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Faith-shaping Poets
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Our Father: Hallowed on Earth as in Heaven
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Converted
'A wolf is not only turned into a sheep, but doth also take to himself a shepherd's nature. It is as if Christ should bring forth with his hand some angel sent from heaven.' John Calvin (1509-64), Commentary, (Acts 9:1-5).
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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I notice the sign and wonder why
Some of us run, some loiter; Some of us turn aside To erect the Calvary That is our signpost, arms Pointing in opposite directions To bring us in the end To the same place, so impossible Is it to escape love…. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), Mass for Hard Times,...
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
Stir a flower and trouble a star
All things by immortal power Near or far Hiddenly To each other linked are That thou canst not stir a flower Without troubling a star. Francis Thompson (1859-1907), The Mistress of Vision.
D Day: Lest we Forget
Lest we forget—lest we forget! If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe— Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! For heathen heart...
My heart unheedful has puffed up
Round me whirled a fiery zone And the recoil of my word’s airy ripple My heart unheedful has puffed up and blown. Therefore I cast myself before thee prone: Let cool hands on my burning brain and press From my weak heart the swelling emptiness. George MacDonald...
Human-kind
Know thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic’s pride, He hangs between; in...
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Prodigal Homecoming
I sense the excitement in his mind: The prodigal taking all that he had And moving out, a feeling of freedom in the air, Stretching the strings that held him back, Rejecting home Familiar, undervalued, And stepping out into the world…. Yet every new excitement...
Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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Member of the fellowship of the unashamed
I’m part of the fellowship of the unashamed, I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I’m a disciple of Jesus Christ. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, My future is secure. I’m...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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Within myself I lose, or win
Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves are triumph and defeat. Henry W. Longfellow (1807-82).
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...
No Turning Back
I have decided to follow Jesus. Though I wander, I still will follow ; The world behind me, The Cross before me. Though none go with me, Still will I follow. Will you decide now To follow Jesus? No turning back; No turning back. Sundar Singh (Sadhu),...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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Have I forgotten the church somewhere?
Sometimes a man rises from the supper table and goes outside. And he keeps on going because somewhere to the east there’s a church. His children bless his name as if he were dead. Another man stays at home until he dies, stays with plates and glasses. So, then...
The Mission of God
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Save your journeying soul
When your ship Long moored in the harbour, Gives you the illusion Of being a house; When your ship Begins to put down roots In the stagnant water by the quay: Put out to sea! Save your boat’s journeying soul, And your own pilgrim soul, Cost what it may. Dom...
Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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Riches are the Snare
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man’s cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue and abate her edge Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise. John Milton (1608-74), Paradise Regained.
Glory: Now and Then, Here and There
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His 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,...