Here's the Christmas Story . . . told from the perspective of some of the children of Good Shepherd:
Christmas Story Kids
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A Red Dot Sermon
What in the world is A Red Dot Sermon?Something that fits for the first Sunday of a new year.Something that fits as we celebrate the church's response to What Child Is This?Something we'll do together on January 2, 2011.Sunday.8:30. 10. 11:30.
Conversation & Posture
A couple of people have let me know in a loving way that I sometimes talk to people while backing up, walking away from them.That's really bad.It conveys all the wrong messages: I'm too busy, I'm doing something else, I'd rather be somewhere else, I don't have...
The Creed
Since church was snowed out this past Sunday, I briefly watched a televised service from another, more liturgical church in our area (they cancelled for 12.26 as well; this was a re-broadcast from back on a snow-free day in November).As part of the liturgy, the...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Signs Of “Big People”
I once heard Jack Hayford -- long time pastor of The Church On The Way in Van Nuys, CA and the author of the contemporary hymn Majesty -- say this about growing a church:You don't want to grow a big church. You want to grow big people. I like that concept.And I saw...
5, 7, and 9
So this is Christmas.At 5:00 this evening we'll have a high-octane Family Celebration with music, drama, and word coming from our G-Force Children's Team. Having seen the rehearsal, you can expect to be blown away.Then at both 7:00 and 9:00 we'll host Candlelight...
Appealing To People’s Best
The first results are in from last Sunday's What Child Is This offering in support of the fight against the global slave trade and human trafficking.And they're pretty spectacular.When we combine them with the offering we'll receive on Christmas Eve for the same...
The Theology Of Colin Cowherd
As a lot of you know, Colin Cowherd is far and away my favorite radio personality. He is smart, funny, and provocative.And he is also defiantly non-religious.So he'd be surprised that I title a post after his own theology.But I do so because almost every day Cowherd...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five NFL Helmets
One of the best Christmas presents I ever received was a football uniform when I was six years old.One of the best I ever gave was a football uniform -- to Riley, when he was six years old. It was of his favorite team. (See below.)So it got me thinking . . . what are...
Freedom
Here's how we led up to our "Big Ask" yesterday.At the end of the sermon, seven of our young worshippers came out on the platform carrying large photos of children from around the world who have been victims of human trafficking.We told the stories of the global...