We opened our worship gathering yesterday with this look back at our Meal Packing event the week before.Creative & techno kudos go to Chris Macedo who, appropriately enough, followed this video by leading us in singing Not To Us.Make sure you watch all the way...

What if you got food poisoning . . .. . . from who you were with instead of what you ate?It sounds like an absurd notion, doesn't it?Except that was the world Jesus lived in.And the world he turned upside down.So we're going to spend some Sunday talking about the...

Just over a year ago, I shared some thoughts in this place on the role of Scripture in our lives.As I find myself increasingly drawn into conversation and debate about the present & the future of United Methodism, I realize I need to re-visit and re-live that...

This interview with my mother appeared in the most recent edition of The Society Of Children's Book Writers And Illustrators newsletter.  I think you'll enjoy the window it gives you into her history, her energy, and her motivation:Interview With Betty X. DavisIn...

As you may have read in yesterday's post, the highlight of our 254,000-meals-packed-on-a-Sunday was a conversation with a woman who earlier in life had subsisted on just such nutrition.Yet as full-circle-remarkable as that conversation was, the day brought a number of...

Numerically speaking, yesterday was extraordinary in the life of Good Shepherd United Methodist Church. 2400 people . . . prepared & packed & loaded . . . 254,232 meals . . . in just under five hours. We had a preposterous goal of 250,000 meals and by God's...

Here's what the Good Shepherd Worship Center looks like this morning:What in the world?  Are we cancelling church on Sunday?Hardly.We're getting for the people of Good Shepherd not to hear the sermon but to be the sermon.Later today, volunteer crews will bring in...

I have realized this week how often prayer functions in my life as something to get through.Many of you know exactly what I'm saying . . . prayer functions as the table setter for whatever is next on your agenda.At meal times, it's what you get through so that you can...

For the people of Good Shepherd, southwest Charlotte, northern York, and eastern Gaston Counties:Million Meal March FAQ Fed Up With Hunger SundayFrequently Asked QuestionsWhat Are We Doing On March 30 at Good Shepherd?We are harnessing all our Sunday morning...

You know what a cliché is, right?A word or phrase that has been used so often, and in so many different settings, that it has lost its original meaning.  Assuming, of course, it ever had an original meaning . . . which many clichés never did. Good communicators,...