I don’t have much to say on this one. Any pastor can relate to the existence of “drifters.” People in a hopeless search for a perfect community in which they don’t have to feel any tension. Unfortunately for drifters, the tension 1 we feel in community is partly how the Holy Spirit leads us into…
Author: Wes Allen
Wes got back in to Role Playing Games during the pandemic and it’s blown up into a wonderful mid-life crisis. He runs the DM Tales YouTube channel and website, GMs two campaigns, and plays online in another with some old friends. His “day job” is a Baptist Pastor in Philadelphia’s Jersey suburbs.
Unpacking The Aftermath
Originally, Will was supposed to wake up in Boarsblemish after the fight on the road. But I felt there needed to be a more immediate resolution to that encounter, and thus “The Aftermath” came to be. Let’s unpack. Will’s Fever Will doesn’t know it, but when he confronted the Lawyers he was running a fever…
Fiction Tuesday – The Aftermath
Today’s blog continues my long-neglected satirical fantasy, In The Land of the Penny Gnomes Will jolted awake when transport in which he’d been laid hit a deep gash in the dirt road. “What? What’s going on?” He sat up quickly, narrowly missing hitting his head on the transport’s ceiling. “Easy, Will,” Sindy’s voice soothed. “It’s…
Falling into Goodness
Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, and many Western Christians are wondering how they will mark this holy season 1. In light of the impending season, Accordance Bible Software is making several Lenten devotionals available through their store. As a way of highlighting these resources I was offered a gratis copy 2 of Falling into…
When sermons go, “Bleck!”
This has been a tough week for my sermon-writing. Thursday I wrote my first draft on the passage for the week and didn’t feel right about it. I chewed on it overnight and decided to re-write it on Friday, and I absolutely hated it. I felt the kind of visceral, “This must never be seen…
