If every one of us, with a relationship burning
In heart and mind for Jesus, have been evangelizing
Why's Maoist China dominating The Globe despite Columbus ...
Why is it that the Temple Mount is out of Israel's hands
Arabs are all over the land, and the neighboring lands,
Jerusalem and Hebron after David's & Abraham's wars & success?
And where St. Paul began churches, the famed cnames of Smyrna, Ephesus,
Ancient Antioch where we first were named Christian: "Little Christ Jesuses,"
Are now Muslim Turkey's, Syrian ... as if Jesus & Paul never came?
Kingdom Territory have been lost in the Holy Land, in Tunisia, Libya ...
Can someone truly tell me why? After all our successes, books, media
No Temple in Jerusalem ... Hinduism has seduced EU and US of A?
It is as if He never came ... nor taught and healed men and women then
And Earth behaves as if Christ had no disciples, no Kingdom seed of Heaven
Categories:
antioch, allegory, allusion, america, angst,
Form: Didactic
I met some people in Babylon,
Thinking I was on a secured rock,
They received me with grace,
Hence I became very enthused in shock,
Those early Christians were incredibly brave,
Yet,criticism furnished them to be mocked,
In spite of the intricacy Christ gave,
Couldn't spotlight the whole inclination on board,
I altered all what I've inculcated,
Apparently,I recommended salvation without a cost,
Dressed in doctrines they've fabricated,
Couldn't make a rightful view in a mirror,
I later journeyed through a desert,
Spending five days in tremor,
I became sedent,
After a long travel,
Arived at a place I can't talk about,
What I'm seeing requires no doubt,
The man who denied the Son Of Man,
Told me I'm an alien in Antioch.
That was Peter Simone.
Categories:
antioch, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
They heard the Spirit call
To send Barnabas and Paul-
Good News proclaimed without fear,
The Gospel of Christ ,for all to hear;
Antioch gentiles, the first to driaw near.
Categories:
antioch, christian, history,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A new wind blows from Korea to Tanzania,
the same wind blew from Antioch to Berea
A fresh breeze grace the Peruvian air,
that same fragrance wafted
through ancient Rome's main thoroughfare
Oh my Lord,
the sweet smell of the gospel is everywhere
In every generation,
its wonderful aroma abides there
That lifesaving scent is heavenly to inhale;
breathe it in deeply,
it'll make your soul recover well
Categories:
antioch, christian, gospel, love, spiritual,
Form: Lyric
Saint John of Rila
Father John –
I have no bread
(short is the bread daily)
And the Lestvitsa* -
so long …
Longer than a thought
and shorter than a peal
of a bell.
I’m ashamed, Father,
that today I am speaking
but not staying quiet like
a germ,
like a drop of a candle.
The heart holds me up.
*[‘lestvitsa] stairway to spiritual life
Saint John of Rila (Bulgarian: ????? ???? ??????, sveti Ivan Rilski) (876 – c. 946) was
the first Bulgarian hermit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Rila
January 7 — The Synaxis of St. John the Forerunner. This is his main feast day, immediately after Theophany on January 6 (January 7 also commemorates the transfer of the relic of the right hand of John the Baptist from Antioch to Constantinople in 956)
Categories:
antioch, religion
Form: Free verse
They heard the Spirit call
To send Barnabas and Paul-
Good News proclaimed without fear,
The Gospel of Christ ,for all to hear;
Antioch gentiles, the frst to driaw near.
Categories:
antioch, history, people, places,
Form: Narrative