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The Fire | The Love | the Move

Living the Word isn’t reserved for Sunday mornings — it’s meant to shape how we live at home, how we lead in the workplace, how we love our friends and family. Wherever we are, that’s where the Word is meant to be lived.

This is a place for those who want more than surface answers. Here, Scripture is lived, wrestled with, and allowed to speak into real, every-day life. In seasons of joy and in moments that feel like ashes, these words are written to steady, restore what has been worn down, and lead you back to the One who remains faithful. The Word says in Acts 17:28 “For in Him we live, and move, and have our being…” We are not just alive on Sundays or during church events… We live for Jesus every, single day, wherever we go, wherever we are, whatever we do, it is all for Him, through Him, if we choose to be His vessels – His Poetry on Fire – His living Psalm!

We are the Strauss family. A husband, wife, father, mother, daughter, leaders, and pastors with a deep conviction for truth and restoration. We write from lived experience, from seasons that have stretched and refined us, and from a desire to see people return to what is authentic and lasting in God. The heart is to strengthen, to restore, and to call people back to Jesus through words that carry weight and honesty. However, that is not where it stops. It is one thing to know the Bible…it is another thing the The Word. Jesus is the Word, and His Word calls us back to Him in Spirit and in Truth, in word, and action, in who we are, and who we choose to become…

Someone once summed them up like this: “Philip is the Fire, Marilé is the Love.” With years of experience in full-time ministry and in the marketplace, they live out what it means to walk with God in every space of life. And then there’s Noa, prophetic, gentle, kind, radical, their daughter – God’s heart walking on Earth – whose name means “Move of God” — the Fire, the Love, the Move.

Born of God

Poetry on Fire is born from the heart of God through a powerful encounter that changed everything. It is a call to wholeness, depth, and return – a place where words meet the sacred and the realness of daily life. No longer can we allow ourselves to only hear the Word, or only speak the Word – God is calling us to be DOERS of His Word.

“Don’t just listen to the Word of Truth and not respond to it, for that is the essence of self-deception. So always let his Word become like poetry written and fulfilled by your life!”

James 1:22 (TPT)