Posts Tagged “love”
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 [...]
Couch Mouse House – Responding to Jon Acuff
by i.burgess on February 24, 2010
I read this provoking article by Jon Acuff, a frankly brilliant writer whom you should all make certain to connect with. In it, he discusses how those with attachment disorders hoard rubbish. ‘Often, the people lose their kids in order to maintain their hoarding lifestyle. The trash is more important. The numbness that hoarding offers [...]
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 [...]
Born again, again
by i.burgess on January 28, 2010
It happened again. You know, that thing. I don’t know what it is for you, but for me it’s always that one thing which seems to be the measure of my faith. If I do this thing, or don’t do that thing, then I know I’m a Christian. I know I’m saved. But I failed [...]
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 [...]
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