poetry

Since poems are a thing in here now, would anyone like to take a stab at a theological clerihew? Clerihews are four-line, irregular-meter poems written in two rhyming couplets about a well-known figure. A popular example by the inventor (Edmund Clerihew Bentley) is Sir Christopher Wren Said, "I...

"Popery Considered" We don't need A priest for confession To God we should petition The pope Is a sinful man He can't execute God's plan The magisterium If not infallible, you see Sola Scriptura will set you free Sin is not mortal or venial To God, all sin is the same Salvation is in...

Christ Above All – Music Project by C. Matthew McMahon This is a unique musical journey in the style of Flamenco. (This album is one of my wife’s absolute favorites – and she plays guitar.) This album, “Christ Above All,” features fifteen tracks. Two of these are purely instrumental. The...

Refresh yourself in the faith with this brief poem on the Apostles’ Creed by an English minister in 1640. In this battling dialogue Satan shames and condemns the Christian, who rises up in spiritual warfare, taking faith in Christ and his Word at every point. May your heart well-up with and...

Pres. Adams wrote this beautiful and profoundly Christian poem on the fleetingness of time. In this poem, Adams captured the elusiveness of the present moment and the importance of God's atoning lamb—the great I AM—for us to have any permanence in the midst of time's unceasing movement. Alas...

I've recently transcribed a copy of "Four Hymns and Some Religious Verses" by B.B. Warfield. Whereas it was previously available as a scanned document, I've transcribed it into a textual PDF file, which is more readily copy-and-pasteable. Here is the link...