A week of random learning and unexpected realizations, summarized right here. Here are the Top Five Things I've Learned JUST This Week: Good Shepherd sermons are now available as podcasts at the iTunes store. Wha-what?! 2.Roger Federer will achieve the #1...
Planning. Praying. Dreaming. Scheming. Empowering. Aligning. That's why I am so excited about One Sixty Seven: everyone is aligned. Children, teens, G3 groups, existing LifeGroups, Sunday worship, and daily blogs. All aligned. That alignment showed through this...
Whew. I've been dreaming, scheming, planning, preparing, and praying over the One Sixty-Seven series for months now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHYj247kOx4&list=PL7-AUK00EOsrhl392uAe8icIeyVT9LSEZ We have 130 G3 groups signed up already. Our Children's...
Earlier this week, I received this email from a Good Shepherd friend. The email came in response to a section of Sunday's sermon on Psalm 13 in which I mentioned that for the past 18 months I have been writing the majority of my prayers. (If you think that is somehow...
This group of 16 preacher friends from Western North Carolina Methodism descended on Good Shepherd yesterday for the launch of an eight month workshop I am leading called Simplify The Message; Multiply The Impact. Everyone who signed up showed up. ...
Arthur Ashe died twenty-five years ago TODAY -- February 6, 1993. I remember weeping when the news came over television. Ashe had contracted the virus that causes AIDS while undergoing open heart surgery in the days before they tested blood (late 70s), and revealed...
Yesterday's message concluded the Practicing The Presence series with an in-depth look at Psalm 13. It began with an acknowledgment: God is emotionally secure. He is so emotionally secure, in fact, that he inspires biblical texts that question his existence or...
There are times when you pray and it seems as if this is God's response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmRkS1os7k Zip. Zero. Nada. What's going on? In matters both tragic and trivial, what is happening with all those unanswered prayers? How in the world can we...
Here I am, second from the left on the front row, as a freshman on the Highland Park High School tennis team in January of 1977. Why the sad face? Three reasons, at least: 1. I was a freshman. 2. The bangs. 3. The racket. I was using a Spalding World Open and, well,...
Our upcoming One Sixty-Seven series (Feb. 11 to March 4) will take place at the intersection of method and materials. Method The method for the series and its supporting LifeGroup project is something called Grab, Gather, Grow or G3. G3, which has been popularized by...