Peace & Poetry

Tag: bible

  • Wisdom Challenge: Day 2

    Wisdom Challenge: Day 2

    Insights from Chapter 2– If you seek her as silver, And search for her as hidden treasures, Then you would understand the fear of YHWH, and find the knowledge for Elohim. Proverbs 2:4-5 Nothing that’s good in life comes easily. In many ways it’s almost as though the hardship and persistence in the pursuit proves…

  • Wisdom Challenge: Day 1

    Wisdom Challenge: Day 1

    Insights from Chapter 1– …they ambush their own lives. Such are the ways of everyone greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners. Proverbs 1:18-19 As an entrepreneur and a business owner, I’m constantly faced with the temptation to compare myself to others… People who are more successful than me– People who…

  • Why Can’t We Be Friends?

    Why Can’t We Be Friends?

    Self-pity is not a sign of righteousness, but of an unbelieving heart. Faith is believing you are who God says you are, despite how you feel.

  • Faith in You.

    Faith in You.

    A meditative poem about having faith in the Most High, written by poet and song-writer, Justice Burns.

  • Fluent in Pain

    Fluent in Pain

    This rendition of the Bible parable of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke is a poetic reminder that we are all commanded to love even the poor.

  • Insecurity

    Insecurity

    Insecurity is not something to run from because it serves as an insight to certain aspects of our spirituality that need to be addressed.

  • For the Love of God

    For the Love of God

    The author gives insights to his poem, Greatest Fear, which focuses on the intentions behind why people do good things. This analysis compares the validity of fear versus love in an individual’s relationship with God.

  • Walk on Water

    Walk on Water

    Emotions can be like dark seas in an unpredictable storm. Yahusha [Jesus Christ] Messiah is the love and peace that stills the storm within.

  • Foreseen Future

    Foreseen Future

    This Israelite poem references the battle between self- and social-environment, hidden behind a wall of emotion and deeper meaning.

  • Choose righteousness

    Choose righteousness

    Grow not weary of well-doing, but walk in the works of God which he hath preordained before the foundation of the world, that you might walk in them. Lose not sight of your reward which will assuredly await you if you hold fast to that holy gospel which you have learned from the beginning. Set…