Will Willimon makes big statements, and has the capacity with words to back those statements up. Introducing his book Leading With The Sermon, Willimon expands on his provocative opening statement. Preaching is the most important task of an ordained leader. Preaching is at the centre of pastoral work not only because in preaching a pastor …
Thanks to technology and the Presbytery of South-West Victoria we were able to view the induction service of my friend (and predecessor here in Mount Gambier) into the charge of Heywood-Portland. If cross-border travel was not restricted a contingent of us would have ventured over in person, so this is a good substitute.
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 …
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 …
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