It happened when I saw this: Between 13 and 16, the biggest songs were: Hotel California Take It To The Limit Over The Hills & Far Away Brown Sugar More Than A Feeling Stayin' Alive (OK, there are exceptions to every rule.)
They're evocative yet original. They're derivative yet authentic. They're reminiscent of yet different from. They're Greta Van Fleet, and they had me at hello. A couple of weeks ago, I friend sent me a link to know about the Michigan-based band. Within one listen, I...
Yesterday's sermon ... had a title I'm proud of: We Are All Just Prisoners Here Of Our Own Device; had a subject that needs addressing: our devices; had a bottom line that was a major improvement over the original one written -- why be captive of the urgent when you...
A high school senior from Good Shepherd shared her application essay to a national Christian college. You'll see how Good Shepherd language has deeply shaped her Christian identity: My personal faith and beliefs will contribute to [the college's] mission because of...
I spent a good chunk of yesterday at Clemson University speaking with a group of students from the Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity. The trip and the talk was the brainchild of Clemson student and DSP officer Cory Brooks whom I have known since he was four years old...
As a lot of you know, the Western North Carolina United Methodists invited me to lead a monthly preaching workshop (technically called a "cohort") for sixteen emerging and established pastors in our area. I am both excited about and energized by the assignment. You...
For sometime now, I have been amazed/saddened/perplexed at all the ways people say to God (in so many words): I know better. So I put it into a sermon. Labelling the serpent's seed of doubt in the woman's mind as the Oldest Religion In The World, I walk the people...
Well, what is it? What is the "oldest religion in the world"? Is it Christianity? No. Older. Judaism? No. Older. Hinduism? No. It's old, but there's something older. Idol worship? No. That's really old, but there's something older. To see what is the oldest religion...
Here is the Park Cities News from May 17, 1978: The photo and the accompanying story came in the aftermath of a Texas high school doubles state championship that Chris Doane and I won on behalf of Highland Park High School in Dallas. He was a senior, I was a...
We write a lot of LifeGroup questions at Good Shepherd. In fact, we have a For Further Conversation section in our Sunday morning worship bulletin virtually every week -- and many of our LifeGroups use that material (and the sermon that prompted it) as their...