Archive for the “Spirituality” category
Come Hither: Kierkegaard’s Gospel #4
by i.burgess on October 4, 2011
Come hither to me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. Over the next few days I’m going to be exploring Søren Kierkegaard’s exposition of the above verse as he writes in the opening chapter of his book Training in Christianity. While perhaps I wouldn’t read scripture in the same [...]
Come Hither: Kierkegaard’s Gospel #3
by i.burgess on October 3, 2011
Come hither to me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. Over the next few days I’m going to be exploring Søren Kierkegaard’s exposition of the above verse as he writes in the opening chapter of his book Training in Christianity. While perhaps I wouldn’t read scripture in the same [...]
Come Hither: Kierkegaard’s Gospel #2
by i.burgess on October 1, 2011
Come hither to me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. Over the next few days I’m going to be exploring Søren Kierkegaard’s exposition of the above verse as he writes in the opening chapter of his book Training in Christianity. While perhaps I wouldn’t read scripture in the same [...]
Come Hither! Kierkegaard’s Gospel #1
by i.burgess on September 30, 2011
Come hither to me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. Over the next few days I’m going to be exploring Søren Kierkegaard’s exposition of the above verse as he writes in the opening chapter of his book Training in Christianity. While perhaps I wouldn’t read scripture in the [...]
Ach Bleib Mit Deiner Gnade
by i.burgess on June 27, 2011
Abide with grace unbounded, Lord Jesus, with us still, That Satan’s craft confounded May no more work us ill. Abide with us, dear Saviour, Both with us and in Thy Word: To us both now and forever Thy saving health afford. Abide with all Thy brightness, Thou brightest Light of all; And lest we stray [...]
Room with a Sidewalk View
by i.burgess on June 6, 2011
When your Son Jesus Christ lived among us as an ordinary man, he shared the loves, the joys and the sadness of family life. He knew what it was to work hard, and when he left his home and his family to do work he chose to live as one who had nowhere to lay [...]
The Work of Joy
by i.burgess on June 3, 2011
If God grants his Holy Spirit freely by grace through faith, such that anyone who believes in Jesus and is therefore made pure by his sacrifice can be filled with his presence, why do Christians not continually feel the secure joy of that presence? To put it another way, why does it appear that a Christian must [...]
Praying to will one thing
by i.burgess on June 2, 2011
This week I’ve been thinking about how the desire to know joy and happiness and fullness of life can only find it’s present fulfilment in God. Remembered joy is a faded photograph and anticipated happiness is a vapourous dream. Kierkegaard found God in Christ to be that perfect thing around whom all of life must be oriented. [...]
The end of the matter
by i.burgess on June 1, 2011
Yesterday I tried to draw out some of the harsh realities of our existence, namely that only this present moment exists. Therefore, any memory of happiness or hope for joy is imaginary, a shadow even. I noticed how we fail to fulfil our innate desire for joy because we believe we have either already been as happy [...]
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 [...]
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