Tag: Christian
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Christ Is Gentle
This poem celebrates Christ as the gentle Lamb and victorious Savior, emphasizing His compassion and sacrifice for humanity’s sins. It highlights His humiliation, resurrection, and the offer of eternal life through faith. The message warns of judgment for those who reject Him, inviting all to accept His grace and mercy.
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The Risen Lamb
This poem celebrates Jesus Christ’s resurrection, emphasizing His sacrificial love and the transformative power of His death. It depicts Him as the Lamb of God who brings forgiveness, peace, and eternal life. Through His grace, all are invited to salvation through faith in Him.
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Come Hither
This poem explores the theme of life’s despair, hopelessness and death as a result of sin. However, it introduces a transformative encounter with Jesus, who offers freedom from sin and death by grace through faith in Him. This revelation leads to trust and resurrection, encouraging others to seek comfort and life by trusting in Him.
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What The Ancients Built
I this poem I reflect on the inevitability of decay and death that all beings face, regardless of their achievements. This poem conveys a sense of hopelessness about mortality but ultimately offers hope through faith in Jesus Christ, who sacrificed Himself to conquer death and grant eternal life to believers, promising freedom from sorrow, pain…
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Through Caverns Deep
This poem by Gabriel Mattix describes the hopeless state of humanity on earth. But the Poet then turns to hopeful praise as he recounts the loving work of Jesus Christ to descend from heaven and offer life and salvation to all by faith in Him; transforming His followers into reflections and agents of His love…
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Living Water From Thirsty Hearts: John 7:37-39
On the last day of the Feast of Booths (Succoth), a day when the people of Israel remembered how their ancestors thirsted for water in the wilderness and Yahweh the one true God provided for them (Exodus 15:22-27, 17:1-7), Jesus stood up and proclaimed with a loud voice that anyone who is thirsty should come…
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Too Strong to Die, Too Sick to Live
This poem by Gabriel Mattix laments the weakness and frailty that everyone must face at some point in our short lives on earth. But the poet then turns from mourning the brevity and pain of life, to rejoicing in the eternal hope available to everyone who believes in Jesus, the God who made us to…
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Is This The Christ?
This poem speaks of Jesus, and how word of Him has been passed down to us through the years form many and varied eyewitnesses whose accounts agree; Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God who died and rose again. All who believe in Him will be forgiven their sin and. granted eternal life.
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Where Is Jesus Going? – John 7:32-36
As Jesus taught in the Jerusalem temple court, the Pharisees heard the crowd muttering things about Him as they considered whether or not Jesus truly was the Christ; the Messiah the prophets spoke of centuries and even millennia earlier. In response to this the Pharisees sent officers to arrest Jesus. As this took place, Jesus…
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A Land Without Sorrow
This poem expresses a deep longing to live in a place free of sorrow and suffering. This land does exist, and everyone who trusts in Jesus, our God and Savior who suffered, died and rose again for us, will live there in full and overflowing joy forever.
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