Posts Tagged “Gospel”
Come Hither: Kierkegaard’s Gospel #5
by i.burgess on October 19, 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 [...]
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 do you mean, ‘saved by grace’?
by i.burgess on March 14, 2010
If you’ve been around church at all, you might have begun to pick up the language we use there. I like to call it ‘Christianese’, a strange tongue made of strange words and phrases no one else understands. “Cleansed by the Blood of the Lamb” “Washed by the Living Water” etc Preachers are the worst [...]
Her Name was Veronica
by i.burgess on February 7, 2010
Today I met an elderly lady at a church I was preaching at. This is her story. As a younger woman, she was in hospital, ill, near death. Her husband was in the process of leaving her with three children to take care of. Her illness led to her becoming isolated, alone. After years of [...]
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