Harry Wilson sets two passages side by side: Jesus says “come and see” to two disciples, and Mary’s household says it back to him at a grave. Between them sits…
God tells Jeremiah he was known before he was formed; Jeremiah says he is only a youth. Harry Wilson pairs that with the harder verse later in the book —…
Harry Wilson preaches Psalm 119 on God as an authoritative Father, which is neither authoritarian nor permissive. The psalm is relentlessly about law, and yet its verbs are all affection,…
Harry Wilson preaches the verse everyone can recite and the three that follow, which fewer can. The judgment John names is preference rather than ignorance, and belief, after C.S. Lewis,…
Two young readers open Youth Sunday with the hardest sentences in the Gospels. Harry Wilson watches the smiles turn to frowns, preaches it with his own mother and grandparents in…
Greater love has no one than this. Harry Wilson takes John 15 out of abstraction by way of his own mother, a single parent raising three children in small apartments,…