Twenty years or more ago I talked with a Christian lady who mentioned that Psalm 90’s poetical expression ‘The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble,’ reflected her experience of life was teaching her what the ‘toil and trouble’ those who …
A lot of churches are used to discomfort on Sunday mornings. But it’s usually their pews causing the pain. It should be the word that unsettles you. From Will Willimon: In preaching, you’ll know it’s not the gospel if it purports to offer a formula for living with and loving Jesus without discomfort. In the …
Don’t rush through a book by Will Willimon. (Even though he seems to produce a lot in print, especially lately) That way you delay the feeling of mild sadness that there’s no more left when you finish reading. From Leading With The Sermon, Willimon provides another proposal about how disciples of Jesus can train themselves …
2020 is a year which is being consciously experienced as a season of deferred or cancelled plans. This does not mean that our lives are on hold, waiting for a return to normal before we can start our lives again. Rather we are living right now, albeit in ways that we had not anticipated or …
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