Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Sacrifice

  • assure our hearts…

    16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? Read more

  • …bearing our cross

    “We are too apt to rest in a bare profession of faith, and to think that this will save us; it is a cheap and easy religion to say, “We believe in the articles of the Christian faith;” but it is a great delusion to imagine that this is enough to bring us to heaven.” Read more

  • the Lamb of God…

    The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. …John1:29 ‘Behold’ by definition ‘…something that should not be neglected by the listener’…..I imagine the greatness of beholding the sight of Jesus. We can hold that image close to our hearts Read more