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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
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...
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...
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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Ignorant of themselves, of God much more
The worldly wisest Alas! What can they teach, and not mislead, Ignorant of themselves, of God much more, And how the world began, and how man fell, Degraded by himself, on grace depending? Much of the soul they talk, but all awry; And in themselves seek virtue; and to...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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God’s latecomers
‘Like me,’ she said to them, ‘you were late in coming. The shepherds were here long before; even the cattle. They had joined the chorus of angels before you were on your way….’ ‘How laboriously you came, taking sights and calculating, whereas the shepherds had run...
Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
Restrained?
The fixed pew in Protestant church buildings has become a symbol of the gaol-like imprisonment of worshippers, so that, contrary to the Protestant insistence on liberty of conscience among individual believers they are finally restrained from taking liberties...
Sainted Glass
To one kneeling down no word came, Only the wind’s song, saddening the lips Of the grave saints, rigid in glass; Or the dry whisper of unseen wings, Bats not angels, in the high roof. Was he balked by silence? He kneeled long And saw love in a dark crown Of thorns...
Deliver us from cant
…He bids us love our enemies, And live in Christian peace, ‘Tis only he can order wars and woes that never cease. Vengeance is mine, I will repay; Beware! Thou shalt not kill: Behold the bloody fields of France, They are God’s holy will…. He is the unknown God...
First Love
You have broken my heart. I cannot stop thinking about you. I love you even though I have met you only once. Others may have given up on you not realizing your potential but I see something in you. You made me cry but you have helped me to realize what is important in...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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My holy places
For the blood of thy martyrs and saints shall enrich the earth, shall create holy places. For wherever a saint has dwelt, wherever a martyr has given his blood for the blood of Christ, there is holy ground, and the sanctity shall not depart from it though armies...
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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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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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...