Some helpful thoughts on pastoral leadership and the implementation of leadership vision from Justin Buzzard.

Have God-sized expectations of God, and human-sized expectations of humans.
If you can absorb this principle, then the Bible will make more sense to you, your church (and all other relationships) will make more sense to you, and you will make more sense to you. You’ll discover fresh freedom, and increasingly become a leader whose presence, prayers, dreams, decisions, and sobered disappointments bring new Life and growth to your church and city. You’ll find yourself enjoying God more, enjoying humans more, enjoying yourself more. Great things happen when we expect more from God, and when we expect human-sized outcomes from talented and maturing (but imperfect and moody) humans.

Read the whole post at Justin Buzzard – Risk Or Rust.

O Come, O Come Emmanuel.
Enya.
There’s even a bit of Latin.
What more could you want?

Lauren Daigle had a Christmas album out a year or two ago called Behold that has just had a special edition re-release.
One of the tracks is a pensive version of O Come, O Come Emmanuel.

The BBC are producing a “new adaptation of Watership Down [that] uses Richard Adams’ bestselling novel as its source to bring an innovative interpretation to the much loved classic”.
I’m not sure what that exactly means, but it looks like Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig and the others will be along.
It wouldn’t be the same without Art Garfunkel’s song, I wonder if it will be included or homaged somehow.
Here’s the trailer.