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One of the first Christian books that I purchased with my own money was Enemy at the Gate, by Joe Crews. I purchased it during my high school years, perhaps about the time I was a sophomore.

Enemy at the Gate is a hard-hitting book dealing with many of the most obvious problems afflicting the church today: diet, dress, entertainment, sexuality, and so on. It is actually the third and final part of a series, begun with Creeping Compromise and Reaping the Whirlwind. Since the concluding book was my introduction to the series, you could say I got hit full force. It really made an impression on me, and later I bought the prequels.

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Lately I’ve shared a few poems that have made an impression on me over the years. Although I like poetry as an art form very much, there are not many poems that have profoundly impacted me. Many poems, if not silly or comical in nature, tend to be either syrupy or vapid — equally unappealing possibilities — or else so high-brow as to be uninteresting. Good poets are like good authors of books and magazines, only rarer; it takes not only a good communicator, but an artist, to compose good poetry.

Of course many of the best poems are set to music sooner or later, and then are no longer thought of as poetry, but as lyrics. Certainly I have been moved by many songs. I am sure poetry would get a boost in the public imagination if it could be thought of as unaccompanied lyrics.

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