Our Elements series got off to a strong start last week with a look at "Bread." We ended up celebrating communion in a different manner than ever before at Good Shepherd.The second element is "water." Why do we baptize? Who do we baptize? When do we baptize? And how...
The students and adults you see in this picture are role models for the rest of Good Shepherd.As you check this post, they are serving in Purdy, Missouri at a God-inspired movement called Camp Barnabas. Barnabas exists to provide life-changing opportunities to people...
According to ancient philosophers, all things are made of four elements: earth, water, air, and fire.But what are the elements that make up life in church? What’s the deal with things like communion, baptism, singing, and preaching?How is it that God invites us to...
"I am so glad we have spent June in the book of Haggai and in the series "The Comeback Kids."People have seen how the bible's story intersects their own story; time and again, folks have told me that they came to church this month desperately in need of a...
Haggai 2:10-19 does some interesting thing with the concept of "time."So we're going to dig into this coming Sunday."Time Passages."A message that many of us who major in impatience need to hear.Sunday.8:30. 10. 11:30.
This is my Vacation Bible School crew for 2011:We are in the middle of a program called Jump: Put Faith In Motion. This morning, my group and I were discussing today's bottom line: Jesus ROSE again so that you would know He is GOD.I briefly told about the crucifixion...
We've recently added a new feature to the www.gsumc.org website: you can watch a video of the sermon from the preceding week.Here's out you do it:1. Go to www.gsumc.org.2. Click on the "Media" tab at the top right of the home page.3. You'll see a screen full of...
So we started The Comeback Kids yesterday. Along the way we discovered some common threads between Bruce Springsteen, PTL, and the prophet Haggai.Springsteen's haunting "My City Of Ruins" describes so well a land and a people in desolation: So yesterday John Pavlovitz...
"I think the story of how our new series "The Comeback Kids" came to "be" is an interesting one.After all, it's not often that a church will do a series based on the Old Testament book of Haggai. Yet that's what we're doing.In the spring of 2010, I enrolled in a class...
JesusTweets began with the most insensitive thing ever Jesus said to a prospective follower: "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead." And it ends with one of his most direct rebukes to a member of his own inner circle: "what's it to you?"To see the context...