Posts Tagged “Jesus”
After Easter
by i.burgess on April 5, 2010
Crying Eggs Tears and treats Sorrow and sweets What a messed up story, This spring festival This remembracne of battle fought And victory won This Hallmark Holiday, marketing campaign and sales booster Lord, Lord, Awaken our hearts and ignite our spirits That we would put to death all these worthless things, And see your everlasting glory Displayed [...]
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 [...]
This Same Jesus
by i.burgess on February 28, 2010
I found this poem in an old book, The kind that feel good to touch, and smell of old. Today on the road I met Him: The very same Jesus who trod The old, old lanes and highways On His beautiful errands for God I was troubled and heart-sick and weary With a load too [...]
Urban Evangelism
by i.burgess on February 21, 2010
This week, as you may have noticed, lacked any new writing from myself. This is not due to laziness. No, that’s a lie. It is partly due to laziness. Mostly it is due to the fact that I spent a few days in London. As a part of my course I had the challenging privilege [...]
Valentines Blessing
by i.burgess on February 14, 2010
It hurts me to write this. Really, I’d rather dip my face in burning acid than admit it, but one of the clearest and most blessed ways by which God reveals himself is by the union of man and woman. Marriage shows the perfect representation of the invisible God, as together man and woman are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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