Without Limit starts on Sunday:It's going to be different. It's going to be daring. It's going to be dangerous.Kind of like the Holy Spirit himself.To make space for the Spirit to be given without any limits, we're having Healing Services every Monday night in...

Last Sunday (January 11) was one of the most powerful worship experiences we've ever had at Good Shepherd. The title was "Secret Pain" and we dealt with issues of abuse, incest, and trauma, all based on the Tamar-Amnon-Absalom story from 2 Samuel 13.The message was...

It's the first series we've ever done that has its own website. And based on the traffic there, a lot of you are eager to deal with secrets in healthy, hopeful ways. That's what we'll do, starting with the First Secret EVER. Sunday. 8:30. 10:00. 11:30.

The last phrase of Luke 2:7 is one of the most familiar -- and misunderstood -- sections of Scripture: "for there was no room in the inn."This Sunday, we'll remove some of the sentimentality from those words. We'll see them for what they really say -- in all their...

We dedicated a Habitat For Humanity house on Saturday.We parntered with Selwyn Avenue Presbyterian Church as well as some corporate sponsors in Charlotte.It took 14 Saturdays of volunteer labor to build a house for and with the Hoover family. The Hoovers worked right...

Here's a video, put together by John Pavlovitz and Joe Jackson, that really brought home the point of yesterday's service, The Annoying Love Of Jesus.So be on the lookout for the persistent, relentless, annoying love of God in your life today.

So we've done How He Loves Us by John Mark McMillan both Sundays of the Loved series. You can see and hear it here, as performed by Kim Walker.The first Sunday, our own April Geiger did a heart-stopping, awe-inspiring, goose bumping version of it as part of our...

Tonight we'll have close to 700 kids at the church.We'll have many others who are kids at heart.If last year is any indication, a lot of those kids will understand and trust Jesus for the very first time because of KidzBlitz Live.And that makes all the planning,...

With the economy in such turmoil and so many people uncertain about their own jobs, we almost didn't do any kind of stewardship campaign this fall.I'm glad we did.Oddballs built to that Sunday in which we asked people to make estimates of their giving to God through...

A friend told me not long ago that he feels Good Shepherd is trying really hard to be a "cool" church.Ouch. With love, but ouch.It probably hurts so much because there is more than a grain of truth in it. The language we use, the songs we sing, the visuals we display...