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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D Day: Lest we Forget
Lest we forget—lest we forget! If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe— Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! For heathen heart...
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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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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Search me, O God, and known my heart today
Search me, O God, and known my heart today; Try me, O Lord, and know my thoughts, I pray; See if there be some wicked way in me: Cleanse me from every sin and set me free. I praise you, Lord, for cleansing me from sin; Fulfil your word, and make me pure within;...
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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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,...