Kenyon's Living Poems

Kenyon’s Living Poems is a collection of sacred and secular poems rhymes and musings that Dr. E. W. Kenyon (1867–1948) wrote through his life on various subjects.   Born in Saratoga County New York Kenyon’s earliest desire was to become an actor He attended the Emerson School of Oratory in Boston for one year in 1892. But in 1893 after a two-and-a-half-year crisis of faith Kenyon attended the services of Clarendon Street Baptist Church led by pastor A. J. Gordon. At this service Kenyon and his wife Evva rededicated their lives to the Lord. Later that year Kenyon joined the Free Will Baptists and became a pastor at a small church in Elmira New York. He pastored several churches in New England and founded the Bethel Bible Institute in Spencer Massachusetts. Kenyon served as an evangelist for over twenty years. In 1931 he became a pioneer in Christian radio on the Pacific Coast with his show Kenyon’s Church of the Air where he earned the moniker "The Faith Builder." He also began the New Covenant Baptist Church in Seattle. In addition to his pastoral and radio ministries Kenyon wrote extensively. Among his books are The Blood Covenant In His Presence Jesus the Healer New Creation Realities and Two Kinds of Righteousness.