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’s point of view
… All through history the great brush has not rested nor the paint dried; yet what that eye looking coolly, or, as we now, through the tears’ lenses, ever saw this work and it was not finished. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), Poetry for Supper, 1958.
The Bible: Bestowed Word of God
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Jesus Christ: Crucified God in Person
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Coming Soon
It is 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. I modernise the anachronism of my language, but...
Humankind: Sinful, Rebellious and Faithless
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Life’s illusions
I’ve looked at life from both sides now, From win and lose and still somehow It’s life’s illusions I recall; I really don’t know life at all. Joni Mitchell (1945 - ), 1967.
The Grace of God: Justifying and Converting
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Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
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Holy Spirit: in Christian Experience
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Believers: Assured, Called and Prayerful
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Live as I will
Lord, let me live as I will. I need a little wild freedom, A little giddiness of heart, the strange taste of unknown flowers… I love to bound to the heart of all thy marvels, Leaping your chasms and My mouth stuffed with intoxicating grasses; Quiver with an...
The Church: Provisional but Necessary
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The priest, these graces shall possess
Give me the priest, these graces shall possess: Of an Ambassador, the just address, A Father’s tenderness, a Shepherd’s care, A Leader’s courage which the cross can bear, A Ruler’s arm, a Watchman’s wakeful eye, A Pilot’s skill, the helm in storms to ply, A Fisher’s...
The Mission of God
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Moral Justice: a Vision of God’s Kingdom
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Glory: Now and Then, Here and There
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You will need it
Have you built your ship of death? O, have you? O, build your ship of death, for you will need it. D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), 1933.