This past Sunday during the Piece Of Work series, we talked about how God brings pain to reveal beauty.I have a friend who had beauty revealed by the pain she endured. Here's her story, which we showed at the conclusion of my sermon:I like how the video turned...

Over the last couple of weeks at Good Shepherd, we've seen what it means to be clay (play-dough, actually!) in the hands of an artist God and what it's like to be a balloon in the hands of a stretching God.We've seen how it is that we are pieces of work.So this...

Ouch! How is that picture even possible? But that's what stretching does for the human body -- it makes the impossible become possible. Stretching gives us more flexibility and, paradoxically, leaves us stronger in the end. It's much the same way with the ministry we...

So yesterday, everyone who entered the Worship Center received a small container of Play Dough.We talked about how we are God's "workmanship" -- in a grand sense how we are the raw material that God then fashions into a thing of beauty and purpose. We are his...

I've long heard that there are three types of churches: risk takers, care takers, and under takers. We'll wherever we usually are on that spectrum, this Sunday we're starting on a message series that will be high on the risk factor. It's called Piece Of Work. It comes...

In laying out our goals and emphases of 2009, we kept coming back to the subject of marriage. We sensed that many marriages in this community had settled into an uncomfortable truce while others were teetering on the brink of collapse.That's why we did the LoveDare...

In the center of the 23rd Psalm, everything changes.Everything.Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me . . .It's my favorite part.I believe our experience of it this Sunday will be powerful &...

So this week, our Still series moves to verse 2 of Psalm 23:He maketh me lie down in green pastures, he leadeth me beside still waters.Doesn't that sound nice?Doesn't that look nice?This Sunday, Good Shepherd will experience how it happens.Still, Week 2. 8:30. 10:00....

How do you "launch" something that emphasizes being "still"?Here's how:This series will be a departure for us. But it's a depature we must take.Four weeks on the 23rd Psalm.And I believe God will be in it, just as he is in those words: The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall...

There I am, hard at work at Vacation Bible School.We're in Rome.And you know what you do when you're in Rome.So we had chariot races. The cardboard was the chariot; the teenagers were the horses.How'd we do?Take a look:By the way, that's my son Riley on the chariot in...