A final quote from Will Willimon’s book about preaching to confront racism. The soundness of his treatment is demonstrated in the applicability of what he is writing about to the breadth of human sin, while never diminishing the specific and important subject that is the focus of his book. He is not simply using a …
I really don’t like generational claims to exceptionalism, but if there’s an aspect of life that is unique to our age it is the scope and speed of change in society. Here’s a video about the locations of video rental change Blockbuster in the US between 1986 and 2019. If your attention span doesn’t extend …
Early on I observed that some people really seemed to take a form of pleasure from preaching that made them feel bad. It seems for a particular type of church goer (and even some genuine Christians) they didn’t differentiate between feeling bad and repentance. Feeling bad (in either a general or specific sense) appeared to …
This is the final pre-recorded video prepared for Mount Gambier Presbyterian Church during the COVID-19 shutdown. It is for the weekend of June 21, 2020. On July 5 we’ll meet for public worship, in a service that will be shared between two spaces in our building and live-streamed online. The live stream will remain on …
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