O America, Turn Back Before the Shadows of Sin Consume Your Soul by Debbie Harris

18 Thursday Sep 2025

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The poem, titled “O America, Turn Back Before the Shadows of Sin Consume Your Soul”, is a passionate lament and urgent call for America to return to faith in God. It portrays a nation drifting from its spiritual roots, entangled in sin and blasphemous ideologies, and facing potential destruction as a result. The poem emphasizes the biblical promise that a nation whose God is the Lord will be blessed, contrasting this with America’s current state of pride, greed, and moral decline. It pleads for repentance, warning of the consequences of continued rebellion while offering hope through the Savior’s mercy and grace. The tone is both mournful and hopeful, urging the nation to humble itself, seek forgiveness, and be restored to divine favor before it’s too late.

O land of liberty, once bright and bold,
Your heart now wanders, your spirit grown cold.
The stars that once gleamed in your banner’s weave,
Now dim under shadows of truths we bereave.

Our Precious Savior, with arms open wide,
Calls back His people, yet we turn aside.
Sin’s chains entangle, ideologies blind,
Blasphemous whispers corrupt heart and mind.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
Whose hope is His mercy, whose strength is His Word.
But we’ve built altars to pride and to greed,
Sowing destruction in thought, word, and deed.

America, hear! The hour is late,
Repent and return, or seal your fate.
The wages of sin bring a ruin untold,
A nation unmoored, a fire grown cold.

Yet hope still remains where the humble will kneel,
Where broken hearts turn to the One who can heal.
O Savior, restore us, forgive our disgrace,
Revive us in truth, let us seek Your face.

For if we abide in Your love and Your light,
Our nation may rise from this perilous night.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord—
America, turn, and be whole, be restored!

Contending for the Cross, Part II: A Sonnet on Charlie Kirk’s Bold Stand and Our Call to Faith by Debbie Harris

15 Monday Sep 2025

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Like Joseph, pure, temptation’s lure he spurned,
His righteous heart for God’s own truth did burn.
Like Daniel, bold, through lions’ den he turned,
To kneel in faith, no fear could overturn.
Old Noah built, though scoffers mocked his aim,
Obeyed through floods, God’s holy will his flame.
Saint Stephen, stoned, yet love’s sweet grace proclaimed,
Forgave with breath that glorified God’s name.
Disciples bold, through pain, Christ’s truth they bore,
Like Charlie Kirk, who faced the hateful roar—
For Savior stood, no matter cost or thorn.
Do I, like them, with zeal God’s truth adorn?
In love and truth, do I His cross embrace—
Am I a bold and loving contender for the faith?

Shadows of the Steeple: Metrics Over Mercy by Debbie Harris

13 Saturday Sep 2025

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(A lament in verse, echoing timeless tensions in the faith: where cultural allure and quantifiable “success” eclipse the unadorned power of the Gospel’s promise—that Jesus saves the lost, not the trending. Inspired by reflections on church resilience amid relevance’s pull.

In the hallowed halls where echoes once rang true,
The Precious Church of Jesus Christ now hums
With algorithms of approval, screens aglow—
Metrics marching like a metronome of might,
Where “likes” ascend like incense to the cloud,
And relevance reigns, a scepter sharp and bright.
Culture’s chorus swells in viral verse and verse,
A symphony of scrolls that scroll the soul away,
While the Gospel whispers, faint as fading hearse:
“I am the way, the truth, the life,” He says,
Yet drowned in data streams and trending praise.

Oh, seeker of the saved, the Lamb who left the ninety-nine,
Who dined with debtors, healed the halt and blind—
Has your light grown dim in this electric shrine?
The numbers climb: attendance apps that tally throngs,
Engagement engines fueled by fleeting fire,
Hashtags of heaven, but hearts adrift in wrongs.
Culture courts the crowd with coffee bars and bands,
Relevance robes the ragged in designer grace,
While Jesus stands at the door, nail-scarred hands,
Knocking not for nods, but for a contrite face.
“For God so loved the world,” the ancient cry,
That whosoever believes might never die—
But now ’tis whosoever shares, reposts, complies.

Precious Church, your altars altared to the age,
Where faithfulness fades for followers’ fleeting gaze,
The Savior’s story sidelined on salvation’s stage.
Culture’s crown is heavy, relevance a rusted chain,
Binding bold belief to bland conformity’s bane.
Yet in the quiet quake of Calvary’s refrain,
The Gospel gleams: not in grandeur’s grand design,
But in the grace that grips the guilty, makes them thine.
Return, O bride, to the blood that bought the broken whole;
Let metrics melt like morning mist, and mercy take control.
For Jesus saves—not by the scroll of social score,
But by the cross that counts the cost, and opens heaven’s door.

Echoes In the Sanctuary by Debbie Harris

13 Saturday Sep 2025

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In spires of stained glass, where light bends low,
The Precious Church of Jesus Christ stands tall—
A fortress woven from whispers of the past,
Threads of tradition, embroidered with gold.
Here, the organ hums hymns of harvest moons,
And altars gleam with relics, polished by hands
That trace lineages older than the sea.

But wait—does the Savior linger in the nave,
Or has He slipped behind the velvet drape?
The culture claims the front-row pews, adorned
In robes of ritual, crowns of custom worn
Like halos forged in fires of forgotten kings.
Echoes of emperors and councils convene,
Their voices drowning the Galilean’s plea:
“Follow me,” not the map of marble halls.

