Poems and readings to reflect on and shape your faith
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Faith-shaping Poets
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Our Father: Hallowed on Earth as in Heaven
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God is Smart
… God is smart. Westerners have analysis. We have synthesis. Westerners have a strong sense of individualism. We have a strong sense of community. Because Westerners have a strong sense of the value of the individual, They are able to take personal initiatives. It’s...
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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Christ is the language in which we speak to God
Christ is the language in which we speak to God And also God, so that we speak in truth; He in us, we in him, speaking To one another, to him, the City of God. H. Sisson (1914-2003), The Usk, 1973.
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
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Never Wonder
When she was half-a-dozen years younger, Louisa had been overheard to begin a conversation with her brother one day by saying, ’Tom, I wonder’ – upon which Mr Gradgrind, who was the person overhearing, stepped forth into the light and said, ‘Louisa, never...
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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Get a glory
Oh you gotta get a glory! In the work you do, A Hallelujah chorus In the heart of you. Paint or tell a story, Sing or shovel coal, But you gotta get a glory Or the...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
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My bottom dollar
Two mites, two drops (yet all her house and land) Falls from a steady heart, though trembling hand. The others’ wanton wealth foams high and brave. The others cast away, she only gave. Richard Crashaw (1613-49), The Widow’s Mite.
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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Praying in a deserted church
In this great absence that is like a presence, that compels me to address it without hope of a reply. It is a room I enter from which someone has just gone, the vestibule for the arrival of one who has not yet come. R.S. Thomas...
The Mission of God
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Christ in the weakness of his power
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...
Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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Glory: Now and Then, Here and There
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Face to face
I pray you, merciful Jesus, that as you have graciously granted me joyfully to imbibe the words of your knowledge, so you will also, of your goodness, grant that I may come at length to you, the fount of all wisdom, and stand before your face for ever. ...