I love this upcoming Christmas Series.I love the title:  Baby Invasion.I love the premise:  people act in strange ways when a baby invades their lives.  Especially the baby whose name was Jesus.And I love the talk that I get to give this coming...

How often do you get to attend, much less host, a 99th birthday party?The answer is embedded into the question, isn't it?Here I am with my siblings surrounding my mother, Betty Davis, who turned 99 on Tuesday.  We had a gathering with about 50 of her Austin-area...

Over the last several weeks, a young man has begun attending church with some friends and family.That's not all that unusual or extraordinary, with one difference:  he grew up in this church, drifted away when he graduated college, and so is returning to worship...

For the final message of the Hidden Heroes series, I left Colossians 4 and went to Romans 16.Why?Some complicated but (I think) ultimately sound reasoning.1.  I knew we needed a "shero" -- after six weeks of male heroes, I felt the church needed to hear about an...

Yes!  They exist!Not just Sugar Daddies, but Sugar Mamas as well.I've never eaten them (how could I, with all those Nutrageouses?)But Sugar Daddies and Sugar Mamas are more than just candy.  They are providers, patrons, benefactors.And there's one hidden in...

The authors of the bible use incredible restraint.In contrast to our modern culture's tendency towards too much information, the scriptural writers were masters of understatement.Perhaps that's because the process of writing was both expensive and painful in ancient...

As you can tell from looking at the "Books I Like" column to the right, I recently read Doris Kearns Goodwin's No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt & The Home Front In World War II.The book fascinates on many levels, but most especially in its...

That's me, signing a contract with Abingdon Press to publish a book of mine to be called Head Scratchers.Huh?I'm sort of scratching my head at all this myself.Here's the backstory.  For a couple of years, I have had several people in my life telling me that some...

I was away from Charlotte from early Thursday morning until Sunday after church.Which meant, of course, a Sunday away from the people and the pulpit (except it's really a table, but table wouldn't alliterate with "people") of Good Shepherd.So here are some pros and...

This Sunday at Good Shepherd . . .Celebration Choir leads us in worship;That same choir does a hero medley you have to see to believe;1980s pop culture references galore -- you might even see a moonwalk;Discovery of what it means to have someone in your corner and to...