by Neal Eckert | Mar 5, 2017 | God's Love, Spiritual Warfare, The Real Jesus
It feels weird to admit this. Childish even. For years, I believed in a shepherd myth. I thought of shepherds as weak. There’s ample evidence to the contrary but I found it easy to forget. When I heard, “The Lord is my shepherd…,” from the 23rd Psalm, I pictured a...
by Neal Eckert | Sep 1, 2016 | The Real Jesus
Poetry really isn’t the craze it once was. Rhyming poetry is even less in vogue. Still, nonetheless, here’s a poem I recently wrote and a rhyming one at that. I think what draws me to poetry is how so much emotion and meaning can fit into such a small space. It’s like...