Finding God at the cross

Finding God at the cross

Either I determine the place in which I find God, or I allow God to determine the place where he will be found. If it is I who say where God will be, I will always find there a God who in some way corresponds to me, is agreeable to me, fits in with my nature. But if...
Born to make us wild

Born to make us wild

A child is born, they cry, a child And he is Noble and not Mild (It is this child that makes them wild)…   All noble mild children are brought home To the wicked king who has cast them down And ground their bones on the heavy stone.   But the child that is Noble and...
Love nailed Jesus

Love nailed Jesus

O God, Nails would not have held your Son to the cross Had not love held him there. Make us truly thankful for his great love shown on the cross; And grant that it may fix and steady us In those situations and places Which we might happily desert.   After...
A new small-rented lease please

A new small-rented lease please

Having been tenant long to a rich Lord, Not thriving, I resolved to be bold, And make a suit unto him, to afford A new small-rented lease, and cancel the old. In heaven at his manor I him sought: They told me there, that he was lately gone About some land, which he...
Christ’s passion

Christ’s passion

And now, O Father, mindful of the love that bought us, once for all, on Calvary’s Tree, and having with us him that pleads above, we here present, we spread forth to thee that only Offering perfect in thine eyes, the one, true, pure, immortal Sacrifice. Look,...