I've often heard that Sugar Ray Leonard was pound for pound the best boxer of them all.Meaning that he wasn't the biggest or the strongest, but if you put his skills and his heart into to body of a heavyweight, no one could beat him.Maybe that's true.As we move into...

On most Sundays, I like to have one element that will make people do a double take.The kind of thing that will make them say to themselves, "I can't believe they're doing that in church!"For example, our Fight Of Your Life series started with the band playing...

As you probably know, sermon series are important to us at Good Shepherd.It's how we think and how we plan and how we pray.And we've done a lot of thinking and planning and praying over this new one: The Fight Of Your Life.The series is worthy of such effort because...

I have loved researching, preparing, and then delivering the sermons for the Rubber, Meet Road series.It's given me a new appreciation for that entire process.More importantly, it's given me a new appreciation for the book of James.What I previously thought to be a...

I'm not objective when it comes to Pathfinder.It's one of the best things we do at Good Shepherd, and I say that because I've been involved with it as a participant.Pathfinder is our easy on-ramp to group life at this church. It's where community begins. It makes a...

I like giving messages in which I know there are a couple of "I can't believe I'm gonna say this but I'm gonna say it anyway!" moments.Week Three of Rubber, Meet Road has those moments.It's called Rich Man, Poor Man and to get ready for it, read James 2:1-9.And then...

We showed this yesterday to hammer home the idea that "faith without works is dead":Fun to make, more fun to play on Sunday.Thanks to Sonic for their inspiration.And to WHAM for their timeless music . . .

Martin Luther's influence on Christianity is profound. And complex. As a German pastor and theologian of the 16th Century, he re-discovered St. Paul's doctrine of salvation by grace through faith, based on passages like Ephesians 2:8-9. He courageously stood up...

Some of my favorite series are those in which we drill down on one book of the bible for several weeks at a time, mining that book for all the treasures it contains.In the past, we've done that with Philippians, Ecclesiastes, and Jeremiah, among others.This time it's...

We are so proud of our Passage School Of Theology at Good Shepherd.It is our attempt to make sure that the church is not only large but deep. We want to give the people of the congregation all the resources they need to stretch their minds, deepen their commitment,...