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Faith-shaping Poets
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Our Father: Hallowed on Earth as in Heaven
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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...
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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I bet my life on Christ
…. I bet my life on beauty, truth, And love! Not abstract, but incarnate truth; Not beauty’s passing shadow, but its self, Its very self made flesh – love realized. I bet my life on Christ, Christ crucified. Behold your God! My soul cries out. He hangs, Serenely...
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
Lovely in eyes not His
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...
Not Waving but Drowning
Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning; I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he’s dead. It must have been too cold for him, his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was...
Traffickers in words
A brother came to Abba Theodore and spent three days begging him to say a word to him, but without getting a single reply. So, he went away aggrieved. Then the old man’s disciple asked him: ‘Abba, why did you not say a word to him? See how he has gone away aggrieved?’...
Halts by me that footfall
I fled him down the nights and down the days. I fled him down the arches of the years; I fled him down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and, in the midst of tears I hid from him, and under running laughter. Up vistaed slopes I sped; And shot precipitated, Adown...
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Grandfather
Grandfather sits and begins breakfast, Staring into is coffee cup…. He is a Calvinist to be sure, sound and wise if settled in his ways. He believes in hell, and firmly in damnation, but will not call it down. He sees himself growing out of this world: trying hard not...
Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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Let the voice of conscience be heard
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? ...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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Setting others free
Drained is love in making full; Bound in setting others free; Poor in making many rich; Weak in giving power to be. W.H. Vanstone (1923-99), Love’s Endeavour, Love’s Expense.
Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
Dangerous day dreaming
All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it is vanity; But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act with open eyes to make it possible. T.E. Lawrence (1888 –...
Explorers
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before or after, But a lifetime burning in every moment And not the lifetime of one man only, But of...
Quicken my dull-drooping spirit: grant it a crown
How do I spin my time away In caring how to get Ungodly wealth, and fret My self to sweat, As if thou, Lord, hadst meant this clay No after life, no reckoning day…. Quicken my dull-drooping spirit That it may praise thy name, Cleanse it from sin and blame, Take from...
An unaccustomed wine
I bring an unaccustomed wine To lips long parching next to mine, And summon them to drink…. And so I always bear the cup If, haply, mine may be the drop Some pilgrim thirst to slake, - If, haply, any say to me, “Unto the little, unto me,” When I at last...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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Bishops?
I admire the Bishops of the Church of England No man can be a Bishop of the Church of England And a fool. A man can be a Bishop of the Church of England And a knave. But Fortunately Few if any of the Bishops of the Church of England Are men of ill will. They do their...
The Mission of God
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A window through thy grace
LORD, how can man preach thy eternal word: He is a brittle crazy glass: Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford This glorious and transcendent place, To be a window, through thy grace. But when thou dost anneal in glass thy story, Making thy life to shine...
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...