Erik+ 🚢⚓️

Podcasting, priesting, woodworking, spiritual directing, writing | Husband / father of 3 and generally trying to create for the good of others.

[Erik+ 🚢⚓️ @erikwillits]

@esaumccaulley Celtics! Might be a rough year but w/our GM we’ll be back on top soon! And we’ve got the best coach in the game. When asked if he noticed the royal family at the game he said, “Who. The only royal family I know is Jesus, Mary and Joseph!” 🤣 Come on! Who can compete with that!

[Jason Harmon @JasonHarmonNFL]

Live look at the Aaron Rodgers situation:

[Erik+ 🚢⚓️ @erikwillits]

@LukeBraunNFL at the game today! Feels like a Vikings home game in Nashville! Making up for a couple of those games in Minnesota. #everydayer

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

10 pastoral lessons I’ve (re)learned since 2020.

[FHS Admirals XC/Track @wcsFHScc]

Great showing by the FHS XC teams at a hot and humid Coleman Midgett Invite. The boy's JV led the way with a third-place team finish. Nils Hurst (BV), Mary Beth McKnight (GV), Gavin Mitchell (BJV), and Jack Willits (BJV) all earned top 10 finishes. @wcsFHSsports

[Peter Leithart @PLeithart]

How do you know God loves you?

Don’t stare inward, into the abyss. Turn to Jesus, which is to say, turn to Him as He offers Himself at His table.

It’s visible, in front of you every Lord’s day. You can taste the bread and smell the wine. It's the table of Jesus, the table of the Father’s love. And you are here.

The Father claimed you in baptism: This one is Mine! Every week, He feeds you.

What more can He do than what He has done? What more can He say than what He’s said? Trust Him, taste Him; relax, rejoice.

[Erik+ 🚢⚓️ @erikwillits]

Check out my latest...
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[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

@gpackiam @SHoddeMiller @chuckdegroat Thanks for joining us, Chuck!

[Erik+ 🚢⚓️ @erikwillits]

I've got my copy! Can't wait to read it! If you haven't picked up @esaumccaulley new book / memoir, How Far to the Promise Land, grab it!!!

[Erik+ 🚢⚓️ @erikwillits]

If you haven't heard of a commonplace book before, check out this post! #commonplace
Getting my Substack dialed in. We're getting there... Here's a post from a section of the stack that I think will be easy to engage and inspiring!
— https://t.co/CkPpvTYyQr

[Erik+ 🚢⚓️ @erikwillits]

The best that can be said of any ordinary Christian is not that he has attained to this or that height of sanctity, but that he is becoming, through discipline, more and more one with the will of God.
-F.P. Hatton, The Elements of the Spirit Life #commonplace

[Erik+ 🚢⚓️ @erikwillits]

Let me know Thee, O Lord, who knows me: let me know Thee, as I am know. Power of my soul, enter into it, and fit it for Thee.. this is my hope. - St. Augustine
#commonplace

[Erik+ 🚢⚓️ @erikwillits]

TRUE!!!

[W. David O. Taylor @wdavidotaylor]

One of the things I love about being a priest is that my priesthood is grounded in my call to the diaconate.

I don’t ever “graduate” from being a deacon of the church. Nor does my service = “only cool stuff.”

Boring, menial service is what defines and secures my priestly work.

[Erik+ 🚢⚓️ @erikwillits]

This series is great! And I bet this will one of the best!!! #liturgicalendar #Christmas

[Erik+ 🚢⚓️ @erikwillits]

This is a good word! We heard something in-line with this at Good Shepherd Nashville this last Sunday!

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

In my role as a pastor, I’m not trying to get everyone to agree on everything so much as I’m attempting to create environments where our disagreements don’t automatically become cause for disunity.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

It’s so easy to be discipled by an angry culture that we deceive ourselves in thinking it’s a fruit of the Spirit.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

Ash Wednesday is not a day to manufacture guilt. It’s a day to recognize our brokenness, frailty, and trust in God’s love.

It’s a day to freely come before God and declare, “I am human, I am dust, and I am loved.”

#AshWednesday

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is how to mind your own business.

Nothing is more suspicious, in a person who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other people.

- Thomas Merton

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

I used to argue with others who didn’t believe women could preach and pastor. So much energy wasted.

Nowadays, I just train and provide opportunities for women to preach in our congregation. And when they do, hearts are changed, Jesus is glorified and the church is edified.