William Willimon

What’s Your Motive In Ministry?

“My colleague, Stanley Hauerwas, was recently asked about the moral confusion of contemporary clergy. Hauerwas said something to the effect […]

“Informed imitation, that’s our goal. We don’t listen to the preaching of others so that we can be slavish imitators.

In one of his recent books, William Willimon, offers some sound counsel concerning preaching with the aid of a manuscript

“You and I, as preachers, are dealers in words. Words are all that we have to do any important work.

“Sometimes people say, “God? Oh, can’t say anything definitive about God. God is large, nebulous, and vague.” We wish. By

“Preachers must discipline their lives so that there is no time in the pastoral week when a sermon is not