Hidden Heroes is such a good series that it has not one but two sermon bumper videos!Here's the first, revealed last week.And here's the second, revealed right now.I wonder which one we will play on Sunday?The best way to find out?Sunday.8:30.  10. ...

As I round the bend of life into my 50s, and as I see some of the highest of the high profile preachers step away from active ministry, I've been thinking:Why should an individual enter vocational ministry in the first place?In processing that question, I've come up...

Here I am with newlyweds Hal Watson and Nancy Donosky Watson.They are from Dallas, TX and yet had a Charlotte, NC wedding.  On a Tuesday.  Huh?Here's the backstory.  Hal is the stepson of my oldest brother Harvey.  Thirty years ago, when Hal was...

There is something about music that connects you deeply with time and place, isn't there?You hear a certain song and IMMEDIATELY your mind takes you back to where you were and who you were with when you a) heard that song for the first time or b) heard it so often in...

It's hard to preach poorly after the band does a cover of Paramore's acoustic cover of the Foo Fighter's "My Hero."Not that I didn't almost pull it off, mind you.  But the morning set up was such that I got the ball deep in enemy territory.And what followed was a...

We don’t like to look for our heroes, do we?  We like them to come to us.It’s why our superheroesfly through the air.  It’s why our sports heroes leap from our television screens.  And why our artistic heroes sing from our radios, act in our movies, and...

The folks in this picture just completed four weeks together in the Next Step Membership Exploration Group.And, after spending those weeks talking about Christianity, United Methodist, and Good Shepherd itself, they joined the church last night surrounded by staff and...

I shared with some Good Shepherd leaders recently that I have bouts of chronic indecision.This came as a surprise to some -- especially those who know me primarily from my preaching -- as my sermons often have an emphatic clarity about them.Yet out of the pulpit, I...

Last night we hosted several hundred people who lead, love, and serve at Good Shepherd for an event we called The Inside Scoop.It was the first of what will be many events as we head into a capital campaign (called Beyond) in January of 2015. Anyway, there was much to...

I have spoken more to and about single adults during the Love Song series than at any other time in ministry. So it was fitting (I hope) to conclude the message with an extended look at living single through the lens of the most couple-centric book in the entire...