Salvation is a messy business.Forget about the tidy boxesOf rules and rituals.To follow Christ doesn’t meanStrapping a Bible to our backAnd pondering the universeFrom the comfortOf a cushioned pew.It is not three points and a poemWhere we pray, walk the aisleAnd get dunked, sprinkled and registered.We won’t find SalvationListening to droningExclamatory expositionsOf proper, passive, practical […]
Author: Walt Wellborn
The Dream Cantors
Beware the baseless pitch of Dream Cantors Masters of fiction And imperfection Whose fruit is sweet And roots drive deep Into wispy clouds of barren pastures Creeping vines of distraction That blanket trees And pretend to please Through empty offering And frivolous coffering Fruits devoid of satisfaction The half-truths of callous pols That sell us […]
Be Still and Heal
In grief,We stand on a precipiceAfraid to embrace the silence,Afraid that we will fall.For this, we create noise.Noise in our lives,Noise in our minds,Noise in our hearts,Believing that the noiseWill hold off the silenceAnd keep us from falling intoThe darkness of despairWhere all hope disappearsInto an eternal void.But that is all an illusion.The simple truth […]
Another Year Passes
Another year passes Another year gone Never look back It’s time to move on! Take what you you’ve learned Reach for the stars Gather your blessings And stretch out your arms Share what you have And share what you know Share all that matters And help others grow Lift those around you Raise them up […]
Anger
Unrequited Anger Erupts in violence. Like a steam engine With no release No valve to give it rest No work to ease the stress The steam and gases build Expand until the rivets… POP! Exploding parts and plates In every direction Without discretion And bring destruction To those in witness. So it is That anger […]
Our Guiding Star
Lost on a sea of ambivalence We have settled in the vast darkness, Bobbing anchorless on vast seas Devoid of Hope and filled with questioned prophecy. Smothered in a wintry woolen coat of Spanish Moss Masquerading as sullen clouds That devour the light and never sets it free. Obscuring the moon And hiding the stars […]
The Wonder of Dawn
I gaze with wonder upon the dawn Red upon orange upon blue Passive pinks and magenta hues, Sun peeking over the edge of the landscape Painting the clouds with lavish iridescence Moving my soul to awe and repentance. I cannot pretend that I understand The essence and wonder of our Creator, His palette and brush […]
Gifts
by Rev Walt The small boy had a smile that was as wide as the river that ran north of town. A gentle spring breeze whisked his brown hair about his face and his eyes sparkled in the morning sun. Freckles danced across his nose in a dervish of youthful candor. He was lean, but […]
The Rhetoric of Hate
I find the rhetoric of hate… exhausting. The endless pages of disinformation The countless contradictions The hyper-distortion of facts And the mountains of untruths Generated by professional purveyors Of undocumented and distorted Non-contextual discourse. All directed to the ears of a weary people Attempting to harvest the fruits of belief In a garden that is […]
The Whole Man
If we are truly changed, truly one with Christ; how can we justify dividing our lives into portions with God and portions without.
Leader Servant
I know that you may think that I am playing with semantics and that it really doesn’t matter how you state it, but I have been pondering that maybe we have been looking at Servant Leadership all wrong. It could be possible that we should be talking about Leader Servants instead.
FORGING MEN FOR GOT
Men of God are forged in the smelters of God’s grace and honed to be the tools that He needs in this weary world. In this series, we will look at several men of God and how, even though they felt unworthy, God gave them the tools, abilities and confidence to accomplish Hi will in […]
Finding Joy In Lent (series)
Lent can be a somber time for many of us as out thoughts turn to Easter and the cross. But it really shouldn’t be that way. Jesus is our constant companion in all of our trials and triumphs and there is always joy to be had when we reflect on what is truly important. This […]
Limitless (series)
This series of five messages celebrates some of the women in that Bible that we would consider limitless. In other words, They did not let a man’s world define who they were or what they could accomplish. They broke through the glass ceiling and revealed to us the tenacity, strength, and faith of women. Their […]
The Angels of Christmas
In this series of Christmas messages, we will look at the Christmas story through the visitation of various angels. Angels provide us with encouragement, understanding, compassion and are often the messengers that fill in the gaps of our stories to make them complete. Join us as we explore Christmas as God sends angels to give […]