One Breath From Eternity
by i.burgess on May 31, 2011
You have heard it said that you should live every day as if it’s your last, but I say unto you meet each moment as if it’s the only one you have. The past is an illusion, it exists only in our memories. Similarly the future is a myth, a product of our imaginations. This [...]
We only hope to live
by i.burgess on May 30, 2011
We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate the future as too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not think of [...]
Thus Says the Lord part 2
by i.burgess on May 18, 2011
Beaten and rejected, threatened with death and accused of treason. This is the life of a prophet in ancient Israel. Over the past few days I have been thinking over the message and ministry of Jeremiah. I want to faithfully interpret God’s word in the book and allow him to speak into my present culture and [...]
Kierkegaard on discipleship
by i.burgess on May 17, 2011
…Loftiness is naturally an easy thing, and to feel oneself drawn to it is easy enough. But Christ who from on high draws all men to Himself does not take them out of the world where they live. and therefore to everyone who is drawn unto Him in the heights lowliness and humiliation come as [...]
Hymn of the Ressurection
by i.burgess on May 15, 2011
Most Holy Lord, Receive our evening prayers, And grant to us Forgiveness of our sins. None else but you Has shown within this world, The Ressurection. ‘Go round Sion, you peoples, And encircle her, Give glory in him To Him who rose from the dead, Who is Himself our very God; For from the midst of [...]
Thus Says the Lord, Part 1
by i.burgess on May 11, 2011
This is the introduction to a discussion on the interpretation of the Biblical prophets in the church today. “For thus says the LORD: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous. There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you. All your lovers have forgotten you; they [...]
Wineskins Part 5
by i.burgess on May 10, 2011
This is the final part of a discussion on Church Planting. Go here for part 1 It’s Church, Jim, but not as we know it So said John Wesley who had traveled three hundred years into the future with his close friend, Jim, and walked into the nearest church. Last time I wrote celebrating the [...]
The Convert
by i.burgess on May 9, 2011
After one moment when I bowed my head And the whole world turned over and came upright, And I came out where the old road shone white, I walked the ways and heard what all men said, Forests of tongues, like autumn leaves unshed, Being not unlovable but strange and light; Old riddles and new [...]
Wineskins Part 4
by i.burgess on May 5, 2011
This is part four of a series discussing church planting, modern church movements and young people. See part 1 here Or, Why I Believe in the Church Historic. Question 62: What is the visible church? Answer: The visible church is a society made up of all such as in all ages and places of the [...]
Wineskins Part 3
by i.burgess on May 4, 2011
This is part three of a lively discussion on church planting. It started when I came out and admitted I don’t believe in church planting. Yesterday a commenter framed this discussion with the terms ‘appointed’ and ‘anointed’ That is to say, the traditional church could be guilty of trusting itself more than the leading of [...]
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