Read the full interview on the Agape Review website.
Concord-Dance 🎄
When God gave us Jesus – the One Who would save us – Heaven could not contain itself. Light spilled from a star, heralding His arrival. The earth burst into life. Birds called for revival. Morning Glories began to bloom in the night chill, and frightened shepherds trembled like sheep when angels awakened their sleep with song as light as snowflakes, as powerful as a Tsunami of harmony pouring onto earth at Jesus’ birth. Oh, praise Him!
From the book PRAISE! by Mary Harwell Sayler
New ESV study Bible
If you can read fairly small print (7.75-point font), the new ESV Concise Study Bible, which Crossway kindly gave me to review, provides an excellent, hardback edition to carry to your Bible discussion group as it features over 12,000 study notes, over a dozen articles on the scriptures and/or Christian life, and loads of maps within the text to keep you grounded in the biblical terrain.
This post on the Bible Reviewer blog tells more.
Sensing Christmas 🎄by Mary Sayler
Stop! Look. See the Christmas flowers blooming beside the pond – red stars with a small green sphere at the center – and a lone duck winters on the lake. Listen! Carolers make their way down the street, singing in the dark, and porch lights come on to greet them, and a light fog covers the earth with white gauze, and a lone duck winters on the lake. Feel the soft cotton against your arms as you slide between the sheets and pray your sleep tonight will not be hindered as, on the lake, a lone duck winters.
Mary Harwell Sayler began reading the Bible and writing poems in childhood and never stopped! Eventually, she placed over 2,500 poems, prayers, articles, and children’s stories as well as books in all genres, many of which can be found on Amazon. After collecting prayers and promises from the major translations of the Bible, she paraphrased them into contemporary English, and published the Book of Bible Prayers then Kneeling on the Promises of God. Mary also selected poems from her previously published works for A Gathering of Poems. She provides online help for poets and other communicators for Christ while remaining active on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and, gratefully, Agape Review.
Oh, Come! Let Us Celebrate 🎄
the birth of the Christ-Child Who rejoices at our rebirth. The Holy Infant Jesus – dependent on us for His care – shows us how we must come to Him like trusting children. Hold Him on your lap with love, and let Him hug you, heal you, and hum a lullaby.
From the book PRAISE! by Mary Harwell Sayler published today on Agape Review https://agapereview.com/2021/12/07/ohcomeletuscelebrate/
New Birth! 🎄
Adore, adore our coming Lord – the Greatness of Almighty God arriving in a newborn Child – a baby boy named Jesus, Who cries for you to hold Him close and cradles you like an infant.
From the book PRAISE! by Mary Harwell Sayler
Poetry and the new Agape Review
I’m blessed to be appointed (and, oh, I pray, anointed!) to join the Agape Review team as Poetry Editor for the journal.
This Christian-themed online literary journal accepts submissions for Christian-themed Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction, and there’s no submission fee! (For more info, visit www.agapereview.com/submissions.)
Before I begin my new position, Agape Review accepted these three poems: “Sorrows in Senryu,” “Tenterhooks,” and “The Woman Who Once Loved Paul: A Fiction.”
Thanks for reading and, hopefully, responding!
God bless.
Settling down with Jesus
The New Testament often encourages us to abide/ stay/ live in Christ. That decision is like deciding to get married and settling down with one person. May these previous posts help us to settle down with Jesus.
You’re Cordially Invited to the Reading of God’s Will
How To Go Around Imitating God
Do unto Yourself as you do unto Others
Kneeling on the promises of God
Mary Harwell Sayler 