The Armor of God (poems and songs)

by Trent Wilde May these seven poems serve as a means of putting on the Armor of God (Ephesians 6). The War The Belt The Breastplate The Shoes The Shield The Helmet The Sword Songs based on the poems The War From the morning, as the sunrise, I will honor you with my lips. Light […]

Choose

Many love the truth a little but they love this dead world more. It must be that those who do believeth not what is in store for those who choose to die to sin and let the Spirit reign within. What can it be that draws their love to things of earth from that above? […]

The Reason to Die

What is the substance of the lie – the reason to sin and keep your bones dry? That magnified “I,” gives a stone cold look from his heart of steel he makes-believe God and goes by his feel It’s the season for reason accept the truth for the truth The Reason to Die, is why, […]

Amid Mayhem

Chaos rains — they say loss gains imperial chains of whitewashed brains bring inane disdaining, inhumane detaining, and same ol’ mansplaining …nothing worth retaining Amid mayhem hooks — forbidding they/them, banning books, take a scanning look through spanning darkness oft mistook for foreboding night unknown stars then come in sight now stark from wrong is […]

Liminal Lamb

To follow a shepherd makes sense to a sheep To be led by a lamb…what a leap When the lamb here grazed Most eyes glazed By them he went unappraised He was one of many black sheep Consigned to any trash heap His track, considered too steep Baaing, he neared—they peered, then feared Clawing, they […]

Perceive

with eyes still closed a light arose black to red bright it glows through eyelids shut to perception’s gut reach vague rays soft they cut will brow furrow focus burrow seeking darkness thorough? or will dimness yield to pupils revealed with lumens for sight unsealed? night fails lift the veils eyes open see shadows gropin […]

A Word If You Will

Will a word change your thought? Or will it float down the stream—a dream till nought? Of one word you feel assured. You have it stay. Another seems absurd; You make it go. But sorting words this way can’t bring you to know. What should one ask of a saying? “Can I […]

Why This Over That?

Why do you go with this over that? Why do you enlist where you’re at? Is it finding happy feelings? …avoiding awkward dealings? Is your measure pain against pleasure, labor against leisure, …truth against treasure? Maybe you’re seeking healing or just taking whatever’s appealing in the moment. But the bestowment of “go with the flow” […]

Materialistic Theism in the Philippian Christ Hymn

Posted on August 27, 2021March 1, 2023 by Trent Wilde

(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) Theism is belief in the existence of God. But what is God? While the world’s religions have a variety of ideas about God, almost everyone agrees on certain aspects of his fundamental nature. Most would say that God is above and beyond the universe, for he brought the universe into existence. […]

Clever Clever

Are we so clever, clever,that we need not find the way?Ought we not to read a letterthat warns us, “Cast sin away!”? Sinner wait – don’t close your ears to us!Contemplate – are you really good and glorious?Meditate – are you free from all that’s spurious?Choose your fate – live or die, love or hate […]