Yesterday -- Sunday, November 25, 2012 -- involved some interesting numbers in my life and in the life of Good Shepherd United Methodist Church. Here goes . . .2,846 shoeboxes collected and distributed for Operation Christmas Child. We set a goal of 2,000...
I posted a couple of weeks ago about our goal of 2,000 shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child.Well, how'd we do?That's one of the things I'll let you know this coming Sunday, November 25.Along the way, we'll celebrate believer baptisms at 8:30 and 10:00, receive a...
As I posted last Friday, we held a Noche De Adoracion on the evening of November 16.Noche De Adoracion means "Night Of Adoration" or "Night Of Worship." It also served as a "soft opening" for our new all-Spanish service that begins on Sunday, December 2 at 11:30...
Two days from now I won't be blogging, but I will be eating.Odds are, so will you.Food is on our mind this week, and for two primary reasons: 1) we're fixing to remember the Pilgrims' faithfulness as well as our blessings, and 2) Hostess is, temporarily at...
The year 2012 at Good Shepherd has been highlighted by a number of Sunday mornings in which we used the sermon time to give plain proclamation of what it means to be saved by grace and then used the response time to give a clear invitation for people to enter into...
On November 5, I shared with you how our church was able to make 2,000 Operation Christmas Child Shoe Boxes disappear. You can read about it here and then watch it here: OCC TIMELAPSE PROMO from GSUMC on Vimeo.Well, this Sunday as we celebrate Gospel Decision,...
In the fall of 1987, in my first semester of my first year at Asbury Seminary, I met with two ordination representatives from what would ultimately become my annual conference in the United Methodist Church. At the end of the interview, one of them pulled me aside and...
It's the number worn by Dick Butkus, maybe the meanest middle linebacker of them all.It's the number of the confessional Psalm written by King David after his affair with Bathsheba and subsequent murder-by-military-sacrifice of her husband Uriah was...
My heart grew strangely warmed on Saturday when Texas A&M, led by its phenomenal freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel, upset big, bad, undefeated Alabama 29-24, hopefully ruining any shot the Crimson Tide had at a national championship.But my warm heart...
Yesterday came at the tail end of a vacation week for me, and so offered the rarest of opportunities: a Sunday morning in which I was both off work and in town.So how did I spend it? I went to church. Twice. At two very different...