The Stranger Within Our Gates …. Kipling Updated

The Strangers within our gates
Strangers, they must remain
Lest God’s people become the aliens
And their inheritance wear iron chains
Lest alien gods become ascendant
And their children become our bane

The Strangers within our gates
Are now more than we can contain
As seen in the unrest witnessed
In the New Orleans’ hurt and slain
As seen in the growing replacement
That would end the the current reign

The Strangers within our gates
Propositions he may maintain
But absent from his chest and roots
Is the patria he cannot retain
His blood is cold to our ways
He’s sings the songs with his refrains

The Strangers within our gates
Is not uniquely the current bane
The traitor and the treasonous
Are voices that yet remain
Are voices that loudly support
The idea that were all the same

Imagine John Lennon Singing This — A New Church Hymn

Imagine there’s no “clergy”
It’s easy if you try
No banal observations
No longer hearing lies
Imagine all the people learnin’ for themselves
Ah, ah, ah-ah

Imagine there’s no Presbyteries
It isn’t hard to do
Nowhere to denounce or preen for
And no status climbing too
Imagine all the church livin’ life in peace
Yoo, hoo, oo-oo

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world might well be won

Imagine no egos

I wonder if you can
No market share to fight for
Brothers in Arms to a man
Imagine all God’s people conquerin’ the world
Yoo, hoo, oo-oo

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world might well be won

Multiculturalism Meets Law Enforcement

NYC Cops are now turbaned Sikhs
And in Dearborn they model Burqa Chic
In LA they’re playing in Mariachi Bands
While in Minneapolis Cops belong to the Somali Clans

We call it the multicultural Dance
Change your zip code, take your chance
We’re all one big happy nation
The United States of Aberration

And when this kaleidoscope music finally stops
When Heritage Americans need a friendly Cop
When fleeing peril or escaping plight
They better hope their Cop is White

Christ Has Come

After 2000 years the wait is done
The King is born, His reign begun
All Hail long-promised Mighty God
All Hail the Wielder of Father’s Rod

Competing Kingdoms are now over-run

Born sin’s penalty to assuage
Born to turn the Father’s rage
Born the Elect’s sin substitute
Born to tame the Dragon Brute

Kingdom come of God’s new Age

Fall and worship while you may
Kiss the Son or die in the way
Now is our time to repent
Our proper response to Christ’s Advent
Merry Christmas on this Festive Day

Christmas Poetry 2024

A promise to crush the dragon’s head
A Kinsman Redeemer to deliver my soul
The Passover becoming our living bread
A serpent hoisted high on a pole

Christmas in Scripture has Christ as the goal

A goat led away to remove all our sin
Another goat slaughtered so as to atone
Blood on the mercy seat sprinkled within
Prophets deserted and suffering alone
Christmas in Scripture is how Christ is known
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Smoking pots, and slain beasts lying in half
Sacrifices and Covenant and the promised seed
An ark which is Christ and a child named laugh
Priests in the Holy of Holies, standing to plead
Christmas in Scripture is our doctrine and creed