You Deserve It
Though our worship may bring us scorn, you deserve it. Though our songs of praise may stir a jeering response you deserve it. Though our love for you [...]
Wisdom
So many voices, so many signs, so many choices and opinions all promising wisdom and the life it brings. It's tempting to listen, tempting to try these well-marketed principles [...]
What God Requires
It is not great sacrifice that you require of us, God, filling your temple with slaughtered animals, or the overflowing rivers of our wealth; It is not laboured rituals [...]
Water To Wine
O Divine Lover, who constantly stirs the waters of our souls, unconcerned with the debris and dirt which has lain hidden in the depths for so long; who gently lights [...]
True Fasting
Keep us, O God, from dry, brittle religion, from rigid laws and cold judgements, from personal piety and aloof disinterest in the well-being of others. Teach us the way of [...]
Tough Transformation
It's not that we don't want to change, God, it's just that change is really hard; the challenges of the world threaten to overwhelm us, the struggles of living each [...]
The UnKing
We call you 'King', Jesus, but you're not like any king we've ever heard of; You don't flaunt your power, waving your hand dismissively to change the lives of [...]
The Healing Power Of Celebration
In the midst of grief we choose to celebrate, because it reminds us of hope, and brings comfort to our broken hearts; In the midst of poverty we choose [...]
The God Who Serves
Though you are God, with all the influence and status that the name implies, you refused to pull rank, and parade your power among us. Instead, you chose to [...]
Seeing The Signs
It would be much easier, Jesus, to ignore the hard truths around us: the widening gap between rich and poor, the consistency with which the powerful get their way, the [...]