Tag: Holy

Incomprehensible

Sometimes I do not understand What has come from Your hand Your Word is difficult to grasp Yet to Your truth I tightly clasp I know You are faithful and true Before creation all things You knew You know me as only You can How...

Holy in 10 Words

The Meeting the Bar prompt over at dVerse Poets Pub today is to write a ten-word poem. This poetry “form” was apparently created by Brian Miller who is quoted as saying “after ten words no one is listening anyway.” It just so happens that the...

Holiness and Love – A Poem

The other day I saw this quote (on Facebook, I think) by Walter J. Chantry: “The Bible as a whole speaks more of God’s holiness than of His love.” At first I didn’t think much of it, but this quote kept coming back to me....

My Favorite Song to Sing

Just before bed last night I decided to check Facebook one last time. The “I Love God” page that I like had posted one of my favorite songs from scripture. It appears in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. (Just one more example...

To Look Upon the Majesty of God

Last Sunday we had a guest preacher, a young man named Chris Nye. You can check out his blog here. He is a youth minister at another church in our area and had preached for our church a few times as we have been going...

Holy, Holy, Holy – A Poem

Quite a while ago I wrote a poem for Idylls for the King, the Christian literary blog I contribute to (which is on summer hiatus right now). I realized that I had never posted this poem here and that some of those who read here...

Complete Love Binds Us in Unity

Last Sunday we had a guest speaker at church who gave a wonderful sermon. He is a seminary student, and like his father who is a pastor, his sermon style is more what I would call teaching than preaching. The lesson he shared on Sunday...

Holy, Holy, Holy Is the Lord

People often talk about how God is love, which He is. This is an important part of God’s character. But there is another characteristic of God that people focus on less often, and that I want to focus on today. God is Holy. The American...