Pastor Dave Claassen posted these words back in 2013:There’s been a subtle name change going on with the space where pastors work. What used to be called the pastor’s study is now called simply the pastor’s office. Why?More and more the pastor is called upon to do...
Back in the era of "album rock" (may he rest in peace), they used to call them "album cuts." More recently, "deep cuts."More plainly, "songs you've never heard of from artists you have."What am I talking about? Songs that make up the bulk of individual...
As some of you know, I have a Twitter account (@talbotdavis).So on this Monday, I thought it might be helpful to scan through some of my tweets from the previous week and what those particular 140 characters show about my state of mind at the time. Here goes . ....
What role does any kind of higher love play in marital love?What place, if any, does shared faith play in strong marriages?And -- here's the most interesting thing -- how can a church have a message about marriage that's geared in many ways to people who are...
The date: Fall, 1975.The setting: Annual School Picture.The school: McCullough Middle School, Dallas, TexasThe grade: 8th The subject: Me.The question: What in the world was I thinking?
Here's how Luke tells the story of the Send Off Party for Barnabas and Saul (later Paul) on one of their missionary journeys:1 Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been...
A lot of you know this already, but I'll repeat it again: I love the Steele Creek section of Charlotte. We've lived in the same house since our arrival at Good Shepherd in 1999, and I like almost everything about this unique corner of our region.Yet I have...
Sometimes, all you have to do is read the bible publicly and people will laugh.That's what happened yesterday.Most of the erotic imagery within The Song Of Songs is so alien to the landscape of our lives that it strikes our modern eyes and ears as a bit . . . ....
Here's the big question about this Sunday's second episode of Love Song, a worship gathering we are calling "Still The One":Are we talking about the Orleans version from the 70s? Or the more recent vintage by Shania Twain?There's only one way to find...
Without much fanfare, Good Shepherd opened a new campus this week.Only it's not at all what you think, all you multi-site church aficianados.It's a campus lodged in the middle of a mobile home community.See, we've wanted to take seriously our mandate to invite all...