Archive for the “Theology” category
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 [...]
Wineskins Part 2
by i.burgess on May 3, 2011
Yesterday’s discussion was very interesting with a variety of perspectives shared. Church staff who work for old Anglican parishes, young leaders serving in thriving new expressions and several with a very rich experience to discuss. My own experience is very varied. I presently work for a church plant in it’s infancy, but having previously been [...]
Wineskins Part 1
by i.burgess on May 2, 2011
This is part 1 of a series on church planting and young people, among other things. Follow the rest of the discussion here, here, here and here A few days ago I tweeted that I don’t believe in church planting. Naturally, a few people wanted me to explain myself, especially those who happen to be involved with [...]
Man is Made to Think, Deeply
by i.burgess on April 11, 2011
Man is obviously made to think. It is his whole dignity and whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. Now the order of thought is to begin with the self, and with it’s Author and its end. Now, of what does the world think? Never of this, but of dancing, [...]
The Incessant Need to Distract Ourselves
by i.burgess on April 7, 2011
How does it happen that this man, so distressed at the death of his wife and his only son, or who has some great lawsuit which annoys him, is not at this moment sad, and that he seems so free from all painful and disquieting thoughts? We need not wonder; for a ball has been [...]
God’s plan in the fall of man
by i.burgess on April 6, 2011
Yesterday I was at a loss at to what to blog on. A frequent complaint of bloggers. Unless you’re a Tumblr user, in which case original content is never an issue. Anyway, I was speaking with a friend when he presented me with this interesting statement: I posit that the Fall was intended: The whole [...]
God Wins: A blog post about heaven, hell and the fate of every person who ever lived
by i.burgess on March 20, 2011
Last week a book was published. Unremarkable, since every week thousands of books are published all over the world. But this book had Christians all over the internet screaming ‘heretic’ back and forth. Again, unremarkable. But get this: The accusations were flying BEFORE THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED! Now THAT is quite the stir. Like a [...]
He draws all men to himself
by i.burgess on March 8, 2011
I seem to have spent forever getting through Training in Christianity by Kierkegaard but I think it’s worthwhile. Definitely one of the toughest books I’ve read, though actually a little more readable than Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship. Why can’t all my favourite thinkers write in English? One of the things I’ve been enjoying about Kierkegaard is [...]
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. [...]
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