Will Peterson
Will Peterson
William Jamesis a former American football cornerback. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the third round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Western Illinois...
jesus expectations engagement
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.
art imagination way
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
funeral stories records
The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
running trying lives-of-others
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
religious entrepreneur strategy
The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
faith religious pain
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
stories hospitality
Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
life christian biblical
If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
plot stories
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
light shining generous
You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
mother prayer real
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is savior. The reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. The reality is that baptism, not Myers-Briggs, defines who I am.
jobs people grace
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
spiritual companionship easier
It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
luxury numbers people
Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way...