by revd | Jan 25, 2024 | Mission
Leave me alone with God as much as may be, as the tide draws the waters close in upon the shore, make me an island, set apart, alone with You, God, holy to You. Then, with the turning of the tide, prepare me to carry your presence to the busy world, beyond...
by revd | Jan 17, 2024 | Believers
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less; The times are winter, watch, a world undone; They waste, they wither worse; they as they run Or bring more or more blazon man’s distress, And I not help…. Hope holds to Christ the mind’s...
by revd | Jan 11, 2024 | Jesus Christ
Down to that littleness, down to all that Crying and hunger, all that tiny flesh And flickering spirit – down the great stars fall, Here the great kings bow. Here the farmer sees his fragile lambs, Here the wise man throws his books away. This manger is the universe’s...
by revd | Jan 4, 2024 | Church
You’re welcome until you’re homeless. Until you’re drugged up, or drug dealing. Welcome until you’re angry, or angsty, or anything other than sane…. Welcome until it’s harder to let you in than keep you out. Until the...
by revd | Dec 28, 2023 | Christ-likeness
… The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And...
