Churches are different from classrooms, With their schedules and posted dates, Where learning is sectioned out, In predictable, expected rates. Learning in church is more passive, Some come and go without notes, Some seem to think the pastor’s main job Is to warn about sowing wild oats. A pastor is to spread the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pastoring’
PASTORING
Posted in education, poem, uncategorized, tagged pastoring on May 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
LIFE ABOVE SIN
Posted in holy living, poem, uncategorized, tagged Blount Co, East Tennessee, fear and doubt, Friendsville, live above sin, moving forever out, pastoring, quicksand traps, salvation plan on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thank You Lord, For Thy salvation plan, The glorious privilege, You have given man To live above sin. The privilege of moving Forever out, Of the quicksand traps Of fear and doubt, That man was born in. – eab, 7/76 Written while pastoring in East Tennessee, Blount Co, Friendsville
SEA SIDE BREAKFAST
Posted in poem, sea OR shore, uncategorized, tagged be ye filled, boisterous "boiling", Christ Church - Bible Methodist, come and dine, Friendsville, in sin, laborious net, night of toiling, open-faced sea, pastoring, the fish, TN, weary men, your Master on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Come, leave your night of toiling On the boisterous “boiling,” Of an open-faced sea. Come, leave the laborious net, And the fish you DID get, By simply obeying Me. Come and dine; be ye filled, ‘Tis your Master who has willed, A meal for weary men. Come now, and be refreshed, Far more than [...]
Eden? – No, Better!
Posted in poem, uncategorized, tagged a day much like Eden and better, Adam's great sin, ALL the redeemed, bowers of Eden, gracious to share, IN, in the glens of the Garden, Loogootee, look back in anger, of our entire race, pastoring, poison ivy, wasn't poisonous, wish to have lived in his place, wolf didn't live on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Poison ivy didn’t grow in the bowers of Eden; Or, if it did, it wasn’t poisonous there. And the wolf didn’t live in the glens of the Garden; Or, if so, he was gracious to share. And we can look back in anger at Adam’s great sin, And we can wish to have lived [...]
Stand Up and Sing!
Posted in Jesus Christ, poem, tagged arose to ever endure, Canada, defeat, He died, Kingston, on rugged tree, Ontario, pastoring, Pilgrim Holiness Church, saving the whole human race, sing, Stand Up, triumph of all time and space on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stanza 1 What appears to man to be, A defeat on rugged tree. Was the triumph of all time and space. He died that’s to be sure, But arose to ever endure, Thus saving the whole human race. – eab, 2/27/05 Written while pastoring the Pilgrim Holiness Church of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Tares and Wheat
Posted in Limerick, poem, worship, tagged angels, Are you wheat? Do you for Christ glow?, Canada, church, eastern Ontario, harvest time, Kingston, pastoring, Pilgrim Holiness, separate good from the bad, tares and wheat, tares to be burned, together grow on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The tares and wheat together grow, At harvest time angels will know, They’ll separate good from the bad, The tares to be burned, Oh, how sad! Are you wheat? Do you for Christ glow? -eab, 2/2/07 Penned in eastern Ontario, Canada, while pastoring the Kingston Pilgrim Holiness Church.
Day, Dusk, Dark
Posted in nature, poem, science, time, tagged Beauty - then border - and then black, Brilliant to dull, Christ Church - Bible Methodist, day dusk dark, East Tennessee, leave without a remark, pastels now null, pastoring, the negative, thousands of years on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For thousands of years it had been thus; Day – then dusk – and the dark. Light to night. It seemed absurd, That the negative would be the last to be heard, And positive leave without a remark. As it had done, now it came again, Beauty – then border – and then black. [...]
Lpost – Zack
Posted in Lpost (long post), winter, worship, tagged 1995, Bethlehem's "Best Eastern", Bible Holiness Chapel, collect Hittite pottery, conservatively Hebrew., connoisseur, Dec., exceedingly wide part, faithful worshipper, friendly or harsh?, gentleman, great learning or lack thereof, handsome profile, HE HAD NO ROOM FOR JESUS, his ALMOST Guest, history, hobby?, Hot Springs Star, hotel industry, How much did he earn?, latest Roman robe, local synagogue, low breeding, managerial perfection, Mediterranean dining, newspaper, Oelrichs, ONE FACT ABOUT ZACK, pastoring, plain mutton chops and bread or, printed, race camels, SD, skinny or fat, stylishly cut, tall or short, THAT famous night, trivialize, wealthy or poor, What was his genealogy?, What were his perks?, Where was he born?, young or old, Zack on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Whether his name was Zacchaes or Zacharias is unknown but in the hotel industry he became known as *Zack. It is not known if he inherited Bethlehem‘s “Best Eastern” from his family, his wife’s family, or bought it outright. But on THAT famous night he was the proprietor of the inn. Zack [...]
Martin Rinkart – death, Dec. 8, 1649
Posted in poem, today in history, tagged 1649, 50 funerals a day, 5000 victims, died today, Eilenburg, Lutheran, Martin Rinckart, pastoring, Plague of 1637, Saxony, Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), today in history on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Now Thank We All Our God” (stanza 2) O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts and blessèd peace to cheer us; And keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed; And free us from all ills, in this world and the next! Martin Rinckart [...]
The Fullness of Time – Twice
Posted in christmas poems, philosophy, poem, uncategorized, tagged a new era, all but forgotten, angel of light, antichrist, Apollo, “calendar year”, distant war station, domed roofs, false may come first, far-away-science, formal predictable ritual, fullness of time, glorious, God, Greeks, He sent His begotten, His Return, iron-and-clay, Juno, Kansas, kings in the East, machinery of wrath, major port cities, modern assemblies, movement now lurches, nor is eucharist, Olathe, pastoring, pit-mates, re-gripping churches, ritual, Rome, Rome-borrowed gods, saints are thought odd, senate, Son-perfect day, talking, time-gates, Titan, tough sailing, toward broadway, walking, wide-world-wanted sound, wonderful on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Greeks had developed their own way of talking, A language with more than one way to say “love,” And spread it abroad by tough sailing and walking, From major port cities to high towns above. The city of Rome had become its own nation; Was mighty in men and machinery of wrath. Long [...]
