General (Vol. 3)

Article Sections

Contents

  1. Unblemished Lamb
  2. God's Music
  3. Judgement
  4. Praise to the Trinity
  5. Living and Speaking
  6. When Iseael Wept
  7. Source of Sacred Light
  8. Jesus is Living in Everyone
  9. Year End
  10. The Turbulent Day
  11. The Softest Touch
  12. Children of God
  13. Following Jesus
  14. Lord of All
  15. The Word Made Flesh
  16. O Light, O Word, O Flesh
  17. Living Trinity
  18. Holy Family
  19. Peace
  20. Poor But Rich
  21. Courage, My Soul
  22. Clear as the Starry Skies
  23. A New Start
  24. I Want to Walk With You
  25. Success and Failure
  26. The Bridge of Love
  27. The Holy Catholic Church
  28. The Trinity In History
  29. Home and Away
  30. O Light Beyond
  31. Faith in Uncertainty
  32. Hymn for the Abandoned
  33. The Sacramental Church
  34. Comfort in the Lord
  35. Together in God
  36. There is Love
  37. Stretch Out
  38. For the Troubled
  39. Jesus Our Saviour
  40. Sacred Paradox
  41. On Hearing Rowan Cantuar's Installation Address
  42. Justification
  43. Symbiosis
  44. Child
  45. Infinite
  46. The Clouds of War
  47. Tribute
  48. Returnings
  49. Towering Peaks
  50. The Kingdom

The Kingdom

Part i.

 

  1. If all my life is given to Thee
    With all my love combined,
    Then I look for the liberty
    Of being with Thee confined:
    I cannot think that I have done
    Or failed to do Your Word
    Such that I never see the throne
    Of my true, loving Lord.
  2. No music that will ever thrill
    As much as Thy address,
    No earthly fond imaginings
    That humans can express
    But the sublimity of love
    Without a selfish end,
    Unlimited its power to move,
    Encourage and amend.
  3. How great must be that love divine
    Unclouded by our art
    When, though we feel it faintly here,
    It warms the saddest heart:
    The Spirit's comfort augurs bliss
    When I am at Your side,
    Now favoured with Thy greeting kiss
    And bound to be Thy bride.

Part ii.

  1. We in triumph do not triumph:
    Heaven eschews the pomp of earth;
    Bow in tribute as you enter
    To The Cross of all our worth.
  2. We have failed so long and deeply
    How can we succumb to pride?
    All our puny acts of loving
    Cannot bring us to His side.
  3. Yet, without them we are empty,
    We were given that we might give
    Not as payments towards heaven
    But to be Him as we live.
  4. Jesus is the supreme triumph,
    His the glory of the Son
    Of the Father, with the Spirit,
    Radiant Godhead, three in one.

Part iii.

  1. To be with God,
    The end of our beginning,
    Why we were made
    And where we hope to be;
    Not like a prize
    We live our lives for winning;
    Ours are small deeds
    And great God's clemency:
    How would death be
    For sinners one and all
    If He will not
    Revive us when we fall?
  2. Long are the days
    Of doubt and desolation,
    Longer the nights
    When God cannot be found,
    Deep is the hurt
    Of good intentions broken,
    Shameful the pain
    Of self inflicted wounds:
    Yet it is we
    Who cast Our Lord aside;
    Our self destruction
    Emanates from pride.
  3. When it is hardest
    Prayer is strangely potent,
    When most assaulted
    Faith gives strength to live;
    Hope is revived
    In those with humble yearnings,
    Love for itself
    Gives us more than we give:
    God would not promise
    What we cannot keep;
    Both lamb and shepherd
    He will save His sheep.