“May you live in interesting times” is an apocryphal saying. It’s usually said to someone as a curse. We certainly live in interesting times right now. It’s as if 2020 has limitless tricks up its sleeve. We keep moving from one crisis to the next. And as soon as we are convinced nothing else can […]
About Troy Walling
Leaving Normal
I howled at the moon last night. Seriously. My wife, my daughter and I stood on our patio, cupped our hands to our mouths, and howled like wild wolves at the moon. Soon, we heard the repeating reply from our neighbors also getting in touch with their inner wolves. It was a silly idea someone […]
A TLI Update
Greetings to you in the name of Jesus and Happy New Year! As The Leadership Institute launches into this new year, we wanted to provide you with an update on where we sense God leading us in 2020 and beyond. During the last few years, God has matured TLI from a retreat-based training organization to […]
A Personal Encouragement
On Christmas Eve morning, I received a lesson on vulnerability. Roscoe, our special needs son, is tethered full time to a feeding tube. He can’t feed himself. He relies on this plastic lifeline no more than a few millimeters wide to bring nourishment to his body. Of course, he also relies on my wife and […]
Bringing Our Movies to Life
John 11:17-27 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Jesus the Resurrection and the Life 17When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, 19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. 20When Martha […]
How to Beat Procrastiholism
I’m going to work. I’m going to church. Both of these statements take our humanness and turn it into a place. Church is not a place and neither is work. We can easily see the error in this thinking about the church by simply looking at scripture. The church is human beings communing with Christ […]
Advent Reflections – Longing for Irresistibility (Fourth Monday of Advent – Christmas Eve)
Our Worship For Christmas Eve this Advent, let us worship this coming King through the scripture passages that tell of this miraculous Christmas story. Isaiah 7:14 (NIV) Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Malachi 3:1-4 (KJV) Behold, […]
