Learning to Read the Bible, Week 13: Roses Are Read, Violets Are Blue, Poetry is Hard, but It’s Worth It Too

<p><strong>Sermon:</strong> Roses Are Read, Violets Are Blue, Poetry is Hard, but It’s Worth It Too</p> <p><strong>Scripture:</strong> Psalm 29</p> <p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Rev. Dan Wunderlich</p> <p><strong>Description:</strong> Poetry can be hard to read and understand. Even seemingly simple poems, like the famous “roses are red…“, have much more going on below the surface than we often realize. But poetry, and especially biblical poetry, is so valuable precisely because it communicates in such a different and powerful way.</p> <p><strong>Sermon Series:</strong> Learning to Read the Bible</p> <p>Even if we accept that the Bible is not a textbook or moral instruction manual, we can still desire more clarity. For example, why are so many details in some of the stories either vague or missing completely? It turns out that this isn’t a mistake or just some cultural quirk of ancient literature, but it is an intentional tool of the biblical authors.</p>