Yesterday's message ... Began with a liturgical moment as the congregation stood out of respect for the Gospel reading and I read Matthew 2:13-18 out loud; Featured moments comparing Jesus to a) kudzu and b) Phil Collins written in permanent marker on a whiteboard...
Our new series, Keeping Christmas, starts this Sunday with an unexpected twist: Keeping Herod In Christmas. Who would want to do that? Well, we would. Because Matthew did. Check it all out Sunday at Moss, Zoar, and en espanol. Here's the series video: ...
We showed this video on Sunday to give the people of Good Shepherd a ground level view of the impact their generosity makes in India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeifBMsktsk&feature=youtu.be
One of my favorite highlights from the Impact Report:
Here is Page 10 of the recently-released, hot-off-the-presses Good Shepherd Impact Report. Here are the top five numbers out of that page full of ... well, numbers. 1. For 2017, we have averaged 308 households per week giving to God through Good Shepherd...
So we wound up the ThanksLiving series with a message that had the unlikely title of "When NOT To Support Your Church." So I spent some time there, attempted NOT to build a straw man I'd then easily knock down, and ultimately wound through Revelation 7:9-10 to land at...
Huh? You're titling a message -- a message that will be coupled with the receiving of ThanksLiving Pledge Cards for 2018 -- with a message called When NOT To Support Your Church?!?! Well, yes ... yes, we are. And the purpose WON'T be to set up a Straw Man of churches...
The story of Samson in Judges 13-16 is NOT the story of a really strong guy who gets a really hot girl because he has really cool hair. It IS the story of a man whose life ends tragically, buried beneath the rubble of his own consequences. Consequences that come from...
The first ten verses of Psalm 86 read this way: Hear me, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. 2 Guard my life, for I am faithful to you; save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God; 3 have mercy on me, Lord, for I call to you all day long....
There is nothing quite like a good candy bar, is there? I remember when they cost a dime. I’d ride my bike up to the neighborhood Seven-Eleven Store, put a dime on the counter, and ask for a Baby Ruth. Those really were the days. It’s no exaggeration to say that candy...