This Same Jesus
by i.burgess on February 28, 2010
I found this poem in an old book, The kind that feel good to touch, and smell of old. Today on the road I met Him: The very same Jesus who trod The old, old lanes and highways On His beautiful errands for God I was troubled and heart-sick and weary With a load too [...]
Pick me, miss
by i.burgess on February 25, 2010
I’m a drain on the taxpayer. And by that I mean I am a full time student. I study at Cliff College and enjoy my time doing so. Much of my week is taken up with lectures, and the nature of being in a small institution means there is a great deal of interactive learning. [...]
Couch Mouse House – Responding to Jon Acuff
by i.burgess on February 24, 2010
I read this provoking article by Jon Acuff, a frankly brilliant writer whom you should all make certain to connect with. In it, he discusses how those with attachment disorders hoard rubbish. ‘Often, the people lose their kids in order to maintain their hoarding lifestyle. The trash is more important. The numbness that hoarding offers [...]
Near Death – a train-wreck
by i.burgess on February 23, 2010
Saturday I didn’t die. Granted, this is an assertion I can make about any day of the week, however this Saturday I can be more specific. I didn’t die in a train crash. Well, anyone who rides in a train and lives can make that claim. To clarify: I didn’t die when the train I [...]
Urban Evangelism
by i.burgess on February 21, 2010
This week, as you may have noticed, lacked any new writing from myself. This is not due to laziness. No, that’s a lie. It is partly due to laziness. Mostly it is due to the fact that I spent a few days in London. As a part of my course I had the challenging privilege [...]
Valentines Blessing
by i.burgess on February 14, 2010
It hurts me to write this. Really, I’d rather dip my face in burning acid than admit it, but one of the clearest and most blessed ways by which God reveals himself is by the union of man and woman. Marriage shows the perfect representation of the invisible God, as together man and woman are [...]
A field of TULIPs
by i.burgess on February 13, 2010
T for ‘Total Depravity’ U for ‘Unconditional Election’ L for ‘Limited Atonement’ I for ‘Irresistible Grace’ P for ‘Perseverance of the Saints’ This week has been a challenge, somewhat. It has featured what, for me, have been deeply personal, theological struggles. Struggles over how the Church should relate to other religious faiths and I got [...]
What if Starbucks was like your average Church?
by i.burgess on February 9, 2010
I came across this blog, which has an entertaining skit which raises the issue of how we ‘do church’ and what church looks like to those who aren’t really churchgoers. What do you think? ‘Coffee is good all the time/all the time Coffee is good’ Thoughts? Possibly Related Posts: Between reason and faith The Briefest [...]
Her Name was Veronica
by i.burgess on February 7, 2010
Today I met an elderly lady at a church I was preaching at. This is her story. As a younger woman, she was in hospital, ill, near death. Her husband was in the process of leaving her with three children to take care of. Her illness led to her becoming isolated, alone. After years of [...]
The God who redeems sin
by i.burgess on February 5, 2010
Today, I sinned. I sin every day, but today I was especially aware that I had committed sin, since it was a sin I know to be wrong. I was aware of the wrongness and evil of my actions throughout. Yet the action seemed so natural, so hard to not do. Everyone else does it, so why [...]
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