In gratitude for the Gospel unpacked and preached this morning at Blackhawk Ministries by my friend Josh Rang…
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“The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.”
The hungry sheep that crave the living Bread
Grow few, and lean, and feeble as can be,
When fed not Gospel, but philosophy;
Not Love’s eternal story, no, not this,
But apt allusion, keen analysis.
Discourse well framed—forgot as soon as heard—
Man’s thin dilution of the living Word.
O Preacher, leave the rhetorician’s arts;
Preach Christ, the Food of hungry human hearts;
Hold fast to science, history, or creed,
But preach the Answer to our human need,
That in this place, at least, it may be said
No hungry sheep looks up and is not fed.
… Robert Hammond Adams (1883-1975)
