Best Sermons Poems
This is boring,
I am snoring.
Worship That Pleases God
Worship*’s right motive
God’s Scriptural directive.
First Thing to Do Upon Waking Up
Exalt God always
Express thanksgiving praise.
Getting God’s Favor
Win Master’s approval
Exercise faith revival.
What Loving God Shows
Loving the Lord
Extends devotion-cord!
Consequence of Indulging in Doubts
Entertain your doubts
Toward vain whereabouts.
Saving a Child from Being Spoiled
Rescue every child
Avoid being wild.
Fulfillment of God’s Servants
Enjoy God’s grants
Triumphant steward-servants.
Warning to Evil Doers
Evil deeds displayed
God is dismayed.
Persistence in Preaching the Gospel
Preach Christ’s Gospel
Though foes repel.
Gratefulness’ Blessing
Nurture grateful heart
Receive blessings’ cart.
*Psalm 99:9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
September 14, 2018
3rd place, "Six-Word Couplet Series Encore" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Mark Toney; judged on 12/3/2018.
DEDICATION: To Paul : Tristich Series
I
Out of uttermost, depths, disappointments, baby deaths ...
We have forgiven God, the forgiveness He began in spaciousness
Our suffering is the portal to discovery: Abba-Father suffered Eden's losses
II
If we have any heirs, they'll welcome us in heaven alongside Jesus
And Trinity loved Eve as dearly as They did Adam, yet parted with Yeshua
To get more sons and daughters; Isaiah sang "It pleased God to crush Him
III
This is why we can face a spouse, loss after loss: heirs, land, home
Suffering is the only portal to take us beyond suffering: like sin, alluvial gold!
Easy to find, preciously, invaluably turning us away from here to there: my Home
SERMONS IN MY NATIONS
Lucky are the elected,
For they shall have all chances,
To change the law and favour themselves,
To increase their pay and rob taxpayers.
Favoured are those with tribesmen at the top,
For they shall find no hindrance,
In any office they shall seek,
Neither shall they be jobless nor be job-seekers.
Great are those with power,
For no law shall be above them,
They shall kill or rob or justify the unjust,
And the law will always be on their side.
Happy are power owners,
For they will reap where they had not sown,
Through corruption and scandalous embezzlement,
Of the common man's hard earned funds.
The rest will just watch in silence.
An old church stands with a spired steeple
Amidst the townspeople at Fox and Main
Where the hypocrites pray for sinful souls
And clergy holds sermons that entertain.
Within this sanctuary lined with pews
And opalescent glass and glittering gold
Odoriferous breaths of morning booze
Betray inebriants among the fold.
The Sunday sermon lectures temperance
Its message they heard many times before
The spoken words make no difference
Because people don’t heed them anymore.
The pimps and sots, sinners all congregate
Buying forgiveness while passing the plate.
I
When my landlord is a slumlord
The sermons also mock God
"There but for Grace go I"
Helps see a plank in my eye
II
Here, no exposing of hypocrisy
Makes a difference to men, women, me:
Sex and money, sex for food -- for lazy
Is the South African -- post-Mandela's day**
Note**
27 April 1994 was the first democratic election in South Africa, RSA, making winner Nelson Mandela both president & freedom's icon. 28 years on, people sometimes prefer welfare, begging, crime - while immigrants run many small businesses, even in remote towns. Easy money has ruined Mandela's nation (it is mine, too, as I am native South African). If one Google's/ searches "loadshedding, RSA" or/AND "minimal Utilities," the declines are given another slant. Power brownouts on New Year's day, also.
will always cherish
is best priest in our parish
sermons nightmarish
about priest wonder
the spell he has us under
collected plunder
priest a rising star
exceeds all others by far
drives fancy car
in cathedral
error was procedural
took another pill
cherish parish would
while wild priest we withstood
was up to no good
we called our priest jane
in power she does remain
on us down will reign
is a real dandy
to have around is handy
our great priest randy
with priest we abide
he is always on our side
on him we relied
priest will often hiss
to us he had been pure bliss
his point always miss
The world is in great troubles
Virus,inflation,disasters and wars
Politicians busy giving
A wearisome flood of sermons
Whys and wherefores
Dreams and expectations
Fallacies and illusions
Maybe they are no jokes
Just with a super power
Like Superman
Just splendidly excellent
Like Wright Brothers
Maybe they are just
Some superficial jokes
To cover the awkward embarrassment
Maybe they are just a taste of hegemony
Whenever I say I can
You must believe
So sacrifice the sacrificial,
like a windblown winter thistle,
directionless, unguided missile,
too late, too late, the warning whistle.
Deaf and dumb, ignore the warner,
crouched and shrouded in your corner,
since time began, the endless mourner,
hiding from the ceaseless scorner.
Darkness that no light can breech,
sightlessly your eyes beseech,
straining, but just out of reach,
silent sermons never preached.
©Danielle White
Till tomorrow a nasty style
Nigerians stretch a bold mile:
Sermons which begin with obituary
And proceed to The Mortuary…
The Waiting Choice of Deaconess Emmanuela
Seeking and discovering The Best Umbrella
For mandating sinners’ fastest repentance
Of deeds that might no more clinch penance.
Also, of Pastor Prince at war with Theological Schools,
Because break a preacher could one or two rules…
I simply pray Prince won’t this try in London
For a Whole Assembly shall him abandon:
Spiritual messages of the scary;
Tales Gospel – like but still fairy.
I cornered a fed-up knave
On the subject of The Treasures God gave,
Which Nature had fought to save
Between Open Hill and Concealed Cave
And he acidly began to rave
At the wrongs men crave
And at their will to ways pave
For those who cold lies microwave …
Broadly too did he rave
At killers who murders brave
And unwittingly selves enslave
To in that state walk into grave …
I could and should bless this Ex knave,
In every church service at the nave …
Who’d sermons in ears squandered save.
If I have rhyme, If i have reason, but where do i say ?
All the land screams, "keep it out of our bay" !
Hypocrisy is holy, sermons are hyper,
Every land is Hamelin but there is no pied piper.
(11.08.2023)
When you hold up a mirror
To anyone in the act of hating
That is the most loving
Thing you are offering this world:
Asking all to see their own image
Reflected in real time ...
Shalom, shalom!
Courtesy of:
The 33RD of AUGUST
THREE PART HARMONY
THIRD WORLD MINISTRY
TRIPLE PLAY REVIVAL
REV. TRIP THORNBUSH III, DD
PASTOR, CHURCH OF THE MYSTICAL TRINITY
C. Günter Marrow, Sexton
1. Don’t be shy
2. Come on in
3. Check it out
4. Take your time
5. Don’t get cute
6. Speak the truth
7. Just be kind
8. Take a hike
9. Fall in love
10. Seize the day
11. Make your mark
12. Learn to dance
13. Bust a move
14. Whip it good
15. Let it be
16. Don’t look back
17. Eat real food
18. Take a nap
19. Make a plan
20. Play the odds
21. Take a chance
22. Do what’s right
23. Take the pledge
24. Share your wealth
25. Pay your dues
26. Give a damn
27. Keep your cool
28. Keep the faith
29. Be a fool
30. Don’t give up
31. Walk the walk
32. Bear the pain
33. Heal the wound
New reverend espouses ridiculously flowery verbose sermons
Congregation divides several times over the next few months
I stay, imagining they will get better, more down-to-earth, honest.
Pretty soon there are only two of us left.
We give each other shrugs and glances.
He does not ask for help.
So we remain silent.
Contributing to his failure.