Category Archives: Accuser of the faithful

A SACRED AND SECURE SPACE

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(An opinion in a practical religious context)

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Muslims Jews and Christians  agree,

It goes against sanity…

For “LGBTQ’s”

Both bathrooms to use,

With total impunity!

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Guys don’t mind looking at a girl

Think she’s a man–what a thrill…

But “girls” made like guys

A boy often lies,m

Ro get hormonal toe curls!

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Men and women don’t mix,

Anatomically betwixt…

Security most times

On women’s minds,

Secure and private functions are blitzed!

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We believe humans basically evil,

This POLITICAL oppression’s the devil…

Giving predators free rein

And those who complain

Are chastised for being “evil”.

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An opinion post, based on religious and experiential  fact.

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Jonathan Caswell

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CHRONIC DEPRESSION VERSUS THE LORD

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(From the author’s notebook.  Written 4/14/16)

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Depression seen as chronic,

Folks judge moronic…

Why choose

And refuse

To be catatonic?

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Some have the crazy idea,

Behavior is willful and clear…

Always a choice

With inner voice,

Pointing the way to steer!

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“Just stop that,” is a farce,

Who gave you the right to parse…?

Some things are not

As easily shot,

Without making it worse!

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Why don’t you understand

Continuing to reprimand…

This creation fallen

Is appalling,

But the way things currently stand?

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The chronic depressed are cast,

Into a bullring vast…

One says, “OLE”

All you need to say

Is begone, and the sickness is past”!

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We’re often pushed aside,

Who will the “gutless”  abide…?

But Christ’s embrace

Filled with grace

Can heal all that’s inside!

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An Opinion Poem..based in part on the author’s personal experience.

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–Jonathan Caswell

 

THE GRASS OF THE FIELD…

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(See Matthew 6:30, and surrounding verses)

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Fine figures and fashions

Ignite our human passions…

Clothes fitting right

A welcome sight,

On any social occasion!

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Yet the human soul

Doesn’t need clothes to be whole…

If you think “nude”

Understanding is skewed,

Our coverings need not be droll!

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Whom are you depending on?

On this side or the other of the “pond”…

The Lord Most High

Is “my guy”,

The Christ is the One.

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Whom do you serve,

Bob Dylan observed…

That all flesh

With the Devil will mesh,

Unless God is served.

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Focus on God through others,

Unbelievers are sisters and brothers…

All in God’s image made

Their sin price He paid,

Why their chances to know God we smother?

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All men (humans) are like grass,*

how quickly a life will pass…

See Christ today–

Don’t walk away–

Who knows when one breathes their last?

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==Jonathan Caswell

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*Isaiah 40: 5-8

 

DAY-BY-DAY GOD LEADS

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After the Child was born,

Joseph was duly warned….

Warned in a dream

Of Herod’s blood scheme,

Traveling far from harm!

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Believers today face the same,

Sudden deliverance named…

Listen each day

Finding the way,

Keeping their new faith from harm!

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As Joseph, so should we,

Do what’s necessary…

Shielding one’s faith

Moving where it’s safe

Escaping Herod’s fury.

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Then when The time is right,

Let Christ within you shine bright…

Obedience true

Is up to you,

If Christ would be your light!

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–Jonathan Caswell

 

MANY CALLED—HOW MANY THROUGH BOOT CAMP????

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All are Spirit-stamped,

Sealed with assurancedly clamped…

Spirits awake

For Jesus’ sake,

Into His service we’ve tramped.

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Many respond to the call,

How is it so many fall…?

The Sower’s story

Good analogy,

Why so much faith is dull!

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Higher cognitive function

In Christ requires unction…

The Spirit dwells

After opening themselves,

Made by choice not compunction!

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So  many have shallow roots

Or that Devil removes…

The Word

Jesus observed,

Crowded by other pursuits.

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Ones with good soil are few,

Cast out the seed what we do…

We aren’t God

And haven’t trod,

In any path He’d do!

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–Jonathan Caswell

ACCEPT NO IMITATIONS!

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All kinds of stories about Him,

Major magazines by their whim…

Pile up “facts”

From historical “acts”

Pushing faith so thin.

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Glorious videotography,

Impressing the simple like me…

Easily swayed

With not much aid,

Cast doubt on Jesus’ deity!

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“Christian scholars” are used,

In programs where faith is disabused…

Faith in God’s word

Portrayed as absurd,

Is implied and accused.

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Subtle persuasion proceeds,

knocking support from God’s deeds…

Historical’s fine

But draw the line,

Or your Accuser succeeds!’-

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I’ve heard the insults of men,

And arguments of religion…

That cunningly catch

Your faith dispatch,

Woo you to legalism!

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Stand firm even to stand,

Don’t be deceived even then…

Christ is your King

Give God everything,

Don’t stay submerged in you sin.

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–Jonathan Caswell

OPEN OUR INNER EYES, LORD JESUS!

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Open our inner eyes,

That sin won’t take us by surprise…

That we may see

What comes from Thee,

And evil, although disguised!

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Open our spiritual ken,

To want You not just now and then…

But seek every day

Your excellent way,

Through the Spirit Whom thou hast sent.

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Open our eyes to discerning,

Your will in the midst of learning…

Instill fear

When You are not near,

Increase for Your wisdom, our yearning!

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–Jonathan Caswell

PAID THE PRICE ONCE–FOR ALL TIME!

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Jeshua* paid the price

For all our sinful vice…

On the cross

Our sin was tossed

Far away–so nice!

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But not for everyone

Jesus’ sacrifice was done…

Those who believe

In Him receive

What He hoped for everyone!

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Too many skeptics browbeaten

By Evil through peers defeating…

Opening of eyes

To embrace Paradise,

Their salvation is fleeting.

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Many blind claim to see,

Perhaps other deities…

There is ONE

By creating was done,

To Lord Jesus get down on your knees!

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Why do fanatics destroy,

Monuments to our Saviour** boy?

Because they see

Destroy history,

Then for Christ it “can’t be employed”.

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Even the very rocks

Shout of our Savior’s chops…

King of all kings

Heaven rings,

And never, no never stops!

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–Jonathan Caswell

*Jeshua is the Hebrew version (more or less) of the name Jesus, which is Greek.

**Saviour…the European spelling of the title.  American spelling is “Savior”.

THE NIGHT IS DEEP UPON US!

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Darkness patrols

Reaching in for souls…

Flaming sword strike

Fighting Night,

God commands self control.

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Who with Him will stand

Against worldly demand…

For compromise

And blinding eyes,

To the wretchedness of Man!

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Woman from man’s rib,

Males frequently fib….

Questing for power

Trample flowers,

Then deny they did!

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–Jonathan Caswell

APOCALYPSE APPROACHING!

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According to GROUND ZERO,

Trump may be the hero….

final man

to withstand,

A one-world government credo.

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Similarly as how foretold,

Opposition is getting bold…

Both Houses packed

With folks who’ll enact,

What would allow NATO a foothold!

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Shadow government’s in place,

Higher-ups we won’t face…

Secretly

Destroying the free,

Waiting to play their “Ace”.

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—Jonathan Caswell

*GROUND ZERO, available by radio and on the Web, with Clyde Lewis, has frequently warned of political undercurrents in American politics.