Poems

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When is harvesttime?

Marlène F. Johnson

"Let both grow together," the Master said,tares and wheat.
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Instant in season

Pearl Strachan Hurd

With listening ear and watchful eyethe Son of mantook no time outto program work, to measureor calculate the risk.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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Lesson books

Steven Alan Avey

They've been used—opened and reopened,and time and again looked at,browsed through, even run to!

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Stand fast

Rolf Witzsche

Having done all,the wise man stands.
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So is a healing

Cynthia Häfeli-Wells

A poem can be a feeling,a seeingof something vastcomplete in a nutshell—a universe of lightcaught in the flashof a precious stone.
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God is here!

Lucy Diana Lokken

Reflection's not a separate thing.

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Shared reflections

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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Changing your world

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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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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The right question

Genevieve Cannaday

It troubled me,that barren fig treecursed,withered,dead.
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What's good about God

Judith Ann Hardy

God gives me His knowingThat girds me with power,To guide all I doAnd guard me from harm.
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Imaging

Shirley Selby

Should another's callous emotionsangle on your face and subtly seektheir likeness to double evil's space;should distortions shape the surface, andcorners fill with hate—letlove, untainted, tranquil, reflect God'slikeness in their place.
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"I have called you friends"

Robert Simon Marcus

Infinitely more than a tribute,honorific, fraternal entitlement,or encircled association—this greeting of the Master.
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Let ages ring

Lee Reeder

Our Lord is One,The Psalmist sang,And with that songThe ages rang.
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"Give us this day ..."

June McCleneghan Fowler

Today I ask not for tomorrow's blessingNor pray that I will never more be tried—I only ask for daily inspirationAnd thank God it is even now supplied.