• 4 Minute Read Logos. Logos. Logos. For years, you were this companion on my computer that intimidated me. Truly. Then, just when I needed you, I started using your sermon tools and understanding your features. Eventually, you proved your value at a whole new level when I wrote my final paper for grad …
Jonathan Puddle: You are Enough [EP-133]
• < 1 Minute Read SUBSCRIBE VIA ITUNES | SPOTIFY | GOOGLE | STITCHER | AUDIBLE Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain is available right now. It is a manifesto about how the life of Jesus offers hope as it intersects with the real pain of the world and in our lives. Email Kurt feedback as well! In this episode, Kurt …
We Start with What’s Wrong, but God Starts with Goodness
• 4 Minute Read You’ve been told that human life is rooted in the story of Genesis 3; God says that your true identity is found in Genesis 1. Understandably, we often relate more to the Genesis 3 (“the fall”) part of the story. Look at your newsfeed. Look at your hurts. Look at …
Spiritual Formation and Death with Christiana Peterson
• < 1 Minute Read SUBSCRIBE VIA ITUNES | SPOTIFY | GOOGLE | STITCHER | AUDIBLE Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain is available right now. It is a manifesto about how the life of Jesus offers hope as it intersects with the real pain of the world and in our lives. Email Kurt feedback as well! In this episode, Kurt …
Favorite Spiritual Formation Bible! – The Abide Bible with Phil Collins
• < 1 Minute Read SUBSCRIBE VIA ITUNES | SPOTIFY | GOOGLE | STITCHER | AUDIBLE Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain is available right now. It is a manifesto about how the life of Jesus offers hope as it intersects with the real pain of the world and in our lives. Email Kurt feedback as well! In this episode, Kurt …
Back Surgery & Echoing Hope Book Clubs (I’ll join too)
• 3 Minute Read Hi Friends! First, thank you to all of you who have prayed for or supported me as I have recovered from spinal fusion surgery. It hasn’t been easy. I’ve had some complications that have slowed me down, but I’m definitely making progress. Things have been crazy….. I found out I …
4 Clichés about Suffering Christians Need to Stop Saying
• 7 Minute Read I recently released a book where I look at the topic of pain, joy, and Jesus. Writing Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain pushed me to reflect on the nature of suffering and how our narratives about God can sometimes create more harm than good. I’m …
Jesus’ Humanity: Hope for our Hurts [EP-130]
• < 1 Minute Read SUBSCRIBE VIA ITUNES | SPOTIFY | GOOGLE | STITCHER | AUDIBLE Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain launched into the world today. In this episode, Kurt reflects on the big ideas of the book and offers a few brief audio samples from the book. GIVE THE SHOW SOME LOVE 1) If you would be so …
Enneagram & 40 Days on Being a 3 with Sean Palmer [EP-129]
• < 1 Minute Read SUBSCRIBE VIA ITUNES | SPOTIFY | GOOGLE | STITCHER | AUDIBLE In this conversation, Kurt chats with Sean Palmer about his book, Forty Days on Being a 3. It is a series of formation books based on the numbering system of the Enneagram. He discusses the Enneagram as a whole and his particular number, enneagram 3. GIVE THE …
Brian Zahnd: “Divine Love has the Final Say”
• 3 Minute Read Hello friends! Today we get to hear from my friend Brian Zahnd. He’s been a huge influence over the years and I was honored to have him as the “Afterword” for Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain. “Does God hurt with us?” This is a deeply …
Scot McKnight: “I Grew Up Without Jesus the Person”
• 3 Minute Read Hello friends, Today I want to share Scot McKnight’s words from the forward of my book Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain. Not only was it an honor to have Scot write a foreword for me, but it reads like a good newsletter/blog post. So, here …
Let’s Stop Under-Humanizing Jesus
• 3 Minute Read Hi friends, Today I want to share something that is a major theme in Echoing Hope. In the church, although not in any “official sense,” we have an experiential tendency to minimize Jesus’ human nature. Let me explain…. Underhumanizing Jesus While overdeifying Jesus isn’t possible, since as a Christ follower …
Give Up Hopelessness for Lent
• 5 Minute Read Hello friends, It’s our first full season of Lent since the pandemic. Just think about it. Pandemic. That’s a term I used to categorize neatly for history books or “over there.” Never did I imagine that a full on pandemic would come upon us like this. I mean, aren’t we …
Your Humanity is not the Problem
• 3 Minute Read Hello friends, I wanted to riff on something I’ve been thinking about lately: Your humanity is not the problem. For a variety of reasons, many of us grew up with a narrative that said something like…. Your humanness is the sinful part of you Your humanness is something to overcome …
Becoming a Radiant Church with Tara Beth Leach [EP-128]
• 2 Minute Read Subscribe via iTunes | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | Audible Kurt Willems has a conversation with Tara Beth Leach about her important new book, Radiant Church: Restoring the Credibility of Our Witness. Here’s what Kurt said in his endorsement: “No doubt about it, Christianity has a bad reputation problem in the USA. But that is not how …