Posts Tagged “kierkegaard”
Fear Not The Toilsome Path
by i.burgess on November 24, 2011
Come hither, all ye that have strayed and lost your way, whatever your error and sin may have been, whether it be one which in human eyes is more more pardonable and yet perhaps more dreadful, or one more dreadful in human eyes and yet perhaps more pardonable, one which was revealed here on earth, [...]
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 #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 #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 [...]
Thus Says the Lord part 2
by i.burgess on May 18, 2011
Beaten and rejected, threatened with death and accused of treason. This is the life of a prophet in ancient Israel. Over the past few days I have been thinking over the message and ministry of Jeremiah. I want to faithfully interpret God’s word in the book and allow him to speak into my present culture and [...]
Kierkegaard on discipleship
by i.burgess on May 17, 2011
…Loftiness is naturally an easy thing, and to feel oneself drawn to it is easy enough. But Christ who from on high draws all men to Himself does not take them out of the world where they live. and therefore to everyone who is drawn unto Him in the heights lowliness and humiliation come as [...]
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. [...]
Whether help or torment
by i.burgess on February 22, 2011
Whether help or torment, I will one thing only, I will belong to Christ, I will be a Christian! – Kierkegaard Whether help or torment. There is no doubt that in coming to Christ, one is helped. Jesus said himself, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink!” (John 7:37). It is a [...]
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