Wake Up Call, Week 4 — “Causes And Their Effects”

This Sunday's Wake Up Call sermon and service is vital for understanding not only the Holy Spirit but Good Shepherd Church itself. I have love thinking about and then preparing this message, and I am unusually excited to deliver it. And as if that wasn't enough, we've...

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Personal Ministry In A Digital Age

  Here’s one of the questions I recently asked each of our staff to consider:How can my schedule be as full of face-to-face interactions with people as it is full of nose-to-screen interactions with my computer? Answering that question well is one of the great...

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Wake Up Call, Week 3 — ReWeirding The Holy Spirit

For the second week in row, my Wake Up Call sermon wasn't really about the sermon. Last Sunday, it led to my interview with Ron Hall. And yesterday, it served as the set up for an interactive time of "praying in the Spirit." I must say, the movements of breathing,...

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Baiting And Switching

Maybe it's because we're in a series on the Holy Spirit. Maybe it's because I see the cultural and individual fallout from casual Christianity. Or maybe it's just because of what I see in the mirror. But the whole notion of a Jesus "bait and switch" is on my mind...

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A Steady Diet

The phrase "a steady diet" has been on my mind the last several weeks. That's because so many in the Christian world are on a constant quest for a a spiritual banquet -- the perfect retreat, conference, workshop, or worship service -- where we can have an authentic...

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A Personal Relationship With . . .

. . . Jesus Christ. That’s how most of us in the evangelical world have grown accustomed to completing that sentence. In many ways, that phrase has become synonymous with modern American evangelical Christianity. (Though for a variety of reasons we use the phrase...

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