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Our own isolation— from COVID and one another
This is a section I cut out of this week’s sermon comparing the two main responses to COVID with what Jesus does in healing the lepers.
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The Virtue of Messy Thinking
Our bias against messiness isn’t just annoying. It’s dangerous. Because it makes us less likely to connect the dots we need to.
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Preaching Ideas — 2022
How am I adapting to the moment? More importantly, how is preaching adapting? It isn’t about time or tech. It’s consistency.
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Eventually is not a valid argument for now.
Just because my daughter will eventually get her driver’s license, that doesn’t mean she gets the keys to the car.
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There is no normal to return to
“Going back to normal” is a deeply pessimistic idea. And it represents a fatalism we cannot afford to encourage.
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Are We Willing?
As Jesus describes Jerusalem’s unwillingness to be gathered by him, we must confront our own fear of being gathered.
