Wm. Willimon again — What impress me is not just that the Samaritan stopped and cared, heck, I would have done that. It was the way he cared: extravagance and recklessness akin to a careless Sower slinging seed. Most of…

In my part of the world, ask folks, “Who’s a Christian?” and they will likely respond, ‘A Christian is somebody who has accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior so that when they die they go heaven.’ — That’s from…

“Only twelve sat at the table with Jesus,” says Will Willimon, “yet look at the harvest.” Not at lot to add to that. Unless it’s along the lines of something like, “So quit your complaining.”

Copied — “I want it to be useful,’ says former Sen. Ben Sasse, diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer last year at age 54. He has become “more reflective about the stupidity of some of the idol factories I used to…

“Our job is simply to join in Christ’s exuberant slinging of seed, not to be discouraged when his peculiar kingdom truth fails to take root or folks just don’t get Jesus’s jokes. “Go ahead, assistant server, sling that seed.” Wanna…

“Only a small potion of the whole town will be gathered at your church this coming Sunday…it’s a wonder anybody is there, considering all of Satan’s distractions, concerns, riches, and pleasures of life that make hearing the word so hard…

Where we were with Bishop William Willimon —- A woman was telling him about her daughter, who “went off to college, she left the faith. Says she doesn’t believe all this stuff and she’s not a Christian.” “Not a Christian…

Where we stopped yesterday — A woman was telling him about her daughter, who “went off to college, she left the faith. Says she doesn’t believe all this stuff and she’s not a Christian.” “Not a Christian yet,” Willimon corrected.”…

“Sadly,” a parent told Bishop William Willimon, “my daughter who grew up in this church, loved the youth group and all that, but when she went off to college, she left the faith. “Says she doesn’t believe all this stuff…

Wm. Willimon: “I asked a teacher of elementary school teachers what’s the most important characteristic for educators. She replied, ‘A good teacher must be in love with sowing the seed but doesn’t need to be around for the harvest.” Good…