PAROUSIA Magazine is calling for submissions for it 9th Issue to be published by December 2018 during the Christmas Celebration. The theme of this forthcoming Issue is The Christmas Cascade Issue. Isaiah 7:14 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give … Continue reading Call For Submission: CHRISTMAS CASCADE ISSUE #9 | PAROUSIA Magazine
The Scripture Treasure the scripture for it is the picture of your future Be nurtured by the scripture and be sure of a structured future Do otherwise and end up being tortured A creature made in the nature … Continue reading The Scripture by Olubunmi Austin | PAROUSIA Magazine
BETRAYAL We were in the garden of doom eleven of us with him. He said we should watch an hour, an hour that took eternity to elapse. Praying within boundary of wills, he poured libation of sweat and blood to … Continue reading Two Poems from Benjamin Elemide | PAROUSIA Magazine
God Doesn’t Make Sense God doesn’t make sense Who is he that honors is words than his name Yet, his words a spell to cast Earlier chants of prayer, his name beareth the master’s key Like your … Continue reading God Does Not Make Sense by Daniel Ajayi | PAROUSIA Magazine
For today Release me, God, one more time, from carrying these boulders of regret and guilt that I have created through thoughtless acts and blind inactions. They are part of my journey now, forged into my past with no … Continue reading Three Poems from Thalia Dunn | PAROUSIA Magazine
Souls are dying Youths are crying, Who would lead them across To calvary where lies the cross? Who would let them know They are cleansed white as snow Through the blood of the lamb Which made them a … Continue reading Two Poems from Olaitan Victor Olanrewaju | PAROUSIA Magazine
Making Melody A small mission church with motley voices Of people from here, from there, everywhere off-key, perhaps? but with enthusiastic flair! Together, we sang the way that rejoices. CDs and speakers carried the tune giving Sunday songbirds inspired guide … Continue reading Two Poems from by Victoria Crawford and George W. Ross | PAROUSIA Magazine
Hurrahing in Harvest Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies? I walk, I lift up, … Continue reading Hurrahing in Harvest | A Poem by Hopkins, Gerard Manle | PAROUSIA Magazine
Gideon Cecil captures both the heart and the ear in his romantic musings. In bold style Cecil re-establishes the territory of the masters in his rhythmic and rhyming pieces. Here is a book of poetry worth investigating.
– John Kaniecki Continue reading IMMORTAL LOVE SONGS by Gideon Cecil | Parousia Christian Poetry Chapbook No 2 | PAROUSIA Magazine
Morning Prayers Wearing tallit and praying shacharit with loving intent, my prayers become electronic donations to this messianic era, and allow me to shed the synthetic skin of ego and become the rhetoric of beauty. Life is noisy, but … Continue reading Morning Prayers by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
deliverance my sin is like yellow rain falling through broken trees but grace is like a seaward sky leaving me benign and pliable so that I become a calm clean river. Download Rick Davis’s Poetry Chapbook “WALKING” Continue reading deliverance by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
A Stone for the Garden He digs in the river bank searching right-sized rocks shaped for garden gate. Gray, black, white stones pile up. A last one is found, not square, jumbled colors, granite composite, … Continue reading Three Poems by Victoria Crawford on PAROUSIA Magazine
STEPHEN HAWKING: FORCED INTO CHRISTIAN GLORY “For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.” – Ps 699. There couldn’t be a better illustration for … Continue reading STEPHEN HAWKING: FORCED INTO CHRISTIAN GLORY By Mike Ekunno | PAROUSIA Magazine
Clutching Hope Whenever you feel like vanishing remember all those times you wanted to pause it all but your God kept sending one more breath your way. … Continue reading Two Poems by Ifunanya Angelique | PAROUSIA Magazine
Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles in all stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, … Continue reading Pied Beauty | A Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins | PAROUSIA Magazine
THE MYSTERY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Part 2 By Gideon Sampson Cecil The incredible bulk of Shakespeare’s plays and poems reveal that the author was a voracious reader citing over two hundred books, some of which were … Continue reading THE MYSTERY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Part 2 By Gideon Sampson Cecil | PAROUSIA Magazine
