by revd | Sep 9, 2022 | Christ-likeness
History teaches us that we sometimes need saving from ourselves – from our recklessness, or our greed. God sent into the world a unique person – neither a philosopher nor a general – but a Saviour, with the power to forgive. Forgiveness lies...
by revd | Jul 4, 2022 | Believers
Though I believe the resurrection truth, that good triumphant in the end is known. Yet all of life seems twisted so by grief that joy and sorrow have together grown. So to endure is all that I can give. Enjoyment is a flash of rare delight. While only Christ...
by revd | May 5, 2022 | Jesus Christ
And God held in his hand a small globe. Look, he said. The son looked. Far off, as through water, he saw a scorched land of fierce colour. The light burned there; crusted buildings cast their shadows: a bright serpent, a river uncoiled itself, radiant with slime. On...
by revd | Jul 27, 2022 | Personal
There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! Emily Dickinson (1830-...
by revd | Sep 23, 2022 | Personal
My own conviction is that poetry is far the deepest in us, and that prose is only broken-down poetry; and likewise that to this our lives correspond…. As you will hear some people read poetry so that no mortal could tell it was poetry, so do some people read...