N.Y.C. . “Paul Revenson’s poems are Biblically based and quite imaginative. They brim with truth and common sense, plus interesting rhymes. They are a great devotional source.” —Frank Boggs, First recording vocal artist, Word Records. Smyrna, Ga. “The poet has the uncanny talent to express the Christian worldview in both classical and contemporary flair. Each poem will speak to your heart and mind, and give you a deeper understanding of what it means to be a ‘child of God’.” —Brenda Milliner—N.Y.C. urban missionary.

After Prayer
After Prayer

Author: Malcolm Guite

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1786222108

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This major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. At the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert’s exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', each one describing prayer in an arresting metaphor such as ‘the church's banquet’, ‘reversed thunder’, ‘the Milky Way’, ‘the bird of paradise’ and ‘something understood’. In conversation with each of these, Malcolm’s sonnets offer profound insights into the nature of communion with God in all circumstances and conditions. Recognising that all poetry is a pursuit of prayer, After Prayer also includes forty five more widely ranging new poems, including a sonnet sequence on the seven heavens.

New Testament in Poetry
New Testament in Poetry

Author: Mark Roland

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2019-05-09

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 1973644738

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There are many benefits to New Testament in Poetry. The chapters that cover the life of Jesus are in the first person to give a sense of immediacy. While it is 25 percent of the New Testament length, it retains all parables, sermons, doctrines, travels, prophecies, persons, miracles, and messages. In fact, it could be called the Essential New Testament. It is meant to be a study guide to lead one to read from Matthew to Revelation. Each sonnet (fourteen-line poem) is titled and subtitled to give additional information to the reader and Bible student.

The Bible and Poetry
The Bible and Poetry

Author: Michael Edwards

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2023-08-15

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1681376385

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A fresh, provocative look at the link between poetry and Christianity, both as it relates to the Bible itself as well as to Christian and religious life, by an accomplished scholar. The Bible is full of poems. In the Old Testament, there are the Psalms and the Song of Songs, the great exhortations and lamentations of the Prophets, and passages of poetry woven in throughout. In the New Testament, Jesus describes the kingdom of heaven with poetic epithets such as “a treasure hid in a field,” calling the Son of God “the true vine,” “the light of the world,” “the good shepherd,” and “the way, the truth, and the life.” The Gospels reverberate with allusions to the poetry of the Old Testament; the last book of all is Revelation, a visionary poem. The Bible, in other words, asks to be read poetically from start to end, and yet readers have rarely considered what that might mean, much less heeded that call. In The Bible and Poetry, the poet and scholar Michael Edwards reshapes our understanding of the Bible and religious belief, arguing that poetry is not an ornamental or accidental feature but is central to both. He speaks personally of his early, unanticipated, transformative encounters with scripture. He offers close, insightful, and resonant readings of biblical passages. Poetry, as he sees it, is the vital and necessary medium of the Creator’s word, and the truth of the Bible is not a question of precepts and propositions but of a direct experience of its poetry, its power.

Word in the Wilderness
Word in the Wilderness

Author: Malcolm Guite

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2014-12-09

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1848256809

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For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive reflections on it. A scholar of poetry and a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Lent.

Poetry Breathes Life into Bible Characters
Poetry Breathes Life into Bible Characters

Author: Pat Morrell-Donnelly

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-05-14

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1524606987

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Pats fifth book is a book of poems based on the lives of people in the Bible. She hopes these Bible poems will in some way bring to life information about each person, their faith, their strength, and for some, their failings. Just wherever the spirit has led her has been her way. She does not profess to be a Bible scholar. Her aim and hope is to use any talent she possesses to glorify God. She didnt start out with a plan about which person she would write about first. In the beginning, it was going to be about lives of women in the Bible, then it branched out to the men also. Many times she would hear a sermon or her sister or a friend would mention a Bible person, and she would then write a poem about that person. Or when writing about a particular person, she would then feel compelled to write about their spouse or someone connected to them. Her information was collected from the Bible and other sources. To make the verses all rhyme and still tell the story was another challenge. Her hope was to make it more interesting for a novice or for young people to understand. Many in this country have turned their backs on God. We have even been told, This is not a Christian nation. Believers in God have made this country great. Millions of lives have been sacrificed for our freedom. Sadly, as in the book of Jeremiah, we have become a divided country. Pat believes only if we turn back to God will our country remain great and free. May the pleasure of reading these poems about lives of people in the Bible bless each reader and bring to life the story of each Bible character.