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Faith-shaping Poets
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Our Father: Hallowed on Earth as in Heaven
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Dayspring
At heaven's gate, at break of day, Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think of thee - and then my state (like the lark at break of day arising from sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate ; for thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, that...
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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It was himself he played
… I could see, too, the twitching of the fingers, Caught temporarily in art’s neurosis, As we sat there or warmly applauded This player who so beautifully suffered For each of us upon his instrument. So it must have been on Calvary In the fiercer light of the...
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
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Imagine: living is easy
Let me take you down, ‘cos I’m going to strawberry fields. Nothing is real and nothing to get hung up about. Strawberry fields for ever. Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see… John Lennon (1940-80), The Beatles, 1967.
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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Our love hath no decay
The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass Is elder by a year now than then it was, When thou and I first one another saw; All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday. Running, it never runs from...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
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Risky learning
I stepped from Plank to Plank, A slow and cautious way. The Stars about my head I felt, About my Feet the Sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch – This gave me that precarious Gait Some call Experience. Emily Dickinson...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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I knew it all, dividing tact from truth
I was the chapel pastor, the abrupt shadow staining the neutral fields, troubling the men who grew there with my glib dutiful praise of a fool’s world; a man ordained for ever to pick his way along the grass-strewn wall dividing tact from truth. I knew it all,...
The Mission of God
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I Am a Child of God
When a person acquainted with the music of God appears, one who is wise both in words and deeds (Luke 7:32)… then this person will produce the sound of the music of God, since he has learned from all this how to strike the chords at the appropriate time: now the...
Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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Glory: Now and Then, Here and There
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Nothing can die
In the book of the earth it is written: Nothing can die. In the book of the Sioux it is written: They have gone away into the earth to hide. Nothing will coax them out again But the people dancing. Mary Oliver (1935-2019), Ghosts, 2017. ...