I'm in the third week of leading a Sunday night Men's Life Group Bible Study.We're doing a very good curriculum together called Invititation To Genesis, one of the best offerings by the Methodist Publishing House.Some of the guys in the group are veterans of bible...
This week, Good Shepherd United Methodist Church has become, briefly, the Charlotte Campus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.That's because the seminary's permanent Charlotte campus is otherwise occupied this week hosting an exhibit for the Museum of the Bible....
So Sunday night was a pretty happy night in our house.Not necessarily for me, mind you, but for Julie who is a lifelong New York Giants fan. This went along with the 1987, 1991, and 2008 Super Bowls in making for a happy wife.Which gets me thinking . . . what have the...
I had lunch with someone from the church this past week who encouraged me to "trust the God in others."As it turned out, the timing -- and the advice -- could not have been better.Because yesterday at Good Shepherd was a first of its kind: an invitation to "salvation...
I think the series art is beautiful.I believe the lobby refresh and logo redesign will be exciting.But it's the message that I am most excited about.And not just the message in the Worship Center.Across all the different venues of Good Shepherd -- in that Worship...
Pastoral ministry goes better when you are in love with Jesus than when you aren't.I know this to be the case because I've tried it both ways.
I've realized something in talking with church leaders and trying to understand momentum in church:When you simplify the proclamation, you multiply the impact.Here's what I mean. We at Good Shepherd have quite consciously become less clever and more bold on Sundays....
The role of a play-by-play announcer in a sports broadcast is a delicate one.The good ones strike this balance of emotional detachment and personal involvement. They're not supposed to betray who they want to win nor even offer many opinions on what is occuring on the...
I learned this weekend what people who prefer traditional worship over contemporary and post-modern worship feel like.And it was tennis that taught me that lesson.Yesterday featured what many experts are calling one of the greatest, if not the greatest, tennis match...
It seems as if everybody knows the story of Adam, Eve, and the Garden.But few people have actually read it.Which is why I love teaching it to a group of people.Such was the case last night in our First Step class for people considering church membership.We realized...