Yesterday's message ... Used a Seinfeld clip to make a point about grace.Revolved around a quote BY JESUS not found in any of the Gospels but re-tweeted by Paul during a speech in Acts to the church at Ephesus. Got all that?Culminated our Radical Impact Project with...
My first grade class with Mrs. Dobbs at the University Park Elementary School, 1968-69. Can you figure out which one is me? Or which one is the object of my unrequited first grade love?
WHAT IS A RADICAL IMPACT PROJECT? A Radical Impact Project is a long-time feature of Good Shepherd’s congregational life. It’s when we attempt something big and bold on behalf of the most vulnerable among us. Our Radical Impact Projects have focused primarily on...
Roger Federer lost a big match in Indian Wells, California this past Sunday and for once, I wasn't too upset. Why? Because the guy who beat him, Austrian Dominic Thiem, has a glorious one-handed backhand. For the uninitiated, most players today hit their backhands...
Yesterday's message ... Allowed me to introduce our local partners in No Longer Slaves, Lily Pad Haven Ministries.Drew from God's words through Malachi to the children of Israel;Focused on the image of the Refiner's Fire.Led to this bottom line: God removes debris to...
Forget Head Scratchers. My REAL first book was "University Park Football" and had a release date of Fall, 1968. The book tells about a game involving the University Park Mustangs (we lived in the Dallas enclave of University Park and my to-die-for team was the SMU...
I practice my sermons before I deliver them. Every day. I've been doing it for as long as I've been preaching without notes, which is almost as long as I have been preaching. And then, while preparing the forthcoming book Simplify The Message & Multiply The Impact...
Recently, a United Methodist clergy colleague suggested in an online conversation that John Mellencamp is essentially a fraud, having gained his popularity because his manager must have given payola to various radio programmers to get his sons abundant airplay. That...
Yesterday's message ... Connected Galatian relapse with modern day human trafficking;Suggested that the sickening demand fueled in part by Christian men leads to the traumatized supply of girls trapped up modern day slavery; Reminded people who want one giant leap...
You know who was Born To Be Wild, don't you? It's in every fiber of my being, obviously. Actually, as part of our ministry of empowerment in South Asia, we distributed about 40 bicycles and two motorbikes. I reluctantly left this one here. Too bad. It was such a...