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Faith-shaping Poets
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Our Father: Hallowed on Earth as in Heaven
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Almost a Successful Failure
It was the first failure (Mons Officer Training Unit, Aldershot) I’d ever had, but it was salutary. I had begun my National Service as a committed Christian, a Conservative and, I’m sure, a prig. Now priggishness apart, I was none of these things quite, and though I...
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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My Jesus: God in man made visible
Earth cannot, with all its trinkets’ Slake my longings at this hour; They were captured, they were widened, When my Jesus showed his power. None but he can now content me, He, the Incomprehensible; O to gaze upon his Person, God in man made visible. Ann Griffiths...
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
She lost the parable
It was sex, sex, sex and money, money, God’s mistake and the devil’s creation, that took the mind of the congregation on long journeys into the hills of a strange land, where sin was the honey bright as sunlight in death’s hives. They lost the parable and found the...
A staircase for waiting in silence
Moments of great calm kneeling before an altar of wood in a stone church in summer, waiting for the God to speak: the air is a staircase for silence; the sun’s light ringing me, as though I acted a great role. And the audiences still; all the close throng of spirits...
What I do is Me
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves - goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings...
A guilty conscience
Strange fondness of the human heart, Enamoured of its harm! Strange world, that costs it so much smart, And still has power to charm. Whence has the world her magic power? Why deem we Death a foe? Recoil from weary life’s best hour, And covet longer woe? The cause...
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Come unto Me!
Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than he went through before. He that into his kingdom comes Must enter by that door. Come Lord when grace has made me meet Thy blessed face to see; For if thy work on earth be sweet, What will thy glory be? Then I shall end...
Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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My conscience speaks
My conscience umpire; whom if they will hear, Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting safe arrive. This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, They who neglect and scorn shall never taste; But be hardened, blind be blinded more, That...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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In despair is the music still playing?
O God, can a man find you when he lies with his face downwards And his nose in the rubble that was his achievement? Is the music playing behind the door of despair? Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67).
Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
Prayer: patch a few words together
It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another...
We have done it ourselves
Go in search of your people, Love them; Learn from them; Plan with them; Serve them; Begin with what they have; Build on what they know. But of the best leaders, When their task is accomplished, The people will all remark: ‘We have done it ourselves’. Lao Tsu...
Your Precious Life
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper…? I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been...
Silent Disapproval
The relation between us was silence; that and the feeling of each one being watched by the other... It had begun by my talking all of the time repeating the worn formulae of the churches in the belief that was prayer. Why does silence suggest disapproval? The...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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What life have you
What life have you if you have not life together? There is no life that is not in community, And not community not lived in praise of God. Even the anchorite who meditates alone, For whom the days and nights repeat the praise of God, Prays for the church, the body of...
The Mission of God
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Busy Bees
Prophets of a future not our own! The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, It is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction Of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work....
Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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Glory: Now and Then, Here and There
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Undressed for a Deeper Life, my Love
Well may this body poorer, feebler grow! It is undressing for its last sweet bed; But why should the soul, which death shall never know, Authority, and power, and memory shed? It is that love with absolute faith would wed: God takes the inmost garments off his child...