You remember this. Dorothy, Toto, red shoes, and a nice witch:Click here. It's true.  There really is no place like home.Which is what the grand finale of the Home series is all about.  Providing a home that heals for some young girls who desperately need...

Among the many communications we have received about the Home sermon series and Radical Impact Project, the most moving was an email I received from a woman in our church.She shared about the impact of growing up in a home where her father watched and was ensnared by...

Here is what we're doing, why we're doing it, and how we expect it to happen in the Home series: What Is The Home Campaign?Home is both a sermon series and a Radical Impact Project that Good Shepherd is embracing in January of 2013.  From the sermon side,...

Over the past week, I've waxed-almost-eloquent about Louie Giglio, United Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert, John Hiatt, and the nature of Scripture.So today, I'm returning to something much more comfortable for Top Five Tuesday:  my own indiosyncracies.Those...

I spent Friday night and Saturday morning at Bethelwoods Retreat Center near Rock Hill, SC, learning about leadership with the Board of Good Shepherd.Eight men and five women gathered together to sit under the tutelage of Good Shepherd member Brent...

Week Three is here.We've got a Facebook page, LifeGroup Liaisons, leadership meetings, and student projects.I can honestly say I've never worked more focused hours or with more personal discipline than on this project.And I've never liked being a pastor...

By now many of you may be familiar with the brouhaha over Louie Giglio's invitation to and subsequent withdrawl from from offering the invocation at President Obama's second inaugural ceremony later this month.Giglio was originally invited to give the prayer...

I have recently realized that much of my bible reading is in order to prove a point.  If I am in a religious or political or cultural debate with someone, for example, then I'll just pull out my Scriptures, point out the relevant verses, and voila!  Point...

In December of last year, the Kennedy Center Honors Program paid special tribute to Led Zeppelin as part of its annual show.And the highlight of that particular segment was the version of Stairway To Heaven led by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart.  The Heart...

Here's why:  click on this link and watch the video.We played a slightly edited version of that bile-inducing footage during yesterday's message.  As you might imagine, the response was shock and disgust.And, I suspect, in some quarters the reaction...