Faithful preaching will do more than have people glad they were there to hear the sermon; additionally the people will be looking and going outward to serve the Gospel imperative. From Will Willimon: The great enemy of mission, in countless congregations, is the temptation to reduce the church to a conclave of friendly folks who …
Will Willimon borrows from Shakespeare’s King Lear as a profound illustration of the wreckage of old age lived as a season where responsibility is relinquished but control remains tightly grasped. The result is personal and relational wreckage. While the circumstance is tragic, the true tragedy is Lear’s character, the traits of which are not new, …
A réponse to a sermon that states it was just want the listener wanted to hear, can mean that the listener hasn’t really comprehended God’s Word. An encounter with the word of God that is truly heard evokes a response that it was just what the listener needed to hear. From Will Willimon: When the …
Growing older amplifies the reality that change is inescapable and control is something of an illusion. For disciples of Jesus it bids us recognise the difference between death and dying; that Jesus has overcome death, and that dying is only a shadow. It also bids us look to the one where certainty, comfort, and peace …
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