Praying with Kierkegaard
by i.burgess on February 26, 2011
O Lord Jesus Christ, there is so much to drag us back: empty pursuits, trivial pleasures, unworthy cares. There is so much to frighten us away: a pride too cowardly to submit to being helped, cowardly apprehensiveness which evades danger to its own destruction, anguish for sin which shuns holy cleansing as disease shuns medicine. [...]
Put your foot down!
by i.burgess on February 23, 2011
One of the most infuriating things about America, aside from the accent; the fact sales tax isn’t included in the price; the superior attitude and; the endless political bickering, is the road system. It’s like a child was employed as a civil engineer. For instance, several exits are also entrances. It’s difficult to describe, but bare with [...]
Whether help or torment
by i.burgess on February 22, 2011
Whether help or torment, I will one thing only, I will belong to Christ, I will be a Christian! – Kierkegaard Whether help or torment. There is no doubt that in coming to Christ, one is helped. Jesus said himself, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink!” (John 7:37). It is a [...]
Theology with the Son of God
by i.burgess on February 20, 2011
A professional religious leader, a respected scholar and thoughtful pastoral figure of society invites a controversial preacher to visit him. In the middle of the night. This tells us a number of things. Firstly, that the professional religious leader did not want anyone to know that he was meeting this man. Secondly, that if this man’s colleagues [...]
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