About WFS
My name is Dennis Mullen and I have been the minister at Morrison Hill Christian Church in Kingston, Tennessee, USA since 1988. My wife Cindy and I are both graduates of Johnson Bible College near Knoxville, Tennessee. I grew up on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, and she spent her favorite formative years in Nelson, New Zealand.This blog is my “grown-up” blog. Check out my less mature (though sometimes serious) side at my MySpace page and blog.
The name “Waiting For Sunday” is inspired by three sources. The first is my own experience as a minister of always getting ready for Sunday. The second is the well-known sermon by Tony Campolo called “It’s Friday, But Sunday’s Comin’”, about the wait between the day Jesus was crucified and the day he arose. The third source of inspiration is Phillip Yancey’s comment, in The Jesus I Never Knew on Campolo’s sermon:
“Campolo skipped one day in his sermon, though. The other two days have earned names on the church calendar: Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Yet in a real sense, we live on Saturday, the day with no name. What the disciples experienced in small scale - three days, in grief over one man who had died on a cross - we now live through on cosmic scale. Human history grinds on, between promise and fulfillment. Can we trust that God can make something holy and beautiful and good out of a world that includes Bosnia and Rwanda and inner-city ghettoes and jammed prisons in the richest nation on earth? It’s Saturday on planet earth; will Sunday ever come?” (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1995, p. 267)
It WILL come. That’s why I’m waiting for Sunday.
