We sent this notice to the people of Good Shepherd yesterday:Dear Good Shepherd Family,I have a staff announcement for you today that defines the very term "bittersweet." After more than eight years on our team, John Pavlovitz has accepted a position on the...
If you've spent any time at all in church, you know we usually conclude our prayers with:InJesusNameAmenAs if it is really just all one . . . long . . . word.But what does it actually mean to pray "in Jesus' name"?Is it merely a formula to distinguish Christian...
At church this past Sunday, I saw a high school senior in our congregation who had a Rush book bag. I thought maybe it was a different "Rush" (Limbaugh, maybe?) or that it was a joke.So I asked her about it. Sure enough, she's a fan. Someone born in...
Here's a sense of what happened this weekend at Good Shepherd: OCC">http://vimeo.com/53020722">OCC TIMELAPSE PROMOfrom GSUMChttp://vimeo.com/gsumc">GSUMC> on Vimeo.https://vimeo.com">Vimeo.>While that time lapse was from our 2012 emphasis, the...
Throughout the Not A Fan series, we've tried to give the people of the church some concrete, tangible ways to follow up on the Sunday morning conversations.That's why we offered the Reveal class. People are now pursuing Jesus by digging into his Word.It's why we...
Many of you are familiar with the books of the bible known as the prophets.Located in the Old Testament, these texts are a mix of what we call the major prophets -- Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel -- and the minor prophets -- Amos, Micah, Joel, Habbakkuk...
A few weeks ago, I posted on the launch of our K-Club Pilot Project -- a way of moving Children's Ministry out of the church building and into the neighborhood. You can read that report here.Anyway, at last week's K-Club, children were asked to name one thing...
It's Top Five Tuesday, after all. One of those weekly rituals that make me realize I tend to do the same thing on the same day of every week.How does music speak into the role of particular days of the week?By naming songs after them! Here are my five...
I am so glad we did what we did yesterday.Instead of a more typical "music-video-solo-sermon" format to reinforce the Not A Fan series, we turned everything upside down on behalf of the persecuted church.We had a multi-movement, multi-sensory, and multi-cultural...
I don't want to give away all the surprises about this coming Sunday's worship experience.Except to let you know it will be unlike anything we've ever done on a Sunday morning.You'll be challenged.You'll be enlightened.You'll be angered.You'll be moved.You'll be...