65+ Great Religious Poems

Spiritual Poems about Life and After Death.

Great religious poems. Christian Poetry This Christian poem is a simple blessing of encouragement acknowledging Gods presence everywhere and His role as a friend overseer a supporter and a guide. Ash-Wednesday is the great modernist religious poem in English. Hang it on the Cross. Historys Best Inspirational Poems.

Let the word spoken by Christ the Messiah have its home in your hearts and minds and dwell in you in all its richness as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom in spiritual things and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs making melody to God with His grace in your hearts. Save me from my need To always run my life Lord To control my every deed. A Closer Look at Their Spiritual and Poetic Meaning. Every obstacle to faith or doubt you come across Every prayer unanswered.

Truly Id love Thee truly Id serve Thee Light of my soul my joy my crown. In my poem Jesus is speaking. Yet in the midst of holiness your love still rules supreme The gentleness the total power. Such poems give people the internal strength they need to overcome a problem reach a goal or let go of their resentment or guilt.

Fair are the meadows Fair are the woodlands Robed in the flowers of blooming spring. From His great golden throne. If you have a secret sorrow a burden or a loss An aching need for healing. A Treasury of Classic Devotional Poems and 40 Favorite Hymns on the Christian Life.

He has published more than 50 books including The Soul in Paraphrase. Poems can even inspire people to work towards a cause or become a better person. Youre far beyond a dream. Hang it on the Cross.

Leland Ryken is emeritus professor of English at Wheaton College where he is in his 51st year of teaching. Philip Larkin Church Going. This could also be used as a Christian church poem. Many poems and poets for that matter earn fame because of their ability to inspire others.

Hang It On The Cross. No one loves like He. I pray that as you live your life Today and every day Youll feel our omnipresent Lord In your own special way. Christian poems and inspirational Christian poetry should lift up the reader as this Christian spiritual poem about Christians does.

For I am convinced and continue to be convincedbeyond any doubt that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things present and threatening nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the unlimited love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Son of God and Son of Man. Beautiful Savior King of creation. I have been going through a great storm in my life mental-health wise and the Lord has been showing me this Scripture over and over again.

He said This is eternity And all Ive promised you. Jesus is fairer Jesus is purer He makes our sorrowing spirit sing. No one cares like He. A meditation on the role of the church in a secular age written by a poet who described himself as an Anglican agnostic Church Going is one of Larkins most popular poems from The Less Deceived.

And since each days the same day Theres no longing for the past But you have been so faithful So trusting and so true. Hang it on the Cross. God is truly mans best friend on this earth. He is patient and true and waits with open arms for us to return to Him in truth.

Save Me Save me from myself Lord. For man to view your holiness while in their sinful state Is far beyond their power to bear for God You are so great. Your delight comes from their praise and as their hearts draw near.