Jan 03
Andrew J. NicewanderSermon Poems Gifts, God, Jesus, Poetry, Preaching, Salvation, The Church
Sermon Title – “Christian Unity and the Pastoral Ministry #1”
Sermon Text – Ephesians 4:7-16
Preacher – Pastor Larry Vincent
In Jesus Christ we have our Head
Our slain and living King
He bled and died, the Church to save
Our feeble praise we bring
As Head our Lord has gifted us
By Grace the Church is made
We’ve gifts to build and edify
The Bride who Jesus saved
Our King has conquered sin and death
And ground our stony hearts
He fights against our enemies
His grace to us imparts
Our bruised and broken Potentate
Our Groom of love and grace
Has won our hearts, securing life
Our hope in Christ is placed
The gifts we have, the lives we live
Are from and for our Lord
So we can glorify our King
Our Kind, Eternal Word
Through blood we’re cleansed, by death we live
We’re ragamuffins all
Yet Jesus gifts the Church, His Bride
We Stand, men of the Fall
In Christ we strive to honor God
Because we’re saved by Grace
To follow Him in Word and Deed
In Christ we run our race
We run as one, the Bride of Christ
In Jesus unified
We’re called to run and love and live
The Body justified
In Christ we’ve men who preach the Word
Equipping saints to serve
By heralds’ voice the Word is told
The Words of Christ are heard
The gifts of Christ are ours to use
With liberality
The Body lives, the Body serves
In Christ the Bride is free
In unity we all obey
Our Christ, our living Head
And to each other we submit
In praise to He who bled
We’ve gifts to build the Bride of Christ
To glorify our King
We live and love, rejoicing Christ
As One, His praise we sing
Dec 15
Andrew J. NicewanderSermon Poems Forgiveness, Grace, Jesus, Love, Mercy, The Church
Sermon Poetry, 13 December 2009
Sermon Title – “Keeping the Unity of the Holy Spirit”
Sermon Text – Ephesians 4:1-7
In Christ we’ve life that comes from God
As men once blind we see
We’re called to love our Sovereign King
The One by whom we’re free
The sin within is raging fierce
The Spirit holding strong
Lord, give us strength to keep Your Word
Your worship be our song
In Christ we’re one, we’re unified
Once sinners all, we’re free
How do we love the ones of God?
How do we love our King?
We hate and lie, we cheat and steal
Despising Jesus’ own
Once enemies, now brothers all
We praise our Lord enthroned
We’re children of our Lord and King
Of every race and tongue
But now, in Christ, we all are His
In Christ the Church is one
We all were sinners foul and rank
Depravity was ours
But now in Christ we’re saved and cleansed
His mercy on us poured
We’re called to join with Jesus’ own
Submitting one to all
Forgiving fellows’ heinous sins
And asking love for ours
We’re bound to do the dirty work
Of loving fellow men
We’re called to build relationships
With those redeemed from sin
Lord please forgive us when we lose
The point of Jesus’ love
When pride and arrogance is strong
O’er others placed above
Lord humble us, Your mercy heal
In spirit make us poor
Relying on Your loving grace
To others place before
Your grace convict me to repent
And turn from all my sin
In self-control to love Your own
My family and my kin
You saved my soul, You made me live
You’ve loved me as Your son
In Christ my heart is born again
Redemption You have won
Nov 29
Andrew J. NicewanderSermon Poems God's Grace, Love, Rebellion, Sin, Thanksgiving, The Church
Sermon Title – “Thankfulness for the Great Power of God”
Sermon Text – Revelation 11:15-19
Preacher – Jarrett Downs
I’m saved by grace, through faith in Christ
A sinner, now a saint
A rebel once, in Christ a son
All thanks to God, I’m saved
Although I’m saved, this life gets dark
God’s Hand is heavy still
When I despair of life and love
I thank His gracious will
God’s promises are sure and good
He loves His rebel own
When we are beat by lords and kings
Our God is on His Throne
The Church is beat and raped and killed
But still she marshals on
She’s kept by God, sustained by Grace
And loved by Christ the Son
The rule of God is over all
In times of love and strife
The Spirit keeps the Saints of God
In Christ the dead have life
The Church is made of sinners all
Of every kind and tribe
All sinners we in Christ are free
And loved by Him on high
All thanks to God who saves by grace
Through faith in Christ the Son
The Spirit moves and keeps the Church
Whose freedom has been won
Oct 01
Andrew J. NicewanderSermon Poems Evangelism, Grace, Jesus, Love, Missions, Salvation, The Church
Preacher – Dr. Tom Ascol
The Father is seeking and saving and loving
To save all His children He loves
He sent Christ tas Savior to bleed and to suffer
So sinners like us might be saved
He loves us with fervor, ’tis shown on the Cross
christ died so that sinners might live
He sought us as rebels and loves us as son
The Father His Grace to us gives
We’re called as the Body to go to the World
And tell of the Gospel of Christ
We’re called on a Mission, to tell of the Savior
So sinners like us might be saved
Dear Father, please help us to speak of Your Son
To family and friends all around
To witness of Jesus and of our salvation
So sinners once lost might be found
Oh Father, come finish Your plan of Salvation
Your Spirit come send to convert
So sinners believing might have Christ’s Salvation
Together we worship Your Name
Sep 09
Andrew J. NicewanderPoetry Abortion, Christianity, Jesus, Murder, Rape, Salvation, Schism, The Church, War
Lord, why do babies have to die?
Why do the mothers have to cry?
Why are they killed to ease our pain
So we can live our lives our way?
Why do the young ones perish
The children that we cherish
No chance to live and learn and love?
Why is there so much bloodshed
Young lives unlived and unled?
Please answer, Father God above
Lord, why the battles and the wars
The bloodied bodies on the floors?
Why do the young men have to die?
While broken families mourn and cry
Why do we hate our brothers
And take the lives of others
So we can right the mournful wrongs?
Such promise burned and wasted
Once love, now turned to hatred
Lord, hear my sad, lamenting song
Lord, why are women raped and killed
To satisfy the sinner’s thrills?
A girl’s sweet innocence is lost
None to repay that awful cost
They’re haunted by the darkness
They feel adrift and helpless
What’s lost can never be regained
Lord, come and hold your children
To know your mercy for them
To see our Savior King who reigns
Lord, why must people starve and die?
Their famined lands are scorched and dry
They haven’t food to fill their guts
They live in shoddy shanty huts
The poor and weak and homeless
Are dying by the thousands
Their lives are full of grief and loss
They need the hope of Jesus
The one who saves the helpless
Our homeless Savior on the Cross
Lord, why do Christian’s separate?
Why all the fighting and the hate?
Why can’t your people unify
Together worship Jesus Christ?
Why are there wars and schisms?
We fight with judging prisms
Not recognizing liberty
We take the truth and skew it
And hate our brothers through it
We soon forget that we are free
Lord, why are sinners lost to Hell?
Your wrath and judgment on them fell
They die without the hope of Christ
They try to pay the sinner’s price
They need to hear of Jesus
Our Gospel Savior near us
In Christ our sins are washed away
In Christ we have redemption
His blood is our salvation
For sinner’s souls do Christians pray
Lord, why the sin within my frame?
I’ve none but me to point the blame
Your holy Will I long to do
To glorify and honor You
But still, the sin and darkness
It seems to grow and flourish
I want to do what I don’t do
Jesus, I need your mercy
To fight the sin within me
My lovely Savior kind and true
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