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Faith-shaping Poets
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Our Father: Hallowed on Earth as in Heaven
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Enthral me
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurped town to another due, Labour to admit you, but O, to...
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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Jesus of the Scars
If we have never sought, we seek Thee now; Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; We must have sight of thorn-pricks on Thy brow, We must have Thee, O Jesus of the Scars. The heavens frighten us; they are too calm; In all the universe we have no place....
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
Power must subserve wisdom
Power and Wisdom But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom? Vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties; not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command. John Milton (1608-74), Samson...
God’s hidden wisdom revealed
All is best, though we oft doubt What th’unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft he seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns, And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza...
The priceless pearl of wisdom
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters. William Cowper (1731 – 1800), The Task, Book III.
I am a stately palace
My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But he that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, then is Man? To whose creation All things are in decay. For man is ev’ry thing, And more…. Since then, my...
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Affluence or temperance
Imposter! Do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance. She, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare Temperance. If every just man...
Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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God knows what he’s about
When God wants to drill a man, And thrill a man, and skill a man, When God wants to mould a man To play the noblest part; When he yearns with all his heart To create so great and bold a man That all the world shall be amazed, Watch his methods, watch his ways; How...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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A birth, and our death?
… were we led all that way for Birth or death? There was a Birth certainly, We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. We returned to our places,...
Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
Becoming!
There’s a single destiny in this life – Not to be sailing ships or writing plays in a bustling Age of Discovery but to growing Self in selflessness. Never ego-ridden or glamorous, neither polemical nor persuasive, just becoming, so that the world won’t be lost. A...
The gift has been given
Be still my soul and steadfast. Earth and heaven both are still watching though time is draining from the clock and your walk, that was confident and quick, has become slow. So, be slow if you must, but let the heart still play its true part. Love as once you loved,...
I have become younger
What I loved in the beginning, I think, was mostly myself. Never mind that I had to, since somebody had to. That was many years ago. Since then I have gone out from my confinements, though with difficulty. I mean the ones that thought to rule my heart. I...
Twisted Religion
I have pretended long, in loyalty. I had a childhood hurt for five harsh years, I let it wound my good fragility And over decades I've shed many tears And sometimes wished that I were wholly free Of faith because it was to me all fears, Unhappiness and, yes,...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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The tree of life in the garden with Christ
Our Lord into his Garden comes, Well pleas’d to smell our poor Perfumes, And calls us to a feast divine, Sweeter than honey, milk or wine. Eat of the Tree of Life, my Friends, The Blessings that my Father sends; Your Taste shall all my dainties prove, And drink...
The Mission of God
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The call-out from our comfort
From our low seat beside the fire, Where we have dozed and dreamed And watched the glow Or raked the ashes, stopping so We scarcely saw the sun and rain above Or looked higher Than this same quiet red or burned out fire Tonight we heard a call. And so we cannot sit...
Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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We share our wound
Less passionate, the long war throws Its burning thorn about all men, Caught in one grief, we share one wound, And cry one dialect of pain. We have forgot who fired the house, Whose easy mischief spilt first blood; Under one roof we lie; The fault no longer...
Glory: Now and Then, Here and There
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I held your hand
I held your hand. The ancient bone beneath the flesh had been there since the dawn of time: you were an immemorial fact which none could cancel. Our staunch pact could not be broken. None could rinse away the rhyme and reason of that Elie beach with everything...