Archive for the “1 Corinthians” category
Yahweh: A God of grace
by i.burgess on April 18, 2013
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Cor. 5:17 The death and resurrection of Jesus changed the world. More specifically, it changed how humanity relates to God and to itself. In a bygone era, there was a complicated system of sacrifices, observances and rituals [...]
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 [...]
God doesn’t do ‘ordinary’
by i.burgess on August 11, 2010
Yesterday I was driving down the Shepton Mallat for a youth conference. Soul Survivor is one of the largest Christian youth conferences in the country with something near 25,000 young people attending one of three conferences back to back. I was driving down representing Scripture Union to promote their devotional and bible study resources. The [...]
And I will show you a still more excellent way
by i.burgess on December 2, 2009
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. If you’ve ever spent much time in Church or around Christians you might (Indeed hopefully) have noticed a major theme of what we’re about is love. Paul defines love for us in 1 Corinthians 13, which is often read [...]
