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Table of Contents

 

Introduction

Gathering -  Andy Stinson

The Life Tide - John Bannister Tabb

The Journey- Andrea Mill

Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven - Henry Francis Lyte

Divine Warrior - Tami Zacharias

O for a thousand tongues to sing - John Wesley

Fear - Steven Quantick

The Dying Christian To His Soul - Alexander Pope

Shema- based on the Jewish prayer

PAX-  D.H. Lawrence

Creative Call-  Sam Isaacson

Fill The Earth With Praise - Isaac Watts

A Poem that Struck a Nerve - Brian D. McLaren

Requests - Digby Mackworth Dolben

Goldmine - Fran Brady

Christ My All in All-  John Mason

Here - Daniel Paul Gilbert

He fumbles at your soul - Emily Dickinson

Birds and Waves -David Russell

Antiphon - George Herbert

Poppies and Nebula - Trevor Thorn

I Am – Anon

A Father's Loss and Hope Found - Dave Wise

A Hymn to God the Father - John Donne

Come to the Table - Steve Page

Dark night of the soul - St John of the Cross

By Grace I Fall - Vanessa Johnston 

Take the World, but Give Me Jesus- Fanny Crosby

Grand Canyon - Nelize van Driel

Christ Has No Body - St Teresa of Avila

The Long Way Home - Alyssa Underwood

My song for today - St Therese Lisieux

Journey Through The Wilderness - Elizabeth Trondsen

When I survey the wondrous cross - Isaac Watts

Elixir - Naomi Jurczak

A Better Resurrection - Christina Rossetti

Sing praise - Robert Grayson

Litany To The Holy Spirit - Robert Herrick

Believe - Catherine Jarvis

If I could shut the gate against my thoughts - John Danyel

Vast God Grows - Mackenzie Dwyer

A Word to the Elect -  Anne Bronte

Sphere Fear - Linna Monteath

Found of Him That Sought Him Not -  John Charles Earle

Prayer of the connected - Linda Maxwell

Come Unto Me - George MacDonald

Seeds of Faith - Stephanie Malley

On Love - Kahlil Gibran

Song of the Sea - Tami Zacharias

Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah - William Williams

In my father's house - Pam Robinson

Thou lovely Source of true delight - Anne Steele

Desiccated - Justin Hoste

Jesus, I my cross have taken - Henry Francis Lyte

Breathe - Gracie Knoll

In the hours of pain and sorrow - Helen L Parmelee

Minor Miracles - MK Punky

Abide with me - Henry Francis Lyte

Prayer of Illumination - Brendon Ward

Holy, Holy Holy! Lord God Almighty! - Reginald Heber

Shield of faith- Anudeep Manne

Amazing grace - John Newton

Seeking - Dorinda MacDowell

Lord of the winds -  Mary Coleridge

Borrowed Breath - Ethan Hardin

The Spark -  Joseph Mary Plunkett

Fraction -  Jane Blanchard

Divine Ode - Joseph Addison

Father’s Words -  Cindy Norton

Last lines - Emily Bronte

On Gazing - Kelsey Lynn Sivertson

Easter - Edmund Spenser

Flowers after a wildfire - Sally Clark

Forgive Thy Brother - Annie Smith

Fearless - Anna Angell

Christ who knows all His sheep - Richard Baxter 

Gravity of Grace - Marion MacGregor White

Make me an instrument of your peace - St Francis of Assisi

When beggars pray - Mirjam Epie Bide

Holy Spirit, Truth divine - Samuel Longfellow

Insecure, you - Briana B. Lamberson

Easter Night -  Alice Meynell

Baptism -  Jaco Mostert

Peace - Henry Vaughan

In this house - Steven Quantick

Ecclesiastes - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Already given - Fran Brady 

In the bleak midwinter - Christina Rossetti

Worship - James Mellor  

Song of the Soul - Khalil Gibran

Recalled From the Brink - Jacques Boulet

Breathe on me, Breath of God -  Edwin Hatch

Manifesto for an International Church - Steve Page

On Another's Sorrow - William Blake

The Pit - Chloe Ross

Batter my heart, three-person'd God - John Donne

Beautiful, His Grace to me - Marybeth Mitcham

That Day of Wrath, That Dreadful Day - Thomas de Celano

Time to carry me - Cynthia Jean

To Find God - Robert Herrick

Weaving - Andy Stinson

Religious Musings –excerpt - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Awe - Daniel Paul Gilbert

