During our most recent Next Step group, a woman made the most interesting observation about Good Shepherd:This is not a big church.  It's a church where a lot of people belong.And I did what I always do in a situation like that:  exclaimed "that will...

Yes, you read the post title correctly.I remember the time in seminary when one of our professors quipped, "Masturbation is the opposite of the weather.  With the weather, everyone discusses it, but no one can actually do anything about it .  With...

In honor of this week's Valentine's Celebration, my Top Five Tuesday returns to music and, more specifically, to rock's love songs.Ever since the Beatles sang "I Want To Hold Your Hand" rock music and romantic love have been closely connected.They weren't always...

As I posted on Friday, I spent the first part of the weekend in Austin, Texas where my 97-year-old mother Betty Davis presented the first-ever Betty X. Davis Award For Young Writers Of Merit.The gala was all part of a writer's conference hosted by the Austin...

In Austin, Texas.That's where I'll be.  In fact, as you read this, that's where I am.I'm down here to attend an awards ceremony in which three young writers from Central Texas will be recognized with the Betty X. Davis Award For Young Writers Of Merit.  My...

Just ten days ago, the people of Good Shepherd gave a remarkable $389,571 towards the purchase and remodeling of a Home for girls who are themselves under renovation -- rescued from domestic sex trafficking and headed towards healing with On Eagles' Wings...

Have you noticed . . . .That the same injury which ended Mark McGwire's career, patella tendinitis, is threatening Rafael Nadal's?That when you spend a little more for items of higher quality you spend less in the long run because they last longer?That the man...

I am a Wesleyan today because I was first a Calvinist.Huh?Yeah, my first extended church experience after coming to faith as a teenager was at a lovely church in Dallas called Believer's Chapel.Though I was very new to the faith and didn't initially have the...

Yesterday, near the beginning of our worship gatherings, we announced the amount of the previous week's financial offering.See, we spent the month January teaching about the scourge of domestic sex trafficking of under-age girls, the complicity of many church men...

We are plugged in, aren’t we? We’ve got mobile phones, portable tablets, and all-purpose laptops. If anything happens anywhere in the world – or even just right around the corner – we’re going to know about it.  But what if in all that communication with the...