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Faith-shaping Poets
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Our Father: Hallowed on Earth as in Heaven
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Father’s Day
Then, kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," that thus they all shall meet in future days; there, ever bask in uncreated rays, no more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear; together...
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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Pilgrimage to Bardsey Island
There is an island there is no going to but in a small boat the way the saints went, travelling the gallery of the frightened faces of the long drowned, munching the gravel of its beaches. So I have gone up the salt lane to the building with the stone altar and the...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
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I wish I were a tree
Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me None of my books will show: I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree: For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just. George Herbert (1593-1633),...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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All Shall Be Well*
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown….  But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea….  And all shall be well and...
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. ...