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Neil Rogers
May 23, 20221 min read
Bent Double:
Luke 13:10-17 tells the story of a woman bent over like a jack-knife for 18 years. Jesus straightens her up and straightens out the...
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Neil Rogers
May 22, 20222 min read
The Nativity
Before the stars in space were spun Ere life on earth had first begun The Word with God, was God, and made All things, his majesty...
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Neil Rogers
May 2, 20222 min read
David's Pebbles:
Reflections on the Psalms. Each stanza picks up the themes of a psalm and explores the emotions behind these ageless prayers of passion,...
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Neil Rogers
Jan 13, 20222 min read
Seven Questions or Hide-n-Seek
Where are you? Oh, do you think I can’t perceive Among the bushes, through the leaves? Is there some place where you can hide When I...
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Neil Rogers
Jan 13, 20221 min read
Forbidden Fruit:
Forbidden fruit? The serpent said How quaint a notion in your head! But modern thinkers now opine Restrictive diets may incline Towards...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20215 min read
Daniel
The warriors of Babylon Laid siege and it was not too long Before Jerusalem gave in Surrendered by Jehoiakim The temple riches made of...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20213 min read
The Minor Prophets
Hosea’s task made him afraid To love a wife who had betrayed A faithful husband like the Lord Whose love is like a three-fold cord Now...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20212 min read
Isaiah and Jeremiah
And then Uzziah king became Did what was right, God gave him fame But in his pride he wore the crown With leprosy God struck him down...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20211 min read
Elisha and Jonah
Elisha called on God most high The river stopped and he passed by Elisha was a man of power His word alone made monarchs cower Some...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20211 min read
Solomon and the Divided Kingdom
Now Solomon was David’s son Of all the boys he was the one To wear the crown and rule the land To build the temple David planned One...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20214 min read
David the King
When word of Saul’s defeat was brought II Samuel 1 To David he was overwrought And taught his men this sad lament A threnody, a...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20212 min read
The Carving of the Concubine
The Old Testament does not flinch from portraying human depravity in its most base forms and this account from Judges 19 of extreme...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20211 min read
David and Bathsheba
It was a sultry afternoon From sleep the monarch called his groom The harem stirred, who would receive The summons to his lust relieve?...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20211 min read
Ruth and Boaz
Elimelech and Naomi Left Bethlehem to go and see If there was bread in Moab’s land From hunger they could hardly stand Elimelech, alas,...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20212 min read
Joshua and Judges
And Joshua was called to face The task to bring the chosen race Into the Promised Land of grace Their holy calling to embrace Through...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20215 min read
Moses
Now after Joseph saved his clan According to God’s gracious plan Four hundred silent years went by And Israel grew in Egypt’s eye Then...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20212 min read
Joseph's Nightmare
Now Joseph brought a bad report About his brothers whom he caught Behaving badly and it seems He made things worse with vivid dreams In...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20212 min read
Jacob the Trickster Tricked
Now on the way he dreamed and saw A ladder rose to heaven’s door The covenant the Lord renewed This refugee with attitude Would come...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20212 min read
Isaac and Rebekah
So Isaac grew and Sarah died Then Abr’am had another bride God’s promises of land and seed Came true for him who had believed A plot of...
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Neil Rogers
Dec 18, 20212 min read
Abraham and Sarah
And once again the Lord God found One person whom he blessed and crowned With promises of land and seed But Abram had one crying need He...
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