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Faith-shaping Poets
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Our Father: Hallowed on Earth as in Heaven
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Feeling the Cold?
I found Him not in world or sun, Or in eagle’s wing, or insect’s eye; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun:… A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason’s coldest part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up...
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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Where has he Gone?
Make no mistake If he rose at all It was as his body; If the cells’ dissolution did not reverse’ The molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the church will fall. It was not the flowers, Each soft Spring recurrent; It was not as his spirit in the mouths and...
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
Thou art smitten, thou God
Thou art smitten, thou God Thy death is upon thee, O Lord. And the love-song of earth as thou diest Resounds through the wind of her wings – Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the Master of things. A.C. Swinburne (1837-1909), Hymn of...
God’s Grandeur – Crushed
crushed…. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And,...
A nothing person
They do not lie; they just neglect to tell the truth. They do not take; they simply cannot bring themselves to give. They do not steal; they scavenge. They will not rock the boat; but did you ever see them pull an oar? They will not pull you down; they’ll simply let...
The little devil
He makes the dust to rise from the earth with his swagger; He adds his loud voice to every word that I utter; He is my own little self, my Lord, he knows no shame; But I am ashamed to come to thy door in his company. Rabindranath Tagore...
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Lord for ever mine
My God, how perfect are thy ways! But mine polluted are; Sin twines itself around my praise, And slides into my prayer. When I would speak what thou hast done To save me from my sin, I cannot make thy mercies known But self-applause creeps in. Divine desire, that holy...
Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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A face that makes simplicity a grace
Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art. They strike my eyes but not my heart. Ben Johnson (1573-1637).
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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My unburied spark
Cold in the dust this perished heart may lie, But that which warmed it once will never die! That spark unburied in its mortal frame With living light, eternal, and the same. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844).
Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
The worship of an hostage
My eyes are almost burned by what I see…. A brown broken bowl and in it some apricots, some small oranges, some nuts, cherries, a banana…. I cannot, I will not eat this fruit. I sit in quiet joy, so complete, beyond the meaning of joy. My soul finds its own...
Take a Holiday!
All shall be Amen and Alleluia. We shall rest and we shall see, We shall see and we shall know, We shall know and we shall love, We shall love and we shall praise. Behold our end which is no end. S. Augustine (354-430).
In case of fire what will I save?
And whereas I had said; letters and photos And seen myself muscling through the flames, You would go back especially for your houseplants – Those dreamy weeping figs, this stocky yucca – What’s worth remembering remembered, leaving Both hands free for carrying out the...
Captain aboard!
With thee on board, each sailor is a king, Nor I mere captain of my vessel then, But heir of earth and heaven, eternal child; Daring all truth, nor fearing anything; Mighty in love, the servant of all men; Resenting nothing, taking rage and blare Into the Godlike...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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Alone together
Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort Of feeling safe with a person, Having neither to weigh thoughts Nor measure words, But pour them out, just as they are, Chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand Will take and sift them, Keeping what is worth...
The Mission of God
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Good and bad fences
My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbours.’ Robert Frost (1874-1963), Mending Wall, 1914.
Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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Glory: Now and Then, Here and There
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Loved ones gone before
There’s a Friend for little children Above the bright blue sky. They are watching at the portal, They are waiting at the door, Waiting only for my coming, All the loved ones, gone before. Albert Midlane, Sacred Songs and Solos.