2011 was a year full of milestones for my family and for our church. Some of those milestones are best captured by the numbers . . . Four. That's how many sets of reading glasses I now must have scattered around my life. One for the kitchen table to read the...

Through the years, I've agonized over situations that might affect church attendance on Sundays. Of course, the vast majority of these are things over which I have no control. Things like:Good weather -- Nice conditions mean people will go either to the beach or the...

Because of the miracle of "post options" -- I wrote this on July 22 but it is published on the 28th -- I am in Moscow, Russia as you read this.Eight of us from Good Shepherd have joined with Jon and Sonnet Barr, longtime missionaries with United World Mission. You can...