Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog

Judge not, by outer countenance the merit of the goal... The above picture from The Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes was my first introduc...

  PAD Challenge day 3:   For today’s prompt, write a problem poem.   Below an excerpt from Peter Marshall's sermon- Keeper of the Spring...

 Alas, and Did My Saviour Bleed?   Grace and peace to you from God our Father  and the Lord Jesus Christ,  4 who gave himself for our sins ...

Surely all the suffering of sorrow, sickness, loss would get the best of us without God's comfort through the cross Praise Him; the best...

This morning's Old and New Testament readings impresses on the reader the sacred sanctity of shed blood! Lev. 17-18& Matt. 27:27-50 ...

How Great Thou Art    And Can It Be? Lord, when I think about Your love And what it bid of You May it revive awed impetus To be faithful and...

  Lest we become complacent... This poem was inspired again in part  by an excerpt from the story of George Mueller... Proverbs 28:13-17 KJV...

If we as gardeners only focus on what isn't growing or blooming the way we had hoped or planned for, we would miss what is! So too in th...

Pad(poem-a-day) Challenge day 13:For today's prompt, write a Ho w to blank poem 1 John 3:16-20 This is how we know what love is:  Jesus ...

Poem-a-day challenge day 5: For today's prompt (the first Two-for-Tuesday prompt of the month), write a make sense poem and/or don't...

Psalm 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean;  wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. (whiter than snow?!! Can you imagine it?) W...

Inspired in part by Luke 7 It was so neat; Luke 7 was yesterday's Dec. 7th reading and this portion of that chapter was also part of la...

Titus 3:5-7 :  "He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.  He saved us through the washing of...