Poetry & Verse

The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer.

Poems to Help You Pray can be used for both private and public devotion.

'Hymns are prayers in our pockets,' writes Pam Rhodes, expressing how hymns help us to respond to God.

In this exciting and beautiful spiritual evocation of Iona, we find inspiring photography, brand new poems, tales recounting legends, local stories and Celtic passages from Adamnan - but there is much more to this wonderful book than a simple description of its elements can capture. It is a work of poetic, spiritual beauty.

Words of Comfort for Women offers you ninety inspiring devotional readings that will remind you of God's presence in your life during challenging times and help you see your world from a positive perspective.

Malcolm Guite's eagerly awaited second poetry collection 'The Singing Bowl' takes is name from the breathtakingly beautiful opening poem, a sonnet which connects poetry and prayer.

These striking and memorable poems are contemporary reworkings of an ancient collection of poetic texts, the Psalms. The Psalms are noted as much for their raw honesty as for their beauty and depth. No human experience or emotion is considered off-limits and the writers rage at God for life's incomprehensible cruelty as freely as they exult in life's blessings.

In a series of fifty beautifully crafted reflections, with characteristic wit, Mark Oakley traverses the landscape of the Christian year, with its oases of celebration, its desert stretches of emptiness, its days of abundance and seasons of lament, and its affirmation of the ordinary and the everyday.

These 60 devotions reveal that we are not alone in our temptations and trials. The Lord feels our pain and is right there with us. Based on the book of Job there are scripture readings for each day a 'notes for growth' section.

In a series of over 100 Bible reflections - and some poems - the theme of this hope is explored in different ways, from the yearning of the Psalmist to walking the gentle journey of the Good Shepherd's leading.

This is a spiritual diary of that journey, comprising reflections, prayer poems and evocative images from the road and poetry which Stephen Cottrell has written for many years. Arranged in four sections, each with seven paired reflections and poems, the shape of the book echoes the rhythm of walking and is an intimate and honest account of the profound effect of the age-old tradition of going on pilgrimage.

In this inspiring meditative collection, Linda Ottewell has chosen an extract from a Psalm as a springboard for her thoughts and ideas, which are presented as a short reflection and then rounded off with a prayer or poem, a verse or two from Scripture, or part of a well-loved hymn. It’s a book to dip into when you have a few minutes. You’ll find a variety of themes, including upbeat praise and worship, crying out to God for help in times of trouble, admitting doubts and fears, expressing an intense longing for God, and confessing sins.

Compact and concise, Carolyn Larsen's Words of Comfort for Women and Words of Hope for Women each offer you 90 inspiring devotional readings that will help you remember God's presence in your days and see your world from a positive perspective.

Addresses the desire to explore and retain the heightened awareness and insight that comes to us when confronted by the death of someone we know. Bring us, Lord our God, at our last awakening, into the house and gate of heaven . . John Donne's prayer speaks of the hope and promise of a life with God that embraces us beyond death as well as during our time on earth. However, people of faith are

Spoken Worship is written with the conviction that the spoken word has a unique power - power to reach into the heart, power to transport ust to where we could not otherwise go and transform us into what we would not otherwise become.

Humans are relational, emotional beings--and nothing reveals this more beautifully than the book of Psalms. As the psalmists pour out their hearts to God, they uncover the multifaceted character of the Lord almighty and reveal his grace-filled plans

This psalms devotional will give women a language to cry out to God to help them process their feelings, as well as help them to grow in their faith.

These draw together everyday events and encounters, landscape, journeys, poetry, stories, memory and a sense of the sacred, and fuses them to create richly satisfying portraits of the familiar that at the same time opens a doorway in to a new and enchanted world.

Each devotional begins with Scripture, includes a story about the hymn or its writer and the lyrics to the hymn, and ends with a prayer. An index of hymn titles and first lines is included. What better way to end your devotional reading than with a song in your heart?

The Cross. It's at the heart of the Christian faith, integral to a life of joy, and woven throughout Max Lucado's books. Take time to browse over the inspirational teaxt and images in this beautiful book.