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Faith-shaping Poets
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Our Father: Hallowed on Earth as in Heaven
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Waiting for Jesus
On the outskirts of Jerusalem the donkey waited. Not especially brave, or filled with understanding, he stood and waited. How horses, turned out into the meadow, leap with delight! How doves, released from their cages, clatter away, splashed with sunlight. But the...
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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The tree of salvation for me
Christ died for God and me Upon the crucifixion tree For God a spoken word For me a sword For God a hymn of praise For me eternal days For God an explanation For me salvation. Stevie Smith (1902-71),...
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
I despise myself and curse my fate
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes I all alone between my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising Haply I think...
In his own dungeon
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i’ the centre, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun; Himself his own dungeon. John Milton (1608-74), Comus (1637).
Life’s but a walking shadow
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,...
Leaving Eden
The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and providence their guide: They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. John Milton (1608-74), Paradise Lost.
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Deep repentance
Look on him whom they pierced, and mourn; Strike, mighty Grace, my flinty soul Till melting waters flow, And deep repentance drowns mine eyes In undissembled woe. Isaac Watts (1674-1748).
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
Ordination of the nail-pierced hands
Christ the Lord has sent me Through the midnight lands, Mine the ordination Of the nail-pierced hands. Hannah Hurnard (1905-90).
A good home for my heart
… As to my heart that may as well be forgotten or labelled; Owner will dispose of same to a good home: refs exchgd., h.& c., Previous experience desired but not essential, Or let on a short lease to suit convenience. Basil Bunting (1900-85), Personal...
We cannot sit here any more
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 much higher than this same quiet red and...
Success
I’m Whatever is foreseen in joy Must be lived out from day to day. Vision held open in the dark By our ten thousand days of work. Harvest will fill the barn; for that The hand must ache, the face must sweat. And yet no leaf or grain is filled By work of ours; the...
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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Buy me a home in a perfect hell
I would buy me a perfect island home, Sweet set in a southern sea, And there I would build me a paradise For the heart o’ my Love and me. I would plant me a perfect garden there, The one that my dream soul knows, And the years would flow as the petals grow, That...
Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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The First Anniversary
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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Build your ship of death
Have you built your ship of death? O, have you? O, build your ship of death, for you will need it. D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930).