Posts Tagged “Church”
Sunken Ship (Friendship)
by i.burgess on March 11, 2013
I sat across from you and sipped a coffee. We drank a lot of coffee And you would laugh At the coffee I drank Over the spilled dark drink I’d spill out my bitter-dark heart And preach perfectly about the sins of men And never tell you mine. Oh how I dreamed of transparency But [...]
How to make the Church safe for Pedophiles.
by i.burgess on September 25, 2012
Yesterday I read this great article from Slate stating the plain reality of those who experience a romantic and/or sexual attraction to children. I recommend reading it, though not all of it is relevant to this discussion. For me, the subtitle was all I needed to read, but I suppose this is such an entrenched [...]
It’s a bit like this
by i.burgess on January 4, 2012
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may [...]
Blessed are the Merciful
by i.burgess on January 21, 2011
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Does this contradict the previous point, for what is mercy if not the mitigation of the expectation of righteousness? When I have heard teaching on God’s mercy, I have been told that is it the relenting of God from his own righteous indignation. In other words, [...]
The Exiled Church
by i.burgess on June 15, 2010
The Old Testament story is dominated by two national events. The Exodus was the salvation of God’s people from slavery in Egypt, bringing Israel into the promised land and making them distinct from all the other nations to be God’s holy people. The second national event is far less positive. The Exile dominates much of [...]
His Ways are Higher
by i.burgess on March 29, 2010
2000 years ago there lived a man by the name of Saul. Saul came from Tarsus, a town in Turkey. He was a smart man, well educated. He knew the philosophy of the Greeks, politics of the Romans but most of all he knew the law of God. He knew that there was only one [...]
What if Starbucks was like your average Church?
by i.burgess on February 9, 2010
I came across this blog, which has an entertaining skit which raises the issue of how we ‘do church’ and what church looks like to those who aren’t really churchgoers. What do you think? ‘Coffee is good all the time/all the time Coffee is good’ Thoughts? Possibly Related Posts: Stanley Hauerwas On Gay Marriage Sooner [...]
If I shall not be one with a woman, who shall I be one with?
by i.burgess on January 14, 2010
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (Gen 2:24) I was created with the desire to be with a woman. Adam, in the garden of Eden – even before sin seperated him from God – desired the company of another [...]
Kings, Pagans and the God-baby. Part 3
by i.burgess on December 30, 2009
13Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” 14And he rose and took the child and [...]
Kings, Pagans and the God-baby. Part 1
by i.burgess on December 28, 2009
1Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, 2saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” 3When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with [...]
