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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Lighten our darkness
Our church generation Out of his spacious, gracious splendour, They prized God and forced Him into their time; And they surrounded and hymned him, So that he all but disappeared Into their darkness. Ranier Maria Rilke (1875-1926).
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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Glory in the Silence
Was he baulked by silence? He kneeled long And saw love in a dark crown Of thorns blazing, and a winter tree Golden with fruit of a man’s body. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), Song at the Year’s Turning, 1955.
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
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A wedding has been
Elaenor Rigby picks up the rice in the church Where a wedding has been, Lives in a dream; Waits at the window, Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Who is it for? John Lennon (1940-80) and Paul McCartney (1942- ).
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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The Singing Christ
Who is this that comes in splendour, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ. Airy, in an airy manner in an airy parkland walking, Others take him by the hand, lead him, do the talking. But the Form, the airy One,...
Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
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Praying for Lucy
Come down, O Christ, and help me! Reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy Lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, Me heart is in some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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Choosing a pastor
They chose their pastors as they chose their horses for hard work. But the last one died sooner than they expected; nothing sinister, You understand, but just the natural breaking of the heart beneath a load unfit for horses, ‘Ay, he’s a good ‘un’, Job Davies had...
The Mission of God
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The purpose of a poem
… to save from death, decay and ruin the actual moment of vision and response, and keep in the real world…. Sophia De Mello Breyner (1919 -2004).
Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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Glory: Now and Then, Here and There
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Living in two worlds
I am the girl of two worlds, My heart belongs to here and there, Two worlds profoundly different, United in my highest regard. Do I live in or between these two worlds? I am the girl of two worlds. My heart is here when BAM! Disaster strikes there. Someone needs me,...