A lot of you know that my wife Julie has a good job in the medical field. She travels, she sells, she manages, and she motivates.And yet when she's home she cooks. Very well. These days, just for the two of us.So here are my Top Five Dinners. If you are reading this...
Yesterday we concluded the sermon with one sentence testimonies by seven different people from the Good Shepherd community, each of whom is in the process of being "delivered" from the Pharaoh that has plagued their lives.But that wasn't the best part.The best part...
The Book Of Exodus.It’s the ancient story of some very modern battles: between God and the idols; between the powerful and the powerless; between faith and doubt; between captivity and freedom.But ultimately it is the story of a people who are delivered . . . from...
I'm reading a terrific little monograph by Asbury Seminary President Timothy Tennent called This We Believe: Meditations On The Apostle's Creed.(By the way, I received the book as a gift through the mail and in spite of several internet searches can't locate a way for...
We have a number of pastors who attend Good Shepherd.Some of them are missionaries who have returned from overseas and are in the midst of discerning their next steps in ministry.Others are pastors-in-training, studying either at bible college or seminary and in...
Paul Simon has been on my mind this holiday season.Part of it has to do with his "Getting Ready For Christmas Day," an infectious tune he released in the spring of 2011.The other part of it is because my son Riley gave me a CD copy of Graceland for Christmas....
That's what we're doing on January 1.One service only at 10 a.m.It will help explain so much of why we do what we do here.
2011 was a year full of milestones for my family and for our church. Some of those milestones are best captured by the numbers . . . Four. That's how many sets of reading glasses I now must have scattered around my life. One for the kitchen table to read the...
Many years ago, as our then-four-year-old daughter Taylor took a readiness test for kindergarten at Charlotte Christian School, the admissions counselor said to us, "she's ready to fly."And so she is again.After graduating from college in May and working as a Web...
It's been building to this.Christmas Eve Services:5 p.m.: Children's Worship Experience, complete with worship leading by G-Force singers and pre-school bell ringers.7 p.m.: Candlelight Praise and Worship with a message called "Night Light."9 p.m.: Candlelight Praise...