So last Friday, I wasn't going to Tweet about it. I wasn't going to get on Facebook and argue about it. I wasn't even going to change my Sunday sermon to address it directly. Instead, I've located some wise voices to speak into what it means that marriage equality is...
Well, three out of four of those things are true. I wrestled with the message's bottom line all week. I knew the sermon was good, but the original bottom line lacked some stick. I said in the 11:30 that that dilemma was almost like being all in favor of marriage,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBia-3XGDdU Our lives are always headed somewhere. For some of us, we’re taking a step back. Others, moving from one side to another. But what would it look like if our life trajectory was headed up? What if the phrase “on...
Yesterday afternoon, I went to jail. Then to a hospital room. Then to another hospital room. Then to a nursing home. I was out of the office and away from my computer for several hours straight. That's really not that unusual -- at least for the course of most of my...
My young friend Aaron handed me this note on Sunday: Here are some highlights of his prose: I hope it would help to invite readers to come to Good Shepherd to be invited into a living relationship with Jesus Christ. He KNOWS & REPEATS THE MISSION STATMENT!...
I don't know. I think this photo of Joey Hopper, our Family Ministries Worship Leader, and his young acolyte Caden Macedo, pretty much covers numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, don't you? The beard will appear next week, I'm sure.
The final message in the BrainWashing series wasn't so much a sermon as a guided series of movements. Working off the premise that To Clear Your Head, Lift Your Heart, I wanted people actually to experience that ways in which various acts of worship led to more...
Have you ever felt your thinking was like this? Foggy? Murky? Cloudy? Uncertain? The fact is, we're all in a fog. And so we need something to clear our heads. The great thing about this coming Sunday is that not only do we talk about what that...
Here in Lake Junaluska, NC, surrounding by about 2,500 United Methodist friends . . . . . . .and in the middle of worshipping, networking, fanning, politicking, voting, reminiscing, and reconnecting, there's also a bit of time for . . . Head Scratchers celebrating....
In response to The Filter Factor (see here), a Good Shepherd friend sent me this note: Talbot, Thank you for the message. I used to watch the news in the morning and it just consumed me with anger. And by the time I head to work I am already wound up and...