Poems

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The forsaken garden

Virginia Thesiger

The mulberry tree has gone,and the swing where I swung,and the smooth green lawns that I knewwhen the years were young.
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Upward flight

Dorothy K. McCurdy

The startled water bird leapsSwift as thoughtFrom dreaming on the placid pondTo soaring, onward circling heights.

Audio Collection

Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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Poem

The Shepherd's arms

Sam L. Hornbeak

Seeing myself in the Shepherd's arms,no lamb more closely tended,I touch the hem of Christ's dear loveand fear's dark night is ended.

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Colloquy

Margaret M. Pinkham

God, I don't know where I'm going—I'm so lost!
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The cup and the wine

Karen Molenaar Terrell

Christ offers the cup and we take itwillingly, knowingthe wine would escape through our fingerswithout the cup to contain it—a cup shaped and deepened and polishedby life's daily challenge and victory.