This will be a good series.It will be good because it's way out of my comfort zone.It will be good because you'll hear an amazing song done four different ways in four different weeks.It will be good because you'll have some moments in our church you've never had...

So we wrapped up Oddballs yesterday.The series built to the point where we invited the people of the church to make their 2009 Estimates Of Giving -- a financial pledge, to use an older phrase.Giving to God is the sort of thing that oddballs do while the rest of the...

I think you are going to hear something at church this Sunday that you've never heard at church before.I think.I'm excited to able to say this thing, I know that.Oddball. Week 4. 8:30. 10:00. 11:30.

Pathfinder is one of the best things we've ever done.It's a high-touch, low-threat way of doing small groups around here.After years of struggling to match people with existing groups or start new groups in an old-fashioned way, we simplified the whole thing. Come to...

Our Discipleship Pastor James-Michael Smith brought it home yesterday with his sermon "Odd Does Not Equal Obnoxious."It was so nice to experience it as a worshipper and a learner rather than a preacher.You can listen to his talk here. Scroll down and click on Sunday's...

Unfortunately, way too many of Jesus' followers thing being odd is synoymous with being obnoxious.Or worse:This Sunday we'll see just how far that is from authentic, oddball, holiness.Because odd does not equal obnoxious. It's so much more.8:30. 10:00. 11:30.

We used this video to introduce Week One of Oddballs:It reinforced the words of Peter: "be holy in all you do" (I Peter 1:15). We normally think of holiness in terms of those things we avoid. That verse along with the video remind us that holiness is active, positive,...

We gave out about 1000 of these Oddballs last Sunday.That's because Oddball is the name of our new series that starts this Sunday, October 5.It's all about I Peter, it's all about holiness, it's all about these odd red balls. How do all those things fit...

How much better is this than a group of people standing up and giving their "mission trip report"?Thanks to the heroes of Good Shepherd and to Joe Jackson for his video production.Enjoy this while I'm in Austin.

I spent part of Saturday at the work site for the home Good Shepherd is building with Habitat For Humanity.About 25 people from the church, as well as some new friends from Selwyn Presbyterian Church, braved uncomfortable weather and uncertain gasoline supplies to...