Billboards: Ready.Website: Ready.Facebook Page: Ready.Post Cards: Ready.Prayer Support: Ready.Michael Scott clips: Ready.Sermon: ???Actually, I think it's ready.Week One of The Office launches with a message called "Taking Care Of Business."Sunday.8:30. 10. 11:30.

The church's website has been redesigned and redeployed.It now has a sleek, modern, simple look.Check it out here.

Today I'm taking the staff for a "field trip" to Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in Belmont.We do these types of outings several times a year.In the past, we've run the gamut from high culture to low -- Charlotte's Mint Museum one time; a morning at the bowling alley...

I usually post these videos on the Friday before a series launch, but this one couldn't wait. Here's the promo for our new series, The Office:We have several ways we are getting the conversation going when it comes to this series:1. A special interactive website:...

Disruption has been a departure for us at Good Shepherd.Normally, the series we do after Easter have been . . . gentle. Horizontal. Focused on relationships, based on human interest.The services in Disruption have been more "in your face." Inviting people to consider...

1. You get to see our hip, new Corner Campus.2. Snacks galore.3. Each Sunday I see pockets of people socializing at Good Shepherd. When I ask them how they met, the answer usually comes, "oh, we were in Pathfinders together."4. It's a healthy way of doing group...

One of the Rolling Stones' most clever songs is Respectable from their 1978 gem Some Girls.In it, Mick Jagger sings of the irony that the band is now "respectable" in high society.Yet he quickly points 0ut that they are not so respectable that Canadian Prime Minister...

Here's what my week was like with the Spring Breakthrough Project:Terrific leadership, motivated students, blessed week.And I got to be part of it.

Is it wrong to be more excited about a sermon for the Sunday after Easter than the one given on Easter?I hope not. Because I am.Not that I wasn't excited about Easter's message. I was.It's just that I love what's going to happen this coming Sunday. I believe it's one...

So this week I'm helping out John Pavlovitz, Amie Berryhill and the rest of the Student Ministry Team with Spring Breakthrough 2010.What is it?Pretty incredible, actually.It's 100 students from Charlotte, Fort Mill, and Lake Wylie spending their spring break in a most...