O Christ come among men - Synesius of Cyrene

Single Thoughts - Naomi Jurczak

God Our Refuge - Richard Chenevix Trench

Kyrielle - Jane Blanchard

Discipline - George Herbert

A chagrin spirit - Briana B. Lamberson

Thy faithfulness, Lord - Charles Wesley

Easter Haiku - Sheila Donald 

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds - John Newton

Wrestling at Peniel - Alyssa Underwood

The Healer - George MacDonald

Heavenly Call - Lovely Ybanez

Peace Within - St. Teresa of Avila

Rock - Marisa Rosie

Give Me Strength - Ludwig van Beethoven

Atonement - Jane Blanchard

Almighty Maker of my frame! - Anne Steele

Warrior’s Prayer -Cindy Norton

Lord , it belongs not to my care - Richard Baxter

On closeness - Kelsey Lynn Sivertson

A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death - Isaac Watts

Not By Sight - Mike Wahl

Rescue the Perishing - Fanny Crosby

Come and rest here - Andrea Mill

One holy Church of God appears - Samuel Longfellow

Ancient - Ethan Hardin

A Prayer - Digby Mackworth Dolben

Everview - Mackenzie Dwyer

Initiation - Joseph Mary Plunkett

Please Hear What I'm Not Saying - Charles C Finn

Arise, my soul, arise - Charles Wesley

This must be the Love - Nelize van Driel

None Other Lamb - Christina Rossetti

At the Cross, Life Started - Carol Dee Meeks

A Hymn - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Perfect Blue Crazy Sky - Mirjam Epie Bide

Love divine, all loves excelling - Charles Wesley

In the Stillness - Jacques Boulet

From my lips in their defilement - St. John of Damascus

How deeply blessed that I should be - Marybeth Mitcham

Here is love, vast as the ocean - William Rees/ Williams

My streams. ..in your desert - Cynthia Jean

Eternal Father, strong to save - William Whiting

In the Presence - Andy Stinson

Before the Beginning - Christina Rossetti

Within the Shelter - Doreen Mellor 

During his Courtship - Charles Wesley

To Truth - Anna Angell

Christ's Restraint - Richard Chenevix Trench

The First Pentecost - Linna Monteath

I am Father - Saint John Chrysostom

The God Who Created The Cosmos - Trevor Thorn

Oh, Thou before whose radiant shrine - Felicia Hemans

New Tricks - Sally Clark

Immortal Love, Forever Full - John Greenleaf Whittier

Where is God? - Carmen VonTickner

Father of all! In every age - Alexander Pope

Forever - Jaco Mostert

The Divine Image - William Blake

Highlands - Ethan Hardin

Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Nation - Thomas Traherne 

Celtica Digitas - Marion MacGregor White

Jesus Prayer - from the Orthodox Tradition

A Salvation Prayer - Cindy Norton

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing - Robert Robinson

On Hunger - Kelsey Lynn Sivertson

I dared not hope that Thou wouldst deign to come - Edwin Hatch

Reflections in the wonderful morning - Briana B. Lamberson

Holy of Holies - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Holy Spirit’s Creed- Sheila Donald

Eternal Father, who didst all create - Robert Bridges

Earthed (a Christmas poem) - Jeremy Williams

What powerful Spirit lives within! - Thomas Traherne

Set Apart - Shirley Jean Davis

The Saviour Speaks – Anon

We Belong To You - Anudeep Manne

I see his blood upon the rose - Joseph Mary Plunkett

The River of Peace - Elizabeth Trondsen

The Rock of Salvation - Annie Smith

The Bells Of Christmas - Nancy Julien Kopp

He lives! the great Redeemer lives! - Anne Steele

Fratres (Brothers) - Daniel Paul Gilbert

Morning hymn - George MacDonald

Sing a New Song - Catherine Jarvis

A Hymn to Christ - John Donne

Free Heart - Gracie Knoll

Meditation on the “Our Father”- St Francis of Assisi

Fountainhead - Alyssa Underwood

Prayer for Absolution - Robert Herrick

Christ Love - Shirley Smothers

I Thirst for Love - St Therese Lisieux

Circus Act - Stephanie Malley

Good Friday - Digby Mackworth Dolben

Innermost - Fran Brady

Hymn of The Children - John Greenleaf Whittier

Monastery of the Ordinary - Daniel J Harris

God Our Help – Anon

Dreams Lie Here - Mackenzie Dwyer

Saviour of mankind, Man, Emmanuel! - George Sandys

The War is Over - Brendon Ward

God Be My Vision –adaptation from Gaelic 8th Century

Lord of Poetry - Steve Page

The night is come like to the day - Sir Thomas Browne

It is finished - Nelize van Driel

Forth in thy Name, O Lord, I go - Charles Wesley

A Spontaneous poem - Steven Quantick

May the Light of lights come - Traditional Celtic

Celtic Storm - Marisa Rosie

The Crucifixion - Alice Meynell

Sight - Chloe Ross

A Ballad of Trees and the Master - Sidney Lanier

Of Bridges, Then - Mike Wahl

Doxology - Thomas Ken

Biographies