Oh, Precious Church, your stones sing of the soul’s
Salvation scripted in scrolls of solemn rite—
Yet where is the wanderer, the outcast’s friend,
The one who dined with sinners, mended the night?
The culture dances in the aisles, a masquerade
Of feasts and fasts, of flags and fervent cries,
While Jesus waits beyond the bolted gate,
His feet still dusty from the desert’s sighs.

Is it the edifice we exalt, or Him within?
The scaffold of saints, or the Carpenter’s grin?
For in the clamor of creeds and choral swell,
The culture reigns, a queen upon the throne—
And Jesus? He is the quiet cornerstone,
Rejected by builders, yet holding heaven’s spell.
Return, O flock, to the Lamb’s unyielding light;
Let culture bow, and Christ reclaim the night.

In the Grip of Demonic Storms: America’s Lament and the Urgent Call to Embrace Christ, Scripture, and Holy Paths Once More by Debbie Harris

12 Friday Sep 2025

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Title: In the Grip of Demonic Storms: America’s Lament and the Urgent Call to Embrace Christ, Scripture, and Holy Paths Once More

Structure: This 26-line poem is divided into 7 stanzas, written in a rhythmic, rhyming ABAB scheme that evokes traditional hymns or patriotic elegies. It builds from lamentation to a climactic call for revival, using vivid imagery of shadows, storms, and spiritual battles.

Overview: The poem is a passionate, faith-driven cry for America’s spiritual renewal amid national grief from a recent act of terror. It portrays the nation as locked in a cosmic struggle against “demonic forces” like Marxism, Communism, Islam, violence, blasphemy, materialism, and moral inversion (Isaiah 5:20’s “calling good evil and evil good”). The speaker urges repentance and a collective return to Jesus Christ, the Bible, and His holy ways, warning that without this, chaos will prevail. It draws on Psalm 33:12 (“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord”) to envision a restored “one nation under God.”

Key Themes:

Grief and Invasion of Evil: Opens with mourning over senseless violence that has infiltrated the land, symbolized as a “senseless blade” and “unholy whispers.”
Spiritual Warfare: Frames current crises as a non-physical battle against ideological and moral darkness, with forces like “Marxism’s iron heel” and “glittering chains” of materialism.
Call to Repentance and Hope: Pleads for awakening to Christ’s light and mercy, promising divine inheritance and grace if the nation turns back.
Warning and Restoration: Contrasts the peril of chaos with the blessing of biblical fidelity, ending on an urgent, clear imperative to embrace holy paths today.

Overall, it’s a prophetic lament blending patriotism and evangelical fervor, inspired by biblical motifs of judgment and redemption (e.g., 2 Chronicles 7:14), aiming to stir readers toward faith-based national healing.

In shadows deep, a nation bows in grief,
For terror’s senseless blade and gun has pierced the heart,
Evil has slithered through our sacred fields,
Unholy whispers tearing peace apart.

We stand amid a war not forged in steel,
But spirits clashing in the midnight hour—
Demonic tides of Marxism’s iron heel,
Communism’s chains, and Islam’s shadowed power.

Violence roars like tempests unchained,
Blasphemy mocks the throne of Heaven’s King,
Materialism blinds with glittering chains,
And truth is twisted: good they name as sin,
While evil wears a crown of hollow praise.

Oh, America! America, awake!
Turn back, turn back to Jesus Christ, our Light,
The Savior’s cross where mercy’s rivers break,
To wash away the gathering night.

For blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
Whose people He has claimed as heirs divine.
In Christ alone, our banners are unfurled,
One nation under God, in grace we shine.

Choose Him, or chaos claims the fragile throne—
The storm will rage, the foundations crack and fall.
America, arise! Let mercy atone,
And heed the call: turn back to Christ and Bible’s ways, embrace His holy path today.

Jesus Christ, Our Hope Beyond The Veil by Debbie Harris

01 Monday Sep 2025

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The poem draws from 2 Corinthians 4:18, emphasizing a Christ-centered focus on eternal realities over fleeting earthly things. It portrays the world’s temporary allure as fragile and fading, contrasting it with the enduring, unseen glory of Jesus Christ. Through vivid imagery, the poem highlights Christ’s eternal kingdom, His sacrificial love, and His unchanging presence as the anchor of faith. It invites believers to fix their gaze on Jesus, the crucified and risen Savior, whose grace and truth shine beyond the temporal veil, offering hope and eternal life.

Beyond the veil of earthly sight,
Where fleeting shadows dim the light,
We fix our gaze on Christ alone,
The King eternal, God’s own Son.

The world’s frail charms, though bright they seem,
Are but a breath, a passing dream.
Its treasures fade, its glories cease,
But Christ endures, our Prince of Peace.

Unseen, yet real, His kingdom stands,
Its truth upheld by nail-scarred hands.
His love, a fire that never wanes,
Outshines the stars, forever reigns.

In Him, the unseen becomes our home,
Through faith we see where angels roam.
No temporal veil can hide His face,
His cross our anchor, His heart our place.

O Christ, our hope, exquisite, true,
Your boundless grace comes shining through.
Eternal Lord, our eyes abide,
On You, the Life, the Crucified.

Just Imagine The Heavenly Splendours by Debbie Harris

01 Monday Sep 2025

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2 Corinthians 4:18 (KJV)

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Just imagine

the Heavenly

splendours we

cannot yet see!