Long Backslider Poems

You have to confess, I know you won't believe this;
Most preachers/teachers preach and say;
It was Eve whom cast and cause the  "original SIN ";
But if I read my bible, the bible right, I believe...

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You wont find me with my bible sitting in the first row 
You’ll sometimes find me lifting my hands just to put on a show
I sing in the choir but my heart is always being...

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August 21 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Hosea 11-14

Key Verse – Hosea 11:10 They shall walk after the LORD…

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY WALK DIRECTOR AND GUIDE			

Lord God, You are my walk Director...

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THE GREATEST THING THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN

The greatest thing this side of heaven is not all the flowers that grow,
Though they be so fragrant and pretty and colorful there in a row.
The greatest thing this...

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And the ancients come before you;
       And the people sing alleluia;
       As the wonders of wonders;
       Marvelously...

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THE GREATEST THING THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN

The greatest thing this side of heaven is not all the flowers that grow,
Though they be so fragrant and pretty and colorful there in a row.
The greatest thing this...

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Squeaky and his buddies resided somewhere deep within the church's organ.
That elusive rodent was the bane of the pastor, The Reverend Doctor Morgan!
The reverend almost lost his religion a time or two dealing with sneaky...

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June 21 Scripture Meditations Based on Proverbs 14

Key Verse – Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

MY GOD, THANK YOU...

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Opinionated- And It’s Eyes---


I awoke and flung my mind soul in the heaven
What could there be more purely seven?
'It's that lordship,' I muttered;
And am I the nonbeliever never okaying;
I crave the divine, deponent denominationalism Why?
Death...

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I was a Backslider hell ridden
Now I am born again been forgiven
O saved that I am, no longer a slave to my sins
Free that I am  birth I've been born again

Now I was drowning...

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Often I stand and I think about time;
Sometimes I sit here and I wonder why;
Why, is there so much hatred and lying;
Why, are there so many people hurting and children crying;
I just don't know;
Lord I...

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The dread been telling you
And you hypnotized by high fashion society
And you backslider calling yourself celebrity
The dread been telling you
Dread things to come coming now
A fire on the dry canefields of sophisticated reality
A fire red...

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The Backslider
By: Tom Wright
2/17/99

Do you follow a path
encumbered with weeds?
have they seemingly appeared
from your planted seeds?

Are the tracks you once followed
now faint and dim?
Becoming tracks of the world
and no longer of Him?

Does some inner longing
tell...

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6 foot 7 makes self sufficient
Drums pavement clink clanking walking barefoot 
On Puddles of thought dried to subsistence
Carelessly focusing on how not to look

Indecisive ones with pure intentions
While restlessly calm fidget sitting still
In comes independence...

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The backslider stepped into the chapel like an angel,
Outwardly, he is full of piety,
Inwardly, he is only a pity.
True bliss left him, even purity and dignity.
Though he mingled with the  Churchyard 
And in prayer...

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