You knew we'd get here, didn't you? We've fallen apart, fallen alone, and even fallen hard, so it makes sense we'd take a look at what it means to fall well. To do so, we're changing Testaments, changing strategies, and even changing perspectives. I think it's going...
Product Placement
Last night concluded a three-night Revival Series at the Morris Chapel United Methodist Church in Walkertown, NC, a bucolic town on the outskirts of Winston-Salem. I preached a two-night revival there in 2016 and was grateful for the return invitation and expanded...
Preaching Without Notes
A lot of you have asked how it is that I give messages on Sunday mornings without using any notes. Actually, it's not just Sundays ... this week I've been preaching a revival up in Kernersville and those, too, I give without notes. Getting up and giving a message...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Reflections About Being A Princeton Graduate
I went to Princeton for college. There. I said it. I don't ever preach it out of fear that people will think "he's a snob," or "he's an elitist," or "he is an egghead" and I'll lose whatever common ground I had developed with them. For those and other reasons, I...
Where Apples Fall, Week 4 — The “Falling Alone” Sermon Rewind
Sunday's message ... Marveled at Jacob's resume of wrecked relationships; Actually included some "write these down" applications; Landed at a bottom line I like very much: "What you stand for is never as important as who you stand with."...
Where Apples Fall, Week 4 — “Falling Alone”
Is it possible to have the people you love the most pay a steep price for your pursuit of good things? Huh? You saw that right. Do the people you love the most have to pay a price for the time you spend pursuing things which are good, noble, and right. That's one of...
Raising Funds Without Ever Fund Raising
Occasionally when I speak to groups of people within this church or beyond it, the subject of fund raisers comes up. And that's when I most love the conversation. Because at Good Shepherd we have a very simple policy towards fund raisers: we don't have them. That's...
A Book Launch. In An Art Studio. With Real Live Dummies.
The best part about last night's launch were my three assistants. To my left is Crash, and to my right, in order are Test and Dummy. They spent some time indoors but more time outdoors, welcoming guests, posing for pictures, and even drumming up business. They even...
On A #CrashTestDummies Day, An Unexpected Appearance By #Solve
So today is the day that Crash Test Dummies drops. Releases. Publishes. Whatever. It's book #5 (whoda thunk?) and I hope my Charlotte area friends can make it to the Book Launch Event tonight from 7-9 pm at RiverGate Shopping Center's Art Space Studio. Yet...
“Where Apples Fall, Week 3” — The “When The Apple Falls A Little Too Close For Comfort” Sermon Rewind
Like father, like son. In the worst sense of the word. That's what Week 3 of Where Apples Fall featured, with a close look at one of the top five "ick" stories in Scripture: the "meet my sister" pattern that Abraham starts and passes on to Isaac. After that noxious...