Will Willimon tells the story of his first Christmas in a new appointment serving a very small church, having received the news that his estranged black-sheep father has died in his memoir Accidental Preacher. His stories resonate with experiences of pastoral life, not in a self-serving or manipulative way that presents the pastoral role as …
Will Willimon’s memoir Accidental Preacher is an engaging collection of memories and observations. He tells the story, and the art of telling the story is as enjoyable as the stories themselves. In writing about the somewhat neglected concept of calling, he makes the observation that being a disciple of Jesus is not our idea. We …
Joe McKeever offers what he characterises as the ten hardest lessons that pastors learn. One picks up on a change that is not a simple adjustment of terms. Pastors used to think in terms of calling. Pastoring was a vocation, not a job, because it was something we were called to by God, not a …
There is something that can be anticipated when God’s people hear God’s Word preached. Gathering should be a time of expectancy that God’s Word will be explained, and part of that explanation will be how the portion of Scripture being preached upon should be applied in the lives of hearers. This is not the work …
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