Poems by Robert Hawkins
poem count: 53 | pages: 6 | first place: 6 times | second place: 7 times | finalist: 41 times
Don't Grow Up to be Babies
Based on the scriptures from The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 23 • We are not meant to remain as children. Eph 4:14 • Stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. 1 Cor 14:20 • God wants us to grow up. Eph
Based on the scriptures from The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 23 • We are not meant to remain as children. Eph 4:14 • Stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. 1 Cor 14:20 • God wants us to grow up. Eph
Job 4 • You Reap What You Sow
This is the 2nd in a series of 40 poems I wrote based on the book of Job. This is from Job 4, Eliphaz's first response to Job. Open your Bible, read along and let me know your thoughts! [those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it • Job 4:8
This is the 2nd in a series of 40 poems I wrote based on the book of Job. This is from Job 4, Eliphaz's first response to Job. Open your Bible, read along and let me know your thoughts! [those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it • Job 4:8
Out With the Old, In With the New
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 22. For this is the secret: Christ lives in you. Colossians 1:27 Everything ... connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it! Ephesians 4:22
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 22. For this is the secret: Christ lives in you. Colossians 1:27 Everything ... connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it! Ephesians 4:22
Fighting for Harmony
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 21. Let there be real harmony so there won’t be divisions in the church. I plead with you to be of one mind, united in thought and purpose. 1 Corinthians 1:10
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 21. Let there be real harmony so there won’t be divisions in the church. I plead with you to be of one mind, united in thought and purpose. 1 Corinthians 1:10
Peacemaker
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 20. God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God. Mt 5:9 What causes fights and quarrels among you? You do not have, because you do not ask God. Ja 4:1-2
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 20. God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God. Mt 5:9 What causes fights and quarrels among you? You do not have, because you do not ask God. Ja 4:1-2
A Nurse's Prayer
This seems appropriate for our world today as we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic. Thank God for first responders! This was written in 1984 for my sister who had graduated from Nursing School. Technically, a newly-graduated nurse's prayer.
This seems appropriate for our world today as we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic. Thank God for first responders! This was written in 1984 for my sister who had graduated from Nursing School. Technically, a newly-graduated nurse's prayer.
Blessings for Obedience
Leviticus 26:1-13 speaks of God's blessings IF Israel obeys. "If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit." v3-4
Leviticus 26:1-13 speaks of God's blessings IF Israel obeys. "If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit." v3-4
Accord of Three Strands
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 18. Two are better than one, because together they can work effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up. A rope made of three cords is hard to break. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 18. Two are better than one, because together they can work effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up. A rope made of three cords is hard to break. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
The Art of Brotherly Love
Based on the scriptures found in "The Purpose-Driven Life" - Day 19. Starting with James 3:18 - You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other. . .
Based on the scriptures found in "The Purpose-Driven Life" - Day 19. Starting with James 3:18 - You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other. . .
